Wednesday Potpourri

First, Air Force veteran Arthur Walters Jr. just turned 104. We wish him health and happiness.

Naturally, everyone wants to know the secret to his longevity. He has happily explained that he does not take any medication, but gives credit to his two good friends, Jim Beam and Jack Daniels.

Obviously, he also has a great sense of humor.

Second, whatever else it excels at, America is leading the world in the consumption of prescription drugs. We are 5% of the population and we consume 80% of the opiates.

Dr. Paul Marik offered this advice:

So rather than focus on lifestyle changes and healthy eating and healthy living — which can make a major impact on disease — we're so obsessed with using medications which do not work and may have side effects. And people are addicted for their life.

Third, Julie Burchill is obviously an acquired taste. Since most of her writing appears in Britain and addresses local topics, she is not well known on these shores.

We happily quote her recent comment on transgenderism:

Because there comes a point when encouraging men to believe they are women is cruel.

Speaking for women, Burchill takes offense at the current dogmas about transgenderism:

They’re ceaselessly confirmed in their delirious claims that they’re better lesbians, better breast-feeders, that their fauxginas – basically wounds which are never allowed to heal – make them better sex-partners for some lucky man who will never know the difference.… The tragedy of trans is that for them the opposite is true, their lingerie and lipstick highlighting the fact that they often resemble construction workers on a drag-stag night.

Fourth, the right to privacy in Joe Biden’s military. A female recruit was forced to shower with male recruits who considered themselves to be female. Said recruits continued to have and to display male genitalia. The situation violated the woman’s privacy, but this did not register in the pea brains of the Biden Pentagon.

And then, to add insult to injury, she was forced to sleep between two males who considered themselves to be female, but who had retained male genitalia.

One recalls that only 16% of males who think they are women undergo the surgery.

Fifth, the U. S. Army is 15,000 short of its target of 65,000 recruits. Pentagon officers consider it a crisis, but none of them seem to have concluded that people simply do not want to join a woke military that does not respect women’s privacy rights.

Sixth, transmania will doubtless give rise to a blizzard of lawsuits. It has done so in Great Britain and has caused a number of European countries to ban gender mutilation.

And now, in America, we have the case of Prisha Mosley.

She underwent medical intervention to give her the appearance of being male, but is now detransitioning.

The Daily Mail has the story:

She says she was confused and battling mental health problems when clinicians prescribed her cross-sex hormones and recommended a double breast removal after brief consultations, one lasting only two minutes. In her 53-page complaint, she says her doctors 'lied', including by saying testosterone jabs would solve her problems and make her 'grow a penis.' She has since decided to 'detransition' and live as a woman, and seeks financial damages. The treatments left irreversible scars, she says, including a deep voice, body and facial hair, pain in her neck and shoulders, a damaged vagina, and she will most likely not be able to have kids or breastfeed.

Seventh, the New York Times, feminist bastion that it is, wants us to respect women for their minds and not their genitalia. We all agree.

But then, the Times, which once offered women advice on how best to sext, has now done a rigorous scientific study to discover-- the best vibrator. Yes, indeed, female Times readers presumably pick up the paper to research this issue.

If you would like to spare yourself a subscription to the Times, the best vibrator is called the Magic Wand Rechargeable. Precisely why it needs to be recharged, I will leave to your imagination.