Out of control, out of touch
Former Vice President Joe Biden may have thought sounding tough in an elementary school way was effective, but it only showed the lack of substance found in the Democratic Party today.
Addressing, of all things, an anti-sexual assault rally at the University of Miami last week, he told the audience he'd have beaten up Donald Trump had they been in school together.
"A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said, 'I can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it,'" Biden said. "They asked me if I'd like to debate this gentleman, and I said 'no.' I said, 'If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.'
"I've been in a lot of locker rooms my whole life," he continued. "I'm a pretty damn good athlete. Any guy that talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room."
This, of course, came from the man whose habit in office was to put his hands on women in a playful way, wanted or not, and wink the gesture away.
The 75-year-old Biden has made noises about running for presidency in 2020, but surely he knows video footage exists of his exploits. And yet he persists.
Night, knight!
Holy Cross University, which decided a month ago to keep its Crusaders nickname, is ditching its knight mascot.
The Massachusetts school president, in a letter to students, faculty, staff and alumni, said the knight "inevitably ties us directly to the reality of the religious wars and the violence of the Crusades."
Let's review. Holy Cross is getting rid of its knight, although not all knights were involved in crusades. But it's keeping the Crusaders name even though the school's president acknowledged a potential tie to religious crusaders could exist for some people.
Chances are, fewer than 5 percent of its students even know what the religious crusaders were.
In the knight's place, the school will adopt an interlocking HC on a purple shield as its primary logo. But couldn't a shield be seen as a weapon of "the religious wars and ... violence"?
Never mind. This is what passes as political correctness these days.
The school president, as if the situation needed more muddling, said the nickname was OK because students often work with the "poor and marginalized" and become "advocates for the transformation of society through education, social service and business." Thus, he said, they become "examples of what it means to be a Crusader today."
If you follow his logic, the same students could be knights pursuing those same occupations. Oh well.
The school, probably wisely, said last week it would have no further comment on the mascot.
A Koo coup?
We're not sure if walking while chewing gum will be next, but a New York City councilman is proposing it be a misdemeanor to walk and smoke at the same time.
"My bill is very simple - no smoking and walking on New York City sidewalks," Councilman Peter Koo, a Democrat from Queens, told WNYW. "This bill is not against smoking, just don't do both together."
Those caught violating the law could be fined $50.
Koo said the measure would help keep non-smoking walkers from inhaling second-hand smoke, but he'd be fine if they stood in one spot and puffed away. He didn't say how those who walked by or had to pass by the stand-and-puffers would escape from second-hand smoke.
Some smokers, as reported by The Blaze, pointed out how difficult the law would be to enforce unless police specifically followed someone they spotted smoking and what a waste of time that would be.
"[I]t would tie up police time for something that I believe would be better spent elsewhere," one man said.
Another said even if the proposal passed, he had no intention of stopping.
"As I'm walking, you know, it's outside," he said, "so I'm not blowing it in nobody's face or anything like that."
Smokers in the city already can't light up in bars, businesses, public spaces and restaurants.
Putting him in a box
As soon as Mark Anthony Conditt, the Austin, Texas, bomber, blew himself up as law enforcement closed in last week, the left began a desperate search to try to make the guy a conservative, Republican or right-winger.
It's easier to lay blame that way.
As of late last week, it was a difficult task. But it didn't keep them from trying.
One article noted he'd been homeschooled. To the left, that may as well have meant the guy was maladjusted, had fundamentalist parents, and had been locked in a box and abused. If he didn't attend public school and learn to toe the government line on all things education, he must've been a sicko.
Another article, this one in the Daily Mail, referred to him as a "devout Christian." The article doesn't quote him as ever having claimed to be one and didn't show him to be living like one. Instead, it offers this:
"He doesn't appear to have left much of a trail on social media but his blog posts from 2012 indicate he was in favor of the death penalty and was against gay marriage and abortion. He identified himself as a conservative but said he was not politically engaged and said he had interests in tennis, parkour and gymnastics."
Really? His posts from six years ago, when he was a teenager, can define him?
Is it any wonder faith in the national media has fallen so low?