FROM the excellent collection of essays The Sword in the Mouth by Caryl Johnston:

Because the body was, to feminism, the inescapable fact, feminists directed considerable animus against the constraints of biology. Either by chance or design, feminists went to bed with the Archons of Big Medicine, who were only too willing to bankroll themselves by altering the terms upon which men and women had heretofore propagated themselves. The feminists failed to see how they had merely substituted one patriarchy for another. Mary Shelley, the daughter of one of these great feminists, the 19th-century Mary Wollstonecraft, had already seen which way the wind of anti-biological feminism was blowing, and created the famous Dr. Frankenstein of legend. As the wife of libertine poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley had experienced the dross left behind by freethinkers and once declared that she was sick of them. But anti-biological feminism was gold in the hands of the medical men, the source of endless revenue puffed as “liberation” — from having children, from being a mother, maybe even from being a woman! The current Ivy League fad of transgenderism is only the latest round in this saga, perhaps the last stop before one may opt out of the task of being human altogether….. (more…)

EVEN though almost no one is dying from Covid and the reported total death toll for the year remains at 1852 people, Ireland’s government, using the by now well-established fraud of rising “cases” of people who are not even sick, has imposed a new lockdown starting today and has said that “periodic lockdowns” may be necessary. The Guardian reports:

Ireland is to close much of its economy and society in a second Covid-19 lockdown that imposes some of the severest restrictions in Europe.

Non-essential shops will close and people are asked to stay at home, with a 5km (3 mile) travel limit for exercise, to curb surging infection rates, the government announced on Monday evening. (more…)

 

JOE BIDEN’S career would have ended in 1987 in any political system that valued integrity.

In September of that year, he lied — boldly and repeatedly — about his academic credentials.

In his statement today, Mr. Biden, who attended the Syracuse College of Law and graduated 76th in a class of 85, acknowledged: ”I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school and my recollection of this was inaccurate.”

As for receiving three degrees, Mr. Biden said: ”I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. My reference to degrees at the Claremont event was intended to refer to these majors – I said ‘three’ and should have said ‘two.’ ” Mr. Biden received a single B.A. in history and political science. (more…)

TRUMP in Phoenix, Arizona yesterday: "Dr. Fauci's a very nice man ... He loves being on television and we let him do it. Sometimes he says things that are a little bit off and they get built up unfortunately. But he's a nice guy. I like him. But he's called a lot of bad calls ... I don't hold that against him if I did I wouldn't have him. I think he's a nice guy." [bold added] When asked if he would fire Fauci, "I don't want to. I don't wanna hurt him." Trump, the Swamp Maintenance Man.  

ALAN writes:

My old friend Serendipity came to visit me one day recently. I was looking for old newspaper articles when I came across something entirely different from what I was looking for, but of equal interest.  It was an article about a six-year-old girl whose guardian brought her to the office of a nerve specialist in St. Louis “to find out what was the matter with her.” This was in 1908.

Turned out nothing was the matter with her.

What the matter was this: Too much, too soon.  

“She is simply suffering from nervous exhaustion,” the doctor said to a reporter.

“Life to that child is nothing but a continuous stereopticon view. Fancy living in front of a moving-picture machine all the year round! I wager that your nerves would go to pieces, and that’s just what is happening to this baby. She has been around the world once and she is never in one place more than two months at a time and frequently not more than two weeks.  Can you imagine how harassing that would be to you?

“Well, a child’s nerves are a thousand times more sensitive than a grown person’s. (more…)

MY HUSBAND had lunch with an old friend yesterday. They sat on a park bench next to a river and ate greasy sandwiches. My husband's friend had a daughter who was in her early thirties. He was very fond of her. She died a year and a half ago under tragic circumstances. He mentioned, matter-of-factly, to my husband as they were chatting on the bench on a beautiful fall day that every morning he wakes up with tears rolling down his cheeks. Every morning, he cries again. Sometimes one person's sadness is so powerful -- and understandably so -- that it seems to engulf the world in flames. We who are relatively happy --- we live on this burning globe.  

I'D RATHER bake biscuits than be a Supreme Court judge.  

“IT’s a beautiful tradition of getting family together,” [Anthony Fauci] told Yahoo News on Thursday during a live Q&A. “I think we need to realize things might be different this year, particularly if you want to have people who are going to be flying in from a place that has a lot of infection – you’re going to an airport that might be crowded, you’re on a plane, and then to come in -- unless you absolutely know you’re not infected -- there are many people who are not going to want to take that risk.” "Fauci said his own children, three daughters who live in different states, have decided against coming to see him this year." [Source] That's sad. Perhaps they know. I, on the other hand, strongly support Fauci receiving visitors. In jail.  

ST. TERESA of Ávila, Spain was a sixteenth-century mystic whose writings are filled not just with highly challenging concepts but with wise practical advice. She founded cloistered convents where extreme poverty and discipline were the rule and counseled her sisters for the sake of their spiritual advancement and to maintain community life in harmony and peace.

St. Teresa emphatically warned against indulging health fears and the aches and pains of life. She said this was one of the most important messages she had to convey to those women under her instruction.

Her advice: Don’t talk about it (unless you are seriously ill, and even then patience was paramount). Keep your headaches and fatigue, muscle pains and sore throats, nausea and indigestion to your self.

“For this body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it.”

Needless to say, this inspiring woman who was herself sick for years, once so seriously that a grave was dug for her well before her death, and who is the patron saint of headache sufferers, would be disappointed by the world we live in. (more…)

THE NEW YORK TIMES has run more than 20,000 stories on (or referring to) George Floyd. Not a single one on Chase Meola. The New York Times is an ongoing hate crime.  

  NO WONDER the most fervent feminists have been Jewish. There's nothing even remotely comparable to this in Christianity.  

RESIDENTS of a Colorado nursing home gathered outside last Thursday to protest ongoing lockdown of their facility. The Greeley Tribune reports: “Enough is enough. Set us free,” Fairacres Manor resident Josie Sanchez said through a microphone Thursday afternoon while parked in her wheelchair on 16th Street across from North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley. Sanchez, 76 years old, was one of organizers of the protest. She was joined by approximately 19 of her fellow Fairacres residents as they sat in their wheelchairs on the sidewalk in front of the medical-center parking garage for two hours while the 16th Street traffic passed by with some drivers honking their horns. The residents held signs and some waved to the motorists. One of the signs read: “We want families back.” The theme of the signs was the same and they were all directed at state officials: let us hug our families. One woman held a sign saying, "I'd rather die of Covid than loneliness." What governments have done to the elderly in the last six months is a crime against humanity. Removing the restrictions is not enough. Criminal trials and long prison sentences are in order.