Coffee and Covid: Your roundup today includes: a promising supplement to prevent vaccine injury and maybe even covid infection; non-developments in the Fetterman story; EPA pauses and un-pauses its East Palestine cleanup operation trying to find places to send the toxic waste; and Dilbert author Scott Adams gets socially nuked over tepid race comments
James Howard Kuntsler: “It’s Coming.” That’s what Elon Musk said a while back apropos of the Twitter files that show all the US government suppression of Covid-19 information mis-labeled as “misinformation.” Think of whatever the truth is as mis-misinformation. Get it? You might have to read that sentence more than once to comprehend what went wrong with the American consensus the past three years. And then you’ll begin to understand why the operation is called mind-fuckery.
Ann Barnhardt: Ten years ago today, Pope Benedict went on a short helicopter ride, and that’s all.
Fr. Z’s LentcaZt: Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: Sant’Anastasia (Collect: San Nicola in Carcere); Fr. Troadec explores blindness and prayer.
Lent in Rome: Sant’Anastasia, Roman Station Church — Feria Tertia post Dominicam Primam in Quadragesima — Statio ad S. Anastasia —
Dishonor Code: What Happens When Cheating Becomes the Norm?
Students say they are getting ‘screwed over’ for sticking to the rules. Professors say students are acting like ‘tyrants.’ Then came ChatGPT . . .
The Real Science on Masks: They Make No Difference
Face coverings do nothing to reduce the spread of Covid, according to a new, gold standard scientific review.
The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Podcast:
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@staceyabrams traveling to #Nigeria to monitor elections there? Nigerians went to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president and 468 federal lawmakers.
Stanford’s Class of 2026 Doesn’t ‘Look Like America’ The demographic profile of Stanford University’s class of 2026 is out, with 1,736 matriculated students in the freshman class of one of the world’s most prestigious universities. But as some perceptive critics were quick to notice, one key demographic is disproportionately underrepresented: While whites make up more than 50 percent of the nation’s adolescent population, per 2019 Office of Population Affairs numbers, they were only 22 percent of Stanford’s class of 2026. A Twitter user by the name of Fischer King was one of the first to flag the disparity, adding: “Now I’m speculating, but admitted white men are likely connected — legacies, or just bought way in. The rural math genius like John Nash — he has no chance.
Hamstrung by ‘golden handcuffs’: Diversity roles disappear 3 years after George Floyd’s murder inspired them
The wave of change in workplaces through diversity, equity and inclusion roles has quelled, and Black workers will feel the brunt of the officers’ absence.
NFL Star Abruptly Retires at 30, Issues Ominous Warning – ‘DO NOT Take the Injections They Give You’ Miami Dolphins cornerback Byron Jones, a former All-Pro and Pro Bowler, announced via a pair of tweets that he could no longer “run or jump” and seemingly implied that he was stepping away from the game for good.
Is It Okay to Be Scott Adams? Part I: The Woke Creed Is the Cult of the Antichrist
Another in a decades-long series of kamikaze columns. John Zmirak: “I feel I must address the witch-burning zealots who are persecuting cartoonist Scott Adams. Because of some blunt, insensitive, ill-advised talk he engaged in on the subject of racial division, he’s seeing his comic strip, Dilbert, get pulled from dozens of newspapers. He’s been dumped by his non-Dilbert book publisher. Even his book agent gave him the boot. Adams is being “cancelled” more aggressively than anyone I can think of since Mel Gibson. And that makes me suspicious. I can hear the roar of the lynch mob, and see the noose getting strung.”
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