1. Let’s begin with an update, Great Stupid Division...Remember this idiotic story? You probably don’t; at the time, I thought it was almost too silly to write about: a 70 ton boulder that students at the University of Wisconsin were protesting as racist because of what it was once called. I wrote in part,

“Over 10,000 years ago, pre-Cambrian bedrock drift from Canada left it on what would become the campus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison…The rock was extracted from  the side of a hill in 1925, when Calvin Coolidge was President, and my father was five-years old, and placed in its current spot. It was dubbed “Chamberlin Rock” after Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, a 19th century glaciologist and University of Wisconsin president, given its  plaque memorializing him and placed at the university’s Washburn Observatory. Suddenly, after 95 years,  the rock has become racist, and black students are demanding that it be removed. You see, long ago, the term “niggerhead” was commonly used to describe large dark rocks….Isn’t it also obvious that this is, like so many of the demands during the George Floyd Freakout, just a contrived power play, as in “Watch this! We’ll make Whitey move a 70 ton rock just because we ordered them to do it!” Why can’t University officials end the “controversy” by saying, “No, children, we are not going to move a 70 ton rock because you have made the calculated decision that it hurts your boo-boo. You’re here to grow up: start doing it.”? If society won’t  reject demands this stupid,  why would any demand seem unreasonable?…”

That last question is still in play: The university, being run by weenies and fools, removed the rock last week, at a cost of more than $35,000, probably closer to twice that amount.

2. Here is a correction from CNN that tells us much about a lot of people and things, but especially CNN:

“After CNN aired a story about her potential eviction, Dasha Kelly clarified to CNN that she is not the mother of the three children featured in the story. CNN has verified she takes care of the children in her home for periods of time. She says she originally described herself to CNN as a mother because she considers herself to be like one to them. CNN has learned the children are also cared for by their mother, Shadia Hilo, and their father, David Allison, who is Kelly’s boyfriend. GoFundMe tells CNN they are in close contact with Kelly and funds will stay on hold until they verify her information. GoFundMe says no funds have been withdrawn.”

Kelly didn’t “clarify” her lie…here is how she presented herself and “her” children to CNN viewers…

…until after a GoFundMe page set up to help this poor, overwhelmed mother raised over $230,000. It did so in response to the scam CNN aided and abetted by being so eager to make an emotion-based case for the illegal eviction moratorium that it didn’t check before letting this women pull off her lucrative hoax.

I especially like the “she considers herself to be like a mother to them” argument. In fact, it wasn’t even Kelly who exposed the scam, it was the kids’ real mother. CNN couldn’t even make its correction correctly. Before all this, the shameless news network even brought the fake mother back on live TV, with the children that weren’t really hers, for a follow-up interview. That one included Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush, who has championed the scam being dishonest herself as well as dumb as a box of racist rocks:

I’m sorry to begin the day by reminding you of the quality of the people making our laws and the level of trustworthiness of the news media, but as Walter Cronkite used to say, “That’s the way it is.”

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