Friday, May 6. 2016
Mayor Giuliani cleaned Times Square of the crime and a lot of the porn, but left the gritty, raucous, random parts intact. Good choice.
Times Square is the colorful, crowded, tacky, lively tourist center of the city and the heart of the Broadway theater district. NYC is not Florence - a small antique town. Times Square will never be the Piazza del Duomo, thank goodness.
John Tierny (with whom I often agree) has another vision: Reimagining Times Square. He is being a party-pooper.
To locate microaggressions, you would need a microscope and more than a touch of paranoia.
However, I think it is barking up the wrong tree to try to psychoanalyze this grievance-collection and grievance-manufacturing by the most privileged and indulged kids in the world. No reasonably balanced person reacts to such non-events. It is a fad, like hula-hoops. Faux outrage, microaggressions, and hate hoaxes are all the rage on campus this year. One might almost imagine that the ignorant kids have nothing to study. What it's really all about is cry-bullying, a manipulative power tactic which only works on spineless women and beta males.
Those are the same administrators who will buy their 3 year-olds Cocoa Puffs at the supermarket when they cry. Same stunt, same result. Too many spineless people out there who are afraid of saying "Shut up and grow up" the way normal people would do. Or, in the campus case, "Shut up and get back to your differential equations."
 Widespread Mental Illness Taking Over America, One Bathroom at a Time
Why are bathrooms the target? Strange.
The Obama Justice Department’s Insane Attack on North Carolina
DOJ also obsessed with bathrooms
Here's Who's Controlling the Bathroom Debate
This is so bizarre
New York’s “Food Desert” Myth. The city council wants to preserve upstate farmland to counter an imaginary shortage.
Government farms? Brilliant
Driverless cars and robots are ahead of schedule
Vaping Will Soon Be Banned In Many Public Places In California…
Why? Just for the sake of controlling people? That ain't smoke. It is water vapor.
Big Green is big business.
Feds appear to be removing website posts claiming glaciers will be melted from Glacier National Park by 2030
Driverless cars and robots are ahead of schedule
Fresh scandal for Mayor de Blasio — and bad news for the taxpayers
The Reagan Coalition Is Dead. What’s Next For Conservatism?
The One Thing That More Government Money Will Definitely Do Is Fail To Fix The Problem
White House admits it played us for fools to sell Iran deal
Dem Pollsters Push Clinton Messaging Shift in Secret Memo
FLASHBACK: On June 19, 2015 Ann Coulter Predicted Trump Would Win – And the Liberal Audience Laughed
Trump Won Largely on the Strength of Opposition to Open Borders and Amnesty
Donald Trump’s policy plans are real, detailed — and great
Kimball, with whom I almost always agree, just doesn't like the aroma
Roger, do you like Hillary's aroma? Scratch and sniff. She'd give her ankles for Trump's crowds.
The Left's 2016 Plan: Defining Trump so damningly that Clinton will look comparatively angelic
I’m not ready to endorse Trump, says Paul Ryan; I’m not ready to support Ryan’s agenda, says Trump
Touche. Funny. I guess I am stuck with The Donald, for better or worse. Just wish he would read the Constitution and some other things, including Maggie's Farm website.
Noonan: Trump Was a Spark, Not the Fire - The establishments, both media and conservative, failed to anticipate how they’d be consumed:
The Democratic base has become more liberal—we all know this part—but in a way the Republican base has, too. Or rather it is certainly busy updating what conservative means. The past few months, in state after state, one thing kept jumping out at me in primary exit polls. Democrats consistently characterize themselves as more liberal than in 2008, a big liberal year. This week in Indiana, 68% of Democratic voters called themselves liberal or very liberal. In 2008 that number was 39%. That’s a huge increase.
Very good points, but the Repub party has rarely been thoroughly Conservative in ideology
Can Trump Beat Hillary? Why the presumptive Republican presidential nominee may defy the conventional wisdom once again.
