Tuesday, January 8. 2019
NYT: Am I old?
Women over 50 'too old' to love, French author Yann Moix says
Well, youth does have its charms
Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria Is ‘Social Contagion’
AKA a fad
An Homage—and Memorial—to Civilization. Peter Jackson’s new documentary about the First World War is an overwhelming viewing experience.
The Mindfulness fad
Our obsession with taking photos is changing how we remember the past
Millennials discover that building a life is difficult
Genes, environment - and luck
Package tracking app turns users’ devices into a bot farm, violates user privacy
Apps are bad, except for Mapquest
The Pope’s Laxity Catches Up With Him
But at least he is against climate and poverty...wait - Don't people in the Church take a vow of poverty?
The ‘Green New Deal’ isn’t just ambitious — it’s insane
Will Somebody Actually Start A Serious "Climate" Emissions-Reduction Program In 2019?
Nope
Portland State Prof Who Exposed ‘Grievance Studies’ Corruption Faces University Discipline
So I Guess I'm Only Half Racist? At least I mow my lawn: University Educator: Mowing Your Lawn & Acting Respectable Is Racist
Hey, Christian Bale, Dick Cheney's my former boss. Here's what your Golden Globes speech missed
Shut up and act
IT'S RACIST TO WARN BLACK PEOPLE THEIR BUILDINGS AREN'T SAFE
Heather: Opportunistic Outrage - Anger about comparatively rare white-on-black hate lets advocates ignore a far more pervasive reality.
LIBERAL BILLIONAIRE APOLOGIZES FOR FUNDING RUSSIAN BOT ‘FALSE FLAG’ — BUT QUESTIONS REMAIN UNANSWERED
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Dissenters Need not Apply. Against diversity statements.
NYT Hack Defends Paper’s Non-Stop Attacks on President Trump Despite His Historic Presidency
Government Can’t Heal Us, Tucker Carlson
The Great Wall of America Will Break the Democrats
The Economy Is Finally Coming Through for U.S. Workers. Decent wage gains are showing up in paychecks. That should continue for a while.
Amnesty International Singling Out Jews in 2019
Saturday, January 5. 2019
Friday, January 4. 2019
A Close Look at the Most Distant Object NASA Has Ever Explored - In the icy reaches of the solar system, NASA discovered a snowman-shaped object.
Kansas Teen to Get High School, Harvard Diplomas in 1 Month
M, F or X: New York City birth certificates now have a gender-neutral option
I think doctors can usually figure it out
NYC: Much Ado About Amazon - The company’s new headquarters could become a new Rockefeller Center.
Move Over ‘Friends,’ Millennials Now Find ‘Seinfeld’ Problematic
Historian: Museums need to ‘reconsider’ European art exhibits because … white supremacy
This conflation of comedy with politics is the real shame.
NYT Crossword Editor Gets Beaned By the Roaming Outrage Mob
And the soy-boy apologized
In wake of transcript fraud scandal, universities silent on admissions processes
Colleges eat up these fake sob stories
Black Lawmakers’ Charity Didn’t Give Out A Single Scholarship, Top Pols Hide Financials.
Germany’s Leading Magazine Published Falsehoods About American Life - A reporter with Der Spiegel fabricated information in more than a dozen articles—most of which were meant to reveal America’s brutality.
NBC analyst leaving network over 'Trump circus'
The "dossier" was an intel set-up
Related, WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED SO FAR
Schlichter: Top 10 Predictions for 2019, A Year That Will Make 2018 Look Sane
VDH: Actually, 2018 Was a Pretty Good Year
Democrat Leaders WOULD NOT EVEN LISTEN to Border Security Briefing at WH Meeting
Forget the wall — Democrats now hate the border itself
'Fresh Face' Dem Congresswoman: 'We're Gonna Impeach The Motherf***er'
That's an intelligent approach...
Fifth Kavanaugh Accuser Recants
The Tragic “Elizabeth Warren Being Very Authentic And Having A Beer On Instagram” Clip
FORMER NY TIMES EXECUTIVE EDITOR: SURE, THE TIMES’ REPORTING IS ANTI-TRUMP
It's what their readers want
About Tucker Carlson’s Galvanizing Speech
We posted his 15-minute monologue yesterday
Also, re Tucker:
“A mob of angry children is suddenly in charge of the country,” he said. “These aren’t people seeking a revolution. They’re fighting for the status quo to protect their own status. They are drunk on power and they are looking for new people to hurt. Someday, we are going to look back on this moment with shame and horror.”
