The MalaCast

Anyone actually concerned with solving deep-rooted social and economic problems, or God forbid with creating something unique or beautiful—a process that is inevitably messy and often involves exploring heresies and making mistakes—will hit a wall. If they are young and remotely ambitious they will simply snuff out that part of themselves early on, strangling the voice that they know will get them in trouble before they’ve ever had the chance to really hear it sing. -Alana Newhouse

Ivy League Schools have made entrance tests optional. This will cost unprepared students dearly, but administrators at Ivy League Schools do not act for the benefit of the students primarily. 

Baltimore public schools report zero students are proficient in math. Luckily Fox News woked up the photo so it's ok.

One reason that comedy ages poorly is that whatever it mocks often disappears because it’s been mocked. Combovers, middle aged guys buying sports cars, whatever. One of the reasons “comedy shouldn’t punch down” is so completely wrong. A lot needs changing “down”. 

Sorry for the technical hiccup. I'll try to figure out what happened, check my drivers or smth.

“You may disagree. you may even have evidence to the contrary…but is it worth losing your job over?”  -unknown

Dilbert creator Scott Adams has delivered a highly unusual monologue on his show "Coffee with Scott Adams."

“At a time when compliance is demanded, everyone willing to resist those calls is going to be more than usually needed.”  -Douglas Murray

"In public debate I try always to remain courteous (not with invariable success, but I try). Sometimes this courtesy slides into cowardice, however, my desire not to offend being greater than my attachment to truth, even when untruth (as I see it) is being propounded for someone I believe to be dishonest, unscrupulous or in some other way unworthy, an even when the untruth is a dangerous one. What is a virtue in many circumstances turns into a vice in others." -Theodore Dalrymple

Matt Walsh has given a very frank assessment of trans activist Dylan Mulvaney, who argues for the liberty of doctors to physically, er, "affirm" the gender of children. And everyone showed him how empathetic they were by lambasting his SOUL. 

Puffin is a book publisher who has decided to vandalize one of the greatest childrens' authors in the English language. The author wrote Matilda and James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory only for these ghouls to blot out his words and put in their own, far inferior ones after he's dead. 

"A few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was "No animal shall drink alcohol," but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: "No animal shall drink alcohol TO EXCESS." -George Orwell

Much confusion comes from judging economic policies by the goals they proclaim rather than the incentives they create. –Thomas Sowell

"Nearly 50 million people used weed in 2020, according to SAMHSA’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an increase of nearly 75 percent since 2009." -Politico 

Why do people deny the negative consequences of their preferred policies? Because they're intellectually WEAK.

“Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.” -Aristotle

“Many persons grow insensibly attached to that which gives them a great deal of trouble, as a mother often loves her sick and ever-ailing child better than her more healthy offspring.” -Charles MacKay

An immigrant who twice stabbed people in the past ran over a bunch of pedestrians in Brooklyn. Which of these sweetheart judges, prosecutors, and lawmakers will be held accountable? Probably zero because we, the voting public, do not do so. We are instead animated by the obsessions of CNN.

Pete Buttigieg has emerged! To give us an update on the East Palestine derailment? Nope, to complain about whites doing construction.

"In July 2016, a black man assassinated five police officers and injured nine others in Dallas. The city’s police chief, who was black, left no doubt about motive: “The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.” Here’s what Hillary Clinton tweeted the next day: “White Americans need to do a better job of listening when African Americans talk about the seen and unseen barriers you face every day.”"  -Tucker Carlson, Ship of Fools

Joe Biden delivered the State of the Union speech.  Luckily it didn't take that long for me to watch it since he just screamed over all the applause lines to get the hell out of there.  In any case, I culled my most amusing or interesting reactions down to about 15 minutes here you go.

I listened to the famous episode of Triggernometry which aired last fall.

In it, famous atheist and public intellectual Sam Harris explains in so many words that President Trump has rendered his brain incapable of thought.  He's a man with a tremendously thick bubble who, curiously, is still speaking to those outside of it on occasion so we can take a peek.

Ilhan Omar has lost her place on the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Of course, she and her gal pal AOC blamed it on race and gender.

Someone on Twitter asked me why these Democrats are dividing us this way: The simple truth is that's what their far-left, anti-white constituents elect them to do.

"one of the sad changes of the past few years is that I no longer feel any personal loyalty to the progressives I know, to represent their positions as well as possible

I used to do this, to be the great progressive explainer, but there's not enough there anymore"  -purplcabbage

Maybe impolite to ask but in any of these high-profile use of force cases was the victim sober?

The world is full of people who wish to think ill of America.  And most of them would like to be Americans.  –Roger Scruton

This debate is from November 6, 2015.

Gladwell, in lieu of citing a large number of facts, sneers at his opponents in traditional leftist style. Once you see this style, you will notice it everywhere though its magic will be broken for you and if you're like me you will cease to respect those who employ it.