New York is doing its best to send its residents our way

16 Chieftans, $2.2895 million (purchased for $3.3 in 2011) has a contract after 11 days.

This development built on the former Gimbel estate under the Westchester Airport’s flight path has been a drag on the market since at least 2004, with prices dropping from the $5s and high-$4s to the $2s, and days on the market measured in years.

That’s apparently no longer the case. I note that the listing offers to sell it furnished, which is a clue to the NYC apartment dwellers who are the target audience.

The Never Ending Story

The WaPo names a new executive editor

Not the Bee;: “You simply cannot bow deeply enough. You'll never be able to do enough. The woke mob and their enablers have too much at stake. Their livelihoods, their social status, and their sense of self is too wrapped up in feeling oppressed.

Buzbee, who comes to her new role from the Associated Press, was hired over three leading insiders (both current and previous) for the job, two of whom were white men (so they were obviously out). The other was a black man who left his post at ESPN earlier in the month to join the Los Angeles Times.

They lost their only obvious diversity play.

She replaces the previous editor who left earlier this year:

"In taking one of the most high-profile jobs in American journalism, Buzbee will inevitably face comparisons to Baron, who guided The Post to 10 Pulitzer Prizes. Baron also faced some internal dissension over his handling of matters involving race and diversity, among others."

Not The Bee: “Sure, 10 Pulitzers are nice and all, but what were the reporters' skin colors and genders? That's what is really important.

WaPo is making it clear where they stand on that tension going forward:”

"We looked carefully for someone who shares our values of diversity and inclusion, and who is committed to prioritizing them in our news coverage as well as our hiring and promotion."

Phew! One less thing to worry about

Even Oklahoma?!

Kulturkampf: Struggle session on campus

The University of Oklahoma refuses to remove compelled speech requirement in its diversity struggle sessions

Requires trainees to acknowledge their agreements with the university’s approved political viewpoints

Abolishing liberal arts departments won’t solve this problem, but it’d be a good start.

UPDATE: The Oklahoma legislature has passed, and the Governor just signed, a bill outlawing race-based “education”, and the University acknowledged today that it can no longer make critical race indoctrination sessions compulsory. Hooray.

Just to brighten your morning

Oops!

Iranian tries to burn Israeli flag, hilarity ensues

Watch: A man in Iran catches on fire while burning an Israeli flag during a Quds Day protest. https://t.co/qv4NUU1OEE pic.twitter.com/9q0Cv6W7zI

— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 9, 2021

Good question: "at what point do we start calling things like this a sign of mental illness?”(spoiler alert — we're way past it)

KKK Sidewalk Bullies

Blaming Jim Crow, Northwestern student journalist says the way White people walk on sidewalks is racist

The opinion editor of the Northwestern University’s student newspaper recently published an article asserting that White people walk awkwardly on sidewalks because of their internalized racism.

“When I first got to Northwestern, I wondered why walking around on campus could be so frustrating. Even when sidewalks were relatively empty, I would often have to walk way around people to pass without bumping into them,” wrote Kenny Allen of The Daily Northwestern, “At first, I chalked it up to the geographic diversity of the school; maybe the people that came to this school were used to different ways of moving through a public place.”

However, after “talking to [his] Black friends about my experience,” Allen concluded that “people at this predominantly White school would not move out of our way on the sidewalk.”

Laying out the claims by University of Richmond sociologist Bedelia Richards for determining “whether one’s university is racist” — such as which groups feel most “at home,” whose “norms, values and perspectives” are legitimated, and “who inhabits positions of power” — Allen concluded that “white people” meet most of the criteria.

Allen then asserted that “the formal rules of Jim Crow were accompanied by a set of informal ones that governed the way Black people approached White people in public space and vice versa.” This social order “required Black people to yield to White people whenever possible” — such as “stepping off the sidewalk when a White person was walking past.”

“White people came to expect the right of way in public spaces,” he added. “White people who were accustomed to moving through the world like that — intentionally or not — taught their kids to move through the world in the same way. And the racism that undergirded Jim Crow wasn’t eliminated just because the laws were no longer overtly racist.”

