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Friday, July 22. 2016

Friday morning links

Clean eating and dirty burgers: how food became a matter of morals


16,700-Year-Old Tools Found in Texas Change Known History of North America


Law schools worry bar-passage standard will undermine diversity


The diminishing financial returns of higher ed


It's Peter Thiel's Republican Party Now... Or Should Be


MSNBC Warns 'Viewer Discretion Advised' ... Before Showing Anti-Hillary Campaign Buttons!


NYT After GOP Night 3: Trump as Nazi, Poor Persecuted Hillary, and Don’t Mention the Liberal Media


Ezra Klein:  Donald Trump’s nomination is the first time American politics has left me truly afraid


Sheesh


"Trump is definitely speaking to the moment. He may not be speaking to
you, but he is speaking to many, many people in the country right now."


"I’ve often argued that Buckley Conservatism was just anti-communism with
things like small government and social conservatism as decorations."


The World Looks at Trump, Confused


Good. He's not running for World President. Track record of American foreign policy has been terrible


Draft Dem platform doesn't even mention nuclear power


Hillary Clinton’s New College “Reforms”


Inside Erdogan’s palace: The £500 million mansion Turkey’s president calls home


German Officials Call for Compulsory Islam Classes in Schools After ISIS Axe Attack on Train


How Israeli hummus slaughters Palestinian children, from  Campus activists who complain all the time are hurting their causes, students say




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"clean eating"

The restaurant Panera advertises this and in a fit of boredom one day I looked it up to see what it was about.

More moralistic, "ethical" hoo-doo-voo-doo goobleygook.


Which I predict is going to crash and burn within the next 5 years due to socialism and most of all the TPP .
#1 fjord on 2016-07-22 07:39 (Reply)
Incidentally, the take-away is in the article, hidden in plain sight:

...the moralistic lexicon of food seems to have expanded. One recent fad has been for “dirty” American food, a term that revels in the idea that fatty burgers and messy pulled pork buns are so right because they’re so wrong.

Here on the Farm, among comparatively optional critical reasoning, the whole notion that filthy hippies - read: leftist cartoons, a local staple - are wrong is proved by the inevitable push-back: Having lost a culture on virtually every other point of sail, hip, lifestyling, quasi-hedonistic rightists damn well should leverage fatty burgers and messy pulled pork buns because they're so right when everything else is so wrong.

When it's not clickbait it's culture signalling and when it's somehow not culture signalling it's pride of pose or place in a time when not much else is defined by principle or virtue. It's all assumption and winks. Everything else is just so wrong because it's different. So pork!

Personally, I'd never previously run into the unique breed of epicurean hedonistic theology that has God deploying booze and brisket against the godless leftwing hordes with their granola and almond milk. But apparently it's a thing.

And on the fifth day God said kill the fatted beasts and gout their juices down the streets and into the pits of fire and spices for by this virtue and grog shall ye be saved.

Or something. Lectionary!
#1.1 Ten on 2016-07-22 11:19 (Reply)
God loves booze and brisket. Everybody knows that!
#1.1.1 Bird Dog on 2016-07-22 16:27 (Reply)
If they didn't they do now.
#1.1.1.1 Ten on 2016-07-22 20:22 (Reply)
After that "person's) video I am going out today and buy the largest tub of Sabra Hummus I can find.
#2 JC on 2016-07-22 08:16 (Reply)
Yes, thanks, Maggie's Farm, for reminding me to pick up more Sabra hummus this afternoon. We have guests over this weekend. Perfect!

I particularly like the roasted red-pepper variety.

 Hmm... I believe I'll pick up a couple of bottles of Tishbi chardonnay too.

Now, if only I could find somewhere that sells Maccabee beer...
#2.1 JJM on 2016-07-22 09:03 (Reply)
The hot pepper variety is my favorite
#2.1.1 bd on 2016-07-22 09:55 (Reply)
You can get the big containers of Sabra hummus cheap at Costco. Mazel tov!
#2.1.2 Jim on 2016-07-22 15:00 (Reply)
Yes, OMG yes, to the roasted red pepper Sabra. Bought extra today because of twerp girl's video.
#2.1.3 MissyW on 2016-07-22 19:26 (Reply)
We need to eat less meat. The government should step in!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/07/20/we-need-to-eat-less-meat-should-the-government-step-in/
#3 feeblemind on 2016-07-22 08:43 (Reply)
Well, at three a day and seven a week we can't really eat more, can we? Kill all the filthy animals, I say.

Between you and mighty fjord above, I'd say you've cornered the market on important issues and opinions in the space of half a dozen tossed-off knee-jerks in this, one of the Internet's most important channels. Kill all the filthy animals, I say, like God, Lincoln, and FOXSnooze intended.

