WHEW!

After coughing most of the day on SAT & all the way through the night from SAT into SUN, I decided to take a COVID test, which I did at CVS on SUN. Since it wasn't a  Rapid Response test, I didn't get the results until late last night. Thank goodness, my test was negative, which was a great relief to Lois, me, my family, & my friends. Even though I receive the Pfizer vaccine in MAR, I thought it was prudent to get tested, due to the variant that's been surging.

TRENDING

"100-year-old woman sets world record as powerlifter." Drudge Report

DIVERSITY

"Taliban enjoys deep belly laughter over diversity training materials left behind by U.S. military." Babylon Bee

SAND

"Carl Sagan said there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the world's beaches. Of course, neither can be literally counted. But researchers at the University of Hawaii estimated the number of grains on earth. Their answer:  seven & a half quintillion. (That's 75 followed by 17 zeros.") Reader's Digest, July/Aug 2021

GENDER IDEOLOGY RUN AMOK

"We also know that in almost every case when a child's healthy puberty is medically arrested, placing the child out of step with his or her peers, that child proceeds to cross-sex hormones. And when puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are administered to a girl, she becomes infertile. She may also have permanent sexual dysfunction given that her sex organs never reach adult maturity. Given this, the claims made by so many doctors & gender activists today that these medical transition measures for children are safe & reversible--that they are a 'pause button,' without serious downsides--are not only dishonest, but destructive. We would not accept this sort of glib salesmanship in any other area of medicine." Abigail Shrier, Imprimus-A Publication of Hillsdale College, June/July 2021

POLITICAL POTPOURRI

President Biden arrived in office with the southern border secure and Afghanistan in a state of fragile equilibrium. Eight months later, the border continues to be deluged with migrants overwhelming our capacity to properly house and process them, and we are evacuating our personnel from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, overrun by desperate Afghans fleeing the Taliban." Rich Lowry, National Review Online

"1. This is President Biden’s darkest moment. Simply stated, when Biden is getting bashed by CNN and MSNBC, you know he has blundered terribly. Just look at these opening paragraphs from an op-ed on MSNBC. “President Joe Biden addressed the nation about the state of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on Monday — mainly, it seemed, to say he regretted nothing. . . . He blamed the Taliban's rapid advances across the country on Afghan security forces' failing ‘to mount any real resistance to the Taliban.’

“But the president had virtually nothing to say about what's on everyone's minds: how poorly prepared the U.S. was for the Taliban's blitz and the vulnerable position he has left so many Afghans in as a result.” Not even MSNBC was in a mood to give the president grace for his dreadful decision." Michael Brown, Townhall