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The words “Body positivity” is a lot like “climate change.” The climate is always changing, and at certain times in Earth’s four-billion-ish history, it was more or less hostile to life, including ours. These days are no different. I woke up to a sunny forecast and mild temps with no rain predicted, only to find … Read more
The progressive left has been working on one or another scheme to socially engineer society for more than a century. Hitler’s master-race nonsense is flattery to post-Darwinist Western progressives who got the idea that natural selection, with a little help from them and the government, could/would weed out the undesirables in society so that when … Read more
I am a firm believer in adults taking responsibility for their actions. Too often, you see the excuse for someone’s improprieties as a difficult childhood or growing up in a one-parent household. How about no, regardless of our foundation, we are adults and should know the difference between right and wrong, between moral and immoral. … Read more
It’s not huge news but following recent content on a potential shift away from four-year schools toward trades and other learning investments, it adds some weight to the argument. What argument? The progressive university laundromat is falling on tough times. Exchanging massive debt for a useless degree and no real-world skills is losing its appeal. … Read more
Small Colleges closing might seem like a problem when large colleges probably need to close, but maybe some will. Last week, I spent a few minutes on an episode of the morning update about a rural Vermont College shuttering its operation. Declining student enrollment was clearly a result of a shift toward trade schools and … Read more
There is a growing body of evidence that having the wealth of human knowledge at your fingertips is as likely, if not more so, to make you dumber. New research also suggests that notifications cause cognitive disruption. “Our findings suggest that notifications can disrupt cognitive processing for about seven seconds and that this disruption reflects … Read more
Academic Arms Races To The Bottom Of The Barrel Background: This is a continuation of a GraniteGrok series on various Artificial Intelligence issues, and several uses of AI resources have been demonstrated. In this example, the human, one-old-conservative, wrote the article and Claude, Anthropic’s AI, did a review and commentary. When stability is replaced by … Read more
While our officials repeat the same mantra that ‘Islam is a religion’ of peace, and the great majority of Muslims are not a party to any plans and actions of radicals, the incantation of these “authorities” is the lullaby that puts most people to sleep in complacency. It is crucial for the American people to … Read more
While looking through my phone for another picture, I ran into one that I took in 2020 of a picture that was taken in 1973. It was taken in the living room of Beverley Gustitus, now 87, of Nashua. I thought about writing an article about her in the future, but after seeing the new … Read more
Just about everyone I know, and for the progs, libs, and dems who clicked the title, nearly all of them are white, Christian, adults, who couldn’t care less if two guys want to marry each other. The concern was over government force infringements on faith groups intimidated by political will. Sure, they’d like them to … Read more
Renee Good didn’t wander past Capitol Police Officer, holding the door for her, to stroll through the Rotunda and grab a few selfies on January 6th, 2021. Her “protest” was not to demand an investigation into election irregularities in places like Georgia, which, as it turns out, were very irregular. No, she put herself in … Read more
One of the “legacies” of works like Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States is its treatment of Native Americans. People like Zinn accuse explorers and colonists of racial hatred and hostility, resulting in horrific massacres of Native Americans. He portrayed Native American societies as peaceful and environmentally conscious. This has become the mainstream perspective. … Read more
Some people hate Cloudflare. Our hosting company uses it, and for the most part, it is transparent, working quickly in the background to do what it does. We also have firewalls at multiple levels to protect the digital assets. GraniteGrok “experiences something like seven million attacks a day or more. Some days you can double … Read more
A Great Awakening from the Great Wokeness The 60s free-love revolution proclaimed love and peace as primary values, and especially embraced freedom from social and economic constraints. Epitomized by Timothy Leary’s call to “Turn on, tune in, drop out,” the movement’s essence was countercultural. Six decades later, the pendulum is swinging back. In the 1960s, … Read more
There are very few situations in which being fat is anything other than a problem with impulse control. Combined with decades of bad food science pushed by the government and the reality that the cheap food, like cheap everything else, is at the bottom of every quality pyramid, getting and staying fat is easy. Losing … Read more
The American Left has adopted the philosophy that “words are violence,” and as such, it must be responded to with not words – but physical violence. Understand what I’m saying. To the left, anyone saying something that offends, discredits or challenges their world view or established narrative, is in itself, an act of violence, therefore, … Read more
Watching other people’s cultures degenerate at the hands of their own government is increasingly less amusing when you know that they want to ruin yours as well. Global elites have a plan, and it involves fewer white folks, and if you thought it was getting weird, this takes it to a whole new level. According … Read more
In these days of political polarization, I’m hearing a lot of complaints about “whataboutism,” the phenomenon of answering a question about the actions of one person or group with an example of something similar done by someone else. Trump mishandled classified documents! What about Hillary Clinton, for example? But yeah… what about Hillary Clinton? Were … Read more
Other than making sure women can kill their unborn babies, and even that has gone a bit by the wayside, nothing Democrats promise ever comes to pass. The more they speak of equality and justice, the less there is of both. Prosperity, Democracy, and civility are bait on a hook that once taken finds you … Read more
I still treasure wisdom from an old-time gospel song planted in my mind as a child: What is a mother’s love, dear friend, what is a mother’s love? It’s deeper than the deep blue sea and reaches from heaven above.” Many years ago, my life was powerfully impacted by the eternal truth that “the hand … Read more