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Monday, May 29. 2017

Monday morning links



For Decoration Day, a pic of my Dad - Veteran of WW 2 and Korea - with dog, reading Pravda (aka The NY Times). 


Italy Is Giving Away Over 100 Castles for Free - The application period is open until June 26, and special preference is given to people under 40


St. John Neumann: American saint who arrived with $1 in his pocket and one suit of clothes


 10 Types Of Ancient Crosses In Different Cultures Explained


 Graecopithecus – Possible Early Human Ancestor from Europe


 Gregg Allman, Southern Rock Pioneer, Dies at 69


Saw them live a couple of years ago. They kept going. 


 Is the Urban Renaissance Over? The suburbs might be growing faster right now, but don’t be glum about the prospects for urban growth and revitalization.


""Bright premed, but like many others," another admissions officer wrote of an Asian-American applicant."


 Adding Calorie Counts to Menus No Simple Feat: New at Reason - Some supporters don’t really grasp the complications.


Calorie-counting is a dumb and obsolete idea 


Taubes' new book:  Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It 


 Swamp-draining: More on Waters of the United States rule


 Tough Time Sleeping? Blame ‘Climate Change’


 Student op-ed on criticism of disruptive student protesters: ‘Stop focusing on free speech’


 CONFIRMED: Racist note that prompted St. Olaf College shut down is hate-crime hoax


 'Abolition of Whiteness' course offered at Hunter College


 WATCH Ami Horowitz DESTROY The Myth Of White Privilege


I’m Not a Terrible Person, I Just Believe in Liberty


Dalrymple: Is the West becoming Sovietized? 


 Clinton, Trump, Nixon and Those Liberal Blind Spots


Hillary and the no-class party 


 Amid Russia Crisis, Trump Prepares "War Room", "Big White House Changes", Loss Of Twitter


Trump vs the ruling class 


The courts: What's at stake with the travel ban 


 Trump Got Trolled


Life in Saudi Arabia 


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Sovietized? No, Mao-ized.
#1 ahem on 2017-05-29 07:09 (Reply)
Regarding "The Soviet Way", I'm as concerned about corporations as the government. I'm having more problems with excessive fees ($25 to collect a $1 highway toll through a rental car company and the toll collection agency), lack of support (we don't support your web browser on your mobile device because it's 3.5 years old), and an inexhaustible demand to "improve" services (more directed ads) by tracking my every move and purchase. Bowing out of corporate "demands" on the consumer is possible, (no electronic devices, no use of airlines, chain hotels, rental car companies), but challenging. In short, I deal with government less frequently and find it less of an annoyance than faceless corporate minions with no authority to do much more than get you off the phone as quickly as possible.

That said, a shout out to Weber Corp, who quickly and graciously provided outstanding customer support twice in the past few years. They were easy to contact, with generous customer support hours, and quickly and easily took care of my concerns.
#2 Mark on 2017-05-29 08:17 (Reply)
Excellent points.

US has never needed a bloated, expansive gov't, rather it mostly needs a quick, honest way to reconcile civil differences.

Not a coincidence that so much of OT law was about that very thing.
#2.1 DrTorch on 2017-05-29 10:42 (Reply)
BIG difference.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/10/living/veterans-day-memorial-day-difference/
#3 MissyW on 2017-05-29 08:46 (Reply)
'Taubes' new book"?????? NEW December 27, 2011.

It is an excellent tome, but not new at all
#4 Dorf on 2017-05-29 08:52 (Reply)
woops.

Taubes' book, re the preceding link
#4.1 Bird Dog on 2017-05-29 09:37 (Reply)
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It - Duh, we get fat because greedy corporations coerce us into shoving poison down our throats for the sheer evil thrill of killing all their customers and what we need is government nannies to watch over us and protect us from all the bad people who want to take advantage of the fact that we're all too stupid to know what's for our own good.

I'm assuming from the fact that this Taubes fellow is selling his book on Amazon rather than running for office that he's one of those silly people who think education and persuasion is a proper way to treat adult human beings rather than just telling them to do as they're told by their betters or face some jail time.
#4.2 Jerryskids on 2017-05-29 11:22 (Reply)
Re Trump troller. Didn't know anyone bothered with National Review anymore
#5 grant1863 on 2017-05-29 09:19 (Reply)
"""Bright premed, but like many others,"

I used to interview for UC, Irvine medical school. I always looked for some evidence of real life with challenges, not including being a candy striper. One was a young Vietnamese woman (Lots of Vietnamese at UCI) who could remember her father lifting her out of bed when she was nine and taking her to the canoe they used to meet the fishing boat miles offshore. Another was an Iranian-American girl who dropped out of school for a year to run her parents' ice cream shop when her father had a heart attack. Another was an Iranian young man who had worked as an aide in the Iraq Iran war and was worried that he would be treated unfairly because of his background.

The admission office told me I was the only faculty member who sent in the reports promptly.

I always felt that doctors needed to have some evidence of living a life.

I taught medical students at another school for fourteen years and have other stories about them.
#6 Mike-K (Link) on 2017-05-29 13:08 (Reply)
Don't knock counting calories. For many, many overweight people it's the only thing that will work, at least at first. Once you get your weight down and your habits changed, you can learn to eat more intuitively. Until then, it's amazing how many overweight people are convinced they eat more or less the right amount of food, and just need some magic trick to reduce. They don't. They need to count their calories until they understand how much they're eating and how much they need to eat, which may be half of that. No, they don't need more sleep, more water, or more secret ingredients, or to avoid a list of "bad" foods. They just need to eat less.
#7 Texan99 on 2017-05-29 19:23 (Reply)
Very nice photo of your Dad
#8 LP on 2017-05-29 21:35 (Reply)
"The courts: What's at stake with the travel ban "

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The Trump administration should have won on summary judgment in the District Courts. Not only was it directly within the president's powers and similar orders have been previously issued numerous times before by other presidents, including Barack Obama, it was in implementation of specific congressional legislation, including defining the excluded persons by reference to the congressional statute.

The fact that it is still being blocked is exhibit one of the political corruption of the federal judiciary.

As the leftists candidly admitted during oral argument, if Hillary Clinton had issued this exact same order it would be lawful, but since Donald Trump issued it, it is not.

And now we are all threatened by the entry of terrorists without any ability to stop them.
#9 Jim on 2017-05-30 04:34 (Reply)
"it would be the oldest human ancestor after the split with chimpanzees, and it would move the likely location for that split from sub-Saharan Africa to the Mediterranean."

To your fainting couches, eggheads!

My default response to the dominant archeological theories of the day is: 1. it probably happened sooner. 2. it's more complicated.

It'll be interesting if Out of Africa goes the way of Clovis First.
#10 forest on 2017-05-30 18:48 (Reply)

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