Welcome to the Woods

Bob Knight,
legendary Indiana basketball coach,
dead at 83

By Don Burke
Published Nov. 1, 2023, 6:38 p.m. ET



Bob Knight, the tempestuous winner of three NCAA national championships while the basketball coach
at Indiana University died Wednesday.

Knight — often his own worst enemy while warring with administrators, faculty members, security guards,
the media, his own players and even a random student or two — was 83, suffered from dementia and had
been in ill health for the last several years.

“It is with heavy hearts that we share that Coach Bob Knight passed away at his home in Bloomington
surrounded by his family,” Knight’s family said in a statement.











“We are grateful for all the thoughts and prayers, and appreciate the continued respect for our privacy
as Coach requested a private family gathering, which is being honored.  We will continue to celebrate
his life and remember him, today and forever as a beloved Husband, Father, Coach, and Friend.”

Knight, who began his coaching career at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, won those titles with
the Hoosiers in 1976, ‘81 and ‘87. He also won one with Ohio State in 1960 as a little-used reserve on
a team fronted by future Hall of Fame players Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek.

Knight, who coached the Hoosiers from 1971 until he was fired in 2000 after an on-campus incident
involving an Indiana student, spent the last 6 ¹/₂ seasons of his coaching career at Texas Tech and
retired in 2008 with 902 victories.

At the time it was the most wins in NCAA Division 1 history. Knight now sits fifth on the all-time list
having been surpassed by, among others, the now retired Mike Krzyzewski of Duke, who played for
Knight at West Point and later was an assistant on his staff there.











And while he wasn’t easy to play for — ask Larry Bird who lasted only a a few weeks before heading
home and later resurfacing at Indiana State to become one of the game’s all-time greats — Knight’s
Indiana teams never had a losing record while winning or sharing 11 Big Ten titles, reaching five
Final Fours and his 1976 squad is the last team in NCAA history to go through an entire season
unbeaten, finishing 32-0. In fact, his 1974-75 and 75-76 teams went a combined 63-1,
the lone loss coming in the 1975 NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight.

Knight was 659-242 at Indiana where his players went to class and, if they stayed all four years,
usually graduated. He was a stickler for following NCAA rules despite his distaste for the NCAA as
an entity and his penchant for bucking authority.

“If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as
well as anybody can,” he once said. “I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people
around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best
basketball players I can. Then we’d beat everybody.”

FDA warns consumers not to purchase or use
certain eye drops from several major brands
due to risk of eye infection



[10/30/2023] FDA is updating the list of over-the-counter eye drop products consumers
should not purchase or use to include Equate Hydration PF Lubricant Eye Drop 10 mL
sold by Walmart in stores and online. Walmart is removing the product from their store
shelves and website.

[10/27/2023] FDA is warning consumers not to purchase and to immediately stop using
26 over-the-counter eye drop products due to the potential risk of eye infections that could
result in partial vision loss or blindness. Patients who have signs or symptoms of an
eye infection after using these products should talk to their health care provider or seek
medical care immediately.

These products are marketed under the following brands:






These products are intended to be sterile. Ophthalmic drug products pose a potential
heightened risk of harm to users because drugs applied to the eyes bypass some of the
body’s natural defenses.

FDA recommended the manufacturer of these products recall all lots on October 25, 2023,
after agency investigators found insanitary conditions in the manufacturing facility and
positive bacterial test results from environmental sampling of critical drug production
areas in the facility. FDA also recommends consumers properly discard these products.

CVS, Rite Aid and Target are removing the products from their store shelves and websites.
Products branded as Leader, Rugby and Velocity may still be available to purchase in stores
and online and should not be purchased.

FDA has not received any adverse event reports of eye infection associated with these
products at this time. FDA encourages health care professionals and patients to report
adverse events or quality problems with any medicine to
FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program:














FDA Website

Everything the Social Justice Crowd
Told Us Was a Lie

By Becket Adams, Contributor
October 30, 2023 10:50 AM








Everything the social justice crowd has said for the past 15 years has been a lie.

The movement gained a foothold in American culture around 2008, riding a wave of popular
reexaminations of race relations, political divisions, and systemic disparities. It styled itself as
an honorable call to right the wrongs of society, both historical and contemporaneous.

The past three weeks, however, have served as definitive proof that the benevolent emperor
is a naked tyrant. The warriors for the oppressed are not so noble and selfless as they claim.
Neither are they singularly motivated by the ideals of "inclusivity," "equity," and "diversity."
They’re as greedy, vicious, prejudiced, and hateful as the oppressors they accuse.

