Thursday, December 31, 2020
Memories of Kwanzaa Past
What are the chances that there is even a sliver of truth to Harris’s account? Many are skeptical. Steve Sailer says, “Pics or it didn’t happen.”
It’s possible, of course. Harris was born in 1964, so she was a child when Kwanzaa was concocted. What is striking to me is how insincere Harris seems in the video. To me, it appears that she is smiling, not at happy childhood memories, but at the idea that some rubes might actually fall for the tale she is spinning. Her patent lack of authenticity is a key reason why her presidential campaign crashed on takeoff, and she hasn’t become a more convincing story-teller in the time that has gone by since. Which is probably a good thing, given that she is likely to be president one of these days.
She is remarkably bad at this.
The Green Racket
Wind and solar energy are a bad joke. They are obsolete, unreliable, and ridiculously expensive if all costs are included—something that “green” advocates never do. These industries, therefore, could not exist without government mandates and subsidies. Which means, in turn, that they are lavish contributors to politicians.
There are people getting rich on wind and solar projects, and they owe it all to government. Of course, those people aren’t you, me, or the hundreds of millions of Americans who buy electricity and pay taxes. Once again, the politicians and a handful of well-connected operators benefit, and the rest of us pay the tab.
Insecurity
From an email responding to this post at Ann Althouse's blog:
When I first started teaching at Stanford, someone remarked to me that he had never met a physicist who used 'Dr.,' and never met a Ph.D. from the Education school who did not. This has held true in my experience for decades now.
Via Glenn Reynolds.
They're Consistent
Like usual for the Democrats’ partners, China is literally forcing people to pick cotton.
Enemies
Reacting to the New York Times failing to report the Swalwell spy story, Cotton questioned how deep in the pocket of China much of the mainstream media and entertainment industry is.
"It makes you wonder how much the American media industry is in the pocket of Chinese interests if they won't cover these huge stories," Cotton said.
