The Crowhill Journal

I got an email today from Books a Million recommending a series of books to “start a conversation.” All of the books promoted a liberal point of view.

That’s what some people mean when they say “let’s have a conversation.” It excludes certain points of view from the outset.

People who fall for this stuff have apparently not been paying attention for the past 30 years.

In a podcast today I heard the question, “why did liberalism turn into wokeness?”

Here’s my explanation. What do you think?

Liberalism didn’t want people to be persecuted.

Wokeness took the idea of “being persecuted” and extended it to hurting someone’s feelings.

Wokeness is (primarily, I think) about making sure people never feel threatened, and never have their feelings hurt.

You may have heard that the Supreme Court has ruled that “no discrimination based on sex” means “no discrimination based on sexual orientation, or whether you’re a man who thinks he’s a woman, or whether you’re a woman who thinks she’s a turnip.”

I think it’s a fair guess to say that conservatives will dislike this opinion and liberals will celebrate it.

So, how does it hurt Trump?

One of the big reasons conservatives come out to vote in presidential elections is that they want to see conservative Supreme Court nominees. And so far, Trump has done well with his court appointments.

But this decision will make people wonder if it’s worth it.

“What’s the point?” they might ask. “We spend all this effort to get conservatives on the court, and then once they get on the court, about half of them turn liberal anyway! We never see a liberal become a conservative, but we regularly see so-called conservatives become liberal. They get enamored of Washington society, and the praise of the local big shots, and they apostasize. Or maybe it’s just the swamp water. But one way or another, these so-called conservative judges don’t stay conservative.”

It’s not a major setback, but I think it is a setback.

In case you haven’t heard, some troop of morons has taken over a few city blocks in Seattle and declared a new nation — the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ.

It’s not at all amusing that so many of our elected officials have been revealed as thoroughly incompetent at almost every level of analysis, but it is quite amusing that two of the first things the residents of CHAZ did were to create a border and to make a police force.

P&C drink and review Semi Charmed Pale Ale from Key Brewing and discuss all the fun issues and contradictions that go along with time travel.

First, there are problems with physics about location, inertia and conservation of mass. Then there are all the fun philosophical questions, like the predestination paradox, the ontological paradox, the grandfather paradox, the idea of stealing from the future, the “kill Hitler” paradox, the butterfly effect, and more. Then there’s the alleged solution of multiple timelines and multiple universes.

Then the boys discuss their favorite time travel vacations, and highlight the man of the week.