Author: Crowhill Report

Some would say it was a fool’s errand to ever believe we could control the place. The British couldn’t. The Soviets couldn’t. Why would we think we could?

On the other hand, it’s discouraging to see it fall back into the hand of the foaming 14th century fanatics, and I’m sure the men who risked life and limb over there are disgusted.

But why is it our problem? Why should we spend our lives and treasure to prop up a system that they’re simply not ready for? There seem to be cultural prerequisites before a society can have a Republic, and they don’t have them.

Perhaps we need a strategy of containment. E.g., “you can be lunatics if you want, but we’re going to keep you in your country. Nobody gets out.” Although I’m not sure that’s practical, given the rough borders. We could hardly watch them all. We can’t even watch our own border.

I’m sick of so-called conservatives saying a grass roots movement of offended parents is going to fix the government-run schools.

This is nonsense.

The only viable solution is to leave the government-run schools and let them fail.

I was just on a call with a bunch of professionals in my industry, and I was …. What’s the right word? Certainly not shocked. I’ve seen this for too long to be shocked. Disappointed? Maybe. But I know how natural and normal this is, so that seems a little harsh.

“Worn out” seems to be good enough.

I was worn out by the failure of these intelligent people to realize how much of a bubble they live in.

We were talking about Covid, which is a big issue in the events business, which is part of what I do. (Events became a big portion of revenue for a lot of publishers a few years ago.)

I don’t care what you believe about Covid and vaccines and masks and standing 6 feet apart and the delta variant and blah blah blah. I’m over it. Believe what you like.

But I do care when people think there is only one perspective. Which applies to all sides of this debate, of course. There are “Covid is a myth” people who act as if their position is the only rational one, and there are “Covid is the end of days” people who can’t understand why everyone else isn’t soiling their underwear over this virus.

Once again … I get it. There’s all kinds of weird “information” out there. People can very easily go down rabbit holes.

But don’t they have the sense to realize that other people see things differently, and that they have (what they regard as) reasonable reasons for their perspective?

This is one of the big failures in modern life. We seem to be losing the ability to realize that other people are coming from a different perspective.

I suppose it’s a result of all that talk about diversity and inclusion.

8-year-old boy becomes the youngest person to face the death penalty in Pakistan

There’s an old saying that goes “show me a young man who is not a liberal, and I’ll show you a man with no heart. Show me an old man who is not a conservative, and I’ll show you a man with no brain.”

As with all sayings like that, it conveys an important message, and it’s a little silly to quibble over how accurate it is.

Along those same lines, I’d like to propose something like this. “Show me an 8-year old boy who has not committed blasphemy, and I’ll show you a boy who needs to read G. Gordon Liddy.”

It’s not that I’m a fan of blasphemy, but I am a fan of boys being boys, which means they do scatalogical, disrespectful, not grown up things. They jump off the roof with a bedsheet as a parachute. They make rickety ramps out of old wood and ride their bikes over them. They kiss frogs, rip off scabs, tease girls, and frighten their mothers.

Any regime that would consider charging an 8-year old for blasphemy should be mocked to scorn.

I just read China Owes The World $35 Trillion If Coronavirus Lab Leak Is True, which sounds as if it’s saying China is responsible for the virus and should pay for damages.

I am not a fan of communist China, but I think that’s a little silly.

My understanding is that the research that was going on in Wuhan was international. Other countries — including the U.S. — were involved.

However, China should still pay a price for their coverup and disinformation campaigns, and that price should be a collective “from now on, we won’t believe anything you say” from the entire world.

That seems a lot more fitting than a bill that China would never pay anyway.