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Saturday, May 6. 2017P. J. O'Rourke on the election, and life in general
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Photo from 1945-1960 - Todd Webb's New York My son died in 1994 but his heart only stopped beating this year School Evacuated after Kid Wears Darth Vader Costume to Class Colgate President: Possible Racial Bias Over Glue Gun Lockdown Of University Class focused on great Greco-Roman books may be changed after students complain it’s too Anti-vaccine activists spark a state’s worst measles outbreak in decades Not From The Onion: Florida University To Award Trayvon Martin A Posthumous Honorary Degree UC Santa Cruz Students Occupy Building, Shout Anti-Semitic Slurs, Admin Caves In to Demands Meanwhile, the sane students are studying in the library American leftists celebrated the venerable Communist holiday of May Day in the traditional fashion. Portland grad students, who have never worked a day in their lives, marked International Workers Day by smashing the windows of local businesses. Surprise: Yet Another Hate Crime Blamed On Trump Turns Out To Be A Hoax In Meeting with Ivanka, Cecile Richards Shows Her Hand on Abortion Modern liberalism and the technocracy Hubris is the problem Hillary-Voting NY Daily News Writer Tells Her: 'Shut The F**k Up And Go Away' Saying good riddance to Obamacare Obamacare? Trumpcare? Get Rid of it All It might be too late for that Z-man has a dislike for Kevin Williamson The Resistance changes its attack from “Russian Puppet” to “Trump is Crazy” - Which Works Best? Lefty greed: Hillary’s ‘Onward Together’ Resistance Group Smells Like Scandal It's the Jesse Jackson business model Continetti is trying to make too much out of it. Not enough people liked or trusted Hillary. Biden could have won and he is loony too. An Honest Question to Progressives: When Does the Proportion of Tax Money Claimed By Government Workers Get Too Large? In Venezuela, food is so scarce people padlock the refrigerator What Caused Venezuela's Collapse Is No Mystery — Except To Economically Illiterate Journalists French people adjusting to Muslim terror Italy update: CAUGHT ON VIDEO=> Female Reporter Is Sent Out to Cover Poor ‘Refugees’ – Gets Assaulted Friday, May 5. 2017France multicultural update
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Friday morning linksPhoto from The Taco Wall of Cinco de Mayo Related, Cultural Appropriation: A Modest Proposal I enjoy this site: Hunter-Angler-Gardener-Cook “Exercise-in-a-pill” boosts athletic endurance by 70 percent (h/t Insty) Apple Is Now The World's Largest Bond Fund California plans to tax space travel by the mile 8 Lessons to Learn From the Failure of Common Core Puerto Rico Declares a Form of Bankruptcy Connecticut Laughs Ruefully As Its Tax Haul Collapses 25 Years After Income Levy Driving business and the prosperous from their state Hillary Clinton Warns of a 'Handmaid's Tale' Future Here we go: Hillary launching “Onward Together” PAC next week to rebuild her political influence Charles Krauthammer: We’re Now ‘Less Than Seven Years’ Away From Single-Payer Health Care Trump is Realigning the parties Young Donald Trump Walks Out On CNN Crank: “You’re Very Negative… Do It With Somebody Else” President Trump Realigning Geo-Political Alliances, and Few Paying Attention… From Roger Simon's Colbert, Trump, and the Roots of Liberal/Progressive Rage
Thursday, May 4. 2017Thursday morning linksWhy Sled Dogs Never Get Tired (video) One million bucks just isn’t what it used to be Harvard Poll Finds that Millennials Basically Live in Bubbles Trump boots Michelle Obama lunch standards — finally What good is food if nobody will eat it? Experts warn tick-borne virus worse than Lyme disease is on the rise McArdle is wrong about the estate tax How Bret Stephens energized climate debate Dialing back the 10 foot hype – NOAA Tide Gauge Data shows no coastal sea level rise acceleration Obamacare Implosion: Last Major Healthcare Provider Pulls Out Of Iowa Leaving No Options In 2018 Courage and Cowardice in the Vietnam War’s Final Hours How about the 78% percent reduction in extreme world poverty from 1981 to 2015. Berkeley op-ed: ‘safety of marginalized’ more important than free speech How did the word "marginal" become the term "marginalized"? CT update: Income tax revenue collapses; Malloy says taxing the rich doesn’t work Is “contemporary liberalism” dying? No. It moved to the Republican Party THEY TOLD ME IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED WE’D SEE OPEN RACISM RETURN TO AMERICA. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Colbert, Trump, and the Roots of Liberal/Progressive Rage Trump’s Presidency Is Reviving Jacksonianism Antifa Chick Goes to Turkey With Muslim Loverboy, Gets Raped and Beaten A multicultural experience The Truth About the Palestinian Hunger Strike Wednesday, May 3. 2017WinningTrump seems to have accomplished what Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Mrs. Clinton failed to do: Get China to instill some sanity into North Korea. Surely everybody must applaud this, thus far.
