The leaders and ....what?

Former Michigan offensive coordinator Matt Weiss is now being indicted for allegedly stealing the personal pictures of about 3000 mostly female athletes, and for getting into the medical records for about 150,000 more NCAA athletes.  

We might joke that it is a good thing that Michigan was stealing signs from their opponents, because obviously Weiss probably didn't have much time to actually run Michigan's offense with all those pictures he was looking at, and perhaps their bowl losses those years had something to do with Weiss's lack of preparation as well.

On a darker side, somehow it seems odd that the database Weiss accessed actually had the social media accounts and private pictures of those students.  I ran a little in college, and if my coach had insisted on seeing all the private pictures I had, we would have had a talk, especially if those pictures had included some that I didn't want my parents to see.  (thankfully, my college life was a little more boring than that of some athletes...)

Perhaps more instructively, 150,000 records is about 80% of the 190,000 student-athletes at the D1 level, and another level of investigation is whether Weiss was using those medical records to screen athletes for possible recruitment.  If so, it would be yet another level of cheating by Michigan, and one that would have to have some technical assistance for Weiss--it would be a big deal.  It would, along with the sign stealing getting three coaches fired and two more censured, indicative of a pervasive cheating culture in Ann Arbor.

Update: here's the list of devices seized from Weiss, about half a dozen computers and phones, and a large number of external storage devices, too.  Suffice it to say that the guy seems to have had a library going, and this could get a LOT uglier.

On the light side....

My daughter came back from a Florida spring break trip looking a little bit like Rachel Zegler (absent the dark brown/raven hair), and now that she's peeling, she looks a little more like Snow White, sad to say.  

(seriously, Disney, if you want to jettison pretty much everything about the original movie, just give it a new name...) 

Just thinking....

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller has noted the cases of Jocelyn Nungaray, Laken Riley, and Rachel Morin as reasons for the mass deportation of Venezuelan illegal immigrants.  

Now apart from the legality of deportation, let's think about the wisdom of deportation.  Miller is telling us, more or less, that his approach to illegal immigrants who rape and murder is to....deport them to a country where they know the language, and where they have a better chance of escaping?

No, sir, I'm all in favor of keeping them in our prisons, where we can make sure they can't cause problems until their hair falls out or turns gray.  So if this is indeed a major part of our deportation drive, let's think about what we're doing here.  No sane person wants these guys to escape from a Salvadoran prison to again come north and rape again.

Happy Spring!

 

Like I've said before

Trans advocates demand admission to a womens' only banja (Slavic version of sauna) event in San Francisco, one frequented by Orthodox Jews--who of course do not want to be seen naked by any male but their husbands and (intermittently) their doctors.  So the trans advocates respect their own culture, but apparently not anyone else's.

However, it gets worse.  Apparently one of the trans advocates who made the scene is on Megan's List for a sexual assault "by force or fear"; in other words, for the level of sexual assault most of us instinctively think of (and fear), forcible rape.

This is, like it or not, how far out there the progressive left is; not content with ignoring the right of women to decide which males they're willing to see naked, or be seen naked by, they're proceeding to ignore the right of women not to be placed into situations where sexual assault is likely.

Just thinking

Contemplate puberty suppression, cross sex hormones, and reassignment surgeries in light of the fact that low testosterone levels in males are correlated with depression.  So we might wonder whether these "therapies" really amount to "jumping from the frying pan into the fire".

The same thing holds for women whose estrogen is suppressed; depression is often a result.  This might explain  why study after study does not show significant mental health benefits to transgender therapies, and we might ask as well whether the analysis is being done on a one sided basis, where we would look only for signs that there is an improvement, or whether it is done on a two sided basis, where we would ask whether the therapies could even make things worse.

Or, really, whether we might see statistical "tails" on both sides.  Really, it's yet another place where the current mania towards "all or nothing" thinking may be doing immeasurable harm to those with gender dysphoria.

Scary reality

On one side of the aisle, we have ordinarily thinking people like Marco Rubio and J.D. Vance failing to rebuke Trump for his risible lies about Ukraine, and bullying of the same.  On the other side of the aisle, we have Senate Democrats voting unanimously to reject reserving women's sports for those with two X chromosomes, ignoring the fact that when "trans women" are admitted, one gets needless injuries of women, women lose opportunities, perverts on Megan's List gain admission to women's spaces to commit sexual assault, and fans won't be interested in watching "men in drag" beat up on women.

In other words, we've got a situation where, for the sake of political power, a lot of people are refusing to state obvious facts.  It could be a rough ride going forward.