Wednesday, December 14. 2016
Friend emailed that pic from near the top of Killington yesterday. Wish I were there.
How to Know Which Kind of Overeater You Are
Sears Transformed America. It Deserves to Die With Dignity.
The Historical Origin of 'Political Correctness'
Leftist Students Shouted ‘F*ck You B*itch’ at the Gay Director of a Pro-Trans Movie, Boys Don’t Cry
It makes your head spin
Meme of the Moment - Fake Climate News
The sky ISN’T falling? What the hell, Chicken Little?!
Met Office Data Confirms Record Drop Of Global Temperatures
Dyson: Climate change is a religion
Chantrill:
I think that America’s biggest problem right now is that anyone that disagrees with a liberal on race is called a racist; anyone that disagrees with a liberal on gender is called a sexist; anyone that disagrees with the LGBT mafia is called a hater and a homophobe; anyone that disagrees with a liberal on immigration is called a xenophobe. There is no way we can bring America together while you liberals are running around calling people names and getting away with it. Meanwhile president-elect Trump and his whole team are dedicated to one thing, and one thing only. We want to bring Americans together and Make America Great Again. And we say to you naysayers and name-callers and speech curators that you can take your vile pejoratives and put them where the sun don’t shine.”
Schneiderman:
We cannot pinpoint the moment when the American people came to their senses and recognized that political correctness was ruining the country. At one time it had all seemed like an innocent game. Let’s pretend that men and women are the same, that the difference between the sexes was a patriarchal plot, a social construct.
It became less innocent when the thought police started tyrannizing everyone’s mind, forcing them to use made-up pronouns and never to say the least disparaging thing about any member of the distaff sex. Since most of us prefer not to say disparaging things about anyone, it seemed acceptable.
But then, political correctness might have reached a tipping point when the courts decided that a he who thought he was a she had to be allowed into the girls’ locker room in high school. Or was it the moment when the politically correct ideologically driven Obama Defense Department decided to ignore all the relevant science and to integrate women into military combat infantry units?
Reynold's When campus microaggressions are real:
When professors or administrators act as if Trump and his supporters are uniquely evil, as opposed to simply one political coalition, they are engaging in “othering.” The message is that Trump — and, more significantly, his supporters on campus — aren’t really members of the community in good standing. They’re a dangerous “other” who must be closely watched, carefully scrutinized, thoroughly stigmatized, and maybe shunned.
State University Working to Inject “Black Studies” Component Into Every Major
Black Physics?
HUMANITIES, PRETTY MUCH DEAD, ARE MOSTLY A HUNT FOR RACISM AND SEXISM
Why quiet-loving librarians can’t shut up about politics
WikiLeaks Emails Show Colbert Report Gave Clinton Foundation Control Over Production
Democrats' all-out bid to smear Trump's victory as Clinton campaign backs electoral college members demanding intel briefing on Russian hacking before they vote
The Lefties now just want to f- things up
That's news?
Is The Deep State At War... With Itself?
Russia Rigged Election, Killed JFK And Hid Saddam’s WMDs, Confirms CIA
NY Times Aghast At Trump’s State Department Picks
Normally, the NYT is super-enthused to talk to enemies, even wanting normalized relations, such as with Cuba and Iran. But, that’s when a Democrat is in office.
Two More Good Trump Appointments
His appointments are remarkable
What Trump Should Do With Air Force One
President Trump wins another news cycle. Kanye dig it?
Assad Retakes Aleppo: The Military Operation Is Over, Says Russian Envoy
UK Police Set Up Concrete Barriers at Mall So Peaceful Muslims Won’t Bomb Christmas Shoppers
Such an easy country to invade
Tuesday, December 13. 2016
A commenter on Russian Hacking Hysteria -The Left can't stop blaming the vast Russian conspiracy:
They tried many things, such as:
1) Rioting on the streets
2) Intimidating Electoral College Voters (ECVs)
3) Still trying to persuade ECVs to change their votes
4) Demanded vote recounts
5) Blamed Fake News for their humiliating defeat
6) They labelled people as Alt-Right and K K K
7) Are now blaming hacking by the Russian government.
