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Everyone’s always in favor of saving Hitler’s brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark — ooo, suddenly you’ve gone too far!
— Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (Billy West), “A Clone of My Own,” Futurama, original airdate April 9, 2000
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Today is Sunday, September 25th, the 268th day of 2022. There are 97 days left in the year. It is National Cooking Day, National Food Service Employees Day, National Lobster Day, National One-Hit Wonder Day, National Psychotherapy Day, World Dream Day, and World Pharmacists Day.
On This Day
In 1775, Ethan Allen surrendered to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.
In 1789, Congress passed the first 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
In 1890, Congress established Sequoia National Park.
In 1912, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism was founded.
In 1956, TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, was inaugurated.
In 1964, the Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal began.
In 1977, thousands of people took part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
In 1980, Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham died at age 32 of asphyxiation from vomiting after a night of heavy drinking.
In 1992, NASA launched its ill-fated Mars Observer.
In 2018, Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.
Today’s Birthdays
Actor Michael Douglas is 78. Former model Cheryl Tiegs is 75. Actor Mark Hamill is 71. Actress Heather Locklear is 61. Actress Aida Turturro is 60. Actor Tate Donovan is 59. Actor Will Smith is 54. Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones is 53.
The Links
The Dystopian Vision of the Health-Information Police (Brownstone Institute)
“California is often described as a bellwether: ‘As California goes, so goes the nation.’ That saying rings especially true with respect to Assembly Bill 2098, given that this is a test case for a national movement and that Governor Gavin Newsom has obvious presidential aspirations.”
White House: Publicly funded research must be freely available (Blaze Media)
“The American people fund tens of billions of dollars of cutting-edge research annually. There should be no delay or barrier between the American public and the returns on their investments in research.”
Milk Crate Law? (American Institute for Economic Research)
“Arresting people for misusing milk crates may feel a bit absurd, but the problems it highlights are anything but amusing. All over the nation, for those of us with the privacy of a basement or garage or attic, milk crates quietly house our sports equipment and children’s toys. Our decades-long criminal activity goes entirely unnoticed.”
Billionaire bunkers: How the world’s wealthiest are paying to escape reality (New York Post)
“For the wealthy and privileged, writes Rushkoff, the future of technology is about ‘only one thing: escape from the rest of us.’”
Why the Political Grift Won’t Stop (Reason)
“Political hucksters with their hands caught in the cookie jar benefit not only from donor indifference, but from the willingness of political tribalists to believe that any alleged misconduct on their own side is just proof of further malfeasance from The Man.”
The seven Democrats most likely to run for president — if Biden bows out (The Hill)
“‘There’s not one clear candidate and there’s not a rising star,’ said one top Democratic donor.”
Republicans See over 492K Net Gains over Democrats in Florida Voter Registration (Breitbart News)
“This stunning statistic could spell trouble for Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL), who is hoping to unseat DeSantis in this year’s gubernatorial race. The overall trend is positive for Republicans in the Sunshine State, suggesting that the left-wing attacks against the state and its leadership — attacks coming from the likes of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), who bizarrely begged Floridians to move to California over Independence Day weekend — are falling flat.”
The Sexual Revolution Eats Its Own (The American Conservative)
“So once we chose revolution — even the old revolution — it could only have turned out this way. When the first gay liberationists looked to cleave human conduct from human nature, they planted the seeds of transgender insanity. From the moment the first mad scientist made a human being in a lab, the headline ‘Woman is pregnant with own son’s child’ was written on the wall. When the contours of reality were first rewritten by each of these different factions, it was already a given that the lines would be redrawn — one way or another — for unsuspecting children as much as for adults.”
Professor: As with cultural appropriation, ‘whiteness’ responsible for religious appropriation (Student Free Press Association)
“When it comes to yoga, Bucar argued in order for it to become ‘mainstream’ it had to be ‘scrubbed of its devotional meanings and presented in spaces that are comfortable for white people.’”
California Monarchs — Too Much Activism (Kip Hansen)
“Truthfully, neither the sharp decline or the unbelievable (partial) recovery has been explained to anyone’s satisfaction. It seems unreasonable that a population as small as 2,000 in the spring of 2021 could then produce the 250,000 overwintering Monarchs in a single season. But that is precisely what appears to have happened.”
Greenland’s mass balance 2021/22 (Kalte Sonne)
“An ‘accelerated’ thawing of the Greenland ice sheet is not to be recognized. If one accumulates the mass loss, one sees the ‘braking’ very nicely. Acceleration occurred until 2012.”
NASA postpones Artemis 1 launch because of tropical storm (SpaceNews)
“In a statement after the briefing, NASA appeared to do some damage control. ‘NASA is grateful to its agency partners at NOAA, United State Space Force and the National Hurricane Center for giving us the highest quality products to protect our nation’s flight test to return us to the Moon,’ the agency stated.”
The Northern Ireland Protocol is none of Biden’s business (spiked)
“It should concern us that the British embassy in the US seems to have done very little to educate American senators and congressmen on the reality of the protocol and the limits of America’s authority.”
Biden’s UN speech misreads global unity (Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft)
“Despite extensive diplomatic pressure from the Biden administration, key diplomatic and economic players — including Brazil, South Africa, and Saudi Arabia — have refused to impose sanctions against Russia. Most damaging, Asia’s two demographic and economic giants, India and China, have stubbornly remained on the sidelines.”
Five Pseudosciences That Fueled the Nazis (RealClearScience)
“Key to Nazism was the notion that Germans descended from an ancient, superior ‘Aryan’ race, who had been responsible for most major developments in human history such as agriculture, art, and writing. Most of the world’s academics dismissed this outlandish hypothesis, so the Nazis employed dozens of academics to venture on numerous archaeological and anthropological expeditions around the world to return evidence of Aryan settlements and accomplishments.”
Your Turn
1. Who’s least objectionable as the next president: Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
2. Own any illegal milk crates?
3. Greatest one-hit wonder of all time?
4. Do billionaire bunker-builders know something the rest of us don’t?
5. Will Smith’s best movie?
1. They all scare me. I would like to write in a candidate. The governor of Louisiana. John Bell Edwards.
2. Maybe. I think they have been with us since college.
3. Chumbawumba, Tubthumping.
4. No. They are just rich.
5. I am Legend