Thursday, January 16. 2014
Wednesday, January 15. 2014
Coming Soon to a Campus Near You: Racial Micro-Aggression
I guess the point is that racism has become so small that you need a microscope and a paranoid imagination to see it. Either that, or you just lie.
Tuesday, January 14. 2014
Monday, January 13. 2014
These are sure-fire ways to lose weight: 21 Truly Upsetting Vintage Recipes (h/t Dr X)
It's funny, but also sad. We forget how relatively poor people were in America during and after the war. People tried to stretch things, and tried to make inexpensive food appealing. Nobody was eating steak or roast chicken for supper the way middle class people do now.
Truman campaigned on a chicken in every pot. Now you can get a delicious fat rotisserie chicken at Costco for $4.99 and $3.99 when it's on special.
 Ancient times table hidden in Chinese bamboo strips - The 2,300-year-old matrix is the world's oldest decimal multiplication table.
Keeping warm in Maine
How private industry used government force to kill the traditional light bulb for higher profits
The Hand of God Probably Only Looks This Way from Earth. But What Does That Tell You?
Where Life Has Meaning: Poor, Religious Countries - Research indicates that lack of religion is a key reason why
people in wealthy countries don't feel a sense of purpose.
Politics is truly the perfect con game.
Business con artists cannot hold a candle to politicians.
The Unshocking Christie Scandal - Who is surprised that New Jersey politicians play hardball?
"Compassionate Conservatism" ... Kill It With Fire!
Why Bridgegate made headlines but Obama’s IRS scandal didn’t
$12 an hour is conservative rocket fuel, says Ron Unz
President Obama's Legacy Of Economic Failure
Second wave of health-insurance disruption affects small businesses
Chamber of Commerce: Only Permanent Democratic Party Rule Can Solve Entitlements Crisis
How British taxpayers fund 'Marxist' manifesto for European superstate
Sunday, January 12. 2014
Rolling Stone, Privately Traded Company, Advocates Millennials Share the Wealth
- Will the magazine's publisher start redistributing his multi-million dollar paycheck?
Saturday, January 11. 2014
Bringing Conservatism Back To Amherst College.
American colleges are in desperate need of more diversity.
Friday, January 10. 2014
The War on the Way We Were:
When I first heard that the newest mayor of New York’s first action in office was to denude the city of horse-drawn carriages, I thought it was probably a joke. I figured some card over at Fox News or The Wall Street Journal had taken an obscure quote out of context in order to start His Honor out on the wrong hoof.
Abraham Lincoln's speech to 14 Indian chiefs: "We pale-faced people think that this world is a great, round ball"
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: “Redskins” is derogatory and offensive
Is the War on Cancer Hopeless?
Where is this Gwilym Morgan? Where is the man who can say, they are men as we are, not savages?
I do not own a coal mine. I am a professor of literature at an American college. We professors, like the mine owners, do not do hard manual labor for a living. Unlike those mine owners, if I may speak generally, we spend none of our time around such men. We do not break bread with them, we do not live near them, we do not worship at the same church, our children do not see one another on the streets. We are almost entirely insulated from the exigencies of bodily life. We do not grow our own fruit and vegetables, we do not build our own homes, we do not raise our own livestock, we do not dig our own wells, we do not repair our own vehicles, we do not clear our own fields, we do not pave our own driveways and roads, we do not lay the bricks for our own schools, we do not fight our own fights.
College sports: The Elementary School of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Who’d a-thunk it? Taxi cartels don’t like competition?
Does Paying People Not to Work Create Jobs?
There’s a Scandal Brewing in Colorado, But It Involves a Democrat, So It’ll Die Quickly
Sarah Palin: I Went to Fox to 'Piss Off the People' Who Wanted Me Dead
24 Underreported Democrat Scandals That Make News Media's 'Bridgegate Mania' Look Like a Joke
Sequester: LEAKED EMAILS DEMONSTRATE THAT VINDICTIVE EXECUTIVE SOUGHT TO PUNISH CITIZENS IN GAME OF POLITICAL PRESSURE
Obama’s war on discpline standards coming to a school near you
Remember this, via neoneo?
"I argue that autonomy, or the freedom to act in accordance with your own decisions, is overrated—that the common high evaluation of the importance of autonomy is based on a belief that we are much more rational than we actually are. We now have lots of evidence from psychology and behavioral economics that we are often very bad at choosing effective means to our ends. In such cases, we need the help of others—and in particular, of government regulation—to keep us from going wrong."
Global Warming: The Unfalsifiable Hypothesis
BBC editor: BBC blackballed immigration debate
End Result of Germany’s Green Energy Policy: More Coal
Maine EBT Cards Used in All 50 States
’Nam comes to Iraq: Losing to al Qaeda, after winning
Thursday, January 9. 2014
From our commenter Knucklehead:
Not trying to defend Christie but this is clearly battlespace prep by the Hillary camp. I am thoroughly amused watching the high dudgeon about this from a media that has remained steadfastly silent through scandal after scandal of the Obama Administration.