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Wednesday morning linksThe Shipping and Handling of a Gigantic Space Telescope Is protein powder safe? What every athlete should know (h/t Insty) I use them after every weight workout, in a banana smoothie. I can't eat solid food in the morning. Tiny Robot Can Fly and, Amazingly, Rest Schwab Sector Views: Is Retail Really Dead? Affordable Housing is a Supply Problem Numbers don’t lie: Germany’s Energiewende has had zero impact on emissions – at best New York City Public School Throws Out Its Books Have you hugged a fracker today? Colorado Climate March Postponed Due to Heavy Snow Annals of Academic Fatuousness, Yale Edition, Part 9876 The Disease of the ‘New York Times’ Mind The Know-Nothing Campus ‘Protest’ Movement - This is not pouting; it is fury and menace. Conservative Student Speaks Up About Campus Intimidation Living in a Progressive theocracy means the framework of civic debate is always going to be a Progressive framework. Thomas Sowell: Tax Lies For The Gullible ILLEGAL ALIEN DAY - The Left used May Day to push its open-borders agenda this year. Can gender-fluid non-binary poetry slams help Democrats take back the Rust Belt? Hillary Clinton: "I Was On The Way To Winning Until Comey And 'Russian' WikiLeaks" COULD TRUMP DESTROY THE DEMOCRATS FOR A GENERATION? Germany: Migrant Crime Spiked in 2016 Tuesday, May 2. 2017My ancestryAt Taki:
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Tuesday morning links5 common American gestures that might insult the locals Tyler Cowen's favorite book this year: Dreaming the Beatles Hilarious Customer Reviews for the Sigma 200-500mm Lens on Amazon The Path to Higher Education With an Intellectual Disability - The number of degree-granting institutions with options for these students is growing. Would an intelligent person pay a penny more for 'organic' food? School takes unusual (and heartbreaking) step to protect illegal immigrant students Immigrant Workers Stunned To Be Fired After Skipping Work For Protest Inner California Will Soon Be Beachfront " What’s surprising is that operations like ESPN have an audience at all. Their “news” converge is mostly jock-sniffing and their created content is so out there on the Progressive fringe, it borders on madness." New Frontiers in Microaggression: It's Unethical to Call Breastfeeding Your Infant "Natural" Because It Reinforces the Cultural Stereotype That Only Women Have Breasts Aussie not happy after transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard achieves New Zealand sporting first Bret Stephens just trolled the left with his supposed climate change denialism Trump haters may think they've got him this time, but look ahead a few moves for once. Your smug arrogance is blinding. Author Reveals How CIA's Enhanced Interrogations Helped Find Bin Laden The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower Victims of Communism Day 2017 Monday, May 1. 2017A few Monday morning linksJust a few links this morning - thanks a lot United Airlines. Do you guys have any flights without 6-hour delays? Bob Dylan's Early Days in New York: 17 Intimate Photos Why clapping is now deemed offensive Why Aren’t People Rushing To Buy My Art? Holding elections is not freedom California Squashes Its Young - The Golden State’s suffocating economic policies are driving out a new generation. Here’s Some Evidence ESPN’s Politics Are Impacting Its Audience Eight False Pretenses Liberals Use to Frame an Argument The Arrogance of Blue America - If you want to see the worst impacts of blue policies, go to those red regions—like upstate New York or inland California—in states they control. What Democrats won't admit about Trump's first 100 days How Hungary Managed To Erase Illegal Immigration In Just A Few Months Friday, April 28. 2017Swindle