The “social justice” crowd has only ever cared about acquiring power and influence, creeping
toward this goal via emotional blackmail, intimidation campaigns, and even occasional violence.
Theirs is not a cause for justice, but for self-enrichment; a relatively bloodless conquest for
power and treasure. They simply disguise their self-interest in the language of
“justice” and altruism, all the while plotting new ways to seize for themselves the “privilege”
and “power” they envy in others.

Nothing has done so fine a job of laying bare this reality as Hamas’s Oct. 7 slaughter of
1,400 Israelis, mostly civilians, including children. Since that day of mass murder,
social justice activists have flooded city streets and college campuses across the West,
cheering war crimes and calling for the destruction of Israel.

They chant explicit calls for ethnic cleansing, including “ From the river to the sea, Palestine
will be free ,” “ There is only one solution, intifada revolution ,” and
“ We can’t wait for the caliphate !” They proudly display signs showing the Star of David
in a wastebasket, accompanied by the caption, “ Please keep the world clean .”
They tear down posters featuring the faces of Israeli adults and children held hostage
by Hamas. They use projectors to display messages such as “ GLORY TO OUR MARTYRS ”
onto school buildings.










These are the same people who claim they’re traumatized by “violent” rhetoric. These are
the people who turned terms such as “safe space” and “trigger warning” into everyday
cliches. These are the people who ruthlessly enforce DEI policies and ideology in the
name of protecting marginalized peoples. They’re left-wing academics, students, activists,
and bureaucrats, and they proudly endorse violence and terror.


They’re having an effect.


Jews in New York City have been told to avoid certain areas for fear of targeted violence.
Some Jewish schools in the United States closed on Oct. 13 after Hamas leadership called
for a “Day of Rage.” At America’s institutions of higher learning, some Jewish students are
going into hiding as their classmates hold vigils for the Palestinian “martyrs ” of Oct. 7.
College administrators have been slow to condemn the pro-terrorist demonstrations that
have descended on their campuses. They’ve been even slower to offer protections for
Jewish students .

The team that claims it cherishes “inclusivity” and “diversity” more than anything else has
embraced Hamas and its mission to annihilate a marginalized group.
They’ve effectively become acolytes for Hamas.

Yet these students, academics, and activists tell us they stand against “violent” language.
They tell us certain rhetoric should be punished and even outlawed. They tell us rhetoric
is sometimes literal violence. They tell us they hear racist dog whistles every time the
Right criticizes Democratic governance. They hound private citizens for perceived
“microaggressions,” including the wearing of “offensive” Halloween costumes.

They accuse the Right of waging "literal genocide" against the LGBT community. They even
browbeat the NFL’s Redskins and the MLB’s Indians into changing their names to the
Commanders and the Guardians, respectively. They call anyone who hints at disagreement
a literal Nazi. They invented an entire industry to comfort and coddle students, employees,
activists, etc., who claim they've been "traumatized" by conservative rhetoric.
They endlessly accuse the Right of promoting antisemitism and antisemitic tropes,
gorging themselves on news and media commentary that alleges the same .

Given these stated values, how are they cheering actual war crimes, holding vigils for
actual terrorists, and engaging in the most stridently antisemitic and fascistic behavior
and rhetoric this side of World War II ? When it comes to Jews, where are those
“safe spaces”? The attic ? What happened to all that “Hate has no home here” pablum?
In this house , do we not defend the Jewish people from calls for their extermination?

For the people who’ve berated the country for the past 15 years about inclusion and diversity,
the answer is clearly a resounding no.


The Jews do not count. Jewish lives don’t matter.


The secret to understanding these contradictory positions is this: The “social justice” types
don’t actually oppose hateful language and dangerous rhetoric. They don’t care about
equity and inclusivity. Attempts to censor speech, dogpiling nobodies for even the most banal
“microaggressions,” physically intimidating ideological opponents — these are nothing more
than exercises in raw power, some pointed and some simple exertions of control. These are
the methods by which they elbow out, shut down, and eventually destroy altogether those
with whom they disagree and those whose destruction could provide them and their kind
with more opportunities and “privilege.”

To the left-wing social justice activist, Jews are just a subset of “white oppressors.”
And it’s both right and just to strip the “white oppressor” of his “power” and “privilege”
“by any means necessary.” This is the stated goal of the social justice movement, as
expressed in increasingly explicit terms over the years. The rallies in support of Hamas
aren’t surprising, then, when one understands the stated aims of the “social justice”
movement. For the movement, Hamas presents yet another opportunity for the tearing
down and marginalization of an “acceptably” hated group and the reassignment of its
“privilege” to better and more deserving stewards.

Everything the social “justice” crowd has told us about working for a more peaceable
and inclusive tomorrow has been a lie. And nothing has revealed this so clearly as the
spectacle of them standing shoulder to shoulder with a hyperviolent antisemitic death cult.