In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

What's pestered me about this whole Blue Origin all-women space flight is that the crew is obviously a DEI administrator's dream: one Asian, one Hispanic, two blacks, and two whites. Leave aside the Hispanic is Jeff Bezos's girlfriend, or two blacks is 33% of the "crew", when blacks are 14% of tbhe population, we get an appreciation of Bezos's current mindset: no matter he's purged most of the liberals from the Washington Post editorial board, he's still stuck someplace in 2022. So why wasn't there a trans guy among the women? In fact, if Bezos's aim was to pick women who were prominent in media, why not go with Dylan Mulvaney? After all, according to People , all the ladies saw this as an opportunity to act like drag queens themselves: "Who would not get glam before the flight?!" said Sánchez, whose fiancé Jeff Bezos, founded the spaceflight company in 2000. "We’re going to have lash extensions flying in the capsule...

DOJ publishes drivers license photo of Jamison Wagner, the suspect in firebombing of GOP office in New Mexico and Tesla dealership, in which he's wearing blue lipstick. He's also a member of "500 Queer Scientists" https://t.co/3el4iQjJkk https://t.co/X4LzUpkXX4 https://t.co/EpUtEiOc4G pic.twitter.com/c6t3Co3UFM — Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) April 14, 2025 Last month I posted on the odd circumstance that four perps recently arrested for vandalizing Tesla dealerships were trans-identifying males. Just yesterday, it turned out that the guy arrested for firebombiong both a Republican office and a Tesla dealership in Albuquerque, NM wasan't trans, but he did identify as queer, and his drivers license photo shows him wearing blue lipstick. So trans- and queer-identifying males atill seem to make up a key demographic of the anti-Tesla agitators. Another demographic appears to be affluent whites who claim more conventional socioeconomic privilege, which puts me in ...

Just recently, I discovered that as of this past January 25, Spirit Airlines had updated its dress cod e. Somehow I don't think it's a coincidence that this came within days of Trump's inauguration. According to ABC News, Spirit Airlines has revised its "contract of carriage" to include updated guidelines for passenger conduct and attire, including a detailed dress code prohibiting provocative or inappropriate clothing. . . . Outlined in Section 4.3 of the contract, the airline’s policy now explicitly states that passengers must not wear "see-through clothing; not adequately covered; exposed breasts, buttocks, or other private parts." . . . The new dress code is part of broader rules governing passenger behavior under the "Conduct/Condition" section. These new rules include, in part, Disorderly, abusive, or violent behavior that creates an unreasonable risk of offense or annoyance to others. Intoxication or drug use. Off...

When I first posted about this on Thursday, I looked at the available links, did what I could to read between the lines, and surmised, I think correctly, that women’s fencer Stephanie Turner had already gamed out her potential encounter with the trans male, to the extent of having a friend on hand to videotape it. But I still had the feeling I was missing something. In my post, I cited a link that quoted Ms Turner saying she'd already protested men posing as women fencers on other occasions. But what about USA Fencing? What did they have planned in advance of the event? In my post, I had another link quoting Ms Turner saying, "I was not aware Mr. Sullivan was registered until the night before the tournament." I begsn to wonder if the whole encounter was in fact set up by USA Fencing, and Ms Turner was simply planning a response to a scenario that had already been planned -- to wit, she would encounter Mr Sullivan and either compete or be forced to concede -- and eve...

I first started seriously looking into dire wolves sometime last year, when the researchers on the Secret of Skinwalker Ranch show claimed to have found the skull of a recently deceased dire wolf in a creek on the ranch, and a guy in a park ranger-style outfit from a local museum sorta-kinda claimed it was authentic. Now, I view Skinwalker Ranch as pure entertainment, but out of curiosity, I looked up dire wolves to see how likely this would be. My main question was why only a single skull was ever found, when, according to Wikipedia , It can be assumed that dire wolves lived in packs of relatives that were led by an alpha pair. So if there are living dire wolves roaming the Utah mountains, they would be found in packs, their remains would be more common, and the packs woould be both visible and audible. So I dismissed the idea of a live dire wolf as having the same credibility as the rest of Skinwalker Ranch; it's fun entertainment. But before I dropped my research, I ...

Actions to undermine the chain of command or to subvert President Trump's agenda will not be tolerated at the Department of Defense. ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/ITFeGw0kUf pic.twitter.com/MO68aje1X2 — Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellATSD) April 11, 2025 The removal of Pituffik. Greenland Space Base commander Col. Susannah Meyers from her position was big news this morning : Just days after Vice President JD Vance's March visit to Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, the installation commander sent out an email to the base distancing it from Vance’s criticism of Denmark and its oversight of the territory, Military.com has learned. Col. Susan Meyers, the commander of the 821st Space Base Group who also oversees the Pentagon's northernmost military base, sent a March 31 message to all personnel at Pituffik seemingly aimed at generating unity among the airmen and Guardians, as well as the Canadians, Danes and Greenlanders who work there, following Vance's appearance. She wrote ...

It looks as though USA Fencing stepped into a public relations disaster it could have avoided : A female fencer was disqualified from a competition for refusing to compete against a transgender opponent, USA Fencing said in a statement to ABC News on Thursday. The incident occurred last month at a USA Fencing-sanctioned regional tournament where fencer Stephanie Turner decided to remove her mask and take a knee instead of competing against Redmond Sullivan, a transgender woman. Following the act of protest, the referee of the University of Maryland match -- which was not an NCAA tournament -- issued a black card to Turner, removing her from the competition. USA Fencing's current transgender and non-binary athlete policy was enacted in 2023 and allows athletes to participate in sanctioned events "in a manner consistent with their gender identity/ expression, regardless of the gender associated with the sex they were assigned at birth." While Ms Turner m...