A Twitter spat goaded me into watching one of Rogan's monumental interviews with current Democrat vice-frontrunner RFK Jr.  The question at hand is, "Is he a kook?"  Which I understand is a North American slang word.  To my British former overlords, the question is, "Is he batty?  A nutter?  Mental?"  Anyway, spoiler alert:  Yeah he is a bit.

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather

The multitudinous seas incarnadine,

Making the green one red.” -Shakespeare, Macbeth 

h/t Zaid Jilani:  Wired doesn't recommend Ring doorbells because they can be used by the homeowner to easily provide evidence to police. Good lord. 

Ben and Jerry's released a statement about how stolen land must be returned to the natives! And then a tribe which once resided where Ben and Jerry's HQ lies accepted hah.

"CHARACTER Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,

Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,

Raze out the written troubles of the brain

And with some sweet oblivious antidote

Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff

Which weighs upon the heart?

DOCTOR

Therein the patient

Must minister to himself." -Shakespeare, Macbeth

“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

The instruments of darkness tell us truths,

Win us with honest trifles, to betray ’s

In deepest consequence.”  -William Shakespeare

"Land acknowledgments are low key the most based thing imaginable. Reciting the names of all the people you conquered at the start of every meeting."  -@typesfast

"I wonder if victims of affirmative action will ask for reparations now that it has been ruled unconstitutional."  -@ScottAdamsSays

Criticisms of the early USA almost always describe most or even all of the world in 1776.  "They didn't let women or blacks vote."

But not one country in the world elected its leaders at that time.  Is not some of a good thing to be commended?

“your cause of sorrow. Must not be measured by his worth, for then. It hath no end.”  -William Shakespeare

"You will have heard before this reaches you of the Commencement of a Civil War; the End of it perhaps neither myself, nor you, who are much younger, may live to see."  -Ben Franklin, 1775

"Almost half the signers of the Declaration of Independence had some form of seminary training or degree."  -A Patriot's History of the United States

"France... came away from the conflict with... a terrific debt, which played no small part in its own revolution in 1789."  -A Patriot's History of the United States

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country..."  -Thomas Paine, 1776

“We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.”

― John Jay

I discuss the landmark SCOTUS decision eliminating racial preferences in higher education, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's historic blunder, and smear enjoyers of Catcher in the Rye.

Horace - "Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, / In ruin and confusion hurled, / He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, / And stand secure amidst a falling world."

Where religion is compulsory, I am an atheist; but where religion is forbidden, I am a believer.  –Theodore Dalrymple

Saira Rao is an antiwhite bigot.  So what?  Well, Andrew Yang endorsed her.  Antiwhite hatred is a zero to the left.

Just as a man can commit suicide due to guilt, so can a nation.

“Modernity is so overwhelming, from school, advertising, print, video, movies, politics, etc., all things push human life and thinking one way. One way to find another opinion, perhaps the only way, is to reach into the past.”  -Clay Garner

The fire and brimstone leader of the first Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards, warned children in 1741:  "And you, children, who are unconverted, do not you know that you are going down to hell, to bear the dreadful wrath of that God, who is now angry with you every day and every night?"

The deceased CEO of OceanGate previously sniffed at the idea of hiring "a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys" in favor of demographics he found more "inspirational."  I do not know if a strict merit focus when hiring would have saved his doomed passengers and himself, but if it would have I'm sure they are not the first human sacrifices on the altar of diversity.

"Their foot shall slide in due time."  —Deut. 32:35.

"Virginia had actually voted to ban slavery early in the century, but the government of “Good Queen Anne” overruled the act because of the royal treasury’s dependence on revenues from British slave traders.  At the time, only 25,000 slaves had arrived in Virginia, and an outright ban might have permitted most, if not all, to sail home to Africa, thus aborting the growth of slavery in America.  In the next half century, however, Virginia’s many appeals to end slave importations brought nothing but rejections from the three Georges who mounted the British throne in succession.  By 1770, more Africans had crossed the Atlantic – albeit involuntarily – than Europeans, and Virginia’s slave population grew almost eightfold, to nearly 190,000, the equivalent of 20 percent of the white population.  The slavery issue had grown insoluble.”  -Harlow Unger, Lion of Liberty (Patrick Henry biography)

I've decided to not celebrate Juneteenth:  I'm celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day instead.

“only the wise man knows who are worthy to be loved.”  - Antisthenes, disciple of Socrates

Perhaps the strongest case against the predominance of discrimination as an explanation of economic disparities would be a comparison of blacks in Haiti with blacks in the United States.  Since Haiti became independent two centuries ago, Haitian blacks should be the most prosperous blacks in the hemisphere and American blacks the poorest, if discrimination is the overwhelming factor, but in fact the direct opposite is the case.  It is Haitians who are the poorest and American blacks who are the most prosperous in the hemisphere-- and in the world.  –Thomas Sowell

Sometimes the AP is very descriptive about suspect descriptions and sometimes it is as tight-lipped as a mafia witness.  You know when, don't you?

The ---- is the cancer of human history.  -Susan Sontag

"I really don't think these guys know what they're talking about.”  -Richard Feynman on the “Nuclear Winter”

"Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world from nuclear disaster, on this day in 1983, 39 years ago today, saw the word "LAUNCH" flash across the Soviet Union's attack early warning system. His screen stated with high reliability that a total of five American intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) had been launched and were headed toward the Soviet Union. Petrov had to make a decision: should he report an incoming American strike, or should he hold off, confident that what they were seeing was a false alarm?

If he reported it, Soviet nuclear doctrine called for a full nuclear retaliation. There would be no time to double-check the warning system or seek negotiations with the U.S. This occurred during the Reagan administration, which had taken a firmer stance against the Soviets compared to previous administrations. The Reagan administration was deploying Pershing I nuclear-armed missiles to West Germany and Great Britain, capable of striking the Soviet Union. Given these circumstances, Petrov had reasons to believe that Reagan's brinkmanship had escalated to an actual nuclear exchange."  -@historyinmemes

It’s simple to seek substitutes for competence—such easy substitutes:  love, charm, kindness, charity.  But there is no substitute for competence.”  -Ayn Rand