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Howdy Horde! Thursday night, almost to the weekend, how is everybody?

On Islam

It's worth clicking through to X and reading the whole thread. Do you agree with her conclusions?

Headline Of The Week

Pregnant woman forced to swallow lit ‘blunt’ after being dragged out of bed by man who wanted to wash her feet, cops say

The story is just run of the mill domestic violence, but that headline...boy howdy.

Squish

Amy Coney Barrett Could Be A Superb Supreme Court Justice. She’s Choosing Not To Be

Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett has become a sort of enigma among avid Supreme Court observers.

After filling the vacancy left by deceased Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in late 2020, many conservatives were hopeful that the former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia would offer a much-needed dose of originalism to the high court’s majority of Republican appointees. With Barrett joining Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and (on his good days) Neil Gorsuch, the prospects for decisions abiding by the Constitution as written would be far more likely, or so the conventional thinking went.

To her credit, Barrett has shown the potential do just that. During her time as a justice, the former Notre Dame law professor has been instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade and Chevron deference, upholding certain religious liberty protections, and several other high-profile matters that have come before the high court in recent years.

However, what continues to stump constitutionalists and Barrett hopefuls alike is the associate justice’s abject failure to consistently apply originalist doctrine in her rulings.

She's a squish, nothing but.

America The Beautiful

Non-Americans Are Sharing The Things They Actually Like About America, And It's Eye-Opening

This person's probably from South Africa:

Safety in rural areas. Our dream is to buy a farm and live peacefully, but where I live, it's so dangerous it's unreal. When I see movies or programs about people living on ranches or farms in some town in the US, it looks amazing. We could never.

And of course, they didn't forget the important stuff:

My country never would have thought of replacing the bread in a KFC chicken sandwich with TWO PIECES OF CHICKEN. Genius. Keep 'em coming.

USA! USA! USA!

Say Dave, How Drunk Have You Seen People Get On The ONT?

Me:

The Sorry State Of “Higher” Education

https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today

Students are not absolutely illiterate in the sense of being unable to sound out any words whatsoever. Reading bores them, though. They are impatient to get through whatever burden of reading they have to, and move their eyes over the words just to get it done. They’re like me clicking through a mandatory online HR training. Students get exam questions wrong simply because they didn't even take the time to read the question properly. Reading anything more than a menu is a chore and to be avoided.

They also lie about it. I wrote the textbook for a course I regularly teach. It’s a fairly popular textbook, so I’m assuming it is not terribly written. I did everything I could to make the writing lively and packed with my most engaging examples. The majority of students don’t read it. Oh, they will come to my office hours (occasionally) because they are bombing the course, and tell me that they have been doing the reading, but it’s obvious they are lying. The most charitable interpretation is that they looked at some of the words, didn’t understand anything, pretended that counted as reading, and returned to looking at TikTok.

Has anyone seen any of those social media posts displaying things like eight grade exams from 100 years ago? Inevitably, the questions are more detailed and harder than many people get in college today. Here's an example.

Archeology

Archaeologists find first evidence of epic biblical battle at ‘Armageddon’

For the first time, a team of Israeli archaeologists has uncovered ancient artifacts at northern Israel’s “Armageddon” site that might offer proof of an epic battle documented in the books of Kings II and Chronicles between a king of Judah and an Egyptian pharaoh.

Two academic papers published earlier this year explained how an unprecedented amount of 7th-century BCE Egyptian pottery was found in recent excavations at Megiddo, suggesting that Egyptian soldiers were indeed in the right biblical place at what could be the right biblical period.

“Megiddo is the only site in Israel and the neighboring countries mentioned in the Bible and in all great records of the Ancient Near East,” said Prof. Israel Finkelstein, head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa and long-time director of the Megiddo Expedition.

Weird how they keep finding 10,000 year old artifacts in Israel from the people who “colonized” the poor Palestinians. Very strange.

Perfect Your Racism!

Actually, this is a fun little website. It shows you two pictures, a male and a female, typical of different ethnic groups from around the world. You have to click on the map where you think they're from, and then it tells you how far off you were.

EthnoGuesser

My average score was 1274, although I nailed Eastern European group dead on.

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