SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

THE DISGRACE – FROM FOX:   Missouri Democratic Rep. Cori Bush praised the Black Lives Matter activist who advocated "death" for police officers in 2014 and tweeted the BLM chant "pigs in a blanket fry 'em like bacon."  Bush, a newly minted member of the "squad," compared the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza with the Black Lives Matter movement during a speech on the House floor Thursday, reflecting on the life of Bassem Masri, who died in 2018.  Bush described Masri as a "St. Louis Palestinian," noting how he garnered national attention for live streaming heated exchanges between himself and Ferguson police officers following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown Jr.  Masri was among those arrested on a variety of charges following demonstrations outside the Ferguson Police Department in November 2014. Just one month later, Masri tweeted what became a popular BLM chant: "Pigs in a blanket, fry 'em like bacon." Real class, real class.  Cori Bush is emerging as perhaps the most extreme member of the already-extreme "squad."   She's a disgrace to Congress, and I can't see how any thoughtful African-American could tolerate her. 

IT'S ABOUT TIME! – FROM LEGAL INSURRECTION:   The Pennsylvania State University’s faculty senate passed “inclusive language” reform legislation.  As Penn State News detailed, the Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs passed a resolution for the “Removal of Gendered & Binary Terms from Course and Program Descriptions.”  “The University, as with most all academic institutions world-wide, has grown out of a typically male-centered world,” reads the resolution’s introduction. “As such, many terms in our lexicon carry a strong, male-centric, binary character to them.”  The resolution asserts that “terms such as ‘freshmen’ are decidedly male-specific, while terms such as ‘upperclassmen’ can be interpreted as both sexist and classist.” Terms such as “junior” and “senior” are supposedly “parallel to western male father-son naming conventions, and much of our written documentation uses he/she pronouns.”  The resolution recommends that the university make “editorial updates to our course and program descriptions, which appear in the course catalog and bulletin, to remove gendered terms.”  Boy, or, er, person, am I glad this problem is being solved.  What a difference it will make to elevating our society, and even improving the climate.  Now if only they could get rid of "bride" and "groom."

May 14, 2021