Tuesday Links - 18 July

The Other McCain starts us off with the latest piece of Progressive insanity: Math = White Supremacy. (Thank a teacher for not understanding math.)

The spokesman for Oregon’s public school system can only babble jargon about “equitable foundations” when confronted over this nonsense, which definitely is not “a pathway to success in math.”

19th Ward Chicago - All these politicians and their spouses and all of their relatives are getting two or more public pensions....Who is going to pay for that?

Our confidence that cities are forever is misplaced. History informs us that cities arise and decline just like civilizations: cities decline when the material essentials needed to support their vast populations are no longer affordable or available in sufficient quantities, or when the economic benefits produced by the city no longer outweigh its immense costs.

Beans at Chant du Départ - Books of Which I Recommend and Aren't 'Normal.'

Me? Though I like history, a lot, my mind tends to wander to less hard core stuff and more fantastical of nature. So I read a lot of stuff that is an escape from the real world.

Don't judge me, it is what it is.

Again from The Other McCain - Congratulations, Massachusetts Liberals: Your ‘Millionaire Tax’ Just Cost the Patriots an All-Pro Wide Receiver. On the imposition of a "Millionaire Tax."

Hey, math quiz: What’s 9% of zero? Because you’re not going to get any tax revenue from millionaires, if millionaires leave your state.

Never mind. Math is “white supremacy,” they tell me.

Adaptive Curmudgeon - The Mystery Is Solved

Perhaps the real miracle is that we even heard about the cocaine. What can we read into that tiny bit of truth?

Meanwhile, the press tells us that Joe Biden’s Whitehouse is as pure as the driven snow. Because of course it is.

Pixy Misa - Daily News Stuff 17 July 2023: Kerpow Splat Edition

Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley. (The Verge)

Don't nuke Hiroshima, check.

Tam at View from the Porch - The first rule of Dunning-Kruger Club...

...is you don't know you're in Dunning-Kruger Club.

The Gateway Pundit - Sound of Freedom Projecting $85 Million Cumulative Box Office After Two Weekends – Expected to Hit $100 Million This Week. I never see films in the theater anymore, but I am tempted to see this one, just because the Left is so opposed to it.

On Sunday Angel Studios announced the film has now brought in $85 at the box office. The film is expected to hit $100 million this week.

This is despite the mainstream media doing all it can to persuade Americans not to attend this exceptional film on child trafficking.

The Other McCain again - A Strange Thing to Say

Does anyone really believe military readiness will be “at risk” without transgender treatment or taxpayer-funded abortion? As if it were self-evident that “proper care,” as John Kirby calls it, is somehow essential for America’s ability to win wars? Such a claim can only be believed by those indoctrinated with an ideology which places “inclusion” and “diversity” as the highest values.

Professor Yamane at Gun Culture 2.0 - Travels with Sandy: In Search of America’s Gun Cultures in Bear Country, Wyoming

The land here is beautiful to observe from a distance but can be unforgiving close-up. I already noted the display in the Wyoming Territorial Prison suggesting that the Western frontier was “a challenging and dangerous place” and that three essential survival tools were “the ax, the plow, and the rifle.”