The Yellow Perch is Next
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yellow peril
Invasive Asian carp will be renamed to remove the term's 'horrible, xenophobic connotations'
Anti-Asian Violence: Hunting Burmese Pythons in the Everglades
Stanwich contract
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188 Stanwich Road, asking $3.495 million. It’s a nicely kept up 1936 home on 2+ acres, and the price seems to be in line with what its sister homes have fetched in the recent (2009-2021) past.
Purchased in 2012 for $2.920.
Conyers Farm sale
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111 Conyers Farm Drive, $4.225 million. It started at $8.595 million in 2017 and was still asking $5.1 when this offer was accepted last month.
Whose fault is this?
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Noted wife beater, crack head, and geologist George Floyd, moments before being shot dead at the face of the La Herradura Formation
In the never ending, ever expanding race for contemporary relevance, geologists have discovered that their fieldwork model is racist because it involves the employment of rock hammers. You think I’m kidding, don’t you? Ha!
Racism thrives in geoscience.. Geoscience organizations function alongside the same racist ideologies and practices shaping society. In North America, the historical legacy of racism—for example: the enslavement of Black people, forced migration of Indigenous peoples, the internment of Japanese Americans, and detainment of Latinx, immigrant children—is intertwined with our systems of power. The imbalance of power dictates who has access to resources like inherited wealth, clean water, adequate nutrition, healthcare, effective education, and who is policed, imprisoned, and killed….
[blahblahblah ….]
Access
Access implies that individuals can obtain the resources they need to safely pursue their science endeavors; regardless of location, instrumentation, site accessibility, and their identity. Historically, access has been limited to mostly able-bodied, white, cisgender, heterosexual men. As the geosciences strive to be more accessible, the community must recognize that BIPOC and other marginalized geoscientists are not always safe in geoscience spaces. For example, holding objects (e.g., a rock hammer) has been viewed as “suspicious” and, continues to be, used as a reason to call the police on Black people, which can lead to the death of Black individuals, entirely because of racial profiling and an unjustified fear of Black people
(I saw this story last week and, sighing, decided not to disturb readers with yet another example of our country’s free-fall into insanity, but FWIW’s Mining Correspondent brought this commentary by Taki to our attention, and I figured what the hell, the cat’s out of the bag.)
I'll bet Greenwich schools, public and private, are dipping in the same pool
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Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we’re free at last from White oppression
Top NYC schools looking for next generation of woke teachers
Many of New York City’s once-vaunted private schools are hunting for the next generation of woke educators to preach the gospel of anti-racism and critical race theory, a review of job applications by The Post shows.
Leading the way is Ethical Culture Fieldston School, which is on the market for a ballet instructor “committed to challenging Western dance forms and the hierarchical and pedagogical practices that often center whiteness in dance classrooms and on stages,” according to a job description posted to the school’s website.
Even science at Fieldston — a Bronx institution where tuition is $55,510 a year — has not been spared the progressive mandate. A posting seeking an upper school biology teacher said applicants should have “an understanding of and commitment to cultural competency, and how to support a diverse student population, especially through teaching more inclusive science curricula.”
STEM subjects face a similar wokening at Grace Church School — $57,330 a year — in downtown Manhattan, where wanted Math and Science Center consultants must have a “commitment to antiracism and accessibility of student education for diverse learners.”
One of the responsibilities listed for a secretary position at the $58,350-a-year Riverdale Country School is to proofread report cards “for proper use of pronouns.”
And so on.
Did she also agree to buy some of Hunter's paintings?
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A genuine hunter
The president of the University of Pennsylvania is poised to become U.S. Ambassador to Germany after paying then-Vice President Joe Biden $900,000 for a job at the Ivy League school that required no regular classes and up to 12 appearances on campus.
Penn President Amy Gutmann will likely be announced as Biden’s pick for the prime ambassadorship [she was indeed nominated last week — Ed] raising questions about whether the slot is payback for the lucrative position Biden held at Penn after leaving the vice president’s office in 2017, according to news reports.
Upon accepting the offer, Biden became the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor, the first person to hold the position.
Biden collected $371,159 in 2017 and $540,484 in 2018 and early 2019 for a job with largely undefined duties. The agreement also required around a dozen appearances on campus, most of which were attended by wealthy donors paying top-dollar for tickets.
