For culture warriors, transgenders in sports have been a hot-button issue. 180 schoolgirls murdered in Iran? Yawn! Child-rapist President? Bo-ring! But a transgender in women’s sports makes their blood boil. They have a point. Do you want your girls’ basketball team playing against a 110 kg (240 lb.) hulk like Luka Doncic, if he somehow […]
Author: whatimnothearing
IS TRUMP SCHIZOPHRENIC?
Most Americans will recognize this photo. Trump had claimed that the hurricane would strike Alabama, but the weather service showed him the map with the projected path missing Alabama. Trump promptly took a sharpie and drew an altered black path that included Alabama. He thought that proved him correct. Was Trump lying? No, in his […]
IRAN PEACE TALKS — TACO?
What to make of Trump’s announcement that the Iranians have called him and asked for talks? If Iran was throwing in the towel, they wouldn’t want these talks to be known. They would want to appear strong publicly while acting weak in private. This would explain why Iran is denying that any dialogues are taking […]
CAMBODIA’S COMING DEBT CRASH
The rise in energy costs is going to hit Cambodia harder than other countries. This is because the country is already struggling with mountains of debt. My sister used to work for an American bankruptcy court, and she would tell me story after story of families who played by the rules, paid their debts, and […]
WHY ARE MORE AMERICANS IN FAVOR OF THE IRAN WAR?
Americans, at the start of the Iran war, were largely negative. On March 1, CNN reported 41% in favor, and 59% opposed (-18%). More recently, however, the war has increased in popularity. RealClearPolitics lists recent polls, and finds that the average is 44.3% in favor, 47.7% opposed (-3.4%). That’s still negative overall, but just barely, […]
THERE WERE TWO STRIKES ON THE GIRLS’ SCHOOL
Graves of schoolgirls killed by US Tomahawk missiles I have been reading many accounts of the bombing of the girls’ school in Iran. They all refer to the ‘strike’. None of them mention the second strike, some 40 minutes later, which killed many of the survivors of the first strike and those trying to rescue […]
OCCAM’S RAZOR APPLIED TO IRAN
Trump has been flailing – and failing – to provide a plausible rationale or objective for attacking Iran. He changes his unconvincing explanations on a daily basis. Meanwhile, media pundits are scratching their heads trying to figure out what Trump is trying to achieve. Everyone is guessing how long it will last, but how can […]
FOREIGN PRODUCERS REALLY DO PAY THE TARIFFS
Conventional wisdom is that foreign countries do not pay the tariffs; importers pay them, and then pass them on to consumers. Various estimates claim that 95-99% of Trump’s tariffs are paid by consumers. So now that the tariffs have been declared illegal, import companies are lining up to claim refunds on the tariffs they were […]
MAGA’S NEW EPSTEIN TUNE
Ever since the Epstein files became prominent, MAGA’s response, echoing Trump’s, has been “It’s all a hoax. Fake news.” That wall is starting to crack. With the release of 3 million out of a total of 6 million pages of documents, MAGA cultists must be realizing that the hoaxsters wouldn’t print 6 million fake pages. […]
HOORAY FOR BAD BUNNY!
Prior to the Superbowl halftime show, MAGA critics were shouting that a Hispanic performer was a divisive influence. “Why didn’t the NFL choose someone who spoke English?” An article in the Atlantic states that MAGA voices attacked the “crazy” decision by the “woke” NFL to book someone who’s not “a unifying entertainer.” It turned out […]