Sued for a medical study? Unhelpful science?
Those ambulance-chasers never quit
Ski Helmet Use Is Up, but Brain Injuries Aren’t Down
Better idea to ski for style and control. I've tried the other way...in youth. Got banged up a bit.
Genetic testing - not useful
Japanese Snaggletooth Craze Spawns Dental Procedures, Girl Group
Not from The Onion: "Towards a Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies"
A commenter says "Translation: No one asked me to the prom."
Also Kimball: Inadvertent Comedy from the ASA, or, an Ecofeminist Does Milk:
Every now and then... something truly egregious bubbles up from the dismal pit of pseudo-intellectual academic lucubration, some special gem of fatuous, wood-pulp darkening nonsense that even now, at the fag-end of Anno Domini 2013, has the capacity to spark a little frisson of nauseated wonderment in this jaded breast. As it happens, the latest such production comes to us courtesy of our friends at the American Studies Association, that’s to say it comes from its official literary organ, the American Quarterly. Perhaps your subscription to this pointless agglomeration of polysyllabic, reader-proof grievance-mongering has lapsed. Mine has, too. But my fellow connoisseurs of repellent academic nonentity will not want to miss “Toward a Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies,” by one Greta Gaard, “an ecofeminist writer, scholar, activist, and documentary filmmaker.” (According to an opus called Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches, she is “one of the most influential ecofeminist scholars.” Ponder that.)
Obama’s federal government funded hardcore porn project
40,000 new laws take effect in 2014
Got 'em memorized yet? You could get in big trouble for each one of them.
Christmas shopping 1958 vs. 2012 illustrates the ‘miracle of the marketplace’ which delivers better and cheaper goods
A circus producer said Friday that an animal rights group has paid it
$9.3 million to settle two federal court cases claiming elephant abuse.
1950 : Melting Of Polar Ice Indicates Radical Change In Climatic Conditions
That was before the global cooling scare, now replaced with the HotColdWetDry Scare
Inequality -- Crisis or Scam
MSNBC Panel Mocks Photo of Romney Holding Adopted Black Grandson
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Why Obama frets about income inequality, not family breakdown.
Not PC to discuss family breakdown
President Hollande Gets His 75% Tax on the Rich
Genius!
Detroit Abandoned, and Then Tore Down, a Major Library, Complete With Books
Liberals Really Psyched For An Executive Order On Minimum Wage
At Am. Spectator:
...the Robertson-A&E dust-up was merely the latest in a long — very long — line of leftist attempts to impose supposedly sophisticated moral pretensions on the rest of the country.
This laughable air of moral superiority has been at the root of everything from the violence of the anti-Vietnam War rioters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention and Obama pal Bill Ayers’ Weathermen to today’s Occupy Wall Street crowd. And all manner of things in between.
In 1969 alone this seemingly bottomless well of sniffy moral arrogance and condescension propelled student strikes or shutdowns at some 400-plus universities...
The NYT tries to pull Hillary’s Benghazi acorns out of the fire, they get burned
$6 Billion Wind Power Subsidy Expires; Battle Looms to Extend It
End it!
George Will: 2013’s lesson for conservatives
Bret Stephens via Betsy:
Class-consciousness has always been a fact of American life, but rarely is it about how the poor, or even the middle class, feel toward the very rich. It has been about how the professional class—lawyers, journalists, administrators, academics—feel toward the financial class. It's what Volvo America thinks about S-class America.
That idiot you knew freshman year, always fondling a lacrosse stick, before he became the head of his fraternity—his bonus last year was how much?
Best of 2013: Charles Krauthammer diagnoses Obama's policies, psyche
NYT: Oh, by the way, we had a reporter on the scene during the Benghazi attack
NYC: The Old Regime and the New - Will Bill de Blasio tackle New Yorkers’ real problems or undo the achievements of his predecessors?
Mead: Chicago’s Blue Crack-Up
Guardian: It won't be long before the victims of climate change make the west pay - The
scientific case is strengthening: developed countries are to blame for
global warming – and there will soon be a legal reckoning
Good grief
Holiday in Austerity Land: 1.3 Million Americans Lose Jobless Benefits
At some point, your long Sabbatical on the taxpayers' nickel has to end, even if it means a crummy job
Extending Unemployment Benefits: Obama's Urgent Political Priority:
"...how is it that paying 1.3 million Americans not to work creates jobs? That one has never been explained. Every respectable economist I've consulted states that when unemployment benefits run out, a greater number of workers return to the labor force."
New Lawsuit over San Diego Sea Lion Poop