The “passions” we see seething through a Trump rally are the anger at elites of both parties who for years now have talked down to the people, dismissed their legitimate concerns, and sneered at their ignorance, even as they pander to privileged minorities or appease the Democrats. They see criticism of Trump, whether intended or not, as criticism of themselves, yet another patronizing dismissal of their grievances. The backlash against political correctness that Trump has brilliantly exploited is the obvious focus of this anger at politicians who are supposed to be on their side, but who always find excuses to cede the high ground to the other side. Why else would the Senate confirm Loretta Lynch as Attorney General, especially after she told the Judiciary Committee that she viewed Obama’s unconstitutional amnesties as “legal”? Was it because she was eminently qualified, or because she is a black woman?
Some will dispute these assertions as misleading or false, but whether they are true or not is irrelevant. Politics is about perception. How else did a cipher like Barack Obama get elected twice? In 2008 he was perceived to be a racial healer, the smartest president ever, a “no red state, no blue state” unifier, and a brilliant orator. None of these perceptions turned out to be remotely true. The second time it was partly because 81% of voters perceived him to “care about people like me,” while only 18% felt the same about Mitt Romney, one of the most fundamentally decent and kind men ever to run for president. Trump seems to get that perceptions and passions come first, and policy can be figured out later. To a greater or lesser degree, this has pretty much been true in all presidential elections. Trump has simply discarded the decorum that camouflages the truth about political sausage-making.
Britain faces migrant chaos: New ´summer of discontent´ as thousands plot to storm border
EU Plans $290,000 Per Person Fine on Countries Refusing “Fair Share” of Refugees; Case For Brexit Crystallized
The Empire has been overreaching since it began. Rebellion will occur.
License To Steal: Italy’s Highest Court Rules “Theft Not A Crime If Hungry”
Most people feel food urges two or three times daily. Let's hope they do not apply this to sexual urges too.
Thursday, May 5. 2016
George Will Is A Haughty Dipshit: (h/t SDA)
George Will should have been left unemployed and starving ages ago. Newspapers are dying off and people despise the media more than they have ever despised the media—which is saying a lot—and yet here fucking George Will remains, along with the Noonans and Friedmans and Brookses of the world, gainfully employed despite being a worthless, fart-sniffing boob. Try as the world might, we can’t seem to rid ourselves of idiot columnists who make $300,000 just to sit down and invent political trends from looking out the fucking parlor window.....I don’t get how these people have retained any credibility.
It was that old Law of (Unintended?) Consequences: What Democrat voters and political leaders refuse to believe
Well, they do believe it but only Moynihan was willing to say it out loud. The real goal was achieved: Generations of Dem voters hooked on dependency, uselessness, and hopelessness. Of course, that applies not only to African-Americans. There are far more white than black people in that category.
However, there were no dysfunctional black urban ghettos before Johnson's Great Society eliminated poverty and hopelessness.
 Image via Theo
A Brief History of Drowning - Drowning
has been a common cause of death since the Middle Ages. How do we
prevent it when humans were likely never meant to swim?
New administration rule would permit thousands of eagle deaths at wind farms
Sacrifices for the weather gods
Elementary School Cancels Father-Daughter Dance Over Lack of 'Inclusion'
The FDA has 121 pages of rules about what to feed kids
Get reading, lunch ladies
HuffPo: Legal Gun Owners Can’t Shoot Violent Attackers In Self-Defense Because It Denies Them A Fair Trial…
OUR FEDERAL HOUSING VOUCHER PROGRAM: The Poverty Creator
Jason Riley Is the Latest Conservative to Be Disinvited from a College Campus
Blackballed
Music Classes Targeted for Pro-Perversion Brainwashing
Principal Bans Girls' Tackle Football Game, Suggests Bobbing for Apples Instead
90% Of American Households Have Lower Real Net Worth Today Than In 1970s
Hayward: Liberals Having Second Thoughts
This is How Democrats Will Absolutely Destroy Donald Trump if He’s the Nominee
Anti-Trump Groups Spent $75.7 Million on 64,000 Negative Ads to Take Down Trump – It Wasn’t Enough
Dick Morris on Trump: 'A Unique Chapter in American Politics'
Krauthammer: GOP ‘Being Led By a Non-Conservative,’ As of Now, ‘I Don’t Think I’d Be Capable of Voting for Donald Trump’
Van Jones Admits Dems Need Minorities to Remain Poor and Resentful
Clinton Campaign Made Payments To Hard Drive And Document Destruction Company
Reynolds: Entrenched political elites will sacrifice anything to retain power, including their own country.
