At the BBC, surprisingly, "Critical race theory: the concept dividing the US."
Friday, July 23, 2021
Evelyn Taft's Weekend Forecast
Ms. Evelyn's such a beauty --- and she's got a degree in political science (and journalism) from USC!
At KCBS 2 News Los Angeles:
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Slams Megyn Kelly Over Naomi Osaka Tweet
Everything's so stupid, especially these summer games (which I'm boycotting, because, well, they're so lame).
At NBC News, "Sports Illustrated's swimsuit editor calls Megyn Kelly's Naomi Osaka tweet 'unnecessary'":
Let’s not forget the cover of (& interview in) Vogue Japan and Time Mag! https://t.co/PAAUEwAVi0
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) July 19, 2021
Poor @naomiosaka blocked me while taking a shot at me (guess she’s only tough on the courts). She is apparently arguing that she shot her many covers b/4 publicly claiming she was too socially anxious to deal w/press. Truth is she just doesn’t like Qs she can’t control. Admit it. pic.twitter.com/izyRzOrUVm
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) July 19, 2021
Los Angeles Officials Urge Caution Amid New Corona Virus Surge
Following-up, "Angelenos Cave to L.A.'s Renewed Mask Mandate."
At LAT, "Even the vaccinated must take precautions as L.A. coronavirus surge worsens, officials say":
With coronavirus cases reaching levels in Los Angeles County not seen since the waning days of the winter surge, public health officials said Thursday that even those who have been vaccinated should take precautions, given how widely the virus is now circulating. This surge is predominantly hitting people who have not been vaccinated. But with the highly infectious Delta variant racing through the region, additional measures — like wearing masks inside crowded public places — can further armor everyone against transmission. “Vaccines are like our umbrella: excellent protection on most rainy days. But when the rain gets really intense, for example during a bad thunderstorm, we might also throw on a raincoat,” said L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. But, “When you have a more infectious variant that’s circulating and you see what we see now, lots of community transmission, you can expect exactly what we’re seeing: lots more people getting infected, including more people who are fully vaccinated,” she added. That mathematical reality is now playing out. Out of all coronavirus cases confirmed countywide in June, 20% occurred in residents who were fully vaccinated, according to Ferrer. The figure is not as alarming as it first appears. At the beginning of June, about 44% of residents were fully vaccinated, with the proportion rising above 50% by the end of the month, according to data compiled by The Times. Currently, 53% of L.A. County residents are fully vaccinated. In other words, even though half of the county was not fully vaccinated in June, this portion of the county’s residents comprised 4 out of 5 newly diagnosed coronavirus cases. “While our numbers have been going up, they would be much higher if we didn’t have as many people fully vaccinated,” Ferrer said. She also noted that, among fully vaccinated infectees, “the vast majority of those folks only experienced either no illness or very mild illness.” County health officials reported 2,767 additional cases Thursday, the second straight day with more than 2,000 newly confirmed infections. COVID-19 hospitalizations are also rising. On Wednesday, 655 coronavirus-positive patients were hospitalized countywide — nearly triple the number seen a month ago...
More at that top link.
Jodie Foster Steps Out in Los Angeles
Local CBS Station Chiefs Ousted
There are 28 CBS-owned local stations across the U.S.
Heads rolled in Chicago and Los Angeles (and New York too).
At LAT, "CBS ousts L.A., Chicago station managers after misconduct probe":
CBS’ stations in Los Angeles have been beset by turnover for years. Current and former employees have long complained about the harsh workplace culture, which they allege has been rife with sexual harassment, favoritism, pay discrimination and ageism. In the last five years, KCBS has been led by two general managers and three news directors. Last year, Howell navigated the L.A. stations through at least two rounds of corporately mandated staff cuts, resulting in the departures of high-profile anchors Jeff Michael and Sandra Mitchell and meteorologist Garth Kemp. Workplace complaints have festered for years. In 2018, CBS paid a settlement to former KCAL anchor Leyna Nguyen after she complained to KCBS management about inappropriate comments and unwanted touching by a male colleague, according to several people familiar with the matter. In separate high-profile incident, described in a 2019 story in The Times, popular sports anchor Jill Arrington was denied a salary increase after she learned she was making $60,000 a year less than her male predecessor. Then-station manager Steve Mauldin allegedly told Arrington in 2018 to “put on a tennis dress.... We’ll put you on tape, and you can make some extra money.” Mauldin denied making the remark. Mauldin retired in 2019, and Howell was brought in as L.A.'s general manager after leading CBS’ station in Pittsburgh. He was tasked with modernizing the L.A. stations. Howell could not be immediately reached for comment. CBS manages KCBS and KCAL jointly, and the stations’ audience lags in size behind market leaders KABC-TV Channel 7, KNBC-TV Channel 4 and Spanish-language stations KMEX-TV Channel 34 and KVEA-TV Channel 52...
