COVID

"To shake hands or not? Age-old human gesture still in limbo." Drudge Report

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE FLORIDA

"Thousands of fish killed by toxic red tide wash ashore on FL beaches." Drudge

LUTHERANS

"The Babylon Bee guide to all the different Christian denominations."

Lutherans:  All the boring part of Catholicism married to all the boring parts of Protestantism. The original Protestants, the Lutheran church began in 1963 shortly following Martin Luther's "I Have A Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. In order to join, a person must be at least 70 years old, live inLake Wobegon, & have a bizarre obsession with Jell-O.

TRENDING

"Obama's party ruined as mansion sinks into sea thanks to climate change." Babylon Bee

DEPT. OF SHAMELESS JOKE-STEALING

* Compliments of Reader's Digest, July/Aug 2021

> My husband wants to make cauliflower crust pizza, so now I hae to run to the grocery store & find a new husband.

> ME:  I don't get why our kids are such picky eaters. It's just food. Eat it. WIFE:  Have a salad. ME:  I'd rather die.

> Almost left the grocery store without buying a bag of spring mix to throw, unopened, into the garbage in 2 weeks.

TRANS ACTIVISM 

"For a movement that is supposedly about the latest oppressed minority gaining full human rights, transactivism has progressed remarkably far and fast. What campaigners mean by “trans rights” is gender self-identification: that trans people be treated in every circumstance as members of the sex they identify with, rather than the sex they actually are.

"This is not a human right at all. It is a demand that everyone else lose their rights to single-sex spaces, services, and activities. And in its requirement that everyone else accept trans people’s subjective beliefs as objective reality, it is akin to a new state religion, complete with blasphemy laws. Even as one country after another introduces gender self-ID, very few voters know that this is happening, let alone support it." Helen Joyce, National Review Online 8/8

WOMEN

"Throughout the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden went out of his way to appeal to women, whether by picking Vice President Kamala Harris as his running mate or pushing the "Biden agenda for women." These symbols and rhetoric, much like the rest of the Biden presidency, have proven to be empty. From economic policy to education, the administration is advancing policies that restrict opportunities for women. 

"Many women who expected a big boost coming out of the pandemic-induced recession have been unpleasantly surprised. The policies of the Biden administration are limiting America's recovery and are making it difficult for women, who were hit particularly hard by the pandemic, to find jobs.

"Instead of removing roadblocks from the economy, the administration is doubling down on job-killing policies. The government expanded welfare payments and eligibility at the height of the pandemic. But now Biden is unwilling to stop paying many workers $20 an hour not to work. Unsurprisingly, many women haven’t re-entered the labor force, and small businesses are struggling to stay fully staffed."  Teri Christoph, Townhall 8/8

YOUNG PEOPLE

"If it seems that young people these days believe absurd things, that they utterly lack both the ability and the inclination to reason logically—well, it’s not your imagination. Today’s college graduates can’t think, or at least don’t think, because they’re not being taught to . . . 

"Remember that deconstruction, as the name implies, is not about building up; it’s about tearing down. It not about “criticism,” in the sense of objectively evaluating the good and bad; it’s about “critique,” which focuses solely on the bad. It’s not about solving problems; it’s about complaining about them and blaming others for them.

"It also, of necessity, privileges emotion over reason. Something is bad because someone thinks it’s bad—or, more to the point, they feel it’s bad. They don’t like it. It offends them in some way, perhaps because it doesn’t seem fair or equitable. Math is certainly like that. Not everyone is good at it, and those who are possess certain advantages over their math-challenged fellows. That’s bad because it’s not fair. And so math must be critiqued. It must be deconstructed.

"The same is true of biology. Men have certain inherent physical advantages over women? That’s not fair! It makes some people feel bad. Gender must therefore be deconstructed. Little do they realize that, in tearing down the edifice of biological sex, they are destroying the very foundations of civilized society—marriage, family, child-rearing, the transmission of time-tested traditions. They don’t think that way, because they don’t think at all. They merely emote . . . 

"Meanwhile, as a parent, you should look for private schools, at all levels, that do teach those skills—like Hillsdale College and New Saint Andrews College in Idaho. I’m sure there are others. You can also talk with your kids regularly about what they’re learning, do your best to counter the Marxist nonsense, and try to model effective critical thinking in both word and deed. You can also share books like Jordan Peterson’s12 Rules for Lifeand Scott Newstock’sHow to Think Like Shakespeare. Read them together and talk about them afterward.

Because, if there’s one upside to the fact that most young people can’t think, it is this: If your son or daughter does learn to think, there’s a good chance they’ll be running things one day, once this rudderless airplane that is deconstructionism finally careens into the mountainside of reality." Rob Jenkins, Townhall 8/8