What Went Wrong with Cruz? Cruz.
Good message, wrong messenger
Trump, election, and immigration:
Trump is the warning shot. He’s the food riots before the revolution. He’s the stack of letters to the editor in protest over some issue. People do not go from happy to bloody revolt overnight. It’s a process and the early stages are warnings, at least they should be viewed as warnings. If the people in Washington insist on flooding the country with helot labor, despite what’s happening in the election, the people are going to insist on building scaffolds in Washington. The Trump phenomenon is the warning.
Trump and foreign policy
How difficult was it to run America’s foreign policy during an era of virtually unquestioned dominance? Why—with so many advantages—have our elites produced so many failed policies? And why do they feel no shame? No matter how many individual positions he changes, Mr. Trump will never satisfy the architects of these massive mistakes or, for that matter, their ardent supporters on editorial boards and television screens. To be clear, it is entirely appropriate to criticize Mr. Trump’s views or, for that matter, his temper. Both have long been important components in our electoral politics. What is not appropriate is to attempt to shut down public discussion of critical national issues.
Yet this is exactly what some seek to do.
Defining U.S. National Interests: The Argument Continues
This
is How Democrats Will Absolutely Destroy Donald Trump if He’s the
Nominee - See more at:
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/05/this-is-how-democrats-will-absolutely-destroy-donald-trump#sthash.Swnlod14.dpuf
Britain To Take In Syrian Refugees From Other European Nations That Don’t Want Them…
Why Russia Resents Us
The Holocaust Without Jews
These Are The Two Reasons Refugees Are Flooding Into Germany
Wednesday, May 4. 2016
 Toon via Theo
Survey: 34% of Bay area residents want to leave
New York’s last remaining soda fountain signs
Scenes From the First American Shopping Mall, Filmed in 1956
Guru–the most important free market movie ever made?
Guru–the
most important free market movie ever made? - See more at:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/05/guru.html#sthash.YrGwG2Cp.dpuf
Wilderness Worship - Back to Neander
Should the Semicolon follow the diastole, the trigon, the interpunct, and the diple?
Michael Bloomberg: Why Safe Spaces Are Terrible Mistakes
The Cumulative Cost of Regulations
I'm calling it: Social networking is over
The return of pseudo-science - The global warming industry lashes out in defense of its funding
Don't Let Government Stifle the next Tech Revolution
Standardized Test Discontent Spreads Across the Nation
Standardized
Test Discontent Spreads Across the Nation - See more at:
http://educationblog.ncpa.org/standardized-test-discontent-spreads-across-the-nation/#sthash.bcJ9FteQ.dpuf
Grand Jury Indicts Three Black Students Who Made Up Hoax of a Racist
Attack Against Them; They Were Actually The Ones Beating Someone Up
(While Throwing Racial Epithets)
The Campus Hate Crime Hoax Epidemic
Activists: Park Ranger Uniforms ‘threaten’ Latinos, Too Similar to Border Patrol - Group asks feds to consider “cultural implications of existing agency uniforms, offices, signage, and other facilities”
Winning ‘Draw Mohammed’ Picture Goes Up On eBay
Harvard 'Experts': Islamophobia Everywhere!
Dem AG Targets 90 Conservative Groups in Climate Change Racketeering Suit
Fighting Political Correctness in the Age of Trump - Republicans must stand up to political correctness or lose.