RTWT.
2021 C8 Corvette Z51 (REVIEW)
This 'Vette at the video is actually a 2020.
I saw one on the freeway the other day and I thought it was an Italian car, a Ferrari or a Lambo.
Very slick:
Kenny Xu Interviewed
Don't miss his new book, An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy.
At Fox News:
Angelenos Cave to L.A.'s Renewed Mask Mandate
Frankly, I think people should rise up against these renewed mandates --- L.A.'s the only county in the state that's brought back masks, and such mandates are virtually nonexistent around the rest of the country.
I mean, well over half the population in the United States is fully vaccinated, and that's not counting those who've survived the affliction and now have natural immunity. And polls show that Americans' fear of the loss of freedoms is the reason hesitant citizens are getting the jab.
So lame.
At the New York Times, "Wary and Weary, Los Angeles Largely Accepts Restored Mask Mandate":
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — As the sun began to burn through the morning marine layer, patrons of the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif., were still adjusting to the new normal, which was pretty much the old normal — an order from Los Angeles County to wear masks indoors in businesses and public places. Most customers dutifully took their masks on and off at the entrance of shops, where signs were posted to remind them of the policy and where, in some cases, complimentary masks were offered. Out-of-state tourists found themselves wearing masks for the first time in months, sometimes annoyed but largely compliant, and one restaurant employee who forgot about the mandate was able to secure a mask by running across the street and asking employees at the Starbucks if they had extras. “Some people think it’s a punishment,” said Lisa Liu, 38, who said she was fully vaccinated. She was shopping on Sunday and was interviewed outside a clothing store called Tazga. “But for me it’s a mask — it’s not a big deal.” . It was not what people expected when the previous mandate was lifted a month ago, but for the most part people in Los Angeles seemed to react with resigned acceptance, sometimes even weary approval, figuring that rising Covid-19 rates made the policy tolerable, if not welcome. The decision was greeted cautiously by some store and restaurant employees, wary of going back to having to enforce the policies with mask-resistant customers. Still, some seemed prepared to do it Anna Ituh, 50, said that her bosses at a local retail store had instructed her to ask customers to put on a mask when they entered, but that she wasn’t allowed to insist that they do so. Still, she described one confrontation in which she asked a customer to leave the store. “I don’t play games with that,” she said. “I’m that person that will tell them.” The indoor mask mandate for all people regardless of vaccination status took effect at midnight on Saturday, making Los Angeles County the first major county in the United States to reinstate such a requirement. The policy expands beyond the current state standard and the recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; both require masks for unvaccinated people but not for those who are fully vaccinated...
L.A's political leadership is quite special, IYKWIMAITYD. *Wink.*
Lots of People Get Vaccinated as Loss of Freedoms Mount and Mandates Accelerate
If you’re going to lose your freedoms and civil liberties, you might be persuaded” to get the jab.
At the New York Times, "Vaccine Persuasion":
There is now a roiling debate over vaccine mandates, with some hospitals, colleges, cruise-ship companies and others implementing them — and some state legislators trying to ban mandates. The Kaiser poll suggests that these requirements can influence a meaningful number of skeptics to get shots, sometimes just for logistical reasons.“Hearing that the travel quarantine restrictions would be lifted for those people that are vaccinated was a major reason for my change of thought.” — a 43-year-old Black Democratic man in Virginia. “To see events or visit some restaurants, it was easier to be vaccinated.” — a 39-year-old white independent man in New Jersey. “Bahamas trip required a COVID shot.” — a 43-year-old Hispanic independent man in Pennsylvania.
More at that top link.
Who's Really Not Getting the Jab?
At Issues & Insights, "Who Are The Real COVID Vaccine Refuseniks? Hint: It’s Not What You’ve Been Told":
The Biden administration, stung by missing its vaccine targets and the rising COVID-19 cases, has decided to blame Republicans. That’s not surprising. But it’s traditionally Democratic groups – minorities and the young – who aren’t getting vaccinated, and it’s leftists who are the most influential anti-vaxxers on the planet...RTWT.