What will be next?
Obama Crushes Conspiracy: No Evidence that Russia Tampered with Votes in Election
Democrats have been trying to de-legitimize GOP presidential victories for over 40 years. Let’s review...
Monday, December 12. 2016
 Global warming fails the random natural variation contest
Neocon is thinking about Suzanne Farrell
Read and watch
Fat is GOOD for you! New research says cheese and cream to PREVENT diabetes and heart risk
Read Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Speech: ‘I Recognize That I Am in Very Rare Company’
Patti Smith's performance of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" is horrifically awkward.
What This Hawaiian Airlines Flight Attendant Did for a Pearl Harbor Survivor Will Be the Best Thing You Hear Today
Christmastime: Z-man is done with acquisitiveness
Me too. You spend half your life getting stuff, and the second half getting rid of stuff and, at the end, you get rid of yourself too.
Barnard College Crybullies Demand Transgender Native American President
New York Times Pioneers New Feature: 'This Week in (White) Hate'
Free speech loses in Holland
Freedom loses. Europeans do not value freedom the way Americans do.
Reynolds: Tax the heck out of people in flood zones
#BoycottTheBoycotters update: They’re moving with incredible speed
Obama preaches empathy; Trump projects it
RUSSIAN “MEDDLING” IN ELECTION: MOST OVERBLOWN STORY EVER?
Anything to try to delegitimize the election. Throw all the shit at the wall and see if anything sticks
Exactly Who In America Has This Insatiable Appetite for Somali Immigration?
$125 Billion Waste Bombshell Shows Obama’s Pentagon Spending on Anything But Military Readiness
Trump is FDR with the fireside tweet
Will Obamacare Repeal Really Leave 30 Million without Insurance?
Alphabet’s Page, Schmidt Said to Attend Trump Tech Meeting
Goldberg: Trump: An opportunity for federalism
Anyone care to be the Washington Post's token Trumpkin?
Venezuela Seizes Nearly 4 Million Toys from Private Company to Give to Poor Children
Niall Ferguson: I Was Wrong About Brexit
Sunday, December 11. 2016
Excellent brief essay by Rahe (it's a PDF)
Saturday, December 10. 2016
 Image via American Digest
The top 10 Christmas songs written by Jews
Wyoming wind project may get permit to kill eagles
Kill the village to save it
A book by Scott Adams: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams
This telltale tail shows dinosaur feathers in ‘exquisite detail’ after 99 million years
Birds are dinosaurs
Psychologist: Lying to Your Kids About Santa Gives Them Trust Issues
What a jerk
The Phasing Out Of Physical Money Has Begun
A GRIM TALLY SOARS: MORE THAN 50,000 OVERDOSE DEATHS IN US
Cheaper, stronger drugs.
The inquisition of the pharma industry
How Chicago politics works: Madiganistan
Fake News/TDS: Trump Has Blocked Women From Protesting Day After Inauguration
Hillary Clinton: Censor the Internet or People Will Die
Glad she lost the election
Mika Brzezinski Says Clinton Camp Tried To Pull Her Off The Air
Student Threatened for Recording Teacher Who Called Trump’s Election an “Act of Terror”
Pruitt to Dismantle EPA Climate Agenda
NYT anti-Trump headlines are getting pretty funny.
Salon: Donald Trump’s lazy, slipshod transition: No ideology, only cynicism and corruption
Trump Appoints Most Female Members to Cabinet in History
Goldberg explains things:
Federalism, as enshrined in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, is an essential bulwark against despotism. In America, we don’t usually talk about “collective rights” and for good reason. But it’s important to understand that we have them. Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, gays, or whites (sorry alt-right), etc. don’t have collective rights — but communities do.