Reactionary signalling is always what counts. Bravo.
#3.1 Ten on 2016-07-22 09:34 (Reply)
Look in the mirror much?
#3.1.1 B Hammer on 2016-07-22 09:45 (Reply)
Oh, now that's devastatingly witty. BOOM!

Next up: I know you are but what am I?
#3.1.1.1 Ten on 2016-07-22 09:48 (Reply)
What else is there to say to you when the topic is food or religion? You're as fanatical as the rest of us.
#3.1.1.1.1 B Hammer on 2016-07-22 10:22 (Reply)
Blowing holes in religious or cultural assumptions that obviously never bore thought but yet somehow bulwark entire quasi-ideologies way out here in 2016's television-depth identity war isn't fanaticism. It's kinda the opposite.
#3.1.1.1.1.1 Ten on 2016-07-22 10:35 (Reply)
Yes you're absolutely right, from Augustine to Moore and the thousands of encyclicals, intellectual drivel all. No thought at all.
#3.1.1.1.1.1.1 B Hammer on 2016-07-22 11:05 (Reply)
I said Aquinas ran a poolhall on the side? That Chesterton was a pimp? And that rascal Burke and his slots!

Don't play with matches. Straw ignites.
#3.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Ten on 2016-07-22 11:22 (Reply)
"We need to eat less meat. The government should step in!"

You know, I think we should bring people together to discuss this.

How about a giant ribfest in Washington DC? Nothin' brings in the crowds like slow-cooked ribs on a big ol' BBQ.

I'll bring some Sabra hummus and a six-pack of Maccabee beer!
#3.2 JJM on 2016-07-22 10:07 (Reply)
So government is going to take the place of the Church?

Fish on Mondays instead of Friday?
#3.3 JK Brown on 2016-07-22 10:39 (Reply)
Oh, they'll be no fish either.

It won't be "sustainable".
#3.3.1 JJM on 2016-07-22 18:00 (Reply)
If Trump wins, a coup isn't impossible here in the U.S.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-kirchick-trump-coup-20160719-snap-story.html

One wonders how close we are coming to civil war?
#4 feeblemind on 2016-07-22 08:54 (Reply)
A good commentary speculating on Cruz's political future after The Speech from cBS of all places.

QUOTE:
Commentary: Ted Cruz is never going to be president now
Because if there's one thing keeping the GOP together at this point, it's hatred for Hillary. There are rational and irrational dimensions to this, but Republican voters at a basic level believe that Clinton winning in November might very well be fatal to their party, and by extension the country.

To them, a Clinton win means more unaffordable government programs that foster dependency, more immigrants who will of course vote Democratic, the continued transformation of America into something they don't recognize. It means a liberal Supreme Court for 40 years legislating from the bench. It means more gun laws and more terror attacks.

The only thing between them and that future is Donald Trump, flawed as many acknowledge he is. Will he disappoint them? Sure, probably, and they'll tell you as much: GOP voters, as a matter of course, tend to not be all that big on optimism. His big redeeming virtues, though, are that he's not her, and that he's radical enough to actually change some stuff in Washington.

Cruz did quite well in the primary by convincing Republican voters that he was a conservative first and foremost, someone who was willing to take huge professionals risks for the good of the cause. After Wednesday's speech, however, I doubt many of those voters will continue to see him so charitably.

To them, all he really did was appease his own ego, helping Hillary and hurting America in the process.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-ted-cruz-is-never-going-to-be-president-now/
#5 feeblemind on 2016-07-22 09:00 (Reply)
One thing Cruz' petulance, Trump's flamboyance, and the media's obsession with everything Trump has done is keep the cameras inside the hall and off the street outside. Those motley protestors must be going nuts over not being able to lure the media cameras outside.
#5.1 BillH on 2016-07-22 09:57 (Reply)
So glad I supported Israel last night when I brought Sabra brand hummus to a Trump speech party!!! (I'm serious)
#5.2 MissT on 2016-07-22 17:01 (Reply)
Law schools worry bar-passage standard will undermine diversity. If they don't meet your standards, simply lower your standards. Problem solved. What could possibly go wrong? You say: "Just have a look at the federal civil service and public schools"? Why on earth would you say that?
#6 BillH on 2016-07-22 09:51 (Reply)
"This lawyer worries that lowering bar standards to preserve diversity will undermine the reputation of black lawyers."

But go ahead. Like other benevolent gestures such as welfare, and breaking up neighborhoods to build housing projects, who could it possibly hurt?

