Linky Links

 Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- VDH on the fumes of the 2024 election, January 20th can't come soon enough.

- Occult guide to the good life.

- Tim Ferriss interview of Cyan Bannister. Hope you find this podcast to as insightful as I did. Fully admit it has a special place for me because Bill Murray's The Razor Edge holds a special place in my heart.

- Boise State's women's volleyball team forfeits playoff game against SJSU to protest against playing against a transgender player. Have a feeling undoing the pro-transgender Executive Order may be one of Trump's first acts. 

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Supreme Court strikes down Biden/Harris Title IX stance. Big win for biological females.

- Social media and smart phones in schools.

- Elon Musk, X, and Free Speech must be protected. People used to value free speech - what happened?

- On price controls. Or as Kamala Harris calls it "price gauging," (HT Steve Layman)

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Senator Rand Paul slams the idea of biological males competing with females. Excellent questions at the end - where are the feminists on this? Where are those who supported the original purpose of Title IX? How come they are not speaking out?

- Couldn't agree more. (HT Stephen Landry)

- The importance of being prepared.

- The problem with experts. "Our experts have become clerics."

A Modest Proposal

President Biden signed an Executive Order Wednesday which was supposed to be a protection for the transgendered (as an aside my spell-check doesn't even recognize this as a valid word - someone should cancel Microsoft for this transgression). However, the EO explicitly gives legal protection to biological males who wish to compete in women's sports. As they say, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." And Joe Biden just signed a hell of a paving stone.

Everyone with eyes to see knows that whether it be basketball, track, swimming, tennis, weightlifting, etc. that a biological male has a huge advantage over a biological female. The only sport I can think of where the gap is closing is perhaps marathon running (and maybe dodgeball). 

I think we can all agree that there is no place as "woke" as a college campus. We can also agree that COVID-19 has decimated university finances. Now we add this last straw to the camel's back and I can foresee some desperate (or enterprising) university Athletic Director making this perhaps logical drastic next step.

If gender is just a social construct as some argue, if biological males can now compete with females, and females can play on male sports teams - why have separate men's and women's athletics at all?  Why have male athletes and female athletes when you can just have athletes? Why have the expense of separate teams at a time when school budgets are in crisis? The Athletic Director can simply say, "All are welcome to compete. We don't discriminate. But we do have a limited number of roster spots - so..." 

With a stroke of a pen (just like the signing of an Executive Order) - the Athletic Director can basically slash the sports budget in half while also eliminating most non-revenue sports. Don't get me wrong - I'm not advocating for this and it would be a vastly unpopular move eliminating not just women's sports but also the associated scholarships or financial aid to the women athletes. But because of the COVID-19 related budget crunch there may be one or more Athletic Directors out there who may be backed into a corner and feel this would be the only move possible. Even worse there may be some Athletic Director who thinks this is the right thing to do (either because excessive misogyny or excessive "wokeness"). And if one Athletic Director does it - others may feel free to follow. 

Thanks to President Biden - this may be the future of college sports. 

EDIT: Changed the photo because of broken link. Also wanted to mention that I don't think this issue will be an epidemic but it will be significant enough. That is if it is reported in the "news." 

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I'm a fan of Title IX and the payoff the American public is seeing from all the women's medals at the Olympics makes me very happy... Very cool story of how Mitt Romney became a Texas' couple's landlord... I've mentioned this before but Red Ryan has to go 7-9 this year to equal Herm Edwards' record in Herms first 4 seasons as Jets coach (35-25). I don't think Rex can do it... Incredible panoramic views from the Mars probe Opportunity - did I mention it was incredible?...  The over / under for wins for the New York Jets is 8.5. Looks like the bookmakers aren't sure if Rex is any better than Herm too...