Of course, there’s always this point of view —

Jesse Jackson: “There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”

News you can use

Indian doctors warn against using cowshit as a COVID cure

Makes sense: Fauci’s bullshit doesn’t work, either

Not the Bee

It's all about control of the lumpenprolitariat; it always has been

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

NYT Report: CDC’s Outdoor COVID Risk Estimate ‘Misleading”, a “Huge Exaggeration”

Matt Margolis, PJ Media

Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines for mask-wearing, saying vaccinated individuals didn’t need to wear masks in some outdoor situations, but should wear them in others, based on what they claimed was a roughly 10 percent risk of outdoor COVID-19 transmission.

But the CDC’s estimate about the risk of outdoor COVID-19 transmission was exaggerated, according to a bombshell report from the New York Times, which says the risk of COVID-19 transmission is actually less than 1 percent.

“Media organizations repeated the statistic, and it quickly became a standard description of the frequency of outdoor transmission,” noted the New York Times.

“It appears to be based partly on a misclassification of some Covid transmission that actually took place in enclosed spaces,” the report explains. “An even bigger issue is the extreme caution of C.D.C. officials, who picked a benchmark — 10 percent — so high that nobody could reasonably dispute it.”

That benchmark “seems to be a huge exaggeration,” as Dr. Muge Cevik, a virologist at the University of St. Andrews, said. In truth, the share of transmission that has occurred outdoors seems to be below 1 percent and may be below 0.1 percent, multiple epidemiologists told me. The rare outdoor transmission that has happened almost all seems to have involved crowded places or close conversation.

Saying that less than 10 percent of Covid transmission occurs outdoors is akin to saying that sharks attack fewer than 20,000 swimmers a year. (The actual worldwide number is around 150.) It’s both true and deceiving.

MARGOLIS: How did this happen? Is this the CDC using fear to keep Americans in line? David Leonhardt of the Times chalks it up to the CDC’s struggle to “communicate effectively.”

“C.D.C. officials have placed such a high priority on caution that many Americans are bewildered by the agency’s long list of recommendations,” Leonhardt suggests, but still acknowledges that the CDC’s recommendations “would be more grounded in science if anywhere close to 10 percent of Covid transmission were occurring outdoors. But it is not.”

Even now there is “not a single documented Covid infection anywhere in the world from casual outdoor interactions, such as walking past someone on a street or eating at a nearby table,” Leonhardt notes, which makes the CDC’s recommendations seem ridiculous, not simply over-cautious.

And, naturally, one can’t help but wonder what else has been exaggerated to keep Americans afraid.

The CDC and Fauci have lied to the American people since this started — remember the “22 million dead” estimate? But the mainstream media whooped up the panic to boost ratings, ignored contrary voices, and social media not only prohibited discussion of the issue but permanently banned anyone — including respected epidemiologists — who dared post a dissenting view. I refuse this was coincidence or well-meaning.

Circling Back

Even Maine’s Senator Susan Collins, about as centrist a politician there is, has lost trust in the CDC.

Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins tore into CDC Director Rochelle Walensky for “undermining public confidence” by confusing the public on COVID-19 guidelines.

During a Tuesday morning hearing on Capitol Hill, Collins ripped into the CDC for what she claimed were anti-scientific and contradictory recommendations on school re-openings, wearing masks outside and summer camps.

Finally, Collins cited multiple experts who said that the CDC’s guidance on summer camps were unnecessarily draconian. (RELATED: ‘Unfair And Cruel’: One Of Fauci’s Own Scientists Reportedly Slams CDC’s Incoming Summer Camp Rules)

“A pediatric pediatric immunologist at Columbia referred to the recommendations as ‘senseless.’ The editor-in-chief of the journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics called the guidance ‘unfairly draconian.'”

After castigating the CDC for collaborating with the teachers’ unions to keep schools closed, she went on:

“So here we have unnecessary barriers to re-opening schools, exaggerating the risk of outdoor transmission, and unworkable restrictions on summer camps. Why does this matter? It matters because it undermines public confidence in your recommendations, in the recommendations that do make sense, in the recommendations that Americans should be following.”

And one final contract to close out the day

One Midwood road

1 Midwood, $4.850, 64 days on market. A grand old, 1920 house, it’s been spruced up since a good friend sold it back in 2003.

An ocelot on the floor …

rates the zebra by the door

Plastic kitchen chairs do clash a bit with 1920s architecture, but stagers are so busy these days, they’re probably low on inventory

and there’s always the orANGE TO SAVE THE day