The authorities in the province of Nova Scotia in Canada banned people from hiking or camping in the woods. Or going to the woods at all for any purpose. Because it’s unsafe.

The authorities in the city of London, Great Britain, painted lilac stripes on pavements to prevent bikers from robbing passersby. Pedestrians are supposed to use the lilac stripes as reminders that roving gangs of criminals ride around with impunity.

It’s curious how safety has come to mean that activities of law-abiding people should be curtailed. Authorities don’t want to combat crime. They want to constrain people who don’t do any crime.

That both the Left and the Right have their own “queers for Islam” faction will never stop being highly entertaining.

Of course, the Left created its first and the Right, as usual, is conserving the Left’s yesterday’s fad.

This has become a new semester tradition on every campus in the country.

One of the ways tiktok is shaping the culture pic.twitter.com/VrFNMcl2k8

— TastefulLindy (@LindyTasteful) August 6, 2025

Yeah, right, aha. Where exactly on campus do they hide looking like this?

People are losing all touch with reality.

I sit through commencement twice a year and …. no.

We posted our minimum-wage job at the lab and got … 89 applications. We had to take the posting down, and now students are writing to ask where the posting went and can they still apply.

This is a result of the state-mandated increase in minimum wage. We have to pay each worker more but the total amount we get didn’t increase. Consequently, the number of jobs decreased dramatically. Students now have to fight it out over a fraction of the job pool we used to have.

I predicted exactly this when the announcement about the minimum wage increase first came out. We were cushioned from the consequences for a couple of years by COVID money but now we are left alone to eat the consequences.

I went to a very fancy department store on business. I missed my feeding time and needed to eat something immediately but this fancy mall only had a fancy taco place. I abhor tacos and everything related to Mexican food but beggars can’t be choosers. It was either this or a hypoglycemic coma, so I accepted the tacos.

This was the right choice because those tacos had nothing Mexican about them. They were little works of art.

As we used to say, Comrade Stalin is a great chemist. He can turn any great man into a piece of shit and any piece of shit into a great man.

BREAKING:

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announces that a 47-y-old Moroccan has been identified as the person who lit his cigarette on the Eternal Flame of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris.

The minister says his permanent residency right will be revoked pic.twitter.com/0dfgosMH4f

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 6, 2025

I wrote about this concerning Spain. You can’t make your history matter to people who are not related to it and don’t perceive it as their own. I care about WW2 because my grandfather fought in it. The war between Peru and Ecuador, on the other hand, means nothing to me. I still wouldn’t deface the monuments if I visited those countries, of course, but then I’m cultured in a way that most people on the planet will never be.

Las Vegas tourism is sinking — and younger Americans could be to blame https://t.co/MazVOCvRjA pic.twitter.com/Gqfb8EWFW0

— New York Post (@nypost) August 5, 2025

The problem with Las Vegas is that everybody who is not rich has been priced out. The shows, the restaurants, the shopping – everything has become extremely expensive. An older couple at church used to go every year but they stopped. They are comfortable but not rich. Now they go to Destin instead. Destin is still too expensive by my standards but it’s not completely unaffordable for normal people.

And rich people don’t go to Las Vegas because it’s too low-class for them. They don’t travel domestically that much at all unless it’s fancy places like Aspen. People who want fancy cuisine, which was unnecessarily unleashed on Las Vegas, will go to Europe. Las Vegas lost its regular middle-class clientele and picked up none of their aspirational demographic.

I’m seeing this on a small scale in my town. We had a very popular and great-quality seafood restaurant. The owners of their building decided to raise the rent to something sky-high. The restaurant couldn’t afford to pay that much and left. And the space has been standing empty for close on a year. There’s nobody in town who can afford the sky-high rent or food at a restaurant that would have to raise prices to swing it.

Denial of reality is the costliest mistake you can make.

Everything keeps getting better and better. In the olden days we had to get into our car, drive to the nearest video store, look through the (usually limited) available inventory, hope to find something we liked (often impossible if you had non-mainstream tastes), wait in line to pay for it, drive home, hope that the videotape wasn’t busted or too worn out or the DVD wasn’t glitchy, and after watching the movie, drive it back to the store to return it within a set number of days or face a fine.

I have zero nostalgia for these stores.

https://x.com/avidseries/status/1952814619564650812?t=T032oqbZUE6Qzxb4v2wWWw&s=19

I have great nostalgia for them. N and I were poor. We rarely could afford to go out. Trips to Blockbuster were our festive outings. I have beautiful memories from that time. It’s one of the most magical times of my life.

You bring yourself into every experience. It’s you who makes it what it is.

I watched Candace Owens interview Milo today and they arrived at the conclusion that Islam is a religion of peace and Americans deserve Muslim terror attacks because they’ve murdered millions of Muslims for fun.

I’ve heard all this from my Communist professor in Montreal in 2001, and I’m laughing so hard, I’m afraid I’ll wake the neighbors.

I’m not calling the professor names. He was a proud lifelong Communist who has the same opinions on everything as Candace and Milo. This will never be not entertaining.

On a serious note, can we get a political movement that doesn’t hate this country and blame it for everything? Is that a possibility at all?

‘Tis the season for mandatory trainings on how to hire, conduct the tenure process and award promotion. The trainings feel like mockery because nobody is getting hired, which means nobody is getting tenured or promoted.

It’s like we get together and put on plays about what academic life used to be.