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Wednesday, April 26. 2017Wednesday morning linksWhy Teaching Proper Manners to Kids is More Important Today Than Ever That airborne slide to home plate Rebellion in Vermont A famous 'ancestor' may be ousted from the human family So many past species of hominids An eight-year project at Teotihuacán, once the western hemisphere’s largest city, failed to locate its rulers’ tomb but findings offered tantalising clues to its origins The UK: This Government Will Decide How Rare Your Burger Is Cruel And Unusual — Delta Airlines Passengers Forced To Endure Kenny G Live Performance… Reposted: No links found yet for diet and heart disease or cancer Hard exercise and cognitive decline Increasing number of Americans are willing to drive farther, pay more for ethanol-free fuel Man Refuses To Accept He’s No Longer Black After DNA Test Results What about the old "one drop" rule? WARNING: THIS VIDEO WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT Guilt lasts a lifetime As it should. Jesus washes, but I must still be on the wash cycle. After great pain, where is God? That's a teenage question McArdle: Berkeley Once Stood for Free Speech. Now It Rolls Over. TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD ACCUSES JUSTICE GORSUCH OF MURDER NY Gov Cuomo tells the truth: "Today, college is what high school was..." March for Science: Comments On The March For Poverty Bernie Sanders Defends Ann Coulter, Slams ‘Intellectually Weak’ Student Activists What if John Bogle is right about 4% stock returns? Subway Sandwiches: Death by a Thousand Cold Cuts I'll always pick Subway over McDonalds Kling: Financial Policy if I were in charge I sexually identify as an Attack Tyronecopter. New York Times refuses To Use Term 'Female Genital Mutilation' Because It's 'Culturally Loaded" And that decision is not culturally-loaded? As in loaded with dhimmitude? Pelosi: Trump’s Border Wall Will Take Food from Babies and Cause Dirty Air and Water Nuclear Power Subsidies Threaten Wind and Solar Power… Proof That Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction Politicians are welfare queens Why the Clintons Won’t Go Away It's their money machine The FBI and the Clinton Way Looking back at Clinton's Samantha Bee problem When will Obama have made enough money? IMPEACH MAXINE WATERS Scott Adams: President Trump’s First 100 Days I still can hardly believe he was elected. People really disliked Hillary How Trump Can Destroy Democrats and Keep Congress German crowd hisses, boos at Ivanka when she defends her dad Migrant crime in Germany rises by 50 per cent, new figures show Tuesday, April 25. 2017Is Trump himself the Wall?These guys look like stage Texans
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Tuesday morning linksISIS fighters killed by wild boars The whole story of the Desert One debacle Politically Correct Wusses Fail To Ban Dodgeball In Louisiana Public Schools… What the heck is wrong with dodgeball? America’s manliest industries are all competing for women Ayn Rand's counter-revolution Why cultivating passion on campus is at odds with cultivating the mind THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE ELECTED WE’D SEE OPEN RACISM ON CAMPUS. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! AT WOMEN’S COLLEGE, A STUDENT STRIKE FOR MORE MONEY AND FREE THERAPY SUCCEEDS It's official: Berkeley hit with lawsuit over Coulter lecture Hate speech is free speech, Gov. Dean: Glenn Reynolds Sorry, College Kids, There’s No Such Thing As Hate Speech The Russians Hacked Democrats’ Plans to Cheat in the General Election Obama To Receive $400,000 Speaking Fee At Cantor Fitzgerald Conference In 2017, Americans Spending More on Taxes Than Food, Clothing, and Housing Combined Not serfdom, but similar Horowitz: Democrats 'Consumed by Their Hatred' Judd Gregg: Trump gets his sea legs Venezuela cannot wake up from its socialist nightmare. UN secretary-general: Denial of Israel’s right to exist is ‘modern form of anti-Semitism’ Terrorist accused of killing a British student will be paid £800 a month by the Palestinian government which receives £25m-a-year UK foreign aid End the US taxpayer subsidy for Palestinian terror Monday, April 24. 2017My Yale colleagues call Trump bad names
If my political history serves me, people in mental health found serious diagnoses for Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 2, but none for Johnson, Clinton, Obama, or Hillary. Is there a pattern here? Instead of name-calling, I'd like to see some thoughtful policy critiques but I won't hold my breath. Trump Derangement Syndrome (DSM 5006.09) strikes again. We must be kind to the sufferers.
