February 12, 2015
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What would you do about the race problem, given a week of supreme power? Taking the race problem to mean the blecks, I would (a) restore freedom of association by repealing all anti-discrimination statutes, (b) outlaw affirmative action in public accommodations (leaving private citizens and institutions to do as they please), and (c) strike down the poisonous and irrational doctrine of “disparate impact.”
What do you think of this Brian Williams flap? You”re asking me, the author of an article titled “Journalists Are Scum“? From which: “I refuse to take journalists seriously, and shall continue to believe that they all, like Wenlock Jakes [in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop], invent a good proportion of what they sell us.”
That was in 2003. My opinion of journalists has actually gone down since then. Here in New York State, for example, a U.S. Attorney has been uncovering massive corruption in the state legislature, stretching back for 20 years. Isn”t this the kind of work investigative journalists are supposed to do? The journalists of the New York Times are the cream of their profession. What were they doing? You know what they were doing: lecturing their readers on non-problems like “campus rape” and “police brutality.”
(Writing that phrase “the cream of their profession” brought to mind a quip of Samuel Beckett‘s. As a youth Beckett attended a posh boys” boarding school in Northern Ireland. The school boasted that they educated the cream of Ulster. Said Beckett of his classmates: “They were the cream all right”rich and thick.”)
Do you still think we are doomed? Think? Obama got a second term, didn”t he?
