Friday Ephemera (786)
Dry hard. || Columbo: the board game, 1973. || No longer oppressed by shoes. || Today’s word is logistics. || At last, transparent stairs. || “Do not be disrespectful,” says bewigged man barging into women’s toilets while filming himself. || On the “dynamic authenticity” of Mr William Shatner. || Unrequested motion. || Models of the Moon, 1874. || Incoming. || It matters who comes. || Leamington College, a learning environment. || “A less crazy candidate,” says she. || On the corruption of Wikipedia. (h/t, Dicentra) || Hot pebble eggs. || Piggyback. || Squidginess. || Grooming scenes. || Chart of note. || Today’s other word is trajectory. || “We are willing to socialise only with people who support our beliefs.” || Yes, but other than the noise. || Foundling. || And finally, on files, bedsheets and wooden guns.
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Dennis Prager speaks for the first time since he became a quadriplegic.
He’s still Dennis. Maybe even moreso.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/world/europe/denmark-greenland-baby-parenting-test.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/world/europe/denmark-greenland-baby-reunited.html
The NY Times normally approves of experts overruling parents, and sees Scandinavia as a model of such. But here’s a case all the way over in Denmark, where the state took a child away from a teenage mother who was herself a victim of parental sexual abuse. Exact details confidential, as they should be. Does the NY Times respect the sensitivities and TRUST THE EXPERTS? No, funny enough, this case is seen as “a harsh overreach into family life”.
Twist 1: The girl was Greenlandic. It makes sense now, because of course the Danish child-rearing apparatus, the model for the entire world, isn’t allowed to apply its own expert criteria of dysfunctional situations and incompetent parents to oppressed uprooted indigenous people, it just has to make excuses, sign it off, and manage the ongoing dysfunction for ever. And of course the NY Times is interested in the case because Greenland represents the original sin of the Danes, their Holocaust, their residential schools. Officially appointed Danish childcare experts might be the most liberal people in the world, but we’re left to speculate about how they chose to pick on the Eskimo girl.
Twist 2: “The paperwork said that she was treated as any other Dane and not as a Greenlander because she was “raised in Danish culture and with Danish language.”” – So they weren’t picking on her, the officials were just treating her like a Danish girl, when in order not to be smeared as racist by the New York papers, they should have racially discriminated.
Sad case. The girl’s adoptive parents we understand to be Danes who had lived in Greenland and brought her back. At what age? Under what circumstances? Basic journalist questions. She was abused by her father, but whether by her biological or her adoptive father the Times doesn’t want to make clear, which makes one wonder if the Danish adoptive parents had taken her out of a bad situation in Greenland, but that doesn’t fit the theme. But whether interracial adoptions are by do-gooders or do-badders, they create unnecessary problems both for the uprooted children and the society that absorbs a lifetime of dysfunction from the uprooted children.
It did not go entirely to plan.
“It did not go entirely to plan.“
I laughed and I’m not sorry!
Update on the dryer:
Husband has thrown in the towel and ordered a new one. But not without first scoffing at the price of installation and removing the old dryer.
Me: You are going to do the installation?
Him: I can do it.
Me: But do you want to do it?
Him: That’s a valid point.
Indeed, made even more valid by the fact that the laundry room is on the second floor of the house.
Bookmark – his name is Jack,
Now that she’s retired from tennis, she needs other ways to garner attention.
…and Black Woman Experiences Racism is the default choice.
And the straight blonde hair is part of that?
Proposed solution: simultaneously hold a Belgian Malinois meetup on the same street.
What was wrong with it? Some problems are cost-effective to fix due to the greater ruggedness of older models.
Don’t you know black people invented everything, including blonde hair?
Was the criminal a son of General Butt Naked?
Aposematic signaling to repel normals and attract loonies.
Coolness chart.
Owners permanently close grossly mismanaged leftist bookstore.
Workers outraged: “It’s white violence!”
“Safe” wasn’t the word that came to mind.
Parachute? Waste of silk.
Now that she’s retired from tennis, she needs other ways to garner attention.
…and Black Woman Experiences Racism is the default choice.
Just down the road there is a black dude who alternates sorghum with cotton on his farm, I guess someone should tell him he is either a racist or oppressed.