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Monday morning links“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.” The United States of Billy Joel - The Piano Man hasn’t released a new pop album since 1993. How does he continue to sell out stadiums? Exercise isn’t the key to weight loss. Still. But food companies want to convince you otherwise. Paris court sends ‘Spiderman’ thief to prison for €109m museum heist Muslims to March on Amazon Over Prayer Breaks ACLU: Force Catholic hospital to aid in 'sex change' Shale's the Wild Horse OPEC Can't Tame Labor is cheap in India which leads to some differences from the United States. Sea ice off Newfoundland thickest ever yet another polar bear comes ashore The Other Poison Gas Killing Syrians: Carbon Dioxide Emissions 'Science' marchers demand their 'right' to the taxpayer teat Cuomo’s war on pipelines is crushing New York’s economy Thomas Jefferson statue at Columbia protested as ‘symbol of violence against black and brown bodies’ The Supreme Court needs diversity, as does the NBA The Two Bills: Clinton And O'Reilly Bill Maher lashes out at Berkeley over Ann Coulter cancellation controversy DEPAUL—THE WORST UNIVERSITY FOR FREE SPEECH? Those ‘Snowflakes’ Have Chilling Effects Even Beyond the Campus - Academic intolerance is the product of ideological aggression, not a psychological disorder. Middlebury's obscene cowardice There are two types of societies, production societies and rationing societies Had the Founders selected direct popular vote as the means for electing a President, the residents of one state (California) would have dictated the choice to the other 49 Poll: 67% Say Democrats More Out Of Touch Than GOP, Trump DNC Chair declares there is no place for pro-life Democrats in today’s party Wash Post poll hides: Trump still beats Clinton, 43%-40% Debt is real Trump budget cruelty Chelsea Clinton: Little Creep Pat Buchanan did presage Trump French elect 2 non-elite outsiders LATEST MUSLIM TERRORIST ALSO MENTALLY ILL... LIKE ALL THE OTHERS Rachel Maddow Airs Headline Linking Venezuelan Protests to Trump, Retracts Online The Horrifying Death Throes of Venezuelan Socialism, Captured in 28 Headlines Saturday, April 22. 2017Saturday morning linksThe Secret Life of Bipolar Disorder Women burdened by birth control responsibility What’s So Wrong with Melania Trump Dressing Like a Lady? In public, women try to dress like ladies and men like gents. It's a civic duty. Even Caitlin Jenner dresses like a lady. A very cool couple What happens if you smoke marijuana every day? Idiots try to rob a gun store Love it Harvard tells students gender identity can change ‘day to day’: Report Or hour by hour? Sometimes I feel like a nut... Another teacher who Left the Left SCOTUS Case Could Allow Use of Vouchers at Religious Schools Ann Coulter: Liberal Protesters are “Beta Males” – Engaging in “Rodney King” Riots Over My Speech Alpha Gal throws down gauntlet Berkeley Mayor Is Member of Antifa Facebook Group that Organized Riots The Montana Republican running in the special election doesn't believe in retirement because Noah was still working when he was 600 Sheesh PLEASE, GOD, STOP CHELSEA CLINTON FROM WHATEVER SHE IS DOING She wants to be a "thing," like Paris Hilton, famous for being famous. No gratitude for not being aborted: Chelsea Clinton: I Left the Church When I Was 6 Because It Opposed Abortion "White House officials said Mr. Trump took a personal interest in her case.... 'He just said, "Let’s bring her home."'" "We’re told by many wise and well-meaning people that it is a huge and even fatal mistake for liberals (and for constitutional conservatives) to respond negatively to every Trump initiative, every Trump policy, and every Trump idea." Friday, April 21. 2017Stereotyping Trump voters