Specifically, the states. Vermonters have the right to live the way they want to live, so long as they don’t violate the constitutional rights of the Americans who live there. So, no slavery or Jim Crow (again, sorry alt-right). But that still leaves an enormous amount of wiggle room for Vermont to do things the people running the federal government at any given time may or may not like. And that’s good, because states, and the communities that make them up, have a better idea of how they want to live — and what will work for them — than people in Washington do. This is why federalism, within constitutional restraints, is the greatest system ever conceived of for maximizing human happiness.
Most readers can probably surmise that I think liberals have good reason to worry that Donald Trump’s fidelity to the Constitution is at best rhetorical. And even here the commitment is flimsy. Trump prefers to think in Nietzschean terms — Strength! Winning! — than in Lockean terms. But it’s worth bearing in mind that if the Constitution is an afterthought for Trump, it is a dangerous relic for most Democratic politicians.
Greenfield on Immigration Can Kill the Democrat Party:
The specter of identity politics is haunting the left. It shows up at teary-eyed election parties in Berkeley, debates over craft beers in Williamsburg and the editorial pages of the big opinion shaper papers.
...
Democrats have to choose between identity politics and the working class. Abandoning identity politics would be a painful process while abandoning the working class has proven to be painless and disastrous. But identity politics without mass migration and social transformation is unworkable. Immigration determines the future of the Democrats. This election is forcing Democrats to make a choice.
Friday, December 9. 2016
Taranto's bits below the first article will make you laugh. His "Best of the Web" is always excellent humor.
Thursday, December 8. 2016
Miami is already underwater
I Got Your Gluten Right Here, Pal
25 crucial Christmas desserts.
The Genius Behind the Big Mac
A book:
Christians Owe Fealty to No Earthly Ruler and No Earthly Leader Offers Us Salvation
What is the Fifth Wave of information dispersal?
Purdue’s free-speech orientation program could go national, thanks to college bureaucrat group
Via Insty, "... many religious Christians of a traditionalist bent believed that liberals not only reduce their deeply held beliefs to bigotry, but want to run them out of their jobs, close down their stores and undermine their institutions."
The Lefties won their culture wars: When all the good civil-right issues have been largely won, go
after Christian bakers, celibate nuns, and girls in locker rooms.
Standing Rock: The Trouble To Follow
Amazon Shows the Futility of Minimum Wage Increases
Robots will work for less - but what if they organize?
Klavan: Why Are Leftists Such Pansies?
Blames Brazile for letting climate change kill him
DONALD TRUMP, REGICIDE - Trump has toppled two American Dynasties
Japanese Firm SoftBank Promises $50 Billion in Investment in America, Likely Generating 50,000 Jobs, After Meeting with Trump
TIME magazine, whatever it is these days, really really hates Donald Trump
The Trump Way - Trump Rediscovers an Old Form of Governance
WaPo: Trump Was Right About Overwhelmingly Negative Press Coverage
Now that Trump’s won, media suddenly notices that a lot of new jobs are crappy:
With Obama in office all of the news was good… or at least spun to look as positive as possible. For the next four years at least you can expect to see headlines like the one linked above. Everything is terrible and there is nothing good upon the land as long as Trump is in charge.
UK: No WONDER our politicians banned age tests: Majority of child refugees checked are ADULTS
Turks “Hate” and “Are Disgusted” by Syrian Refugees
France: Decomposing In Front Of Our Eyes
Why Italy should quit Euroland
Wednesday, December 7. 2016
This is the most cruel and insensitive piece I can find: Laughing At Liberals As They Lose Their Minds.
It's not cool to laugh at half the voters. The article is amusing, however.
From a commenter to a WaPo piece:
Here's what I told my 15 year old daughter: "Hillary's loss does not mean that your hopes and aspirations can't be fulfilled. And the path that Hillary blazed is still the best path for achieving those hopes and aspirations. So go to college, find a man who is bright and engaging and ambitious. Do everything you can to help him reach those ambitions. Stick with that husband, no matter how badly he treats you, because it is through his successes (and the credit that you deserve for those successes) that you can achieve your own success. "
An attempt to identify the object of the Bard’s affections
Is "Baby It's Cold Outside" about date rape?
