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Friday, January 17. 2020

A response to "How I Learned to Loathe England"

This guy has a funny and pointed response to a Remainer's article. (h/t SDA)

What does it mean to be English? This guy is a good talker.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 12:01 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

Friday morning links

Call of Duty: ‘1917’

How One Librarian Tried to Squash Goodnight Moon. There’s a reason this classic is missing from the New York Public Library’s list of the 10 most-checked-out books of all time.

Stephen King faces backlash for saying 'quality' should matter in Oscar nominees over 'diversity'

Brett Sokolow criticizes live hearings and cross-examination, suggests there may be ‘clever work-arounds’

Finally. The Feds — including ICE — appear to be investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar. At least three departments are reviewing what could be the worst-ever crime spree by an elected US official

Here’s All The Liberals Who Were COMPLETELY WRONG About Trump’s Trade War with China — It’s a Long, Long List…

Kevin Williamson Moves the Goalposts in Judging Trump’s Presidency

Markets Surge to New Record on Trump Trade News! Up Nearly 267 Points

Sharyl Attkisson Refiles Spying Suit, Exposes Big Deep State Players

MSNBC Anchor: ‘Bleak’ Future for Children, Grandchildren of Trump’s Defenders

Impeachment Is Not the Issue, It's the 2020 Election

Double Standard Much? Biden's Threat to Withhold $1B from Ukraine Violated the Law

An after-action report: Trump, Soleimani and Khameni

Our ruling class’s judgment that America’s killing of terror master Qassem Soleimani united Iran’s people behind its regime is characteristic of their incompetence.

The nuclear deal with Iran was a charade right from the start.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:18 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (3)

Thursday, January 16. 2020

Why LBJ's Great Society Flopped—and What It Means for the 2020 Election

A Nick Gillespie interview with the always-interesting and fast-talking Amity Shlaes about her new book Great Society: A New History.

Here's the interview podcast. A lot of history of elite experts packed in there, with their social programs to solve everything. Shlaes is one smart cookie, seems like a nice person too.

Posted by The Barrister at 15:22 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Fun with ants

An ant hobbyist. Watching this, I sort-of get it. This guy cracks me up.

Posted by The News Junkie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 14:59 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

Ideal Trump response to the childish impeachment show

"I'm rubber and you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you!"

Posted by The News Junkie at 13:41 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Thursday morning links

Environmentalists Caused Australia’s Fires, Not ‘Climate Change’

This is inclusion

Star prof Demoted and Placed on Probation

Even when sober, frequent marijuana users are dangerous drivers, report finds

Chemophobia: Nearly 40% Of Europeans Want A Chemical-Free World

Why Hollywood’s Cozy Relationship With China Could Face An Ugly Reckoning In The 2020s

Laws of evaluation of social programs: The Brass Law of Evaluation: “The more social programs are designed to change individuals, the more likely the net impact of the program will be zero.”

Illegal Alien Crossings Down an Extraordinary 78 Percent

Migrants Mass in Honduras to Try New Caravan

A Little-Noted Trump Administration Success: Food Stamps

Trump Signs Historic Trade Agreement with China – Here Is the List of Top Advantages from US-China Trade Deal

All Dems’ impeachment moves now are about dirtying up Trump before election

The Saudi Coffee Shop Scene

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:23 | Comments (19) | Trackbacks (0)

Wednesday, January 15. 2020

Ant Army

Gerard Vanderleun has a post up about ants. Of course, they are fascinating bugs capable of vast, complex works with microscopically-sized brains.

He happened to link the famous short story, Leiningen Versus the Ants.

It's a heck of a tale. Somewhere around the first third of it it dawned on me that I had read it long ago, but that didn't matter because I had forgotten the ending.

Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 17:10 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

Why is official Washington so determined to rid itself of Donald Trump?

Impeachment and the Fight Over the Deep State

Posted by The News Junkie at 15:12 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

Wednesday morning links

Roger Scruton: A Defender of Life on a Human Scale

Spain's abandoned tiny villages for sale

Some Rich Parents Are Giving Their Kids HGH to Make Them Taller

The College Wealth Premium Has Collapsed

Did you know that Star Wars is racist?