"Money In Politics," Hillary, And The McDonnell Prosecution
Chelsea Clinton’s speaking fee: $65,000.
David Brooks should stay in his little bourgeois strata
Memo to George Will, David Brooks and others: Stop being stupid on Trump:
I know many of those who voted for Trump, and they are by no means stupid, irrational, racist or anti-democratic. They are frustrated with politics as usual and they are taking their constitutional rights seriously by voting for change.
Second, Trump says what many of us have come to believe is true: that the Iraq War was a tragic mistake that shouldn’t be replicated. He was the only candidate to be so explicit in his denunciation, and I think it helped him with a big chunk of voters.
Third, he has a clear message on the economy that resonates: The middle class is getting screwed because the political class is looking out for their interests rather than for the broader interests of the American people. From being open to increasing taxes on the very wealthy to expressing concerns about trade deals to promising to protect Social Security, Trump is stating clearly that he will change the direction of the American economy.
I am not of the opinion that a Trump candidacy will do long-lasting damage to the party or the country. I guess that’s why I am not part of the conservative intelligentsia.
"I Don't Know How To Explain It" - Confused Clinton Can't Explain Own Comments To Coal-Miner
When I met Bill Clinton and the first time we were together
Get Ready for the Biggest Media Assault You've Ever Seen—Aimed Squarely at Trump
Who is the Host, and Who is the Guest? A Muslim owner of a grocery store in France assigns different shopping days for men and women.
Trouble In Paradise? ISIS Recruiting In The Caribbean
China Needs a Foreign Policy which Makes Friends
An ugly war, seen through the lens of the Vietnamese
Iraq: Washington is in fact groping into a new full-fledged conflict in the Middle East without proper planning and preparation.
Neutering U.S. combat air forces
Tuesday, May 3. 2016
The central tenet of Libertarianism is freedom. It is the right to choose. Not just choose 'stuff' while shopping, but everything. Where to live, who you associate with, who you do business with, who you work for or who works for you, and what you want to do with your life. While it is often contrasted with Socialism and Communism, this commentator points out there is a third thread which is often overlooked, but cuts across the philosophical spectrum - bureaucratic centralism. It's my belief that Conservatives are essentially libertarians (small "l") who like having, or believing in, the direction that centralized government can provide. Which is why Libertarians, more often than not, are lumped in with Republicans. In my recent past, I've learned to distrust and, whenever possible, avoid anything government claims to provide, or that people believe it should provide. If I could avoid, or it was practical to avoid, all things the government provides, I would. Unfortunately I don't have that freedom, since it's been taken either by vote or by bureaucratic diktat.
 Cruising the Davis Strait
Catching a Flight? Budget Hours, Not Minutes, for Security
Why Italian merry widows perk up after husbands die
Blood-red Trevi fountain a wake-up call on Christian persecution
No commencement speaker will mention this – the huge ‘gender college degree gap’ favoring women
Undergrad links to Obama’s comments about students being ‘coddled,’ gets ripped by peers
" The employee also referred to one of the students as a man, even though
that student had informed the employee that they identify as gender
neutral."
Heterodox: Freethinking profs – fed up with peers’ blind devotion to leftist tenets – launch their own website
SIU students to hold strike against austerity, racism
Small Acts of Cowardice Are Destroying Our Culture
...how culture wars are lost: through the slow accumulation of individually defensible but collectively unjustifiable decisions not to resist. It’s the decision that objecting during diversity training simply isn’t worth the hassle. It’s the decision not to say anything when you see a colleague or fellow student facing persecution because of their beliefs. It’s a life habit of always taking the path of least resistance, keeping your head down, and doing your best to preserve your own family and career. The small fights don’t matter anyway, right?
