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Wednesday, September 3. 2014

Wednesday morning links

The good news for Polar Bears


12 absolutely delicious apples you’ve probably never tasted


What are the Intellectual Virtues?


Privacy and Self-Image on the Internet: Does It Really Matter?


Growing marijuana in the modern cornfield


Cost of educating new class of illegal immigrant minors estimated at over $760M


Maryland’s thought police strike - Teacher suspended and school locked down over sci-fi novel


Good grief.


She writes college essays for Chinese applicants


How easily we forget that Western morality is not universal - even in the West


UN Internet Control As Bad As Feared


No Uncle Toms on the Left


Williamson considers Detroit's criminal machine


A good reason to pay attention in school (video)


Ben Carson: Obama Says ‘We Are Not a Judeo-Christian Nation’ – But He Doesn’t Get to Decide, We Do


College hate crime update


Steyn: The Day After Labor



 Consider Vermont. Unlike my own state of New Hampshire, it has a bucolic image: Holsteins, dirt roads, the Vermont Teddy Bear Company, Ben & Jerry's, Howard Dean… And yet the Green Mountain State now has appalling levels of heroin and meth addiction, and the social chaos that follows. Geoffrey Norman began a recent essay in The Weekly Standard with a vignette from a town I know very well — St Johnsbury, population 7,600, motto "Very Vermont", the capital of the remote North-East Kingdom hard by the Quebec border and as far from urban pathologies as you can get. Or so you'd think. But on a recent Saturday morning, Norman reports, there were more cars parked at the needle-exchange clinic than at the farmers' market. In Vermont, there's no inner-city underclass, because there are no cities, inner or outer; there's no disadvantaged minorities, because there's only three blacks and seven Hispanics in the entire state; there's no nothing. Which is the real problem.



Da Tech Guy meets his local constabulary


Analysts Predict Obamacare Will Eliminate Employer-Provided Healthcare


Ukraine’s Real Problem: Rampant Corruption


It's a crappy place


Related, What crucial American interest is in play in Somalia?


That's a really crappy place.



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"A good reason to pay attention in school"

There is no evidence those guys didn't pay attention in school. They could have been top of the class these days...at a very Progressive school. Ask them something the schools emphasize like about Black oppression, or Islam.
#1 JKB on 2014-09-03 07:57 (Reply)
Probably hanging an "out of order" tag on a dead chipmunk on campus would be a hate crime today.
#2 rhhardin (Link) on 2014-09-03 08:17 (Reply)
let me correct & clarify above that story is a guest post from an associate of mine, not something that happened to me
#3 datechguy (Link) on 2014-09-03 08:39 (Reply)
Ok, sorry - we have ADD
#3.1 Bird Dog on 2014-09-03 08:45 (Reply)
I am a huge fan of "ugly apples". I grow some and enjoy the local mega orchard http://www.eastmansantiqueapples.com/varieties/VARIETIESAB.html

Pomme Gris is one of the finest tart making apples - French Canadians recommend (especially the last out of the root cellar in the spring) - got one apple of a whip! expecting great things.

The French prefer Calville winter white http://www.orangepippin.com/apples/calville-blanc-dhiver
#4 Karen on 2014-09-03 09:07 (Reply)
"Like many of you, I believed that one’s skin color can be a factor in the attitude police have towards the public”

Ever since the creation of America’s Nuremberg Laws, e.g. Title IX, Affirmative Action, minority set-asides, etc., the state and its agents have hated "middle aged white man.”

Da Tech Guy, your beliefs are least fifty years outmoded.
#5 ErisGuy on 2014-09-03 09:15 (Reply)
What planet are you on? Would you like to try hanging out in some mixed neighborhoods and see how the police reacted to you as a black male, especially in the sort of circumstances described here? I think you would have a different perspective after your teeth were rearranged in your mouth the first time.
#5.1 Ed on 2014-09-03 11:50 (Reply)
>>>but Northeasterners (and the English) still cling to their old-school tart, slightly bitter apples. I think it’s climate-related. If the weather makes the people sour and a bit crabby, it does the same thing to the apples.

huh. so that explains why I like granny smith.
I also really like a local apple we have called "Rambo" and "ginger gold".

{craving apples now}
#6 fjord on 2014-09-03 09:27 (Reply)
"Hate Crime Exposed as Hoax"

The problem is that we don't have enough real racism (at least not directed towards minorities) and this deficit leaves today's activists or " social justice crusader" with nothing to do. You wouldn't expect them to simply enjoy the best standard of living in history or take advantage of a country that offers everyone the opportunity to succeed well past your fondest dreams. Where's the fun in that. No we need sociali injustice and racial discrimination to fight. But wait, but wait! Then there is the other article about Detroit and how a racialist crime family discriminated, abused and enslaved a population. At last a legitimate racial based social injustice to fight against. Oops! Wrong race. We can't be attacking outright criminals and bigots who are black. Keep moving, these are not the racists you are looking for...
#7 GoneWithTheWind on 2014-09-03 10:10 (Reply)
...Self-Image on the Internet: Does It Really Matter? Probably not if, like me, your an old retiree with one foot in the sod. But if you're young, upward bound, and trying to make your mark, you need to remember that your internet image, like tatoos, will probably be conveying an impression of you long after you've given up trying to shake that impression.
#8 BillH on 2014-09-03 10:17 (Reply)
12 absolutely delicious apples you’ve probably never tasted.

Correct: never heard of them, let alone tasted them. My favorite apple from local orchards was the Ida Red. Wait a minute. Not that Ida Red. I meant THIS Idared. Can't keep my apples straight. Or was that songs? Great eating apple, for those who like 'em tart. Turns out that Idared isn't one of those heirloom apples, but a modern hybrid, so it wouldn't have ever turned up on today's apple list.
#9 Gringo on 2014-09-03 11:07 (Reply)
apples: Gravenstein. ONly in Sonoma and the orchards are being converted to homes.
Very fragrant.
#10 ns on 2014-09-03 11:15 (Reply)
That "thought police" thing in Maryland set my hair on fire yesterday... and then for some reason I decided to look further. The issue was not Patrick McLaw's book, but rather a four-page letter -- described in one account as a "farewell" letter -- that he had sent to local authorities. He is currently receiving treatment.
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-teacher-was-not-placed-on-leave-over-books-authorities-say-20140902-story.html
Somebody in the media apparently decided that the fuss was about his novel, and then, like lemmings, others followed.
I'm ashamed of myself for not checking, for allowing my emotional buttons to be pushed before I double-checked. I hope the "journalists" are even more ashamed of themselves.
#11 Jeannette on 2014-09-03 13:25 (Reply)
I suspect there's LOTS more to this story than we have been told (see Ferguson MO).
#11.1 Sam L. on 2014-09-03 13:59 (Reply)

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