Closed lanes on the approach to the GWB... please. How 'bout the dead people in Mexico and our own border agent here in the US? How 'bout the dead Americans in Benghazi? How 'bout the IRS targeting the Admin's political opponents? How 'bout election fraud and intimidation?
No interest in any of that but suddenly closing lanes approaching the GWB is slaughtering the old people.
 Roquefort
Reverse Mortgages Says Much About Baby Boomer Generation
Walmart Health Plan More Affordable, Superior to Obamacare
Executive Order: 'Excessively High Temperatures' 'Already' Harming Public Health
Unreal: Obama Administration Blames Record Cold On Global Warming
Pirate doesn't call the crisis "HotColdWetDry" for no reason. After all, we never used to have weather.
CDC: U.S. Fertility Rate Hits Record Low for 2nd Straight Year; 40.7% of Babies Born to Unmarried Women
Where's "Planned Parenthood"?
More couples who become parents are living together but not marrying, data show
Rubin: You Still Don’t Understand Islamism, Do You?
Obama Donor to Head IRS Tea Party Targeting Investigation
The White Ghetto - In Appalachia the country is beautiful and the society is broken.
Who's from the worse home? These cops or the kid?
Executive
Order: 'Excessively High Temperatures' 'Already' Harming Public Health -
See more at:
http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/craig-bannister/executive-order-excessively-high-temperatures-already-harming-public#sthash.84xDBkIP.dpuf
Executive
Order: 'Excessively High Temperatures' 'Already' Harming Public Health -
See more at:
http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/craig-bannister/executive-order-excessively-high-temperatures-already-harming-public#sthash.84xDBkIP.dpuf
Wednesday, January 8. 2014
 Feds Sue Buckyballs Founder, Still Ignore Colorado Marijuana
More College Does Not Beget More Economic Prosperity
Taranto challenges Hymowitz: The Moralistic Fallacy - How value judgments cloud social thought.
Solidarity with the nuns — a tipping point moment?
Premature historical closure - Why it's important to continue debating the historical record
China Orders Foreign Fishing Vessels Out of Most of the South China Sea
Alfred Hitchcock's unseen Holocaust documentary to be screened
Fernandez:
2014 opens on a dramatic scene. Barack Obama appears to have lost his shirt in the casino of history. Every bet he confidently made in last five years has turned out to be a dud, and the other players are waiting on the turnover of his chips. The beads of sweat stand out on his face as he regards the smug countenances of the saturnine Russians, the poker-faced Persians, and the wheedling Afghans.
Scalia’s golden chance to kill unions - A "sweeping" ruling could force right to
work on every U.S. public sector worker, Harvard's Ben Sachs warns
Lots of good quotes from Krauthammer's new book
Taliban Commander Sends 10-Year-Old Sister to Blow Herself Up
We must celebrate cultural differences
Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows
Climate Change Groups Seek New Leadership as Green Movement Loses Momentum
Sabato: Republicans Really Could Win It All This Year
Obamacare’s Stunning Redistribution of Wealth
Monday, January 6. 2014
At TNR, How Obamacare Actually Paves the Way Toward Single Payer. God save us Americans from government medical care.
We are not children.
Can atheist churches last?
It's semi-amusing. The old-time religion is good enough for me.
An app for your dreams for iPhone
Americans are taught that self-esteem—feeling good about yourself—is the key to a successful life. But in all of America’s most successful groups, people tend to feel insecure, inadequate, that they have to prove themselves.
Nothing sparks court challenges like trying to expand education options.
Can't Get Tenure? Then Get a Real Job
Like, where?
Watt, Subprime Fox, Is In The Henhouse
Here we go again
Netflix’s dumbed-down algorithms
MacDonald: The Humanities Have Forgotten Their Humanity - When Shakespeare lost out to 'rubrics of gender, sexuality, race, and class' at UCLA, something vital was harmed. (paywall)
We are fresh outta rubrics
What is driving the rising cost of natural disasters?
What I wonder is whether this golden boy - with no achievements - can sing
Top 10 Items You're Too Old to Wear
Mankiw: Help the Working Poor, but Share the Burden
Better solution - stop holding the economy back
Inequality — a necessary ingredient of New York’s greatness
Large Majorities of Americans Agree on Issues Such as Legal Abortion, Gay Equality, Drug Legalization, and More. Why Can't Our Political Discourse Acknowledge That?
The other day I sent out an email listing a job opening next summer for camp hosts...
Greatest Achievement in History: 80% Reduction in World Poverty Thanks to US-Style Free Enterprise
How Liberals view Conservatives
Plenty of my family members and good pals are Liberals. They probably think I'm half-crazy. I quietly notice that they do not live like Lefties. They are often more materially-oriented and money-oriented than I am, minimize their taxes, and like cars. They just like that virtuous, self-congratulatory Lefty feeling.