But seriously. How anybody can conflate Democrats' condescending attempt at benevolence on racial issues with actual kindness, is beyond me. From my seat, it's almost completely indistinguishable from malice, right down to the nearly unbelievable assertion, "this is for their own good." No, no it's not.
#6.1 Jablonski on 2016-07-22 12:05 (Reply)
OK, serious question. What is the purpose of hummus? It tastes awful. It doesn't look attractive. I get the impression it is only ordered as a form of virtue signaling between "clean food" faddists. But what is it? I don't mean what's in it. Is it a dip? If it is I'll take the bacon onion dip thank you. Is it a food for people with no teeth or lock jaw? If that is the answer give me the refried beans please. Is it a meat replacement for people afraid of meat? Make mine a hamburger then. What is the purpose of hummus?
#7 SweetPea on 2016-07-22 10:18 (Reply)
Framing oneself in a ridiculous get-up like that could make it less likely for the "serious question" part to be taken seriously. Just saying.

And, chickpeas and olive oil. I know, huh? The bastards.

Or maybe irony like that is the reason to read this place. Maggies Farm, poised somewhere out between the intellectual Belt and a cultural Jupiter, on the edge of ... The Twilight Zone.
#7.1 Ten on 2016-07-22 10:31 (Reply)
The purpose of hummus is flatulence.
#7.2 fjord on 2016-07-22 13:38 (Reply)
When everybody has a college degree the degree is worthless so what's the point of obtaining one? The tuition is just wasted to obtain something with no value. It's like a high school diploma. Today the diploma doesn't mean anything and illiterates receive high school diplomas.
#8 Ray on 2016-07-22 11:50 (Reply)
I agree we are graduating people lacking even the basic skills to perform in the workplace. My niece is trying to hire an MBA for her firm and is reaching a high dudgeon at the candidates' lack of qualifications, most specifically common sense. {{{But they can play pokemon and push for benefits.}}}

College is only a waste of money if one spends the entire time carousing and taking social justice classes that embed a permanent chip on one's shoulder. Instead, a student should focus on one's smarter classmates and professors who will become lifelong contacts for future growth and study topics that will help develop a groundwork for making sound choices regardless of career interests. I'm a big fan of pushing teens to work as early as possible and as much as possible as that environs teaches skills not ready absorbed through books and lectures. So much to learn; so little time.
#8.1 jma on 2016-07-22 14:24 (Reply)
No! The question is serious. It doesn't look appealing. It doesn''t taste good. And I'm not sure what it is; a dip, a side, a vegetable, what? Do you eat it with a burger like fries or i it only for showing how PC you are? If I order it to show what a good person I am do I have to eat it? Does it come with bacon crumbles and pulled pork? I've seen it as a dip and I've seen it on a menu as a side dish. But what is it (I know what's in it)? Would you put it on bread with jelly, kind of a hummus and jelly sandwich (H&J sandwich)? Who thought of it? Didn't they have any real food? What is the purpose of hummus.
#9 SweetPea on 2016-07-22 14:20 (Reply)
Don't get out of Arkansas much, do you?
#9.1 Ten on 2016-07-22 16:13 (Reply)
I live on the West coast. Lots of hummus eaters out here. Lots of Double Mocha Macchiato latte drinkers too. Don't get the $6.50 coffee's either.

Just trying to understand "why hummus". Who was it that made the first hummus and said "WOW, that's some good shit!"? It looks like a 'light' refried beans but totally lacks the good taste of refried beans. So do you eat it with a dab of sour cream? maybe a little salsa or sprinkling of cilantro? Cold? Hot? With rice? Alone? Do you eat it with the fingers of your right hand only or with a spoon or maybe a fork? What does it go with? Tacos? Burgers? Rye bread? What???
#10 SweetPea on 2016-07-22 17:45 (Reply)
I happen to like brisket burnt ends about as much as anything on earth. Can down $80 of sashimi in a sitting; similar affect. I don't eat either anymore but I loved them at the time. Still can't resist a cold home made summer tuna macaroni salad until all three or four pounds are gone from the fridge.

We also happen to have some excellent eateries where I live. Fantastic Chinese, authentic Mexican, TexMex, the works.

There is nothing I've ever had that can match the taste of - or subdue the cravings for - an enormous plate of Mediterranean food. Hummus, falafel, stuffed grape leaves, fresh pita bread, and all the rest. It is simply the best food I've ever eaten, from Singaporean dim sum to Black Forest sauerbraten to American roots cuisine like New Orleans gumbo. Had em all.

I'd take a Med sampler plate three or four times a week if I could. Hummus is fantastic.
#10.1 Ten on 2016-07-22 18:48 (Reply)

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