George Orwell —  'Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." The following memorializes Orwell's 2018 intellectuals: ------Performances of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES CANCELLED, because NOT ALL WOMEN HAVE VAGINAS “Mount Holyoke College, an all-women’s school in Massachusetts, has scrapped plans to host a performance of  “The Vagina Monologues” because it is not inclusive enough. Mount Holyoke student Erin Murphy explained on behalf of the student-run theater board in an email to students on Wednesday that the play is problematic because it is not inclusive of trans women,  Campus Reform reported . “At its core, the show offers an extremely narrow perspective on what it means to be a woman,” Murphy explained, according to Campus Reform. “Gender is a wide and varied experience,” Murphy continued, “one that cannot simply be reduced to biological or anatomical distinctions, and many of us who have participated in the show have grown increas...

As Readers of this Blog know, this Blogger’s father was a Trotskyite; in practical terms that meant he had this Isaac Babel/Pol Pot syndrome that field sweat cured intellectual elitism, so he made sure all of his sons had to work in the fields one summer. This Blogger had to spend time on a cattle ranch in the Oklahoma Panhandle, near Guymon, sorting out various forms of cow dung. Every year, in my youth, recruiters would come down from the Connecticut River Valley to recruit Brooklyn boys to work in the tobacco fields of Connecticut, harvesting Connecticut Shade Tobacco. One year, my brother, doing his Trotskyite duty, went off to the John Steinbeck fields to curb his intellectuality. “ Connecticut  shade tobacco is a tobacco grown under shade in the Connecticut River valley of the U.S. states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and southernmost Vermont, and is used primarily for binder and wrapper for premium cigars.” Since his brothe...