10 thoughts on “July 1st Means….”

  2. I’d have done as ed-in-texas did — but truth to tell I simply ignored it as I do all such leftist propaganda actions.

  3. I don’t know. If we make the reasonable assumption that “Pride Month” is going to drift into well-deserved oblivion, then it might be a smart investment idea to pick up some carefully selected heavily-discounted Pride Month gewgaws, and keep them in pristine condition for the next decade or so. They could become valuable collectibles, like vintage Barbi dolls or Cabbage Patch dolls.

  4. I admit Gavin’s idea has a certain appeal in terms of fleecing leftists. Sort of like having a stash of Dukakis bumperstickers.

    I only remembered it when encountering external cues, like flags

  6. “Pride” seems intrinsically the wrong motive–not to mention that the ways of celebrating it have tended to, to put it mildly, the crass.

    I’m _grateful_ for my wife and children.

  8. There’s a moment in the movie “The Longest Day.” Roddy McDowall is inexplicably playing a young American infantryman. He’s on one of the ships, waiting for the invasion to begin. He’s talking to a fellow soldier, telling him how much he loves June. School’s out, everyone’s free to play and hunt and go on vacation. He ends his short soliloquy by simply sighing out the word. “June…”

    June, for me, is what it was for that fictional soldier. School’s out, the weather gets nice, you can do what you like. And it’s D-Day. And Flag Day. And coincidentally the longest day of the year, when summer starts.

    The only experience I have of Pride Month is via a computer screen, watching freaks exposing themselves. I can always click away from that.

    June’s not so bad.

  9. Sort of pride month adjacent, I thought the way this story was cast was especially stupid. Sort of reverse pride but consider the source:
    https://nypost.com/2025/07/01/business/jaguar-sales-plummet-after-botched-rebrand-ev-pivot/

    The story starts out with the idea that Jaguar’s 98% year on year decline in new car registrations in Europe was caused by their notorious ad last year. Come on, this is Europe, not Texas and you have to be willing to put up with a lot more than woke imagery if you buy a Jaguar. If you read down far enough, you see that they have suspended all production in order to convert to all electric, so there aren’t any cars to sell. We’ll see how that works out.

    Somewhat more apposite, at work I listen to the local classical station, lately taken over by the local NPR affiliate (WRR). By classical music, that’s exactly what you get, the closest they come to current affairs is the odd tornado warning. Apparently they are now compelled to pay attention to pride month and black history month, etc. In furtherance of pride, they made a point, from time to time, of playing music either written or performed by by someone supposedly appropriately sexually predisposed. A much easier proposition than black history month where they have to constantly cycle through the same handful of composers.The example that struck me was Tchaikovsky conducted by a lesbian, fair enough, given that I don’t think Tchaikovsky ever came out so this is sort of post mortem guess work but there was that long holiday in Paris with Saint-Saëns. But the selection was funny: “Romeo and Juliet”, can’t get more cis-hetero than that. Given their well known proclivity, I would have thought “Swan Lake” would have been more appropriate.

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