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APQA French chef is suing the
Michelin Guide for slan-
derously accusing him of
using cheddar cheese in a
soufflé. Marc Veyrat said his
world-renowned restaurant
La Maison des Bois was
downgraded from three
stars to merely two after
a Michelin inspector with
an unsophisticated palate
mistook the ingredients in a
soufflé actually composed
of fine French cheeses. “I put
saffron in it, and the gentle-
man who came thought it
was cheddar because it was
yellow,” Veyrat said. “It’s
worse than a wound. It’s
profoundly offensive. It gave
me a depression.”
QA billy goat named Big Boy
escaped an
Ohio farm,
shattered a
local home’s
sliding glass
door, and
was found
napping
in its bathroom. Logan
Keathley, 18, returned home
from school to find the family
dog frantically barking in the
driveway, with glass strewn
about the back porch and the
house reeking of urine. Police
couldn’t coax Big Boy out of
the bathroom with carrots, so
they wrestled him out by the
horns. “My house definitely
smells like a goat farm,” said
Jennifer Keathley, Logan’s
mom. “But there’s nothing
you can do but laugh.”
QA Russian man is suing
Apple for allegedly turn-
ing him gay. The plaintiff,
D. Razu mi lov, says the trou-
ble started when a crypto-
currency app he downloaded
to his iPhone delivered 69
“GayCoins” instead of the
Bitcoin he expected. “Don’t
judge until you try,” read a
note from GayCoin. In his
lawsuit, Razumilov said, “I
thought, in truth, how can I
judge something without try-
ing? Now I have a boyfriend
and I do not know how to ex-
plain this to my parents.” He
wants 1 million rubles from
Apple, or about $16,000.It must be true...
I read it in the tabloidsIt takes real chutzpah for President Trump and his sons to call Hunter
Biden “corrupt” for doing business abroad, said Jennifer Rubin. The
entire Trump clan, including the president himself, “continue to make a
mint” trading on Donald Trump’s position of power. Eric and Donald Jr.
are actively promoting the Trump business overseas in such countries as
Turkey, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, and Uruguay. Ivanka Trump
dined with Chinese President Xi Jinping and her father at Mar-a-Lago
in April 2017, and the same day China granted her preliminary trade-
marks for jewelry and handbags potentially worth millions of dollars.
Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner, serves as a White House senior adviser
while continuing to profit from a complex web of businesses abroad.
Meanwhile, Trump is paid millions by foreign governments and U.S.
corporations that stay at his properties to curry favor with him, even
as he refuses to release his tax returns. That’s corruption on a massive
scale, and it’s gone uninvestigated. If the Trumps really care about “cor-
ruption” abroad, they should welcome a congressional investigation into
their business activities, and promise, as Hunter Biden did this week, to
divest themselves of all foreign entanglements.America’s relentless work culture is undermining our relationships with
friends and family, said Judith Shulevitz. “The old 9-to-5, five-day-
a-week grind” has been replaced by a combination of punishing and
unpredictable hours that is taking a dire toll on our sense of connection
and community. Millions of Americans now hold jobs with variable
work hours, subject to “on-demand” scheduling driven by employ-
ers seeking maximum efficiency. Meanwhile, salaried professionals
are working 50, 60, and even 70 hours a week on jobs that bleed into
evenings and weekends because of the always-on expectation created
by email and Slack. As a result, socializing with other adults or spend-
ing time with kids requires extensive planning. Casual, impromptu get-
togethers are rare. It all brings to mind Joseph Stalin’s ill-fated attempt
to modernize the Soviet Union’s economy in 1929. He cut the week to
five days and eliminated weekends, with workers operating on staggered
schedules and getting just one day off per week. It “was a disaster,” and
had to be abandoned. Nevertheless, Americans are imposing the same
system on themselves, “not because a Communist tyrant thinks it’s a
good idea, but because the contemporary economy demands it.”My daughter is a rising high school track star who is now losing races
to athletes born as males, said Cheryl Radachowsky. Alanna is a gifted
runner who trains relentlessly, and as a freshman she won the 100-
meter, 200-meter, and 400-meter races while leading her school to a
state championship. But Connecticut’s athletic conference has allowed
students born as males to compete as females if that’s how they identify,
even if they haven’t undergone hormone therapy. Two trans runners—
one of whom competed as a male a year ago—are now “running these
girls right off the track.” The two trans runners have won 15 track
championships, preventing talented girls like my daughter from quali-
fying for higher levels of competition. This is simply unfair. For basic
biological reasons, “boys are faster than girls.” A recent Swedish study
found that 11 biologically male athletes who received hormone treat-
ments after transitioning still had a large competitive advantage over
women, because early exposure to testosterone gave them larger mus-
cles and stronger bones than biological females. Redefining “sex” to
mean “gender identity” will “destroy female athletics.” Our daughters
should not “have their athletic opportunities stolen from them.”Calling
the kettle
black
Jennifer Rubin
WashingtonPost.com
Trans athletes
have unfair
advantage
Cheryl Radachowsky
New York Post
The tyranny
of modern
work life
Judith Shulevitz
The Atlantic
“There is absolutely no question that police have a difficult job. There is no
question that even routine encounters and wellness checks can—on rare
occasions—escalate to deadly violence. But there is also no question that time and again police have
enhanced the risk to the public through their own mistakes. Poor tactics can yield terrible results,
and police should not be able to use the ‘split-second decision’ defense when they created the crisis.
There is no greater violation of liberty than the loss of your own life in your own home at the hands
of misguided, panicky, or poorly trained agents of the state.” David French in NationalReview.comViewpoint