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This week, in an unparalleled act of commitment, we persisted and Naomi Wolf is our guest this week. It’s a fascinating, surprising, and yes, hopeful conversation and we’re very grateful she agreed to join us. But see what you think. Then, the delightful Deb Saunders –on hiatus from covering the White House– joins us to talk about how the current White House is covered vs. the last one and the differences between covering the two. Also fascinating if less surprising. Also, Rob Long shares his name with someone more famous than him (for the the time being), James updates us on his SQUIRREL! issues, and Peter is wants more productivity in his life. We’ll try and get to that soon.
Music from this week’s show: Will The Wolf Survive? by Los Lobos
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I hate laws that are named after individuals.
I will note that when my brothers and I were traveling in France a few years ago I read up on the requirements for driving there. IIRC, you have to carry reflective emergency vests for everyone in the car in case of accident.
I didn’t characterize this properly. It’s for all secondary hits including when you are still in the car. It’s a different flashing rate, and it would come on automatically in severe crashes.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a34100032/hazard-lights-quicker-improvements/
I just responded to your question. I know the number is right and it makes more sense because of what the law is actually for.
I bought a vest that would fit over any winter clothes and this flashing. arrow thing that is impossible to not see, even in daylight. The arrow has a fast and peculiar flashing rate that reflects what the article was talking about as far as improvements.
Thanks for having Naomi Wolf on! It’s quite a lesson to hear civilized discourse amongst people who, per Peter Robinson, likely disagree 80-85% of the time.
I don’t want to be a welsher, but the highest membership level is above my station, I will further investigate my options.
Maybe there is still a nugget of “freedom outweighs safety” buried in there somewhere, but can it be found and resuscitated?
Well, I’m guessing many on the Left will redefine what ‘death recorded’ means for Ms. Wolf after this interview.
I just listened to this today, and I’m surprised that Peter had to ask how these Lit Crit people, confined to English depts, took over the universities.
I say this over and over, as does Thomas Sowell, and people seem to NOT get it.
By the early-80s at the latest, they succeeded in taking over the Teachers Colleges. Their aim to take over administrations was already under way, but now we are in the 3rd generation of Marxist teachers teaching K-12, which means this cancer has now metastasized throughout the body politic, culture, and business.
Yes, China and others have made it profitable to be explicitly or implicitly Marxist, and profitable for many Republicans to look the other way and think it is just politics.
It’s not. Honestly, you guys have to get some guests who lived with the transition into a Totalitarian state, or at least grew up in one before coming to America.
Simply ask them, Is this all just simply chance and opportunities, or, from their experience, is there a method to this madness?
Interview those who have lived it. I have known some of them who have quite literally cried in frustration at the pervasive blindness to what is happening.
There are none so blind, as those who will not see?
The question was rhetorical and the intent was to get Naomi to explain her version of how it happened. Peter has been employed by an academic institution for 20 + years. He’s had a front row seat for it.
Does Peter teach classes etc? I bet VDH’s front-row seat is even better.
You could also say this about Border Control agents, Trafficking specialists (Victor Marx), Longtime Detriot elections officials (Articia Bomer), University heads (Larry Arn), Targeted journalists (Sharyl Attkisson), persecuted pastors (Andrew Brunson), young college lecturers (Candice Owens, Charlie Kirk) … all sounding the warning bells, all talking about how this is more than just politics as normal, all wondering when the coalition of the willing will unite or the establishment conservative media will engage.
Well, sure. And Victor writes and talks about this subject all the time. But you don’t have to be in the classroom to see what’s been going on. It’s in the DNA of the place. I don’t teach either and I’ve only been there 11 years and the changes to the culture at Stanford have been dramatic. And Stanford is far less affected by it than a lot of other schools.
Car & Driver puts the death toll at 2-4/day, so 1400/year is within range but toward the high end of the estimate.
I think I got that from a different article. The issue still stands. People get hit one way or another–in the car or out– after the initial accident or pulling over and the situation can be improved without much expenditure of resources.
A blue/grey gas station shirt with a Texaco logo with Lileks oil.
a shirt with a picture of the Lilek’s Oil bowling team. It’s somewhere on James’ site, but I cant find it.
The Washington Post certainly favored Democrats in the Graham days. But when Bezos bought the Post, there was a strong lurch further to the left.
For companies totally control the public square. The Constitution cannot function this way.
During the heyday of AIDS, if one had the virus, but not the symptoms, people were not allowed to say that person had AIDS. Now, if one tests positive for the current virus, but has no symptoms, the person has the disease.
Who owns the Washington Post?
I’m a bit surprised that the crew would have Dr. Wolf on. Though her positions are certainly supportive of “our” side, it is my understanding that she has a jacket (from both ends of the ideological spectrum) for being (1) a bit of a conspiracy nut, and (2) fast-and-loose with facts.
she is crazy but functional
Which puts her WAY ahead of many other Dims, especially their “leadership.”
You could say this about just about everyone involved in the news media business, including many supposedly on our side.
Still waiting for the Release of the Kraken!
I guess you missed it. That was by design.