I agree with the comment: It's the age-old dance of love and desire, the mutual but slightly subtle urge to merge
Scott Adams' blog site is good.
Much better than Dilbert. A sample:
So what does a Master Persuader do when he needs to create a good first impression to last for years? He looks around for any opportunity that is visible, memorable, newsworthy, true to his brand, and easy to change.
Boston College Faculty Want to Ban Trump-Inspired ‘Hate Speech’
What? Where?
Report buried Trump-related ‘hate crimes’ against white kids
Ending Multicultural Madness
VMI, Famed Military Academy, Giving Cadets Coloring Books for Stress
French government votes to ban pro-life websites
Why?
Future of Free Speech Grim on Social Networks: New at Reason
VDH: Universities and the media: arrogant, ignorant, and ripe for reform
So you’ve decided to quit your church because of the election…
Gained weight? No sex? Cut your hair? It’s all Trump’s fault
Shaking Up Washington: Ben Carson Edition
The Ten Part Trump Tweet Pattern That Won the West
7 reasons to be happy about the election of Donald Trump.
The average citizen of a Western country feels as if they are ruled by strangers.
True, and important. Re Italy as an example:
Once again, we are seeing what is a core failing of technocracy. Public policy is about trade-offs. In a liberal democracy, the people, through their representatives, wrangle over these trade-offs and arrive at a compromise that satisfies most people well enough to keep the peace. Logic is not what drives these deliberations. Tradition, culture and vested interests play the leading roles. Smart people know how to create a better health system, for example, but getting everyone to go along with it is impossible.
Technocracy has no mechanism for this.
Angela Merkel calls for Germany BURKA BAN saying ‘the full veil is not appropriate here’ in astonishing U-turn
Tuesday, December 6. 2016
Intel is Winning Over Blockchain Critics By Reimagining Bitcoin's DNA
 The cheapest deal is a subscription to Maggie's Farm's website - it's free with instant world-wide delivery, faster than Santa or Amazon Prime.
A slightly more generous gift would be a year's subscription to Yankee Magazine. It's useful, innocent, and wholesome.
Glossier, and not Yankee (more Dixie-oriented) but quite enjoyable, is Garden & Gun magazine.
Monday, December 5. 2016
Good for a morning giggle: I named it Spot
Another morning giggle: Castro’s hearse breaks down
As Double Dutch Wanes in New York, Competition Comes From Abroad
Peng Chang-kuei, Chef Behind General Tso’s Chicken, Dies at 98
Manuel, Andrew Sachs, 'Fawlty Towers' star, dies at 86
Why Ikea Causes So Much Relationship Tension
Fake news update: Newsweek never read their own “Madam President” issue
Op-ed: In this age of internet hate, it’s time to revisit limits on free speech
Inside every do-gooder lies a latent totalitarian
The Insensitivity Police Now Patrol Many Colleges
Snotty, Smug, Know-Nothing Students At Ohio State Decide Now Is A Pretty Good Time To Lecture Everyone On Their Bigotry
Ohio State Student After Attack: 'The Left Is More Scared of Trump Than of ISIS'
Jon Stewart Goes Off: Obama ‘Terrible for Press Freedom;’ Left’s Race-Baiting ‘Has to Stop’
Pielke: My Unhappy Life as a Climate Heretic
Fake News: ‘Climate Change’ Could Maybe Possibly Spark Humanitarian Crisis
There are always and have always been humanitarian crises
Black Lives Matter praises Castro as revolutionary and harborer of cop killers
Why It Will Be Hard to Repeal Obamacare
There is an easy way: Create a better alternative
Big Labor threw tons of cash at Democrats, but workers voted red: report
Sultan: 5 Lessons for Republicans from Trump's Win
Zero: A Very Concise Explanation Of Why The Democrats Lost (And Will Keep Losing)
WATCH Tucker Carlson Take On The New York Times’ Public Editor Over The Paper’s Liberal Bias
Trump Chooses “Mad Dog” Mattis for Pentagon Chief - Leftists foam at the mouth and gnash their teeth.