I recently spoke to a mid-level executive at a major corporation who had been forced to sit through mandatory “inclusivity” training. The topic was transgender rights, and the trainer proceeded to spout far-left ideology as fact, going so far as to label all who disagreed with the notion that a man can become a woman “transphobic.” I asked if anyone objected to any part of the training, and the response was immediate. “Are you crazy? No one wants to deal with HR.”
Who Speaks for the Working Class? Economic concerns increasingly unite moderate-income whites and blacks.
CNN's Jeff Zucker on the Network's Increasing Ratings: "We May Have Been A Little Too Liberal In the Past"
Why Aren’t We Having a National Conversation About Leftist Violence?
The myth of free trade
...trade is a good thing, but only when it is a net positive to the American people as a whole. Deals that allow plutocrats to shift their costs to the public so they can privatize profits are not good deals. Trump pointing that out does not make him a protectionist. It makes him a realist. It’s the innumerate phonies, clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, desperately trying to shut off these debates, who are divorced from reality. Trade, like all pubic policy, is about trade-offs. Those trade-offs are debated in a healthy society.
Mexico Is Sending Us Colonists, Not Immigrants
Off the reservatio
Sanders applauds supporter who tells billionaire class to 'f--- off’
Monday, May 2. 2016
I'm not a blue-collar worker, but I had blue-collar jobs in my younger days. There is a meme floating around right now suggesting people who oppose the minimum wage increases (as I do) are amoral people who believe low income workers 'deserve' what they earn. Many good blue-collar jobs pay pretty well and just require hard work and the desire to do it. The minimum wage really applies to the lowest end of the blue-collar funnel, low-skilled and entry-level labor. And I don't feel even low-skilled or entry-level workers 'deserve' anything, anymore than I 'deserve' something or a blue-collar worker 'deserves' something. We work because we've come to an agreement on a wage and we're comfortable with between ourselves and our employer. Comfortable with does not mean we think it's optimal, perfect, or what we want. It means we feel we can do the job for that sum.
But Mike Rowe points out another key part of the jobs equation. Jobs don't come to us. We have to go to them. If my best job option is going to be in San Francisco or Chicago, rather than here in NYC, then I should be prepared to go to it. If I don't, I really have no complaints about whatever job I wind up with, because I took what's available within the limitations I set for myself. The US has always been a mobile nation. Mobile as in able to move both physically and economically. People move up and down the wealth and income ladder, but they have also transport themselves to where the jobs are. It's been that way for years. After all, that's part of what Manifest Destiny was all about - following opportunity. It's why Horace Greeley supposedly said "Go West, young man." Today it may be better stated as "Go Weld, young man."
Sunday, May 1. 2016
From Mikhail Fridman's As Global Instability Spreads, the "Indigo" Economy Rises:
We are entering a disruptive era driven by extraordinary levels of human creativity. A new generation of curious, strong-willed and talented individuals is unhindered by convention or the past. This new “Indigo” generation is now shaping tomorrow’s economy and creating national wealth. I use the term Indigo because it has been used to refer to children with special or unusual abilities. This is an era where abnormally talented individuals and entities are now able to realize new levels of human potential and economic achievement.
...
This new Indigo era undermines the hypothesis that depletion of natural resources is imminent. The innovative potential of developed countries has allowed people to find alternatives to any such shortage. This does not mean that the world no longer requires natural resources. But it eliminates the real or imagined shortage of those resources and deprives commodity exporters of what have been super profits. Oil and gas was the last bastion of these bottlenecks and it too has crumbled, thanks to Indigo economies. The main source of national wealth is not the resource rent but the social infrastructure that allows every person to realize his or her intellectual and creative potential. It is for this reason that Exxon, once the world’s largest company, has been overtaken by Apple and Google. This represents a paradigm shift in which creative, non-linear thinking and random ideas are turned into new scalable services in a short space of time.
Saturday, April 30. 2016
The proportion of Americans who participate in philanthropic activities—70 percent—is higher than the number who vote.
American people get together to do things, to make good things happen. Professional organizers not required. Good things happen organically.
