THE TAOS TATLER.

A long-time injustice has at last begun to be righted, right here in New Mexico: discrimination against men participating in female sports. This is an action long overdue.

The past several decades have seen formerly all-male institutions opening their doors to women, including symphony orchestras, clubs and fraternities, police forces, the armed forces, colleges and many others. Women’s sports however has rigidly refused to take down the barriers to  male athletes, this despite men’s abilities having proved again and again to be up to those of the ladies’s.

An example of men’s athletic abilities took place yesterday at the women’s Tour of the Gila tournament, a major Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)-sanctioned competition in Silver City, New Mexico. Race officials, at last recognizing we live in the 21st Century, for the first time permitted a man to participate in the event. To the astonishment of only a few, the male cyclist, Mr. Austin Killips, not only performed brilliantly, but actually came in first and was awarded the appropriately named “Queen of the Mountains polka dot jersey,” and a $35,000 prize.  

With other women’s sports finally recognizing the new era in which we live, one of equity, fairness, and inclusiveness, the gentler sex is finally waking up to the obvious, that men are are not only equal to them in athletics, but often, deny it as some may, surpass them. If the more stubborn members among female athletes refuse to recognize this obvious fact, they are of course free to return to their homes and recommence keeping house, cooking an,d having babies. It’s only a matter of fairness.

—Emerson.

The Post deserves a Pulitzer Prize for its take-no-prisoners headlines.

Deja vu all over again.

—Yogi Berra

Is there anyone with even half a brain in the White House or State Department? Is there no one in the Biden Administration who learned something from the Afghanistan debacle? Such brazen incompetence makes you wonder if they’ve crossed the line into intentional malfeasance. But why? Only a day ago Joe’s handlers decided he’s running for re-election; are they deliberately sabotaging his own campaign? The mind boggles.

Update from the Daily Caller:

The White House confirmed Wednesday a second American has died in Sudan since violence erupted earlier this month between two warring generals.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby shared the news with reporters on a call Wednesday morning, but did not provide details on the identity of the American of the nature of their death, except that it occurred Tuesday. He said the administration offers its condolences to the family and is stressing to Sudanese leaders that they are responsible for the safety of civilians in the country.

Now there’s firm and decisive action for you. Those leaders must be quaking in their boots.

. . . and you’ll glean the reason the corporate cowards at Fox News felt compelled to fire him. He is the only contemporary commentator I know of, and I will hazard he is a prophet, who dares to bare the essence of what motivates the enemies of this country, without and within: pure, unadulterated evil, nothing less and nothing else. He points out in plain English that the agendas they promote are not merely misguided attempts to right wrongs or to improve the human condition. Their mission is the destruction of all that is good, to wipe all goodness off the face of the earth. The wimpy milquetoast Murdochs were terrified of him, or more accurately, of the backlash from the monsters Carlson fearlessly calls out. No wonder they gave him the axe.

Who would have ever thought a 21st Century prophet would be an Episcopalian?

The radical leftists, which heretofore have attempted to disguise their intentions making us all wards of the state, seem to have pulled off their masks lately, presumably because they are confident being open about their plans for us will no longer face significant opposition. I suspect though they are mistaken. Consider this piece in what used to be the relatively mainstream magazine, New York, courtesy of AMAC.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” the Book of Proverbs says. To certain right-wing Christians, the concept is simple: A child can be broken, or stamped into shape, much like any domesticated animal. Though all parents hope they’ll pass their values onto their children, for some that hope is more of a mandate.

Do you get the impression this poor dear had a less than happy childhood? Read on.

My own parents believe that Proverbs is the word of God, and they believed, too, that a righteous upbringing would produce an adult in their image. Who can blame them?

Well, you, for one.

The idea that a child should replicate her parents does not belong only to conservative Christianity or to religion at all. A proverb is common wisdom, and lately this one is hard to escape. Authoritarianism is gospel to modern conservatives. Nowhere is that clearer than in their assaults on children.

As opposed to parading drag queens in front of them while they are in kindergarten, or leaning on them to question their sexuality (shh, don’t tell your parents!) and pouncing should they be successful in that, urging on them surgery considered child abuse only a generation ago?

Now, feast your eyes on this scrumptious bit of doublethink.

Like any piece of property, a child has value to conservative activists. They are key to a future the conservative wants to win. Parental rights are merely one path to the total capture of state power and the imposition of an authoritarian hierarchy on us all.

And what exactly do you propose as an alternative, comrade?

Read the rest of this harridan’s screed if you want a chuckle, but it seems to your Tatler the producer of this overwrought bilge is writing in a self-congratulatory mode as if the deed is already done. Judging by the goings-on in most of our public and private schools she may be right. On the other hand, it could be an example of pride going before the fall.