Virginia Passes Four Gun Bills in One Day

Can't believe this Pelosi tweet

How Trump Derangement Syndrome Makes You Stupid

Joe Biden's streak of being wrong on foreign policy continues, uninterrupted

The Score: US 10, Iran 0

That's the wrong way to view it. This could be good for Iran too.

We Can’t Trust the Media to Report Honestly on Iran

Iran State TV Sees At Least 2 News Anchors Quit: ‘Forgive Me For The 13 Years I Told You lies’

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:00 | Comments (17) | Trackbacks (0)

Tuesday, January 14. 2020

This 100 year-old guy with a strong sex drive may have saved his species

Diego, the Tortoise Whose High Sex Drive Helped Save His Species, Retires. With the future secured, he’s finally going home. Good job, Diego.

He's been away from home since the 1930s. It's encouraging to know that you can be 100 and still turn on the gals. I wonder whether he will figure out how to survive in the wild.

Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 16:25 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

Rant du Jour

Schlichter: Democrats Always Choose America’s Enemies Over America

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 15:34 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

“The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living, even submerged under forty fathoms of bother and distress. If you live ninety years you will be a battered survivor. Your own mistakes, accidents, failures, and otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can.”

Advice from Harold Bloom, shortly before his recent death

Posted by The Barrister in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 14:12 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

The establishment Republican Party is not coming back.

Steve Hilton:

This is the Trump Revolution: Pragmatic, non-ideological. He approaches issues as a problem-solving businessman.

It's actually a revolution in ideas and it goes way beyond foreign policy. He is combining the best of traditional conservative ideas with positive populism, appointing conservative judges and leading the way on criminal justice reform, cutting taxes and boosting family leave.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 14:01 | Comments (12) | Trackback (1)

Tuesday morning links

Low-fat diet linked to lower testosterone levels in men

A billion medical images are exposed online, as doctors ignore warnings

New Zealand Schools To Teach Kids How To Be Deranged Over Hotcoldwetdry

One State, Two Stories - In economic fortunes and political leanings, New York is split dramatically along regional lines.

SCOTUS Rejects Appeal Of “Worst Girlfriend Ever”

College May Not Even Be Helping Minorities

Legal defeats trigger fresh look at US sexual misconduct rules

What A "Moderate" Democratic Candidate Looks Like: Mike Bloomberg?

Bloomberg Dismisses Texas Hero, Insists It Wasn’t His “Job” to Have a Gun or Decide to Shoot

Now, THIS was embarrassing: Frank Luntz’s ‘joke’ proves the Left will fall for ANYTHING as long as they think it makes Trump look bad

Trump’s Handling of Iran Deserves Praise

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:53 | Comments (20) | Trackbacks (0)

Monday, January 13. 2020

Roger Scruton, RIP

He has been in the Maggie's Pantheon of thinkers since we began this website. Brief obit.

Here's Scruton chatting with Jordan Peterson about "the transcendent" last year.

Posted by The Barrister at 16:14 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

The Minimum Effective Dose of Training

The preceding Taleb quote headlines a post by Rippetoe with the above title.

He makes a number of good points, and not just about strength training.

For one thing, he makes a useful distinction between exercise and training. Exercising is using or maintaining what you've got. Training is about steadily building ability, whether in strength, endurance, etc.

I like his idea of the Minimum Effective Dose, which is pretty much what my trainer guides me through - just enough needed to show slow but steady improvement.

Posted by Bird Dog in Physical Fitness at 14:16 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

QQQ

"For real people, if something works in theory, but not in practice, it doesn't work. For academics, if something works in practice, but not in theory, it doesn't exist."

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Posted by Bird Dog in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 14:14 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

Monday morning links

AMERICAN TRASH - How an e-waste sting uncovered a shocking betrayal

Say Bye Bye Trees: Climate Scientists Finally Claim We Passed a “Tipping Point”

Climate Experts Suggest Trump Was Right When He Blamed California’s Wildfires On Land Management

They Killed the Humanities

“By almost any measure this was one of the worst years in the history of commercial news media.”

Yale Psychiatrist Bandy Lee Now Calling Alan Dershowitz Psychotic for Defending Trump

Why Rush Limbaugh’s New Contract Is So Important

John Kerry Claims Obama 'Never Had a Whiff of Scandal' So Let's Remind Him Of Some

Republican voters have lamented for years over the lack of pushback from their elected leaders.