Archdiocese of New York: Obamacare exemptions granted to any and all... except those with Judeo-Christian beliefs
John Rizzo's memoir of his years in the CIA
Sounds like a loony bin
Government-Run Social Security Is Bad News for Blacks and other Minorities
Obama’s Post-American Smart Power Leads To Middle East Power Vacuum
Dalrymple: Car-burning good for French economy
Ha! The original broken-window theory
Forest needed to cover carbon footprint of icy rescue
This is retarded in so many ways
Saturday, January 4. 2014
Many stars took it upon themselves to head to New Orleans post-Katrina. They hoped to provide comfort and assistance to the unfortunate people impacted by the storm. As I've noted here, I have no quarrel with people giving their time and effort to a worthy cause. I respect those who put their time and money on the line.
I also respect trying to be 'green', if that's what you're into. I'm 'green', though not in a manner Ed Begley, Jr. would approve.
However sanctimonious some Hollywood stars may be, it's disturbing to see well-meaning organizations get swindled.
Going overboard on the green express will undoubtedly lead to more problems such as those Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation has experienced. A new, but untested, method of treating wood which avoids toxic chemicals was used on portions of New Orleans homes. The wood is now rotting.
Some claim the problems were due to New Orleans' humidity. I have to wonder, since they ran into issues up north.
Why Many Farmers Eat Like Crap
The Labors of Hercules - The politics of weather
A World Drowning In Fatties: 1.5 Billion Of The World's Adults - One In Three - Are Obese Or Overweight
World crisis requires world government to restrict caloric intake
Chris Hayes: Why These Heartless Right-Wingers Are Laughing At the Plight of Those Brave Climate Researchers Who Risked Their Lives to Save the World!
Global Irony - Warming theory gets trapped in Antarctic ice.
Kim Jong Un Had His Uncle Eaten Alive By 120 Ravenous Dogs
We must be multiculturally-tolerant of differences
Re-linking because it's such a good essay: The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power
David Brooks on Pot: Because This Is Not to My Taste, No One Else Should Be Able to Enjoy It
And this guy is teaching humility
The Party of the Rich Flogs Income Inequality
As I say, it's a diversionary tactic
Monty Python Star Reveals Why Comics Won’t Lampoon Islam
The farm bill: Let’s pat ourselves on the back for trading one bad subsidy for another
Growing number of scientists are predicting global
cooling: Russia’s Pulkovo Observatory: ‘We could be in for a cooling
period that lasts 200-250 years’
The Economist Rips Offshore Wind
Detroit police chief: Want crime to drop? Start carrying
How The Minimum Wage Forces Low-Skill Workers to Compete with Higher-Skill Workers
Friday, January 3. 2014
Yesterday a former NFL punter, Chris Kluwe, wrote an article for Deadspin that intimated he was released due to his advocacy in support of gay marriage/gay rights. I doubt very much his outspokenness led to his release. He had other tryouts and didn't make those teams. My guess is his performance was declining, which Kluwe suggests when he mentioned his knee surgery.
Kluwe had, or has, a monster leg. He is well known for out-kicking his coverage toward the end of his tenure. In the NFL, this is indicative of being a poor punter.
Kluwe hoped someone in management would tell him what to do, be quiet or speak up. Management never does that, because formally telling someone to keep their mouth shut can lead to lawsuits. Best to hint it's not a good idea and let the speaker fill in the blanks. Kluwe, a player well-known for his intelligence, failed to connect those dots.
Others doubt he was let go for his comments. However, if the choice came down to him and someone of equal skill, it's doubtful his comments improved his chances of play. Better to have a less highly visible player doing as good a job for a much lower salary. I used Kluwe's story to provide a life lesson for my boys. Understand that saying what you believe is right and just, and shouldn't necessarily be punishable, but sometimes it's better to say nothing. Unless you are your own boss, you should consider yourself replaceable.
The Vikings have said they will look into his allegations. However, the primary statistic for punting success, pinning opponents inside the 20, had dropped to a new low his final season.
Did someone in the organization say or do something 'wrong'? Probably, in today's world we're all guilty of this at some point. Is that meaningful? Not really. I don't support anti-gay slurs, but everyone is allowed to have a point of view. More importantly, when you work for any firm, you need to be careful to not put them at risk, particularly if they make it clear you're stepping on some toes. My guess is Kluwe's skills were in decline, and he didn't help his own case. He certainly doesn't make himself look better as a bitter, petulant complainant. If anything, my respect for his willingness to speak up on issues (even some I disagree with him on) has dropped because he has become so self-serving with this article.
Indeed, I've seen some people suggest Tim Tebow can't find a home in the NFL because of his beliefs. I doubt that is any more true than Kluwe's claims. Even if it is true, Tebow has the good sense to not say anything about it.
The racism crisis: 2013: The Most Racist Year Ever
Related, from Am. Digest:
... if you want to look at the real truth about racism in the United States it would have to be that the only things keeping even the last smidgens of race hate alive in the United States are the MSNBC professional racism pecksniffs and their ilk and the current resident of the Oval Office. If they want to see the real racists among us, they need only raise their hand mirrors.
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