On People Ignorant of History (and Yes, this Unfortunately Includes Millions Upon Millions of Present-Day College Kids Who've Been Brainwashed by Their Wrong-Headed Predecessors - Professors at this Point) Being Amongst the Most Efficiently Led In the Annals of Our Civilization

  And, oh boy, are they ever ignorant (not knowing that socialism has been a catastrophic mess every single time, not even considering that historical events should be examined contextually, believing that you can judge people according to a cartoonishly simplistic oppressor/oppressed framework, believing that only black people have faced enslavement and that the only people who enslaved them have been white, not knowing that 90% of the Native-Americans who perished after European contact died from diseases and not from blood-letting, not knowing that it was the Muslims who started the religious strife in North Africa, Persia, the Indian sub-continent, and the Levant by going on one bloody conquest after another, having no notion whatsoever that their precious communism has racked up almost as many corpses as Islam, etc., etc.). It wouldn't be so problematic if they at least had SOME inquisitiveness and a willingness to listen but being that the only tactic that these schmucks have mastered is one of doubling and tripling down, creating any sort of headway with them has all the earmarks of a Herculean mission.

On Finding Kickass Photos of Geraldine Fitzgerald Now Being My Number One Side Hustle

 The pay's not great but the Benjis more than make up for it, I assure you 😁😉.

On Trans People Versus People Pretending to Be Trans People

  Well, being that there's a monumental level of make-believe with both, a difference without a distinction, one might posit.
    P.S. There actually is a situation in which knowing the difference WOULD be critical, and that would be deciding where to send a person to jail who claims to be trans but patently isn't and who is only pulling this stunt to angle his way into a women's prison to get some poontang (forced or consensual, it doesn't matter which with him). So, yeah, the distinction here is quite important.

On My Mount Rushmore (of Classic Female Movie Stars) at Long Last Being Complete

   For the record, it is now comprised of Susan Hayward, Eva Marie Saint, Barbara Stanwyck, and my latest entry, Geraldine Fitzgerald (I'd been looking for a while to fill that fourth slot and Ms. Fitzgerald certainly brings the magic).
   There, now I can finally rest.

On the Fact that the Ottoman Empire Enslaved Millions of Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, and Poles, Mostly) Over a 600 Year Period

  And just like they did with the wholesale massacre of Greeks and Armenians in more recent times, zero contrition, zero ownership, zero self-reflection, and zero empathy. But sure, let's keep stockpiling more and more individuals who exude such a mindset. That's a winner.

On the Fact that the Average SAT Score for Incoming Black Students at the University of North Carolina In 2012 Was a Mind-Boggling 235 Points Lower than that of the Incoming Asian-American Students

  Look, I'm not opposed to some attempts at diversity (having zero black students at Cornell, Duke, Vanderbilt, and NYU - institutions picked at random - probably isn't a good look) but it has to be balanced with other competing considerations (like, I don't know, not screwing Asian kids so much, maybe). My suggestion would be to take a smaller percentage of black students (the most highly qualified of the contingent), 4 or 5% instead of 13 and then backfill the open spots with more qualified Asians and "non-connected" whites. 

  As for the black students who won't get accepted into Cornell or Duke, have them apply instead to Stony Brook or UNC Charlotte. a) They're good schools (at least they used to be, pre-woke) and b) they're probably a better academic fit for these students (i.e., less dropping out, less changing of majors from tangible subjects to useless nonsense, less radicalizing, etc.). Granted, not everyone will be jumping for joy with this proposal, but in my view, it's the best for all groups in the long run.

On this Geraldine Fitzgerald Photo from 1941 (a Publicity Still for "Shining Victory")

 

Yeah, if I can find a vintage issuance of this specimen, to my collection it will be added (AKA, I love it).