Megan McArdle has a half-decent piece, Trump Voters Want Respect. Here’s How to Give It to Them, but it falls into the same stereotyping: sophisticated, educated elites vs. ignorant, feckless plebs referred to as "them." It is condescending and inaccurate. If Megan wishes to contact me, I would be happy to introduce her to a goodly number of sophisticated, highly educated New York elites who were Trump voters - some enthused, some in the (political) closet, and some holding their noses but ok with it given the alternative.
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Vigorous Exercise: Calis DayA summary below of the hour of calisthenic circuits we did this morning (it's different every Friday) while we had the classical music station on pretty loud. The workout contained intense cardio bursts, explosive movements, agility work, and overall athleticism while igniting pretty much every muscle at some point. The endurance part comes in because for an hour your heart never has a chance to drop to a walking rate and you never stop moving hard except for the 1-minute breathing opportunities. Trainer uses a stopwatch to limit that. A quick reminder that calis, like sports, are not really for strength-building, and strength is just one component of fitness. As fun as it sounds, after an hour you are ready for a nap. Such are the crazy burdens of having a white collar job in the First World. A 3 min elliptical warm-up, then 4 band walks also as warm-up, then...
Continue reading "Vigorous Exercise: Calis Day" Friday morning linksHow to 3D print optical-grade glass Where does the poop go?: The hidden machines of cruise ships Yahoo’s Demise Is a Death Knell for Digital News Orgs Michael Wolff: It's James Murdoch's Fox News Now Bill McKibben: Everyone Should Take Fossil Fueled Trips To Protest In Climate March MS-13 gang: The story behind one of the world's most brutal street gangs Mitchell: Your Socialism Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad A Z-man podcast interview Trump effect: Continuing Jobless Claims Collapse To Lowest Since Right Before DotCom Crash Began California Watch - Rewarding Public Employees With New Tax Hikes on the Private Sector What is a "pension"? Oregon's new approach to investing PARIS TERRORIST HAD BEEN JAILED FOR TRYING TO KILL COPS Iran accused of manipulating the Palestinian cause while hiding its colonialism against Ahwazi Arabs What's the most dangerous country in the world to be female? I know firsthand Palestinians: Hunger Strike or Smokescreen? Australia unveils major changes to citizenship process Makes good sense Thursday, April 20. 2017Thursday morning linksImage via American Digest The Transgender Madness Has Got to Stop Boys Punching Girls: Feminism's Big Win Berkeley: TODAY’S UNIVERSITY EPIC FAIL Since the downfall of the Gestapo, nobody has treasured the verb “interrogate” as much as postmodern academics.:
California Governor Brown acknowledges other states aren’t buying his climate hype… Fox News moves Tucker Carlson up to O’Reilly time slot Tucker is fine, but not a big personality like O'Reilly. By the way, O'Reilly was not a conservative. I don't know Carlson's politics. Here’s why Rush survived pressure on advertisers while O’Reilly didn’t Simon: The Republican Congress Must Get Its Act Together NOW Confirmed: John Brennan Colluded With Foreign Spies to Defeat Trump A new book reveals that Hillary Clinton’s campaign was way more dysfunctional than we realized. Krauthammer’s Take: Devastated Democratic Party Has Lost an ‘Ideological Center’ Are parties about ideology? I don't think so Venezuelan president to arm nearly half a million “militia” members Wednesday, April 19. 2017Wednesday morning linksI Learned The Hard Way That You Can't Take A Vacation From Grief A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery - After a surprise discovery, astrophysicists are racing to understand superenergetic flashes of radio waves that sometimes beep out from distant galaxies. Your teen's brain on pot Battling Turkish intimidation, Armenian genocide epic set for big screen Universities Seek to Defend Endowments From Republican Tax Plan "The students ... characterize truth as a “myth” and a white supremacist concept." They blame the Enlightenment WHERE FREE SPEECH GOES TO LIVE: The University of Chicago has issued another warning to snowflakes.
