Thoughts On A Sunday

As all three of my readers may have noticed, I didn’t post last night. It wasn’t from “lack of wanna” or having no subject worth posting about. It was more a matter of not getting back to The Gulch until quite late last night as I went to a concert at our local venue. Two old friends of mine and I went to see Chicago at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook Farm.

Other than a few people here and there, most of the audience were in their 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. As more than a couple of venue staff and security personnel said, “We don’t expect there will be any problems, at least not with this crowd. A lot of them will be staying up past their usual bedtime…”

It was a great concert and with only two exceptions I knew all the songs they performed.

A good time was had by all!

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It looks like Mother Nature isn’t going to play nice this weekend. It’s going to be raining, and when it isn’t raining it’s going to be warm and very humid around here. I’m not holding out much hope that there won’t be thunderstorms the evening of the Fourth, meaning it will be dicey catching the fireworks from the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout as the last place I want to be during the thunderstorm is out in the middle of a lake.

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To show you just how bad things have gotten, it seems that some of those deeply steeped in Progressive ideology have an unreasoning fear, distrust, and loathing of those whose beliefs differ from theirs. It even goes so far as to divide families. But the following example shows the hypocrisy of at least one Progressive...and her equally Progressive mother.

A Progressive bride feels uncomfortable with the idea of her conservative uncle attending her wedding, so asks her mother to write to the uncle (the mother’s brother) to explain why he’s not being invited to the wedding.

He did not reply. He also did not send wedding gift...and the bride’s mother is upset he didn’t send the $1000 he’s gifted to family members during their weddings.

[The bride] says she was counting on receiving the same type of gift.

My husband says I should drop it – but I can’t. Dave’s behavior is upsetting and embarrassing to me.

How can I get my brother to recognize and change his petty behavior?

Please don’t tell me that I’m the one who started this by not inviting my brother to the wedding. After all, he’s a grown man, while my daughter is young and just starting out.

So, they dis-invite an uncle they disagree with politically but otherwise get along with, telling him why he’s not welcome, but expect him to provide a wedding gift? They don’t want him, just his money.

The absolute gall of these people.

The advice columnist to whom this was addressed didn’t cut this woman any slack either, telling her “So far, your silent brother is the only family member who is behaving appropriately. He’s steering clear, which is exactly what you have asked him to do.”

Indeed.

(H/T Instapundit)

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From the “Just When I Thought They Couldn’t Get Any Stupider” Department comes this:

Climate Cops Denounce Ice in Cocktails

For years the hospitality industry has seen diners clamoring for foods that prioritize climate-friendly practices, such as local and seasonal ingredients that are grown or raised with carbon footprints in mind. Yet cocktail culture hasn’t been hit with the same scrutiny. As the American West experiences water scarcity and energy prices remain volatile, the protocol for properly made cocktails doesn’t look sustainable. Is it possible to make satisfying cocktails without so much ice?

Really? Ice in cocktails is driving climate change?

Then I have a counter to that, that being that many of the alcoholic beverages the climate clowns like to drink are major contributors to CO2. The fermentation process generates a lot of carbon dioxide, so much so that buildings where the the various vats and barrels are housed need to be properly ventilated to keep the ambient CO2 levels from reaching lethal concentrations.

If there are no alcoholic beverages then there is no need for any ice, right? So we should ban those horrible alcoholic beverages outright if they are so concerned about climate change...right?

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Who’da thunk that teaching actual biological science could get one fired for “for ‘religious preaching’ in his class.”

A biology professor at St. Philip’s College in San Antonio, Texas claimed that he was fired after he taught a lesson explaining that sex is determined by X and Y chromosomes.

The professor, Johnson Varkey, claimed that he was let go from the college for “religious preaching” in his class. Over the course of 20 years, Varkey taught human anatomy and physiology to more than 1,500 students, according to the New York Post.

During a lesson on the human reproductive system on Nov. 28, 2022, Varkey made remarks about how X and Y chromosomes determine a person’s sex. Four students reportedly walked out of his class as a result of these remarks.

So, because the professor disdained the use of woke ‘science’, i.e. another version of Lysenkoism which has little to do with actual science, and stated something that any biologist knows is true, he’s been fired for preaching religion in a science class? How is that in any way ‘religion’?

The plague of ‘wokism’ is spreading and has been infecting academia and society to the detriment of both.

If science is required to meet the political constraints of 21st century Lysenkoism, then it isn’t science, period.

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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee where the ran continues to fall, the prospects for fireworks on the Fourth seem dismal, and it appears too many people have forgotten how to drive in the rain.