Such As It Is.
Barbie Berserk
A transgender Barbie? Yes. As hyperestrogenemic as Barbie looks, you just knew that at some point in middle age she was going to find the estrogen converting to testosterone, giving her killer PMS, muscular shoulders, and five o'clock shadow, with an overall effect that could have been designed to preserve the memory of "Caitlyn" Jenner...I think there are more important things to worry about. This is not going to be the Barbie the kids see in Wal-Mart. This is going to be a collector's item sold to adults. Most kids never see the Barbies marketed to adults. It's worth worrying about Barbie's costumes only if six-year-olds are seeing them and saying "I wanna wear underpants on my head, like Barbie!" or whatever other silly fad has been preserved in plastic, at a scale of two inches to one foot, this year.
Least Competent Criminals
Or "offenders," anyway. I'm not sure whether "criminals" is the right word for someone hauling something that's legal in some States into another State. "Offenders" is, though; marijuana certainly smells offensive.
Weekend Madness
Some Ds actually just, y'know, rallied. Like some of the people who got dragged into the Censorship Riot. Went out in the air and sun, waved signs, met other people who felt the way they did, felt good. Nothing at all wrong with that.
John Scalzi's daughter reports:
A reader's comment on what the name of the demonstration should have evoked is worth copying:
“While Their Majesties Charles III, Carl XVI Gustaf, Harald V, Willem-Alexander, Philippe, and Felipe VI express their collective perplexity at this unexpected and—may we say—uncalled-for display of inhospitableness, they wish to reassure the American public that no state visits to the United States of America were planned on their part for the foreseeable future.”'
Marmelade Gypsy's Human photographed another delightful take on the theme:
What's hard for some Ds to grasp is the way unelected bureaucrats have become a class of petty "dictators." They probably don't feel it, just as we don't feel like a global elite. On their jobs they probably feel exploited and abused, like other office management types. Ds need to stop chanting their mantras and let the facts sink in: Those CDC workers facing layoffs told people to force employees, students, etc., to have a new experimental vaccine, and some of those people died. Those useless penguin-people in the EPA colluded in pushing people who knew better, in Thailand and Mexico and Zambia as well as here, to inflict the misery of glyphosate poisoning on their children. "Starve the dictators" intuitively feels humane to many people when they consider these bureaucrats. I don't like it either. I didn't like it ten years ago.
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