January 3, 2024
It was only a matter time until Claudine Gay yelled “racism!” regarding her resignation from the presidency of Harvard. I wonder if she knows that one of her harshest critics, Carol Swain is black? Also, the president of Stanford resigned due to charges of plagiarism and he is white with an impressive resume that dwarfs Gay’s meager one. Penn’s president resigned earlier and she is white. I think that Gay’s holding out was because she is black. If she were white she would have been long gone. It not surprising that Gay’s defenders – who should know better – are also screaming racism. And it is certainly no surprise that Al Sharpton has taken up her cause.
By the way, what do Claudine Gay, Kamala Harris and Ketanji Brown Jackson have in come (other than they are all “progressives”)? They are all married to white men. I have said for a number of years that because among blacks, wormen earn 64% of the undergraduate degrees, 72 percent of masters and 66 percent of the doctorates that they would start to look elsewhere for a husband. While men more typically will marry a woman with less education, that is seldom true for women.
In one of the weekly food specials I get is a buy one get one for vegan burgers. You can save $1019! Huh? Ten dollars for vegan patties that approximate a food like substance? I am not a red meat buyer. I eat venison because I am a deer hunter and have not consumed any other red meat since 1971. But I never understood the fake meat thing and tried it only once to see what the shouting was about. It was awful, a ghastly experience not to be repeated. Its not cheap ($10.19) and it is not particularly healthy. Just look at the ingredients and ask yourself if you really want to ingest that stuff. Real meat is healthier (and apparently cheaper). I wonder when the ersatz concoction will disappear from the grocers’ shelves. More than likely, they are there only so the grocer can virtue signal to the greenie weenies. A Beyond Meat “burger” has 22 ingredients:
- Water
- Pea protein isolate
- Expeller-pressed canola oil
- Refined coconut oil
- Cellulose from bamboo
- Methylcellulose
- Potato starch
- Natural flavor
- Maltodextrin
- Yeast extract
- Salt
- Sunflower oil
- Vegetable glycerin
- Dried yeast
- Gum arabic
- Citrus extract (to protect quality)
- Ascorbic acid (to maintain color)
- Beet juice extract (for color)
- Acetic acid
- Succinic acid
- Modified food starch
- Annatto (for color)
I don’t know about you but I wouldn’t feed this to my dog. She eats venison which contains no additives and no artificial colors.
When fake meat was introduced and the companies went public, their stock prices in the IPOs were high. Beyond Meat was trading at $238 a share. Now its around $10 a share. Pity the fools who bought the IPO. Hell of a virtue signal if you ask me. Then reality set in. All the fake meat companies are struggling and some have shut their doors in the face of tepid consumer demand. It is though people bought the stuff and discovered how awful it was. Given that the climate zealots want to ban cows I am not surprised that the Biden crowd didn’t try to mandate fake meat to force it down our throats – much like they are doing for EVs.
Do you sleep with your socks on? I sometimes do in the winter when my feet are cold under the covers. Invariably I find myself shedding them sometime in the night because I’ve gotten too toasty (there’s a pun in there somewhere). I thought I was one of the few until I read a Wall Street article on January 2nd ‘If You Sleep in Socks You’re a Psychopath.’ Health Tip Kicks Up Controversy”. Well I am certainly not a psychopath and found that “one small survey suggested 63% of us don’t sleep with socks on, 25% sometimes do, and nearly 12% regularly do.” I am in the 25% but in the winter its 50-50. The journal also noted some benefits to sock wearing to bed: “A study published in the Journal of Physiological Anthropology found that young men fell asleep 7.5 minutes faster, slept 32 minutes longer and woke up 7.5 times less often than those not wearing socks.” Who knew? I am no longer a young man but as an old man I am going to wear my socks (clean ones not the ones I wore all day) to bed more often to see if I get to sleep faster, sleep longer and wake up less often. Starting tonight!
This is the beginning of the worse time for sports. College football is over except for the National Championship game. I hate Michigan. I am not a pro football fan and watch it if I don’t have anything else to do. Then I only watch the highlights on the NFL network rather than an entire game. I don’t care for basketball be it mens, womens or NBA. Spring Training begins on February 24 and I am counting down the days. The Braves added Chris Sale (a k a the Blade because he is so skinny). A great addition to the starting rotation provided he can stay healthy. Last season was one of the most fun I have had as a Braves’ fan. My youngest granddaughter just graduated from Georgia and her first job is at MLB headquarters in New York! I am trying to get her to go into Rob Manfred’s office and suggest two things. First, that no team gets a bye. None of the best teams made it to the World Series because they got rusty sitting and waiting. Second, that instead of Jackie Robinson Day where all players wear 42, only let the Dodgers wear 42 and all the other teams wear the number of their first black player.
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