I couldn’t resist a post in “The American Thinker” which listed 12 “headlines you never would have seen just a few short years ago,” because 10 of 12 had appeared on my birthday, December 1. That explains why my favorite recent Great Stupid headline didn’t make the list, “Shark Week Lacks Diversity, Overrepresents Men Named Mike, Scientists Say,” which sparked two Ethics Alarms posts yesterday, here and here. Eric Utter writes that taken together, the list “looks like a harbinger of chaos and disaster.” I won’t argue with that, especially since I see worse headlines than these every day and have time and gorge to write about only some of them. Here are nine of the twelve:

• The People Cheering for Humanity’s End (The Atlantic)
• Canada has a shortage of Grim Reapers to meet demand for assisted suicide (LifeSiteNews)  
• John Fetterman’s wife claims that swimming is ‘very racist’ (MSN)      
• University library asks transgender students to journal about their bathroom experiences (Campus Reform)
• Federal court systems to establish mentorship program that promotes a ‘psychologically safe space’ for ‘staff who self-identify within any minoritized group’ (TheBlaze)
• California city will send all adult residents, including non-US citizens, $100 in taxpayer funds to donate to political candidates (TheBlaze)
• Trans woman jailed for sex with 14-year-old girl (BBC News )
• WI Children’s Hospital Stacks Chaplain Roster With Trans Activists (The Federalist)
• Priest Advocates Porn for Overstressed Clergy (Frontpage Mag)