Saturday, November 11, 2017

Saturday roundup

From the Western-civilization-has-gone-certifiably-mad file:

The New York Post reports the Metropolitan Transit Authority has ordered all subway personnel to refrain from addressing riders as “ladies and gentlemen.”
Instead, staffers have been told they must use gender-neutral words like riders, passengers, and everyone according to a memorandum obtained exclusively by the Post.
It's a new day, so there's a new revelation about a high-powered groper, right? Today it's Rolling Stone founder and publisher Jann Wenner.

Lebanese sources say that country's former prime minister Saad Hariri is being forcibly held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has basically claimed that Lebanon is waging war against it. Now, the actual government of Lebanon is so ethnically and religiously diffuse, by constitutional design, that it would be hard-pressed to unify enough to be at war with anybody. The hostility of which Saudi Arabia is actually complaining comes from the machinations of Hizbollah, which has filled the vacuum wrought by disunity with very clear aims for Lebanon and the Middle East generally. How did such a small, prosperous country become a place of such disarray?

There was a time when David Horowitz was in the pantheon of thinkers and activists I admired most in this world. Then he swallowed the Trump Kool-Aid and I began to have doubts. Then he embraced this position concerning Roy Moore and now he is dead to me.

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