FBI Director to FISA Judge: So Sorry We Screwed Up the Russia Investigation

Pelosi: Trump, Pence, and McConnell are working for Putin

Trump Has The Lowest Average Unemployment Rate of Any President in Recorded History

PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETS SUPPORT FOR IRANIANS

Trump tweet in Farsi 'the most liked Persian tweet' in history of Twitter

The GOP’s Endless War on Democrats.The Iran debate shows Republicans don’t believe in fighting tyrants. They believe in smearing their opponents.

While you were focused on Soleimani, Israel became a natural gas superpower

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 07:32 | Comments (20) | Trackbacks (0)

Sunday, January 12. 2020

The sense of touch

The quest to decipher how the body’s cells sense touch. From a painful pinch to a soft caress, scientists are zooming in on the pressure-sensitive proteins that allow cells to detect tension and pressure.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 16:01 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Watters was away during the Iran excitement

So all he got was the MSM version.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:01 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

From today's Lectionary

Matthew 3:13-17

3:13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him.

3:14 John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"

3:15 But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now; for it is proper for us in this way to fulfill all righteousness." Then he consented.

3:16 And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.

3:17 And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased."

Posted by Bird Dog at 08:05 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Glaciers refuse to melt at Glacier Park

Progressive Minded Washington City May Ban Use Of Natural Gas To Solve Hotcoldwetdry

US emissions are falling under Trump, thanks to fracking's war on coal

"Despite a new imperative to be scrupulous about affirmative consent, young men are still subject to incessant messages that sexual conquest... remains the measure of a 'real' man..."

Tucker Carlson Masterfully Debunks the Transgender Murder “Epidemic” Myth

Once Again, Government-Subsidized Projects Fail to Deliver. Trump’s Foxconn failure shows that targeted subsidies don’t pay off.

What is private equity, and why is it killing everything you love? Private equity led to the closing of Toys R Us and cost 30,000 workers their jobs — and it’s hardly the only example of a deal gone wrong.

Willing seller meets willing buyer. Isn't that ok?

More Chinese students arrested for photographing US naval base'

Prof calls college a 'racket,' blasts diversity hires

Is Fauxcahontas Sane?

Texas Governor Announces the State Will Not Be Accepting Any More Refugees, Becomes First in Nation to Decline Them

The Reagan Revolution Gives Way to the Trump Revolution - As with Reagan, Democrats and the media panic.

New Lawsuit Claims Rod Rosenstein Led Task Force that Spied on Sharyl Attkisson’s Computers

FBI Apologizes To Court For Surveillance Of Carter Page, Pledges Fixes

Intelligence Community’s Inspector General Is the Link Between FISAgate and Impeachment

Trey Gowdy Reveals Real Reason Democrats Impeached Trump

How McConnell Outplayed Pelosi

WE NOW KNOW: THE STEELE DOSSIER BACILLUS

Under pressure, Iran admits it shot down jetliner by mistake

The IRGC Just Admitted All The Terrorism/War Proxies They Are Working Behind Across Region

Iran’s attacks against the US in Iraq accomplished what was intended. Behind the Lines: A large amount of noise and smoke

Trump's Approval Rating Among Terrorists Hits All-Time Low

Eliminating Qasem Soleimani was Donald Trump’s Middle East farewell letter. President Trump’s opponents cannot forgive him his victories. But it has become increasingly clear that it doesn’t matter

No Senate Democrats Support Measure Praising Military For Killing Soleimani. All GOP Senators Supported Same Resolution About Bin Laden During Obama Years

Five Obama Foreign Policy Messes That Trump Is Cleaning Up

Democrats Are Out of Touch on Foreign Affairs, Too

The new socialism, like the old, will not protect Jews

Or Christians, or Muslims

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 08:23 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (4)

Friday, January 10. 2020

A Malcolm Gladwell update

Malcolm Gladwell’s cool, playful intelligence has made him one of our leading public thinkers, and he has a host of imitators. But, in a time of antagonistic debate and polarised opinion, does he still have something to say?

Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 15:09 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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