Surber: "How to Rebuild the Republican Party" after Trump
5 Reasons Barack Obama Will Be Viewed As One Of The Worst Presidents of All Time
Daughter of Top EU Official Raped-Murdered in Germany By Afghan Migrant
She was a "Welcome Migrants" volunteer. Heartbreaking.
Scott Adams: Trump and the Taiwan Call
Iran threatens action if Obama signs bill to extend sanctions
Sunday, December 4. 2016
According to Z-man, They don’t really like black people very much. They like the idea of black people
This is dramatically-illustrated by some college students: How White Liberals Really View Black Voters
Viewed as incapable of handling normal life.
Saturday, December 3. 2016
 Pic borrowed from Salt Water New England
Resurrecting Honor (h/t Am. Digest)
One way to become poor
What I Saw Tracking Down the Mentally Ill in Jail
The truth about the Scopes trial
A mystery: driver decapitated after claiming car's cruise control was stuck
What are the freest countries in the world?
EPA: What's your gender identity?
What is hers?
U. Toronto lecturer: ‘Misconception’ that there’s a thing called ‘biological sex’
Somebody should inform the birds and the bees
Swedish Union Sets Up 'Mansplaining' Hotline - Workers could call in to receive advice from a cadre of gender experts and feminist politicians.
Sweden's biggest problem, no doubt
Professor Says Human Extinction in 10 Years is "A Lock"
Europe’s Protected Forests Chopped Down to Meet Renewable Energy Mandates
Virginia School System Considers Banning 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
The Keith Ellison Perplex
Althouse and Rush on low-information voters
How Trump Turned the National Media Into Impotent Hecklers
... the media had zippo to do with uncovering many of the major scandals that hit the Obama White House. Were we naive enough to count only on the media to uncover scandal, we would not know about the IRS, the myriad of surveillance improprieties, the truth about Benghazi, Fast and Furious, or the Clinton Foundation. Moreover, instead of uncovering scandal, our media did everything to ensure these inconvenient truths couldn't cripple Obama.
Trump’s Carrier Deal Is Big Problem Or Something
Mexico on Carrier deal: 'Trump is telling the truth' about saving US jobs
CNN Crew Jokes about Donald Trump's Plane Crashing
Barone: So I find myself leaning reluctantly toward the conclusion that no other Republican could have won, at least the way Trump did.
Trumped-up, trickle-down outrage - On the popular reaction to the presidential election.
Trump’s Narrow Win Is Not a Landslide, It’s an Opportunity:
. . . want to make America great again? Then let us be America. Preside over a government that stops telling us how to do it, that pretends its “progressive” pieties are “our values.” Preside over a government that does well the few things we need it to do and gets reacquainted with its limitations. Do that and there will be no need in 2020 to explain how you can eke an electoral victory out of a popular minority
Trump’s Charm of Not Being Obama - The new White House won’t fail to embrace the jobs that fracking and pipelines can bring
Europe: The peasants are revolting
Europe has deplorable voters too
Trumpian "diplomacy" - no rules, no protocol
Friday, December 2. 2016
It is difficult to hold an "adult conversation" with uninformed or uneducated people. When almost anything can be politicized and anybody can become suddenly emotional or indignant, it is often best just to shut up. McInnes humorously discusses Reality Bites.
At first, Trump was just a clown. I thought so. Then he morphed into a dangerous crazy person. Now that he has been elected (I still have trouble believing it, but he has a misunderestimated Talent Stack), we sense that a new fear is emerging - a fear that he may be successful in some ways. Simon notes that Trump's optimism about America is driving gloomy leftoids crazy.
Even the always-cautious Walter Mead sees reason for optimism.
Best reason for optimism? We have Melania. From Dylan's political I Shall Be Free:
Well, my telephone rang it would not stop
It's President Kennedy callin' me up
He said, "My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow" ?
I said, "My friend, John, "Brigitte Bardot,
Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren"
Country'll grow.
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