Friday, April 29. 2016
Immigrant mobs get violent with Trump audience.
This does not help their cause, whatever their cause is.
 How Facebook Reached A Blowout Quarter And Why It Will Continue
I just don't get Facebook
Aging Runners Find Help for a Question: How Slow Will I Get?
Despite their small brains – ravens are just as clever as chimps
The war on elephants
This ‘Bikini Airline’ is Going to Create Vietnam’s First Female Billionaire
University of Chicago Earns Highest Free Speech Rating
Yale: Beyond parody
Last year's Onion is today's news
Only 37% of American 12th-graders were academically prepared for college math and
reading in 2015
Sounds too high to me. Murray says 10% at most but maybe it depends on what the meaning of "college" is.
Tennessee Votes to Cut Diversity Spending So Students Protest
What is diversity spending?
Global Warming Is Making The Weather Nice, But Doom Is Coming Soon Or Something
What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money?
We already do give people other people's money
Oops! The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Gets Slapped Down
At least he is not making millions from Global Warming, like Gore
Despite Kerry Demand That US Reduce Usage Of Fossil Fuel, His Family Trust Heavily Invested In It
Trump’s ‘Foreign Policy’: Incoherent and Shallow
Donald Trump Rejects ‘False Song of Globalism’ in Nationalist ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Speech
Speech did not bother me
How Trump Can Win the Black Vote to Win the Election
Trump vs. Clinton: A Battle Between Two Opposite Americas
The Clinton Pivot Begins - You’re about to meet the second coming of Franklin Roosevelt and Bill Clinton.
Stockman: Anything Trumps Hillary
This will surely be the most entertaining election in US history, and probably the most pointless, too. After all, Hillary wants to use government to make Government Great Again. And Trump promises to use government to make America Great Again.
Flooded With Migrants, Germany Struggles to Integrate Them
Got that backwards. Immigrants are supposed to struggle to adjust.
The ghosts of Vietnam
As Demographic Problems Grow, Japan Weighs Immigration
Somalis?
IF YOU GIVE A DICTATOR THE RIGHT TO SILENCE CRITICS, HE’S GOING TO ASK FOR MORE
Israel’s economy: Reasons to be cheerful – and some for concern
Nobel Prize-worthy chutzpah
Thursday, April 28. 2016
 Photo: Why does this compassionate German gal hold a sign in English?
Human Life Begins With Bright Flash of Light
Mouse life too
Mrs. Sippican's Birthday
Happy Birthday, Mrs. S, and many happy returns
Newest Test Scores are Bad News for Centralized Education, Common Core
A book: Shantung Compound
China Ready to Grow its GMOs and Eat Them, Too
Unifying Themes Behind Pseudoscience
Believing In Two Genders Is A ‘Hate Crime’ Under Police Investigation At Catholic College
Unhinged
Clemson poli sci professor stands up to activist bullies
‘Racist’ Noose Drawing Leads to Two Black Students
Gotta invent hate, or there would not be anything to bitch about
Missouri Students’ Latest Target: The Campus Sushi Restaurant
A short history of Masters at Yale
Where Did the Government Jobs Go?
Secret Service Plans to Raise White House Fence by 5 Feet
A big beautiful fence?
Even Somalis Know the Mexico Border Is a Sieve
Cartels Help Terrorists in Mexico Get to U.S. to Explore Targets; ISIS Militant Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir Among Them
Walter Williams reflects on his 81st birthday
We Know How to Fix Poverty, as Kansas Reminds Us
We Know How to Fix Poverty, as Kansas Reminds Us
Scarborough: Trump’s sweep is another humiliating defeat for media and political elites
Only Republicans can make President Hillary Clinton a reality.
Latest Woman to Try Marines' Infantry Officer Course Drops after Hike
Abu Sayyaf's Criminal Jihad in the Philippines
Dershowitz Blasts Obama for Treatment of Netanyahu Who is ‘Owed an Apology’
US university heads oppose academic boycott of Israel
The Anti-Israel Money Trail
Islamic State Moves to Libya
Is Jim Kim Destroying the World Bank — or Saving it From Itself?
