If masks are outlawed, only outlaws will have masks
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And another liquor store went down
It seems cruel to limit anyone’s career opportunities during these difficult times
Follow the link
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If there was ever a reason to cram a face mask over someone’s piehole, this is it
I don’t have the knowledge, or Squarespace lacks the capacity to put a Twitter video here, but over at PJ Media they’ve done it, and it's worth the trip to see the perfect example of who’s out on our streets. This vile, foulmouthed woman was once somebody’s daughter. And as a bonus, you can also watch a white demonstrator calling a black cop a “nigger bitch” and other choice words that only a white liberal, smug in his superiority and moral outrage, could condone. Scratch a liberal, find a racist.
Well worth the detour, I promise.
What's so scary about the Babylon Bee is that its reporting today is often tomorrow's news
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Our Turn! Columbia School of Social Work takes the field
(A better headline would have been, Babylon Bee: Tomorrow’s News Today”)
Navy SEALS to be replaced by social workers
U.S.—The Navy SEALs are being disbanded and replaced with a new branch of the military: The United States Social Workers.
The social workers will be dropped into terrorist hideouts to talk with militants about their feelings and defuse the situation. The move was made as a push against police work and firearms continues across the nation. As people continue to call on police departments to be defunded, the next logical target was the Navy SEALs.
"I can tell that you're angry at America -- do you want to talk about that?" one social worker asked after she was dropped off at a terrorist compound in Afghanistan. The terrorist replied by firing his AK-47 into the air.
"Interesting!" she said, scribbling down notes. "Tell me about your relationship with your father."
Pending in Riverside
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50 Indian Head Road, $3.250 asking price. It’s a funky house, made less attractive by the splitting off of its land over the years, but pleasant enough. And it’s not so far down Indian Head that walking to the train or the schools is inconvenient; a factor that may be attractive if people ever resume commuting to the city, and schools reopen.
And Mariners who enjoy entertaining will love its ship’s galley
"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" George Wallace (D. AL) 1963 inauguration speech
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So long, sucker
Rice University students demand separate “Black House”. A student group at Rice University, in Houston, Texas, is ‘demanding’ officials fund a Black House on campus as well as remove a prominent statue of the school’s slave-owner founder.
The commands were made by Rice’s newly formed Black Students Association (BSA) and posted publicly to the school’s Graduate Student Association (GSA) official Facebook page.
‘Here are what black undergraduate students have demanded from Rice University administration,’ author of the post, graduate research assistant Dani Perdue wrote. ‘I hope they are listening! #NoMoreLipService #blacklivesmatter.’
In addition to establishing a Black House on campus, the demands highlighted by Perdue also sought the ‘removal’ of a statue of the university’s founder, William Marsh Rice, a slave owner and businessman who left the bulk of his estate to help build the university in 1912 on the grounds it would be for ‘whites only’.
… Within that list, BSA explained the prospective Black House should have all the ‘features of a residential college’ but be ‘specifically made for Black students and Black organizations to congregate and hold events.’
‘It would be best to have a central, safe space that Black students can meet and hangout in anytime of the day,’ BSA continued.
In addition, the student also assets that ‘course descriptions should include tags that indicate what race/ethnic/cultural groups are included since many course titles do not make it clear if they include diverse perspectives in their course material.’
As reported by FOX News, after a number of students began questioning whether the demand for a ‘Black House’ amounted to a call for on-campus segregation, president of the GSA, Alison Farrish, apparently deleted the objections. Eventually, the post was removed all together [sic].
Because “demands” are not open for discussion.
Segregated dorms are not new: once-prestigious schools like Berkley and Cornell established them in the 70s, MIT has “Chocolate City”, and even lowly UConn created the “Scholastic House of Leaders”, which is either hilarious or tragic, depending on your view of these things. But in view of the increasing proliferation of separate admission standards, grading, and segregated course studies, why continue the pretense of being color blind and admit, proudly, that we a society built and run on racial principles.
Why is this surprising, when 100% of their professors and college administrators are Democrats?
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Nearly 100% of college Democrats support defunding of police.
What’s more, 61 percent of Democratic college students polled responded that rioting and looting are legitimate forms of protest against racial discrimination and police brutality in America today, the results show.
I wonder whether Yale students would call the police to protect them if they were mugged for their iPhones on campus or if looters appeared in their dorms?
For that matter, why aren’t white students leaving school and freeing seats for people of color, to atone for their white privilege?
Well you denied them permission to bury it; what did you expect?
