Whatever Wednesday

HEADACHE UPDATE

I haven't had a headache since Monday, when I had a doozy. This is encouraging. When I get into a headache cycle, I'm either wondering if a headache is coming on, feeling a headache coming on, having a headache, or recovering from a headache.

TRENDING

• "STUDY:  Women less likely to date men with cats" Drudge Report, 6/23
• "Navy SEALS to be replaced with social workers" Babylon Bee, 6/23
• "Cracker Jack changes name to more politically correct Caucasian Jack" Babylon Bee, 6/23
• "Democrats clarify that black lives will only matter until November" Babylon Fee, 6/23

STATUES, PART I

"We erect statues to remember, revere and honor those whom we memorialize. And what is the motivation of the people who tear them down and desecrate them? In a word, it is hate. A goodly slice of America's young hates this country's history and the men who made it. It hates the discoverers and explorers like Columbus, the conquistadores and colonists. It hates the Founding Fathers and the first 15 presidents, all of whom either had slaves or coexisted with the injustice of slavery. But hating history and denying history and tearing down the statues of the men who made that history does not change history."  Patrick Buchanan, Townhall 6/23

AMERICANS

"Americans? Nice people? Decent people? Not as the mobsters see things. You're evidently worthless if you're not out there in public places executing vengeance on deceased people and their bronze images, however sparse or biased your understanding of who these particular deceased persons actually were.

"And this spreads Justice and Peace and Brotherhood all around the public realm? And renders you some kind of public saint rather than just a garden-variety arsonist?"  William Murchison, Townhall 6/23

STATUES, PART II

"The movement to tear down statues or even just to deface them was misconceived in its earliest stages and has now, like most aspects of the self-flagellating fever over “systemic racism,” evolved from just concerns about offending African-American sensibilities into an assault on the entire body of achievement of Western civilization."  Conrad Black, NRO 6/24

THE APEX OF HUMANITY

"Perhaps we have truly reached the apex of humanity. Or perhaps we are living in a particularly arrogant and self-serving moment when dissociation from America's history and from other Americans substitutes for actual decency; when canceling others is the point, not a means to an end; when joining the woke mob isn't about building something better but merely signaling your own saintliness. Perhaps in reality, those who pull down statues of Washington and Jefferson have accomplished little other than feeling special at the expense of the most special country in human history, and at the expense of their fellow citizens."  Ben Shapiro, Townhall, 6/24