RevKarlH

Retired Lutheran pastor, husband, dad, grandfather, lover of Cajun food and books.

[Max Velocity @MaxVelocityWX]

WHAT THE FLIPPITY FLOPPITY ARE WE DOING IN MINNESOTA RIGHT NOW?!?!

Over a dozen cars parked under an overpass due to a tornado warning right now. DO NOT DO THIS!

[Erik Rostad (Books of Titans) @booksoftitans]

I've been to bookstores all over the world, and as far as I can tell, what we've done at Landmark Booksellers in Franklin, TN with The Great Wall, presenting the Great Books in chronological order, is something no other store is doing. Anyone know of another?

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

I've apparently upset fans of famines

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

This is why we tell folks to NEVER seek shelter inside a vehicle.

This car near Effingham, Illinois was thrown into a fields, rolled and impaled.

As a last resort, seek shelter inside a ditch and cover your head — but never stay inside the car.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Full essay here. The tick may not be the whole story.
https://t.co/iKPhrOu9ia

[Gretchen Ronnevik @garonnevik]

I’m probably opening up a can of worms here, but to those saying I need to spay my cats, consider a few things. We are a grain farm. Grain farms attract rodents. Hundreds of them. Big ones. We can use cats, or we can use more chemicals to handle them. Your choice.

Humane societies refuse to give cats to farms. They claim cats are not for work, they are for domestic use only. I have tried. So we have to breed our own, and farmers have a whole network to manage this. We take excellent care of our cats. They are handled and loved. But we are not the city. We are not a neighborhood. We are a rural farm trying to keep our chemical and disease levels low.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

@anecdotal Marxists: famously known for their consistency in adopting the proletarian revolutionary lifestyle that their theories espouse for others.

[Eric Brown @EricBrownPastor]

@CatholicDrip___ ... obedience is a effect of forgiveness, life, and salvation. It's not a cause thereof.

That's our point.

[Del. Wren M. Williams @WrenWilliamsVA]

Imagine going 116 mph and being pulled over by a Va State Trooper while you’re a member of the House of Delegates at 1am after a party, avoiding mandatory jail time, then turning in 500 hours of “community service” for your own political action committee before tweeting “nobody is above accountability.”

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Woodrow Wilson’s reputation has been overdue for a free speech reckoning.

He censored newspapers, jailed dissenters, targeted anti-war critics, and punished suffragists.

The more you learn, the worse it gets.

[Handre @Handre]

In 1968, while teenage Red Guards beat their professors to death with clubs in Beijing courtyards, Jean-Paul Sartre sat in Paris calling Mao's Cultural Revolution a model of revolutionary democracy. The most celebrated intellectual in France looked at a country burning its own libraries and saw liberation. He sold the Maoist newspaper La Cause du Peuple on French street corners himself, holding it aloft like a sacrament.

Consider what he was endorsing. Between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution killed somewhere between 500,000 and two million people. Schools shut down across the entire country. Students dragged teachers onto stages, hung placards around their necks, forced them to kneel on broken glass, then murdered them. The historian Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of a girls' school in Beijing, died on August 5, 1966, beaten by her own students with nail-studded clubs. Sartre called this the people governing themselves.

You should understand why a man this intelligent got it this wrong. Sartre believed knowledge served power, that truth was whatever the revolution required, that the individual existed to be dissolved into the collective will. So when Mao abolished the distinction between teacher and student, between expert and mob, Sartre cheered. He had spent decades arguing that bourgeois reason was a class weapon. Here was a regime taking him at his word and clubbing the reasoners to death.

This is what economic illiteracy buys you. A university, a price, a contract, and a peasant's grain stockpile all carry knowledge that no central planner can seize or replicate. Mises explained the calculation problem in 1920. Hayek explained dispersed knowledge in 1945. Sartre had access to both and chose the dunce cap of the collective instead, then handed out its propaganda on the Rue de Rennes.

