We at Mad Mondays don’t know a lot about the model Chrissy Teigen, but she seems to know how to grab headlines. Teigen and husband John Legend tragically lost their baby son to a second-trimester miscarriage in 2020. But during an interview last week, Teigen said it wasn’t really a miscarriage: “Let’s just call it what it was. It was an abortion.… Read More Word games
Author Matt Walsh as been at it again, doing journalists’ jobs for them. In a tweet thread, he reported that a transgender clinic at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville has been giving cross-sex medications and performing transgender surgeries for young children. While that is gross enough, his thread shows that Vanderbilt executives promoted the gender clinic program as… Read More Feet to the fire
Well, you have it from the mouth of the President of the USA – COVID is still an issue, but the pandemic is over. Phew! Thanks for the heads up. Medical experts were disappointed that the President would muddle the messaging, saying that a broader discussion with stakeholders was necessary to really determine if it’s over. White House… Read More That’s all, folks!
Two weeks to “stop the spread” really has changed things. One thing that may be changed forever is the workplace. You might remember the Great Resignation, which saw droves of people change jobs, retire early, start businesses or quit outright. The new buzz word is “quiet quitting” – what Gallup calls “disengagement” – in the workplace. People just… Read More Redeeming the time
We at Mad Mondays haven’t reported on the pandemic for a couple of weeks. Life has continued on and, unless you’re online or watching the news, there is little evidence of the past two years. While the slow drip of clarity seems to be corroding a hole in the narrative, there is still a whole lot of obfuscation going… Read More A big lie
The governors of Texas and Florida showed they weren’t kidding around last week. Governor Abbott dropped busloads of illegal immigrants outside the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor de Santis flew 50 people to the wealthy enclave of Martha’s Vineyard. The Twitterverse was equal parts freaking out and smug as the MV community rallied, fed… Read More A quick tour
It has been observed by a number of pundits recently that the demand for racism seems to be outstripping supply. Due to the mercurial definition of racism, discrimination and bigotry can be found under every rock. Classical music is racist. One gentlemen admired the white supremacy that led to a teenager jumping on a trampoline with abandon. As this… Read More Demand and supply
De-bunking, the joy of fact-checkers and know-it-alls everywhere, is so two weeks ago. NBC News says that the new thing is “pre-bunking”. While the term may trigger thoughts of media bias and censorship – “that post has been removed” – it is actually something quite different. Researchers from Cambridge University wanted to explain “in simple, nonpartisan language some of the most common… Read More Show your work
Like her or not, the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is certainly momentous. Anyone living through the past nine decades was witness to a lot of changes. Many admired the Queen for her steadiness in the face of upheaval and her commitment to tradition despite the rapid march of modernity. To others, being a figurehead is not… Read More The shadow of empire
Sometime soon, in a desert near the Red Sea, a shiny vision of the future is set to appear. According to an announcement by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia intends to build The Line, a shimmering “skyscraper” which doesn’t go up, but rather runs for miles across the sand. The announcement of such an ambitious project has prompted mixed… Read More City of the future