Biden left his position at the school in April 2019 to run for president.
The bad news is that this trimaran capsized; the good news is that multi-hulls don't sink (usually)
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42’ trimaran capsizes off Portsmouth NH, crew safe
Which has nothing to do with politics or real estate (except that the subject of multi-hulls used to grow heated at all the proper yacht clubs), I’m just a fan of these boats. I once screamed across Buzard’s Bay at 28-knots on a 35’ tri, which, for sailors, if not powerboaters, is friggin’ fast. Very exciting.
Anyway, the point is, with no lead keel to drag them down, cats and tris will float, though the very feature that makes them so hard to capsize: a wide, wide beam, makes them just as stable upside down, so righting them, while easier than raising a lead mine from the bottom, can be trying, so to speak.
Be careful out there.
Howard Zinn, teachers, and the war against America
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Bad people proudly doing very bad things
The Zinn Education Project (ZEP), named after the author of A People’s History of the United States, is urging teachers to ignore state laws passed to prevent the use of critical theory pedagogy in the classroom. The demand sounds benign enough:
At least until you understand that Howard Zinn was a member of the Communist Party and depicts America as a terrorist state. ZEP is just as radical:
In 2008 he [Zinn] helped launch the so-called Zinn Education Project (ZEP), a collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. The initiative was designed to incorporate Zinn’s writings and worldview into all aspects of K-12 school curricula.
The ZEP lessons reinforce Zinn’s presentation of the United States as redeemable only through a socialist revolution. Major historical events are replaced with instances demonstrating relentless oppression.
Taken together, and given the objections to anti-American and identity-centric curriculum from parents across the country, trust in the public school system is irrevocably broken. The only way to restore it is transparency. There is almost no reason a teacher at the elementary level should object to cameras. Parents would expect to see foundational instruction in math, science, reading, and social studies along with specials like art. What most parents do not wish for and will not tolerate is radical gender ideology that instructs children in sexual behavior and asserts that they may choose their gender.
I can observe my Great Dane at the groomer and when we board him. Parents can install a nanny cam to monitor the care of their children. Daycare franchises also offer them. Teachers’ unions that refused to return to the classroom gleefully went on camera all last year to teach students on Zoom. Why not use cameras now?
A refusal now seems disingenuous and hypocritical. Children do not become wards of the state when they enter a government-run school. Parents have the right to know what teachers are teaching their kids.
When these people tell you who they are, and what they're planning to do, take them at their word
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now trending in our schools
BLM lavishly praised genocidal commie Fidel Castro in resurfaced tweet and blog post
From BLM’s website, on the death of Castro, November 27, 2016:
Lessons from Fidel: Black Lives Matter and the Transition of El Comandante
We are feeling many things as we awaken to a world without Fidel Castro. There is an overwhelming sense of loss, complicated by fear and anxiety. Although no leader is without their flaws, we must push back against the rhetoric of the right and come to the defense of El Comandante. And there are lessons that we must revisit and heed as we pick up the mantle in changing our world, as we aspire to build a world rooted in a vision of freedom and the peace that only comes with justice. It is the lessons that we take from Fidel.
From Fidel, we know that revolution is sparked by an idea, by radical imaginings, which sometimes take root first among just a few dozen people coming together in the mountains. It can be a tattered group of meager resources, like in Sierra Maestro in 1956 or St. Elmo Village in 2013.
Revolution is continuous and is won first in the hearts and minds of the people and is continually shaped and reshaped by the collective. No single revolutionary ever wins or even begins the revolution. The revolution begins only when the whole is fully bought in and committed to it. And it is never over.
Revolution requires that the determination to create and preserve these things for our people takes precedent over individual drives for power, recognition, and enrichment.
With Fidel’s passing there is one more lesson that stands paramount: when we are rooted in collective vision when we bind ourselves together around quests for infinite freedom of the body and the soul, we will be victorious. As Fidel ascends to the realm of the ancestors, we summon his guidance, strength, and power as we recommit ourselves to the struggle for universal freedom. Fidel Vive!
BLM was an obscure commie nut group in 2016; five years later, its philosophy and demands have been incorporated into the nations schools, our politicians and media have embraced them, and even Greenwich’s own police chief has taken a knee before them, In just five years; the next five years, culminating in 2026, should make for interesting times.