Archive of entries posted by Oppo

Friday Night Open Thread: I Don’t Like Contacts, Either

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In the GQ interview, she admits to needing glasses but not wearing them as much as she should, and that she doesn’t wear contacts because she fears putting things in her eyes.

“So I have to wear glasses, and I don’t wear contacts, which I probably should, but I have a fear of putting things in my eye, which I’m trying to get over. So I’m constantly either wearing my glasses or my eyes are so strained and red, because they’re just constantly not being able to see.”

Charles Dickens on Moral Infections

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That it is at least as difficult to stay a moral infection as a physical
one; that such a disease will spread with the malignity and rapidity of
the Plague; that the contagion, when it has once made head, will spare
no pursuit or condition, but will lay hold on people in the soundest
health, and become developed in the most unlikely constitutions: is
a fact as firmly established by experience as that we human creatures
breathe an atmosphere. A blessing beyond appreciation would be conferred
upon mankind, if the tainted, in whose weakness or wickedness these
virulent disorders are bred, could be instantly seized and placed in
close confinement (not to say summarily smothered) before the poison is
communicable.

-- Little Dorrit

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Mark Steyn on Men Beating Women

From Pussyhats to Peninas
SteynonLine | November 25, 2025 | Mark Steyn

In the year 2000, The United Nations General Assembly designated November 25th as the “International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women” – “The premise of the day is to raise awareness around the world that women are subjected to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence.”

How’s that going?

Twenty-five years later, a man who abused his ex, stole her name and entered the women’s locker room at Gold’s gym is the one being protected:

Surprise! The man in the women’s locker room at Gold’s Gym is a convincted felon who did time for domestic violence. This is what I’ve been saying for years: any man who would go into the women’s change room, locker room, bathroom, whatever is a predator. That’s the red flag…. https://t.co/hUrnEUzKk9 pic.twitter.com/Ifl5uCbU2B — Meghan Murphy (@MeghanEMurphy) November 5, 2025

and, another man has just proven that women are just as strong as men and (by its logical conclusion) no longer in need of special protection:

Jammie Booker, a man pretending to be a woman, just won the title of “World’s Strongest Woman” at the World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas.

Andrea Thompson, the female runner-up, had her title stolen by a man.

“Jammie”?

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Update: I see they took the title away from him again. But the whole farce went too far.

I Always Thought Hayli Gubbi Would Make a Fine President

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‘Like a sudden bomb’: See photos from space of Ethiopian volcano erupting for first time in 12,000 years
Live Science | November 25, 2025 | Skyler Ware

A volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in at least 12,000 years on Sunday, sending a cloud of ash and smoke northeast across the Red Sea.

Hayli Gubbi, a volcano in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, erupted at around 8:30 a.m. UTC (3:30 a.m. EST) on Nov. 23. By 8 p.m. UTC (3 p.m. EST), the explosive phase of the eruption had stopped, according to the Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) in France.

This is the first time Hayli Gubbi is known to have erupted in the Holocene — the present geological epoch that began at the end of the last ice age, around 11,700 years ago. Generally, if a volcano hasn’t erupted in the Holocene, it is considered extinct.