My Saturday mission is to get two posts up by 10:20 am, E.S.T. So much for that. I had a bad night with my leg, which is now sitting undressed with the 4″ X 2″ giant infected wound looking less inflamed but still feeling sore. I’m trying to type on a new laptop that is driving me crazy, while a traumatized pit bull lies happily snoring on my other leg. Everything is taking me five times longer than usual, and the usual WordPress quirks that are just irritating under normal conditions now prompt me to scream a versatile epithet so loudly that my house guest keeps running over to see if I’m all right.
I hate this.
EA is blessed to have so many sharp, erudite, informed an creative participants in the commentariate (Curmie, Curmie, wherefore art thou, Curmie?) that I know this space will be well used, so I know I’m leaving the blog in good hands, but still. There is so much I want to post about, and I expected to be much closer to normal by now.
Well, enough self-flagellation. Go do that voodoo that you do so well.
Ethics Alarms 
Alan Dershowitz has been confronted with an unethical bigot at the Martha’s Vineyard farmer’s market that refuses to sell to Dershowitz due to his politics and who he has represented in the past. It’s happened a couple of times and the unethical mob of bigots on Martha’s Vineyard are applauding the Farmer’s Market bigot. Dershowitz has posted videos about it on his YouTube channel and today Jonathan Turley posted about it too.
No Pierogi For You: Dershowitz Denied Food in Martha’s Vineyard Over His Political Views
Here is a link to Alan Dershowitz’s The Dershow on YouTube.
The Pierogi guy won’t sell to Dersch because he had the audacity to provide legal services to a convicted aficionado and trafficker of under-aged girls. Just another guy who doesn’t understand how the legal system and lawyers work. They’re both Jewish so it’s not an Anti-Semitic thing. Although I suspect the guy also doesn’t want to serve Dersch because he’s not sufficiently Trump Deranged and/or not pro-Palestinian.
Here’s another one about the climate change cult of morons.
The Climate Cult Takes On “Resiliency” In Manhattan
Gotta love the map of Lower Manhattan that Francis Menton presents (I saved it and inserted it below) that shows how effective the $300 million spent, by the “gotta do something” climate morons, was at preserving Lower Manhattan from the inevitable rising sea flood waters from that melting ice cap that fear mongering morons screamed about 25 years ago. Melton explains, there is about 10 miles of shoreline that would be affected if the sea waters rose that predicted 10 feet, so that 52,800 feet (10 miles) of shoreline, at $300 million “fix” per 400 feet, would cost $39.6 Billion to “fix” the rest of that 10 miles of shoreline.
The map really does show just how absurd the climate change efforts are at solving this predicted flooding problem; yup, morons. Their $300 million flood prevention effort is that little red bar at the end of the arrow.
MORONS!
I suggest we ask the Dutch how they have managed this without bankrupting themselves or destroying their country (although I’ve heard that their current ruling political regime is working on accomplishing those things).
Menton also makes an excellent point that this park – pre climate proofing – sustained zero damage from superstorm Sandy, one of the most destructive storms to hit New York in memory.
Perhaps they are thinking of preparing for an asteroid to land in Long Island Sound. Pro tip: You’ll have more to worry about than a measly 100 foot wave of water.
DG wrote: “I suggest we ask the Dutch how they have managed this
Based on my knowledge of the Netherlands and Dutch culture (I lived there for seven years, and part of my family is Dutch) they have a number of notable and relevant-to-this-topic differences from the US:
BTW, here’s what the Dutch mean by swimming lessons — it is all about survival:
“During lessons, children learn skills such as swimming underwater with their eyes open. The diploma exam requires children to swim with their clothing and shoes on and to perform such exercises as a forward-roll into the water followed by getting out by lifting themselves onto a large floating mattress unassisted.
Because most accidental drownings occur when a person unexpectedly falls into a canal or river, the exam includes realistic scenarios. For children (and adults for that matter), it is vital for them to to be able to handle underwater disorientation while weighted down by clothing. Children are taught not to panic and to react in a calm, controlled manner when placed in a water emergency.”
PWS
We’ve got some coming even in this triple digit heat, Paulie! They’ll probably go wild in the fall. You must be maxed out and in full production by now.
Worst Tomato Ranching start EVAH! While pondering what’s gone sideways, I’ve only eliminated one possibility; human error on my part…
Anywho, if that melting comes about, Tubac will be coastal property.
PWS
Some attention must be paid to the end of World War II eighty years ago, after Truman dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There has been a lot of discussion about whether the decision to use nuclear weapons was ethical. The alternative would have been an invasion of the mainland, with an estimated death toll of 15 million civilians and 5 million soldiers, plus an expected invasion of Japan and Korea by the Soviet Union. Ethical calculations regarding war are always ugly, but I think today we can most likely safely say that Truman made the right decision.