Supreme Court rejects appeal for Latin American refugees seeking U.S. asylum Asylum is not for economic migrants but they all provide a sob story The Sad Cancer Of Third Party Pay Medical Care Man With Two Homes And A Lake House Whines About People Being Too Rich… Here’s One Reason Why the Dems Still Love Hillary Elizabeth Warren's new book, "This Fight is Our Fight", says that ordinary folk can do better economically if we only had more government control and less individual freedom. Williamson: Surprise: The New York Democrat is a New York Democrat. Photo scandal not what Marines are made of If a shooting war comes, the US Air Force is not ready ‘Germany Is a Nation of Immigrants’: Employers’ Unions Demand Open Borders British Olympian: North Korea has really got a “handle on obesity” French Election: Le Pen Vows to Quit the EU, End Mass-Migration She is a left-wing nutjob, regardless of her nationalism Allies knew of Holocaust in 1942, 2 years before previously assumed, UN documents prove Bashar al-Assad still has 'hundreds of tonnes' of chemicals stockpiled, former Syrian weapons research chief claims Tuesday, April 18. 2017If you can't write...Tuesday (tax day in the USA) morning linksThe Income Tax Basically Implies that Government Owns You The reason government spending is a disaster Dynamic Christianity vs. the Benedict Option Too clean for our children's good Why Do We Eat Coconut Macaroons on Passover? The "True" Human Diet - From the standpoint of paleoecology, the so-called Paleo diet is a myth A Twisted Tale of Rent Control in the Maximum City Why Wind Power Does Not Greatly Reduce Fossil Fuel Use " I've felt for some time that the left has gone off the deep end on the immigration issue." Animal expert worries that birds won’t be able to fly over the border wall This is what happens when the US government gets serious about our borders Arrests of Illegal Immigrants Jumped 32% in Trump's First Months These are the people who terrify campus administrators CUNY UNION CALLS FOR FACULTY TO TEACH CONTROVERSIAL ANTI-TRUMP ‘RESISTANCE’ Variety Editor Asks, “How cool does Chelsea Clinton look on our Power of Women, NY, cover?” Former FEC Chairwoman Calls for ‘Regulations’ of Political Speech on the Internet A Few Places Where Justice Gorsuch Can Make A Difference Why Were Foreign Intelligence Agencies Spying on Trump? It's Official: Trump's Swamp-Draining Begins POST-BREXIT BRITAIN WILL DROP RENEWABLE ENERGY COMMITMENTS America Can’t Do Much About North Korea Venezuela illegally issued 10,000 passports to Syrians, Iranians, report says Weapons: The Case For Caseless Trump juggles the foreign policy balls Obama dropped Monday, April 17. 2017Charles Murray's politics
I guess they mean in his tone because he does not give political speeches. His work is fascinating social analysis but far from provocative.
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