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Jeff Bezos Gives Van Jones $100 Million (VIDEO)
He gifted celebrity chef José Andrés as well, so the two could support the charities of their choice.
I guess Jones was shocked:
Whoa!
This is unreal.
Via KCBS 2 Los Angeles:
A pursuit suspect in a BMW hit speeds of over 160 miles per hour in the Inland Empire. The suspect is wanted for a burglary out of Fairfax. https://t.co/4MwB1JtR1a pic.twitter.com/uWgHI0CkBT
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) July 21, 2021
Civil Liberties After January 6th
Green Greewald's written much on this, for example, "Violence in the Capitol, Dangers in the Aftermath" and "Questions About the FBI's Role in 1/6 Are Mocked Because the FBI Shapes Liberal Corporate Media."
More here and here.And now, Reason jumps on Greenwald's bandwagon.
Watch:
What's Normal Post-Corona?
Following-up, "Bare Season."
At the New York Times, focusing on post-corona freedom rather than fashion, "How Nations Are Learning to ‘Let It Go’ and Live With Covid: More officials are encouraging people to return to their daily rhythms and transition to a new normal. But scientists warn that it may be too soon to design exit strategies for the pandemic.
Bare Season
Interesting, to say the least.
At the New York Times, "Suddenly It’s Bare Season":
“People, in other words, are running around half naked.” Can confirm. https://t.co/2niLTT2sSh
— Matt Welch (@MattWelch) July 22, 2021
Bras in the parks, skivvies on Fifth Avenue: Is this the logical endpoint of increasingly blurred distinctions between public and private?
*****
Who hasn’t had the nightmare? It’s the one about being caught in public dressed in your undies. Therapists and dream bibles tend to cast these dreams as symbolic expressions of shame or repression.
Yet what if the so-called experts are wrong and these dreams are instead a subconscious bid for liberation? Shed the embarrassment along with those constricting outer garments. Go forth proudly in your turtle-print boxers or your Cosabella bra.
That is assuredly what a lot of people are doing lately, as many venture forth after 16 months of hibernation with a startling degree of license about what passes for street wear.
As recently as a decade ago, it was a rarity to spot people on Fifth Avenue, in Washington Square Park, riding the subway or milling about at airports in various states of advanced dishabille. Anyone who’s taken a stroll in New York lately can tell you that’s not true anymore.
People, in other words, are running around half-naked.
Last week Claudia Summers, a writer, was out doing errands in Midtown Manhattan when she passed a young woman nonchalantly ambling along 33rd Street near Moynihan Train Hall dressed in low-slung jeans and a bra. “Was it a sports bra?” a follower inquired after Ms. Summers posted a snapshot of the woman to her Instagram account.
“Most definitely not!” replied Ms. Summers, who quickly added that she admired the woman’s moxie and, anyway, the day was hot.
Of course it wasn’t a bra top. Bralettes, itty-bitty bandeaus and crocheted bikinis are everywhere. So, too, are Daisy Dukes cut high enough to expose buttocks curvature. And these items are by no means relegated to people who identify with the pronouns “she” and “her.”
“I’m an exhibitionist, and I get pleasure from showing off my body,” said Kae Cook, 32, a messenger, of his wardrobe choice one recent evening as he made his way across Eighth Street in the East Village.
Stumbling, Bumbling Joe Biden 'Town Hall' on CNN
The small studio auditorium was less than have full.
Lots of folks were hammering the president last night, but S.E. Cupp pushed back with some considerably compassionate comments:
“Whether or not we should be in a position where you are why can’t the experts say we know that this virus is in fact it’s going to be or excuse we know why all the drugs approved or not temporarily but permanently approved, that’s underway too” —Joe Bidenpic.twitter.com/ebkp9TJaZT
— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) July 22, 2021
Speaking from experience: Don’t shame or question someone’s mental health struggles.
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) July 22, 2021
Not JUST because you don’t know what they’re going through; not JUST because many others may be going through similar things and need to see supportive responses; but bc it’s needlessly cruel.
In America's Big Cities, District Attorneys Create More Crime (VIDEO)
It's Rafael Mangual, of the Manhattan Institute, for Prager University:
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