Only 3 children died during the Okhmatdyt cancer hospital bombing. Ukraine is a Western country, so children are cherished and not thrown away like rags.

Here, for instance, is Oleh Holubchenko, a heroic Ukrainian doctor who was hit by an explosion wave as he was operating on a child, yet he kept his cool & moved the child onto a handheld ventilator. The child survived. And the doctor went outside to participate in a rescue operation while bleeding from his injuries:

The problem is that there’s no other hospital that can treat these children as effectively. Israel offered to treat the ones who are sick right now, and that’s very good. Western countries need to band together and support each other. But many families will not be able to afford to live in Israel long-term while the treatment takes place.

The destruction of Okhmatdyt is a tragedy that will have repercussions for years to come.

Charles Murray says that, at the age of 81, with effort he’s good for an hour of work each day:

I omitted an important point when I posted that I can intellectually resemble myself at age 50 only for about an hour a day. When I was 50, I was good for only about three hours max for first draft–a common upper limit for writers, in my experience. So I'm happy with an hour a… https://t.co/vMPyDwm0bT

— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) July 9, 2024

It’s an evidence of an extraordinary brain to be able to write for an hour a day at that age. Murray is very lucky, and we are all fortunate to have him.

My life brings me into contact with wonderful people. Like when I lost my phone in Spain, and a bunch of people were helping in touching, sweet ways. Or when people worked into the night completely for free editing out the mistakes in my Ukrainian book. Even people in HR – the last group you’d suspect of excessive humanity – broke rules and put themselves on the line out of kindness. Or the Canadian COVID enforcer who broke down and removed the draconian rules when I told her my father was dying.

I keep finding that people are generally good and caring. I travel quite a bit, and everywhere I come across human goodness.

This is why I can’t comprehend, I just can’t comprehend how somebody – a person, supposedly, a human being made in the likeness, etc – aims a rocket at a children’s cancer hospital, and then another human being aims a rocket at a maternity ward, and another at a daycare, and another, and another, and another, and another. Not crazed savages but civilized people like us. And not a faraway cancer hospital or maternity ward but that of their closest neighbors they visited a million times who look like them and speak like them, and as God is my witness, I can’t understand it.

A small reminder that trying to make this post about yourself is not a manifestation of that human kindness I’m talking about.

People complaining to the authorities about professors who wear Palestinian scarves seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that tomorrow every Muslim student will claim that female professors who aren’t wearing burqas are insulting them, and then what are they going to do?

Students either should or shouldn’t be able to control the teachers’ clothing. If we start going down the road where such control on the grounds of “discomfort” is fine, we’ll all end up in a very unpleasant place.

Snowflakery of the highest caliber is what this is. Policing people’s text messages, writing complaints to college administrators over professor’s sartorial choices – what a disgrace.

This is not a fake headline. It actually happens. One strategy is to identify students who started the application process online and then quit or people who accessed the college’s webpage and used the search box. What qualifications these people have or whether they are even literate matters not a whit. It’s all about growth. Growth, growth, growth. Numbers. That these numbers create gigantic holes in a college’s budget serves as no deterrent. Growth always wins even though it’s an utter fiction.

It’s the Trump program from Truth Social, supposedly. It’s all extraordinary rubbish – I mean, the dude did ef-all to “seal the border” and instead touted his program to release criminals – but I’m curious about the bizarre appearance of “no tax on tips.” Tips are income, like any other. Why shouldn’t they be taxed? And why such a handout to a demographic that skews young / immigrant and votes for the other side?

It’s an exotically bad program that reads like a “Dear Santa” letter for low-IQ folks. Reminds me of beauty queens lisping “… and world peace!” with silicone lips.

On the other hand, Biden is senile. And his handlers think it’s cute to mutilate children.

I’m not seeing a good solution here.

Immediately after Biden ran his mouth about how he “stopped Putin”, this happened:

Today's Russian bombing of civilian targets across Ukraine killed dozens. How many more will perish because Russia has destroyed Ukraine's main children's hospital and they cannot be treated? pic.twitter.com/nsQPoHcZG2

— Business Ukraine mag (@Biz_Ukraine_Mag) July 8, 2024

All that’s required to really stop Putin is to let Ukraine bomb Russian airfields. Biden is refusing to do that and makes things worse with his silly bragging.

Russians successfully targeted the largest children’s hospital in Ukraine today.

These are very sick little kids and babies and the doctors treating them. Only absolute fucking animals would target a children’s hospital. And only absolute stinking weasels would justify it.

How vicious and insane should one’s anti-Americanism be to justify this horror? Because there’s no argument in defense of the Russian war that isn’t grounded in a hatred of America. Americans are supposed to have somehow provoked this viciousness, and that’s yet another blood libel leveled against our country.

I have to quote this in full because it’s too good:

The world learned the wrong lesson from WWII.

After Hitler came close to exterminating an entire race of people— bringing the Ashkenazi Jewish population to such low numbers that even today the Ashkenazis remain below their pre-Holocaust numbers— the world walked away with the idea that “nationalism” is bad.

But nationalism is what helped the British keep fighting against the Germans, what made the Americans fight in WWII after Pearl Harbor. Nationalism is what helped the Allies win the war. Nationalism is what helped to liberate concentration camps and stop the genocide.

Sure nationalism also helped the Germans and the Japanese fight that war.  There’s always two sides to every coin.

But nationalism isn’t “evil” in the least. It’s what countries choose to do with their nationalism that is the difference between good and evil. Nationalism in and of itself is but survival.

The wrong lesson about nationalism from WWII is what lead to the migrant crisis in England and France — it’s what lead to the state of France today.

https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1810078803852689473?t=xIL-7cTqX6DyK7dDqDUq_w&s=19

We’ve been trained like Pavlovian dogs to experience an unpleasant jolt whenever we hear the word “nationalism.” And each one of those jolts is money out of our pockets and into someone else’s. It’s time for obedient puppies to break from their leashes.

In France, a bunch of anti-Western, Putinoid, anti-NATO, anti-Ukraine dudes vanquished at the polls a slightly different bunch of anti-Western, Putinoid, anti-NATO, anti-Ukraine dudes.

On the positive side, though…

OK, I’m not seeing a positive side.