He died in 1980, mourned by 50,000 followers, never having retracted a word about Mao. The professors of Beijing got no such funeral. They got a ditch, and a philosopher in Paris explaining that their murder was freedom.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

15% of Musk's wealth is $150 billion. The US Federal government spends more than 100% of Musk's wealth every single year on food, housing, and medical care for the poor, and we're only 4% of global population and 0.1% of global poverty. You ain't curing shit with his money

[🦬Lemon🦬Creek🦬Press🦬 @LemonCreekPress]

And by special request Service 2 is available.

https://t.co/GANgcVBPTM

[Eric Brown @EricBrownPastor]

If you think a hydration break "ruins football" you must never thought highly of the sport in the first place.

Don't whine so much; enjoy life. Don't be so miserable about everything.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Fun fact: for many years Florida State University operated a radical Marxist student group called the Center for Participant Education.

It was university-subsidized and given office space on campus...which they promptly decorated with Stalin posters.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Her "defense" is that the fake publication was on her faculty website, not her CV.

Well...it turns out it's on her CV too.

[fOx @fOx1257067]

Released in 1975, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was an animated television special directed by legendary animator Chuck Jones and based on the classic story by Rudyard Kipling.

The story follows a brave mongoose who takes on two deadly cobras to protect the family that rescued him. For a generation of kids, it was one of those rare animated films that felt genuinely intense. The stakes were real, the villains were terrifying, and you couldn't help but root for Rikki-Tikki every step of the way.

More than 50 years later, it's still remembered as one of the finest animated adaptations ever put on television.

Did you watch Rikki-Tikki-Tavi growing up?

[William “Pope Garth George I” Metz🦬🦬🦬🏵️ @MetzUAC1530]

@CovenantReform2 Were there any infants at the crossing of the Red Sea?

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.

The lesson? Panic is a poor guide for public policy. Focusing on innovation, adaptation, and economic development can do far more to help both people and the climate—at a fraction of the cost.

https://t.co/EIJyuNeFU1

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

Here's something many people don't know about me -

Before I publicly dissected the long list of problems in the 1619 Project, I contacted the New York Times through their official channels to request a series of corrections to unambiguous factual errors in its content. The editor - Jake Silverstein - brushed me off and refused any correction - a pattern he also exhibited toward other critics from across the spectrum.

Before I publicly broke the story about Kevin Kruse's plagiarism in Reason, I contacted Princeton's academic integrity officer and alerted him to the problems I had found, giving them a chance to respond and address it internally. They ignored my email and later claimed to have lost my email after I went public.

Before I published my findings on Quinn Slobodian's habitual manipulation of source materials to alter its plain meaning through misquotation, I submitted an article to Contemporary European History (the journal where the worst examples appeared), highlighting the problems with the passages and asking for a correction through their official process. They desk-rejected it, brushed me off, and falsely claimed that Slobodian's piece had been thoroughly vetted in peer review. In fact, one of their own referees had flagged the same problems over a year earlier and recommended rejection of the article.

Before I published an expose on Nancy MacLean & Sandy Darity's similar manipulation of W.H. Hutt quotations in their article for History of Economics Review, I (along with 2 coauthors) submitted a response comment to this journal asking for a correction through its official processes. The editor gave us a complete runaround where he imposed an arbitrary length limit requiring us to cut the content, sent the trimmed version to a referee, then rejected the piece because the referee said we didn't sufficiently address the very same things we were forced by the editor to cut. When I then asked the editor to issue a simple corrigendum to the most egregious misquotation (one that transformed Hutt's explicit attack on the racism of white Afrikaners into a defense of Apartheid), he refused and tried to pass it off as a difference of "interpretation."

Before I published an expose of a leading covid masking model in the Wall Street Journal, I sent a comment to the medical journal that published it alerting them to a math error that changed their entire set of results. The journal acknowledged the error was real but refused to publish my piece on the grounds that the "next release" of the model would be updated to reflect it - even as politicians up to and including Joe Biden were trumpeting the erroneous results all over the news.