G.O.A.T.

Yesterday I took my grandkids, Hadley & Bentley, to see "Space Jam," starring LeBron James. It was amusing, although I confess that I fell asleep before the end. This movie re-ignites the debate over who is the Greatest of All Times. Much as I hate to say it, because my all-time favorite NBA star was Larry Bird, there's really no debate. It's Michael Jordan. Sorry, LeBron.

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HAWAII

"Hawaii firefighters confront Big Island's largest wildfire in history." Drudge Report. As some of you know, we lived in Hawaii from 1993-1997. Our first year there we rented a house in Pacific Palisades, up on a ridge of the Koolau Mts. We once experienced a wildfire that was burning up the side of the ridge just past the houses across the street from us. Some people were actually on top of their roofs, brandishing hoses, in case burning embers landed. Fortunately, the wildfire never progressed into our neighborhood.

TRENDING

"Health experts point to Gollum as model citizen for excellent social distancing practices." Babylon Bee

"LEAKED:  Biden's 8-part plan to improve his falling poll numbers." Babylon Bee

* Invade something:  Invading another country is always good for a 10-pt jump. Maybe we can invade Canada. They've always had it coming.

* Get a spray tan & wear an orange wig.

* Send Dr. Fauci to another galaxy so her can spread his pandemic wisdom with other planets.

GIRLS

"As the country slowly emerges from the pandemic, an alarming number of media reports reveal the dire and devastating consequences of policies that closed schools, libraries, and community centers, and severely limited children’s access to sports and meaningful extracurricular activities. Social isolation, disengagement from academic instruction and community, and loss of a stable daily structure resulted in rising rates of eating disorders and mental-health-related emergency-room visits. Suicide attempts by teenage girls increased by 51 percent from 2019 to 2021. For boys, the rate increased by 3.7 percent. A Texas summer camp director predicts a “perfect storm . . . of anger and frustration” headed for schools this fall, based on observations of emotionally fragile counselors and campers this summer.

"But that’s not all they have to deal with. The percentage of girls requesting gender changes had soared in the decade preceding the pandemic, while the number of girls uncomfortable with their biological sex continues to rise. A 2020 study conducted by Britain’s National Health Service found a relationship between increased media coverage of transgender issues and rising numbers of teenagers, primarily girls, requesting gender changes. Journalists are glorifying medical transitions and presenting them to the adolescent readers of celebrity publications as a solution to their “depression, anxiety and panic attacks.”

"This is false. The young teenage girls increasingly captivated by gender ideology possess bodies and minds that are still growing and developing. The adults in their lives are responsible for guiding them safely through adolescence. Yet journalists and many other corners of society are suddenly claiming that cross-sex hormones and damaging surgeries should be readily offered to children, often citing the examples of transitions by people who are already adults." Ginny Gentles, National Review Online

ROE V. WADE

"Can we really function as a society and as a nation while turning away from the most central issue that any society faces -- awe of the mystery of life? There might indeed be a point in time when an unborn child can be removed from its mother and physically survive. But although there may be a point where that child might not need its mother to survive, it still needs others. Someone must take care of that child, meaning someone must care about that child's life. If not, that child will die. So, the legal idea of viability that has been sustaining the Roe v. Wade world really has no meaning." Star Parker, Townhall