Among the many failings of leftists are their inability to sense when they have gone too far, crossed the line. The two issues that seem to rank the highest with them now are rights for female impersonators (or transsexuals, or, transvestites, or transgenders, or non-binaries, or whatever they’re called this week), and wresting control of children from their parents. Neither of those is finding much resonance with most Americans. We’ll have to wait till the ’24 elections to know for sure, but it could be the long-awaited correction may be at hand.

Oops.

From the Tablet:

ROME (CNS) — A “breakdown in communication” led to permission being given to a group of Anglican clergy to celebrate the Eucharist in Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran, said Auxiliary Bishop Guerino Di Tora of Rome, vicar for the basilica’s chapter.

Anglican Bishop Jonathan Baker of Fulham, a suffragan bishop with responsibility for Anglo-Catholic parishes in the dioceses of London and Southwark that have requested not to be served by a woman priest or bishop, celebrated the liturgy April 18 as part of a conference in Rome for Anglo-Catholic clergy.

That is a serious violation, especially because Bishop Baker not only is divorced and remarried, he is rumored to be a Freemason, strictly taboo in Holy Church, which considers Freemasonry an enemy of Christianity (though that didn’t stop Mozart and Haydn, both observant Catholics, from joining a Masonic lodge in Vienna).

Ed Condon of the Pillar has some guesses how this mishap could have occurred.

Having asked around a fair bit, both in the U.K. and Rome, the best I have gleaned is that it seems likely the Anglican group presented itself to the basilica as a group of clergy on pilgrimage from the “Church of England,” rather than “Anglican Communion,” terminology certainly open to misunderstanding to non-native English speakers.

They might have even described themselves as “Anglo-Catholics,” leaving Italo-Catholics to conclude they belonged to the fully Catholic ordinariate for ex-Anglicans, rather than to the wing of the Anglican Communion which happens to like incense and nice vestments.

In other words, it really was a “misunderstanding,” which to this writer borders on the comical. What I  do not understand however is, since the celebration of the “mass” by the Anglicans must have taken a good long time (as a former Anglo-Catholic I can attest to their length), it’s surprising no one in the Vatican became aware of what was was going on in the basilica. Additionally, there would have been striking differences from the usual Catholic Mass, they being:

1) The celebrant and servers wore beautiful vestments which the Catholic Church shucked years ago, replacing them with those horrid smocks most clergy now wear;

2) While the mass was celebrated in the vernacular, English, it likely was the gorgeous Cranmerian English from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, rather than the bland, and uninspiring English Catholics must sit through every Sunday.

Didn’t anyone from the Vatican step into the church while the Anglicans were celebrating their mass? If he had, for the reasons above he would have instantly recognized something was very wrong and called a halt to it immediately.

Thanks to William J. Tighe.

Mere quibbling, if you ask me..

Top ultra-marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski has been disqualified from a recent race after using a car to travel during a portion of the route. Zakrzewski finished third in the 2023 Manchester to Liverpool Ultra—but was reportedly traveling by automobile for 2.5 miles of the 50-mile race.

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That seems awfully unfair. After all, with more and more female impersonators participating in women’s sports, a gal’s got to do something to even up the score with their (formerly) hairy legged competitors.

Wayne Drinkwater, director of the GB Ultras race, said that a runner had been found to have obtained an “unsporting, competitive advantage during a section of the event.”

—Runner’s World.

Pro-life is loving the living, in all shapes and forms.

Your Tatler will not claim to being a fan of punk rock, to put it mildly, but news received of punk rocker Johnny Rotten, aka John Lydon, has made me a fan of his. Here’s why.

Rock star John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, leader of the well-known punk band the Sex Pistols, has lost his wife of over 40 years, Nora Forster, to Alzheimer’s disease. But though many have turned to assisted suicide (or outright murder) to end the lives their spouses with dementia and Alzheimer’s, Lydon quietly cared for Forster with love and devotion.

In a 2020 interview, Lydon said he remained his wife’s caretaker, and that she still lived with him in Los Angeles.

“I won’t let anyone mess up with her head,” Lydon said. “For me, the real person is still there. That person I love is still there every minute of every day, and that is my life. It’s unfortunate that she forgets things; well, don’t we all? … I suppose her condition is one of like a permanent hangover for her. It gets worse and worse, bits of the brain store less and less memory, and then suddenly some bits completely vanish … It’s quite amazing as the alleged experts we have had to deal with at enormous expense have said that they have been very impressed that she never ever forgets me, we are constantly there with each other [in her mind] and that bit won’t go. Why pay for professionals to work on this when I think the message is a bit of love goes a long way.”

It would be interesting to conduct a poll to see what percentage of those who support euthanasia also support abortion. I suspect the numbers would be close to identical, for the two are similar. They both are about the disposal of the those whose lives, for whatever reasons, have become inconvenient to others. Johnny Rotten has shown to the world that while his late wife’s malady was certainly an inconvenience, it was also a blessing, to both husband and wife. In our throw-away society, he has proved himself a prince among men.

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