Tell me, what is your favorite color?

Read how a woman who wants to be the next President of the United States, conducted an interview with the celebrated Muslim comedian Kareem Rahman. It consisted a couple of her incisive questions.

Kareem Rahman, from YouTube.

From THE Post:

Though he was initially told the vice president was going to argue against taking off shoes on airplanes, Rahman, who is Muslim and doesn’t eat pork as part of his faith observance, learned when the two sat down that Harris was instead going to deliver the take that “bacon is a spice.”

And:

The disagreement led to Rahman pausing the interview and asking for Harris to return to the topic of shoeless passengers on planes, prompting the veep to instead talk about how she like[s] anchovies on pizza.

Wow! What an intellect! She could have mopped the floor with President Trump if only  he had accepted one of her many invitations to debate him (not really).

Ms Harris’s Election Day speech?

The Democratic nominee’s spokeswoman has made a statement for her, as she had difficulty putting her thoughts in order.

An excerpt:

Trump’s connections to fascism are easily proven. For instance, his second wife was Marla Maples, who was born in the town of Cohutta in Georgia. Cohutta is an anagram of “Taco Hut”, which is a conflation of Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. These are both examples of popular restaurants. It is in restaurants that one often finds sausages. The country most associated with sausages is Germany. And Germany was the home of the Third Reich.

You must read the whole thing.

With thanks to Messrs Tighe and Armstrong.

Big government protecting us from ourselves–and a possibly deadly domesticated squirrel.

RIP Peanuts

Read how justice was served when bureaucrats from the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation walked into the house of the much beloved Peanut the Squirrel’s owner unannounced, with no warrant or permission, scooped up the hapless squirrel, and a pet raccoon as well, because they thought there was a possibility these well-cared for pets might be rabid. The only way to find out though was to gas them both, which they did a few days later.

The owner insisted he was working on getting the forms necessary to prove the animals had had their shots, but that wasn’t sufficient, so RIP Peanuts and his raccoon pal.

No word yet after several days from officials of the results of the autopsy, but we may sleep better knowing the owner’s rights were steamrolled so to protect us from us a small possibility of these poor critters being infected.

Read more about all-too-powerful bureaucrats overstepping their bounds, without a by-your-leave or apology, in this Hot Air piece by David Strom.

No surprise, but still disappointing.

From the New York Sun:

Wikipedia’s Neutrality Under Fire as Studies Find Left-Leaning Bias.

A pair of damning reports allege that open-sourced Wikipedia — a non-profit organization that was built on the tenets of political and ideological neutrality — has increasingly displayed bias favoring the left and progressive issues within its content.

Read the whole thing (link above).

The shame of Wikipedia was its original promise of well-written, scholarly accounts that were as neutral as possible, making it a valuable resource given the leftward bias of virtually all media organs.  That is no longer the case; its editorial staffers have over the years transformed Wikipedia from neutral to the left, making it no more useful than the New York Times and kin (Scientific American and National Geographic have become little more socialist propaganda journals).

On non-topical subjects, Wikipedia is still invaluable as a one-step factual resource. This blogger, who writes professionally on classical music is glad to have it available for looking up forgotten details about a piece of music, or biographical information on composers. On other matters however, and those about certain artists involved in controversy, Wikipedia is becoming increasingly useless.

What a pity. Wikipedia in its  present state is further proof that everything the left touchs dies.

Requiescat in pace, Wikipedia.

Discarding stale relics of the ’70s and ’80s.

From the Catholic News Agency:

The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will implement a formal ban this week on the singing of certain contemporary hymns at Mass because of doctrinal inaccuracies in their lyrics as well as a blanket ban on music by three Catholic composers who have been accused of misconduct.

Jefferson City appears to be the first U.S. diocese to formally align its music practices with guidelines issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in 2020, which laid out a list of problematic hymns, faulting many of them for falling short in their presentation of the Church’s teaching on the Eucharist.

In a decree dated Oct. 24, Bishop W. Shawn McKnight listed a dozen commonly used but “doctrinally problematic” Catholic songs that will be “absolutely forbidden” in the diocese after Nov. 1.

Most of the hymns were written in the 1980s or 1990s, with the oldest dating to the 1960s.

Below is list of the hymns [sic] and a Mass setting on the “index,” as it were, but Bickerstaff can think of others that ought to be on it and no doubt readers of this blog can as well. Still, it’s a good start. Keep up the good work, Your Grace.