Wednesday, April 27. 2016
It's been a while since we posted this sort of graph (this from The Fable of a Stable Climate). Facts do not necessarily calm the hysterical, but all you can do is to try.
Tuesday, April 26. 2016
VDH on Trump:
"What the elites now consider normal and standard seems, to a growing minority of Americans, aberrant and unhinged — and they are looking for a remedy, even if it is mostly rhetorical and chimerical."
Monday, April 25. 2016
Strangest critter: Leptocephalus
Foods Loaded With Sugar, Salt and Fat? Bring It
Health: You Will Not Live Forever
Even if I go gluten free?
Did Harvard Investigate Conservative Students?
The New Sexual Ideology Wins Another Skirmish
One in six BBC stars ´must be gay or lesbian or disabled´ by 2020 says new staff-hiring guidelines at the corporation
Why limit it to that?
Heavy teen marijuana use may cut life short
I doubt that it is causal
Restoring Voting Rights Lets Felons 'Feel Good About Themselves Again'
Makes sense: un-caught felons vote anyway
Climate Deal Forecast: Frost for the U.S. Economy, Slush Funds for the Planet
The Fairness Industrial Complex
‘Border kids’ crisis is sadder than ever
Are Lefties smug?
Oops! Chelsea shot off her mouth on guns, and now Hillary has to pander
Why not just campaign against illegally-owned weapons?
Hillary Clinton backs the highest soda tax ever proposed
BARBARIANS INSIDE THE GATES - Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and the cultural evisceration of the U.S. Navy.
Turkey's Erdogan Goes Full-Dictator: Arrests Dutch Journalist For Critical Tweet
Turkey Blackmails Europe on Visa-Free Travel
Muslim Migrants in Germany Chant “Adolf Hitler” and Allahu Akbar”
Sheesh. Assimilate already like good Germans
Saturday, April 23. 2016
 You’re the Parent. Start Acting Like One
Were people once better educated?
14 Classic Facts About Cracker Jack
'Game of Thrones' Walking Tour of Dubrovnik
Many of us think painful crunches are the way to ripped abs. But is this true? Or could they even be doing us harm?
Sit-ups are pretty much a waste of time
Reclaiming “Redneck” Urbanism: What Urban Planners Can Learn From Trailer Parks
How Oklahoma City as killed
Farm to Table is Farm to Fable
Earth Day? When do we celebrate ‘Capitalism Day’ to remind us of what’s behind environmental improvements?
For Earth Day: ‘Recycling is garbage’ from the NYT in 1996; it broke hate mail record
Newspaper Reporter Still the Worst Job in America
But you get to Change The World. Really, though, it's sad.
McArdle:
The other day, I tackled the vexing question of why so few Americans seem able to save enough. Today I’ll tackle the vexing corollary to this question: the assertion that if individuals can’t manage to save, the government must step in. Corporate pensions are dying, the argument goes, and private savings is laughably inadequate. Obviously, what we need is a much more generous Social Security system...
The Average American 29-Year-Old - Forget media archetypes of older Millennials as college-educated singles living in cities. The typical 29-year-old is living with a partner in the suburbs—without a bachelor’s degree.
".. not one in ten university students today benefit from higher education."
Well, sort of. It can help them get a job.
Only Hindus Are Allowed to Chant, Assert Liberal Culture Enforcers on Campus
British Schools Ask 4-Year-Olds to Pick Their Gender
British Schools Ask 4-Year-Olds to Pick Their Gender - See more at: http://moonbattery.com/?p=71313#sthash.Um5bQnKR.dpuf
What does Schilling have to do with Trump? The answer is plenty
Overregulated - Small Business Should Be Priority Number One
Harriet Tubman was a Gun-Toting Republican
Screaming Black Lives Matter Protesters Bust Up Milo Yiannopoulous Speech – Chaos Ensues
Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity: Confronting the Fear of Knowledge
Bernie's plan: Make America European again!
