The boy crisis

Today’s Daily Wire podcast mentions the boy crisis. Lifting Mask Mandates: Science or Politics? | 2.12.22. (After today you might have to scroll down to find it. The segment on boys is at the end, if you want to fast forward.)

While I have no doubt that various factors — affirmative efforts to get women into college; the feminization of just about everything, including school; telling boys they’re toxic, etc. — have pushed these numbers into their current, lopsided state, I have mixed feelings about trying to fix it.

Is the solution to try to get more boys to spend too much money on mostly useless college degrees? I don’t think so.

Education is a much bigger problem than simply the anti-boy bias, and it’s very likely that the correct solution is not to get more boys to go to college, but to try to get fewer people in college in the first place.

Yesterday’s nutty conspiracy theory is today’s headline

How many Covid-related things were conspiracy theories before they were mainstream, acceptable ideas? Let’s see …

  • The virus was engineered in a lab in China.
  • Cloth masks don’t do anything useful.
  • After you’re vaccinated you can still get and spread Covid.

There have also been reports of the vaccines interfering with women’s fertility. (Conspiracy!! Ban that lunatic!) But now …

EU investigates reports of menstrual disorders after mRNA Covid shots

The Pelosi Gazpacho is coming for your soup spoons

I haven’t followed her closely, but Marjorie Taylor Greene sounds like a bit of a loose canon. She reminds me of Sarah Palin — kinda mostly on the right side of things, but with a few screws that need tightening.

In a news conference where she is (correctly) calling attention to possible abuses by the Capitol Police, she made an amusing gaffe. See ‘Gazpacho Police’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims Pelosi Spying on Congress in Scheme Involving Cold Spanish Soup.

Everybody who speaks in public says silly things from time to time, and it’s not right to distract from a legit political message by focusing on the gaffe. But this one was funny.