Excellent observations, but the “other” alternative to dropping the bomb on Japan was even harsher. General LeMay was advancing a plan to move American bombers from Europe and utilize British Lancasters from the ETO, and base them all out of the Allied-conquered Pacific islands close to Japan to conduct widespread, around the clock incendiary bombing across Japan until they surrendered. Talk about destruction! The two atomic bombs were almost humane by comparison.
My collection of short stories, “Stories from Way Out West” includes a story touching on Hiroshima which resulted from my visits to Los Alamos and Santa Fe, reading John Hershy’s “Hiroshima” and meeting a retired University of Arizona physics professor who’d worked on the Hydrogen bomb at Lawrence Livermore as a pup. The story is “Scherzando” “Stories from Way Out West” is available on Amazon in paper or digital. (I think the paper copy turned out really cool.) Author: Bill Fearnow. Yes. Attention must be paid. I think there are lots of us who wouldn’t be here had the bomb not ended the war and Japan had been invaded. The book also includes my thoughts on abortion (“Advanced Placement”) and the NAZIs murdering millions of Jews (“The Critic’s Choice.”), and incest (“The Flyboy’s Daughter”) among other topics. I’m better at fiction than exposition. In my opinion, anecdotal evidence is the best evidence.
There! How’s that for a self-serving book plug of Professor Turley dimensions?
“Stories from Way Out West” is HIGHLY recommended by my lovely and long-suffering wife!
PWS
John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” is also recommended. A very concise, very good read.
When thinking about the atomic bombs that were dropped, how fortunate to have been residents in the city of Kokura. It was the secondary target for the first atomic bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima because skies were clear there.
On the 9th, Kokura was the primary target for the second bomb, but was again spared due to heavy cloud cover. “Fat Man” was instead dropped on Nagasaki.
Yes, they had already begun — much of Tokyo had been destroyed by incendiary bombing already. My understanding is the Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen because they were basically untouched by the bombings and offered a good frame of reference. Doubtless if the atomic bomb hadn’t worked, they would have been fire bombed as well.
We can – now – blithely speak of fire bombing and the like, but this was a brutal war, and the Allied leaders were committed to seeing it won, whatever the cost.
It is also important to recognize that most of the killing in WWII was done by the Axis powers. Horrific as our attacks may have been, the Allies were not running around the world killing innocent civilians by the tens of millions. The Germans did. The Japanese did.
The Allies had no reason to believe, prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that the Japanese would surrender without being physically beaten and occupied. The Germans didn’t surrender until there was almost nothing left, and the Japanese didn’t believe in surrender to start with.
Had we not dropped the atomic bombs, then yes we would have bombed Japan mercilessly, then invaded the Home Islands while the Soviets ran wild in Mongolia and Manchuria. Think of Iwo Jima and Okinawa but magnified ten fold or more.
So, to sum up, yes Truman was right to drop the bomb. His decision undoubtedly save untold numbers of lives of many nationalities, including Japan.
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Ugh. A rather dark post, but it’s a rather dark subject.
Am I the only person in the world who finds Progressive Insurance’s “Dr. Rick” televisions commercials incredibly irritating?
Dr. Rick Commercials | Progressive
What’s wrong with becoming parents and responsible adults. Wouldn’t it be a good thing is younger kids became more like their parents? This is not light-hearted humor about guys wearing “dad jeans.” It’s nasty mockery and demeaning of both parents and their adult children. Downright snotty.
And why do insurance companies have to advertise so much? Couldn’t they just save the money and lower their rates and get more customers that way? With insurance premiums going through the roof, customers need to pay for these awful ad campaigns too?
Why yes, Bill, you are indeed the only person who finds the Dr. Rick commercials annoying, rather than cute.
Now the white uniformed “Flo” commercials after they phased out Flo — those I find rather annoying and often actually baffling. Flo was cute when she started out. Her followers, not so much.
But see, there is the genius of Progressive. Going through their entire oeurve they manage to come up with at least one commercial that will annoy every one. But also at least one commercial that every person will like. I think that takes some talent.
Instapundit pointed to the following NY Post article. Is this the direction of the Democrats for the coming years?
ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA COMRADES PUSH ‘ABOLITION’ OF TRADITIONAL FAMILY:
The Left has always supported destroying anything and everything remotely considered traditional Western values. The Left attempted to destroy the military, the nuclear family, education, traditional marriage, etc.
jvb
I was reading this today and thought it might be fun for people to fisk.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/revenge-of-the-vibecession?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us