Hey, Berniacs: I Learned to Love Hillary and So Can You
I went to a Bernie Sanders rally dressed as a liberal douche and it went exactly as expected.
Trump team tells GOP he has been 'projecting an image'
Introducing ‘The President Erdogan Offensive Poetry Competition’ – £1000 prize to be won
Excellent fun
Obama infuriates the Brits as he threatens to send UK ´to the back of the queue´if they vote to leave the European Union
Friday, April 22. 2016
Got a ride last night in a pal's new Tesla. After two whiskeys, even he was startled by the acceleration. Everything loose in the car flew to the back. Rocket Man. Then he had to demonstrate its no-hands driving. Sheesh.
Vanilla Mania - Do we need the real thing or can we do with a number of molecules?
NY real estate: Regulatory Arbitrage, Rent-Seeking and the Deal of the Year
New Land, Expansionism, and Affordability - A Sketch-Theory of Why Suburbia and Exurbia Are So Resilient
How the Hillsong Cool Factor Changed Worship for Good and for Ill
"Felt" religion predominates
Sipp: How The Festival of Trash Saved My Bacon
Vinerism strikes the snowmobiling industry
Oh dear. Fewer fossil fuel burning, carbon-spewing loud machines racing thru the woods
Americans Really Enjoying This Warmer, More Agreeable Weather
VDH: The horrors of Hiroshima in context
Chopping Down Old Hickory
Harvard Law School Students Want To End Tuition
Duh. I want a free Maserati.
Transgender Hate Hoax at University of North Carolina
Without fake hate, there would be darn little hate
U of Wisconsin is a hotbed of racism
UC Berkeley Touts $15 Minimum Wage Law, Then Fires Hundreds Of Workers After It Passes
The Primaries Aren’t Democratic? They’re Not Supposed to Be Democratic.
Transgender Hate Hoax at University of North Carolina - See more at: http://moonbattery.com/?p=71223#sthash.ux5nnfMJ.dpuf
Sheriff Clarke Blasts Clinton for Pandering, Dehumanizing Blacks
If only Barack and Bernie could do for the USA what Hugo and Nicolas have done for Venezuela
THOUSANDS Line Highway to Get a Glimpse of Donald Trump in Maryland
Trump's Policies Will Have Trumpkins 'Mad as Hell'
Hillary: “We Have Just Too Many Guns . . . In Our Homes”
Says the woman who is surrounded by men with guns 24/7
Colorado school district to arm security officers with semiautomatic rifles
Sounds crazy
Clinton Insider Says He 'Wouldn't Be Surprised' If Hillary's Server Was Hacked
Hillary Clinton Is Too Big to Fail
Hillary Clinton Is Too Big to Fail
Z-man on women in combat:
When the angry bull-dyke Senator visits, they can show her how enthusiastic they are for girls in combat. This also requires a catalog of euphemisms and esoteric rules to game the theocrats. Everyone in the military now speaks in tongues.
This will not end well.
Professor Withholding Recommendation for Female Student Who Likes Guns
When the West appeases Islam
...they just go back for more
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Regulatory
Arbitrage, Rent-Seeking and the Deal of the Year - See more at:
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Regulatory
Arbitrage, Rent-Seeking and the Deal of the Year - See more at:
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Thursday, April 21. 2016
Fancy folk have Chubb and the others, but good old Allstate has been a boon to our family over the past few months. Also, pleasant, helpful, and easy to deal with. Eager to please.
A near-total car crash and, this week, a burst water pipe in the basement. Whatever it is, they send people to fix and repair every mess, like the Cat in the Hat.
We have their Homeowner's, their Auto, their Business, and their Umbrella. Worth it.
We have been expensive to them this year, but 25 years with only one (also a basement water pipe) previous claim. Hope they don't cancel us. Thanks, Allstate.
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