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Who’d have thunk it?
GREENWICH — A new green pedestrian bridge that was just installed in Bruce Park is getting a resounding thumbs down on social media from residents.
Eversource Energy put in the bridge last week as part of a project to connect a new electrical substation on Railroad Avenue to the existing one in Cos Cob.
In addition to providing a path for pedestrians over the water, the bridge will carry transmission lines over Davis Mill Pond. The bridge was the result of a compromise between the town of Greenwich and Everource so the utility did not have to dig under Davis Mill Pond.
Riverside (tidal) waterfront sale
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78-80 Cedar Cliff Road, $7.7 million closing price, on an asking price of $9.250. $7.7 is a tidy sum, but a far cry from the $17.5 million the original agent listed it for in April 2016. That agent is notorious for her joke pricing, but these owners stayed with her for years despite her persistence in keeping the price too high, before finally changing horses. I may be being unfair to that first agent and it’s possible that it was the owners who insisted on being so stupid, but I usually assign the fault to the agent in these cases because that’s usually where it belongs.
Price cuts in this time of cholera
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50 Vineyard Lane has cut its price again, modestly, to $4.7 million, after beginning at $5.999 in April 2019. That makes sense to me, because the Greenwich market has been flooded with NYC refugees the past few months and they seem to be buying anything that doesn’t move, even in some of the less popular neighborhoods. So if your own house isn’t receiving offers during this buying frenzy it’s because those would-be buyers are finding houses that they like more, at a better price. You can’t change your home’s design, and I generally advise against putting money into mechanical improvements that won’t recoup their cost, but if your house isn’t competitive in its current price bracket, drop it down to the next one.
Or even lower.
(To clarify my remarks, it’s always about price but some homeowners, having missed the spring market by overpricing, leave the price where it is and go away for the summer, figuring they’ll reexamine the issue when the fall market returns. Right now, market activity is not dropping, and there are plenty of buyers out there. This is not the year to miss the summer market.)
Dumm and Dummer
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So stupid together,
With all the hoopla about canceling slave trader John Brown and renaming the university bearing his name, Roger Kimball has another great idea: dump Eli Yale and name the university after its true founder and benefactor, Jeremiah a Dummer.
I see that #CancelYale is trending on Twitter and elsewhere in social media. It’s a development I’d like to encourage—not, to be frank, because I think that canceling things is a good idea. Quite the opposite. But if the Left is going to pursue its dream of destroying every reminder of our past it doesn’t like, and if woke institutions like Yale, bloated with too much money and far too much self-regard, are going to betray their raison d’être and join in the effort to control the present by destroying the past, then I think an example should be made of corrupt institutions like Yale and craven leaders like Peter Salovey, the university’s president .….
Besides, if the Left can deface or destroy statues of George Washington, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, and countless others, shouldn’t we insist that they live up to their own ideals and cancel racially tainted liberal institutions like Yale?
President Salovey’s letter announcing that Calhoun College would be renamed argues that “unlike . . . Elihu Yale, who made a gift that supported the founding of our university . . . Calhoun has no similarly strong association with our campus.” What can that mean? Calhoun graduated valedictorian from Yale College in 1804. Is that not a “strong association”? …
As far as I have been able to determine, Elihu Yale never set foot in New Haven. His benefaction of some books and goods worth £800 helped found Yale College, not Yale University. And whereas the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica praises Calhoun for his “just and kind” treatment of slaves and the “stainless integrity” of his character, Elihu Yale had slaves flogged, hanged a stable boy for stealing a horse, and was eventually removed from his post in India for corruption. Is all that not “fundamentally at odds” with the mission of Peter Salovey’s Yale?
I think every right-thinking individual should get behind the #CancelYale movement. And lest anyone complain that such movements are merely negative, that they cancel but do not replace with something new, I want to accompany #CancelYale with a concrete, positive suggestion: #DummerUniversity.
Let me introduce you to Jeremiah Dummer, the Harvard chap who induced Yale to make his benefaction in the first place. Shouldn’t he, and not the slaver Yale, have the honor of having a (once) great university named after him? To ask the question is to answer it.
By all means, cancel Yale. Remove the horrid name from clothing and other merchandise. But replace it with a more honorable name: Dummer. Dummer University. The Dummer School of Law. The Dummer School of Art. A Dummer degree. The name, as Gwendolen Fairfax said in a different context, produces agreeable vibrations.
I’m with Kimball. Further, since Yale continues to water down its academic standards in admissions and curriculum the name will become increasingly more apt.