Musings

Today is the first day of the seventh month of 2025, we are halfway through this year. I am of two minds concerning it.

On the one hand, it has gone by quickly, seemingly as I get older time passes quicker. At my advanced age I likely don’t have decades of life left. 

On the other hand, with an activist President in office, there has been so much happening that it paradoxically feels like time as slowed down. Trump just packs a lot of action in every fortnight. 

As an avid news reader, I like a busy time as there is more to marvel at and ponder. One thing is for sure, I’m not bored. 

The Chinese supposedly considered the wish “May you live in interesting times” a curse. Maybe for some, but I love it a lot. 

Speaking of our President, his bombing Iran certainly added credibility to the threats he uses to juice his negotiating technique. When he says “get serious” those across the table had best listen up. Notice how nobody is saying TACO lately?

Harvard’s Offense

Writing for Power Line, Scott Johnson appends a copy of the government’s letter to Harvard in which it finds the university guilty of discrimination against Jewish students and Israelis. Here is a key paragraph from that letter.

Harvard’s inaction in the face of these civil rights violations is a clear example of the demographic hierarchy that has taken hold of the University. Equal defense of the law demands that all groups, regardless of race or national origin, are protected. Harvard’s commitment to racial hierarchies — where individuals are sorted and judged according to their membership in an oppressed group identity and not individual merit — has enabled anti-Semitism to fester on Harvard’s campus and has led a once great institution to humiliation, offering remedial math and forcing Jewish students to hide their identities and ancestral stories.

That is how to describe the woke/DEI obsession in goverment legalese.