The Crowhill Journal

What has become of free speech and our ability to agree to disagree with one another? What happened to “I don’t like what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it”?

That used to be the liberal standard.

Now, if you depart from the ever-changing requirements of the woke scolds, the mob attacks you and you lose your livelihood.

This has degraded our public institutions. Newspapers, according to Bari Weiss, choose and tell stories “in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences.”

How does this help the culture?

[Admin note: going forward, most P&C episodes will be private, and not available through libsyn. When they are available on libsyn, I’ll post them in this format.]

Here’s my first attempt at posting a private podcast. Let’s see if it works.

(If I link to it like this, you should be able to right click on it and download the file.)

With special guest, Noman, Pigweed and Crowhill take a look at Jack London’s Sea Wolf, an exciting book that introduced the world to the interesting character, Wolf Larsen. Captain Larsen is an amoral, materialist monster.

While the book is good in general, a particular passage caught Crowhill’s eye, because it dealt with the “race” of the Norwegians, and the “race” of the Italians.

Huh?

Crowhill called on his friend Noman to discuss.

This episode discusses the concept of race and racism, whether stop and frisk was racist, and several other interesting points.

Be warned. Noman sings a slightly inappropriate song in the middle of this podcast.

It’s amazing how so many people feel like they’re experts on complicated issues because of what they read on social media, as this comic points out.

A state decides to open, then the state has a rise in cases. Ergo, opening caused more cases, right? Right?

CDC chief says Northerners heading South for vacation may be to blame for surge in coronavirus cases, not state reopenings

Can we please be honest and say that we don’t know? There are many factors involved, and the science is far from settled.

Let’s be reasonable and cautious, but when people think they can connect the dots, remind them they don’t know what they’re talking about.

How long will it be before we “cancel” the days of the week?

Tuesday is “Tyr’s day.” So who was this Tyr character? He’s best known for offering his hand to Fenriswolf when the gods were trying to trick the poor beast. This is clearly an example of toxic masculinity.

Wednesday is “Odin’s day.” Slaves were sacrificed to Odin.

Thursday is “Thor’s day.” I’m sure Thor wouldn’t hold up to modern scrutiny. (Although Loki might.)

So, while we’re ridding our culture of everything objectionable, why don’t we do something about this?

I suggest we rename the days one, two, three, etc.

Oh, and why seven days in a week? That’s obviously a religion relic that we have to abandon, right? Why not make it ten?

They’re going to call the team the D.C. Redskins, because Washington is too offensive.