SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET:

GET YOUR APPLICATIONS IN! – FROM HEATSTREET:  The University of Wisconsin-Madison will offer a spring semester class examining “the problem of whiteness” and “what it means to be #woke,” Campus Reform reports.  The course is being offered by the university’s African Cultural Studies department. According to an online description, students will be asked to examine “what it really means to be white,” and consider “how race is experienced by white people” in the United States and abroad.  “Critical Whiteness Studies aims to understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy,” the description reads. “In this class, we will ask what an ethical white identity entails, what it means to be #woke, and consider the journal Race Traitor’s motto, ‘treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.'”  I just can't wait.  One more excuse for not studying physics, chemistry, math, or engineering.

SOUND CHOICE – FROM BREITBART:  President-elect Donald Trump is considering appointing former Republican primary rival Carly Fiorina, who chaired the CIA’s civilian external advisory board during the George W. Bush Administration, Director of National Intelligence (DNI).  The possible appointment of the former Hewlett-Packard executive, first reported by the New York Times, has been described as an unexpected move by some news outlets, such as the New York Post.  Fiorina visited President-elect Trump at New York’s Trump Tower Monday and praised her formal rival after meeting with him.  “It was such an honor to meet with the president elect,” she declared.  “The high quality of people that he’s named already says so much about his executive abilities,” Fiorina also told reporters, praising Trump for appointing “fantastic people” to serve in his administration.  She'd be an asset.  She also knows how to speak to people.  She was one of the most articulate candidates who ran for the GOP presidential nomination. 

THE NEW MARRIAGE CONTRACT – FROM THE LOCAL:  Married couples in Italy will no longer have to promise to be faithful to each other, if a new bill is approved.  The proposed amendment to Italy's Civil Code would remove the word "fidelity" from Italian marriage contracts.  The promise not to cheat is a "cultural legacy from an outdated and obsolete vision of marriage, family, and the rights and duties of spouses", according to the senators who have signed the bill.  They cited a previous ruling from Italy's top court, which declared that judges could not legally place the blame for a marriage separation "on the mere failure to observe the duty of fidelity".  Instead, the other party has to prove that their spouse's infidelity led to the irreconcilable breakdown of the marriage.  What can one say?  The term "decline of the West" comes to mind.

December 16, 2016