Thursday, January 3. 2019
Wednesday, January 2. 2019
Most people give up New Year's Resolutions by January 12, study claims
Photographer Makes New Year’s Resolution to Stop Buying Unnecessary Gear in 2019, Breaks It Before 2019 Even Begins
New discoveries at Pompeii come amid renaissance at site
Pretty In Passenger-Seat Pink: Why Are Women In Power-Adjacent Positions Flocking Toward the Feminine Hue?
The Push for Unconstitutional College Programs
Condell video: Big Tech and the Anti-American Dream
Anxiety About Immigration is a Global Issue
The Only Meddling "Russian Bots" Were Actually Democrat-Led "Experts"
Trump May Be The True Liberal
Romney: Trump 'Has Not Risen to the Mantle' of President
"Mantle"? Give me a break.
Mitt Romney: The president shapes the public character of the nation.
What?!? I used to like the guy enough, but now I see he is a sanctimonious putz
Trump tweets "Enjoy the ride."
Tuesday, January 1. 2019
Crystal-clear logic without any ideological contaminants, with humor. Sample: Episode 356 Scott Adams: China Trade, Louis C.K., Walls and Climate Debate
His genius for clarity is like a glass of icewater.
I've had the local NPR on the radio for about two months. It's been interesting. I think it's the radio designed mainly for graying suburban moms and grandmas. It has a soothing, virtuous, homey tone and it assumed you agree with their angles and spin because you are bien pensant like them.
It doesn't take long to get the daily predictability:
Bad things: Orange Man, the economy, guns, White Supremacists (where do they find those?), the climate crisis, Putin, Russia Russia Russia, oil companies, border security, the obsolete US Constitution, people who won't recycle
Good things: The UN, Nancy Pelosi, The SPLC, any LGBT movement, illegal immigrants, government regulations, Pocohontas, Romney (they suddenly love him), anybody who feels oppressed or offended. And recycling is the highest form of virtue.
They have pretty good taste in music, though.
Monday, December 31. 2018
Amos Oz, ‘Israel’s greatest writer,’ advocate for peace, dies at 79
William Baumol, whose famous economic theory explains the modern world, has died
The man who got justice for the girl in the red coat
Social Worker Led Frugal Life To Leave Nearly $11 Million To Children's Charities
Association of Cannabis With Cognitive Functioning in Adolescents and Young Adults
If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours
Practically Pernicious in Every Way - The Disney reboot of a classic story about parenting inverts and betrays the message of the original.
The Ten Most Outrageous Higher Ed Stories From 2018
Walter Williams: Disparities Galore
THE CURE FOR SOCIALISM: BETTER BUREAUCRATS!
The Conservative Purge Continues: Christian Leader Franklin Graham Suspended from Facebook Over 2016 Post
REPORT! Top Email Service Providers Tossed GOP Candidates’ Emails Into Spam Folder During Election
Immigration: America as an 'attractive nuisance'
FBI: A Record High of 8 Million Illegal Immigrants Tried to Buy Guns in 2018
Conway: Border wall debate 'a silly semantic argument'
XHALE City Vape Shop FIRES Racist Trump-Hating Liberal After SCREECHING MELTDOWN CAUGHT ON VIDEO
Donald Trump is completely transforming the Democrats
"The press reports he watches television for hours, is inattentive to briefings, doesn't read, rants, rages, nurses petty resentments..."
Gen. Anthony Tata: Trump Doctrine brings foreign policy success
SYRIA WAS NEVER A JUST WAR - The West should fight wars based on the principles of Augustine, not Mohammed.
Newly formed Putin Airways to undertake a round the world non-stop commercial flight
Saturday, December 29. 2018
Photo via Salt Water New England: When there's no snow or ice, Christmas week is a good time for a hunt in Yankeeland
'They shall not grow old' a box office blowout - for good reason
Meet Bai Shaofeng, a Beijing bachelor looking for love. Shaofeng’s problem — one faced by millions of his countrymen — is a product of cultural preferences, government decree and modern medical technology. In China, there are simply too many men.
A few insane academic SJWs
The Other Intersectionality: Victims of Islamism
Greatest Female Tennis Player in History Martina Navratilova Says That It's Not Fair for Men to Compete Against Women; Trans Activists Attack Her Until She Deletes the Tweet and Apologizes
Furious trans woman tells shopkeeper "Let's take it outside"
Who are Seattle's homeless
Mostly addicts, hobos, and the mentally-ill
Postcards From San Francisco
This Insane Battle To Block a New Apartment Building Explains Why San Francisco and Other Cities Are So Expensive
Proposition 13 is no longer off-limits in California
Latest Russia bombshell is fake news
Another, bigger migrant caravan is set to leave from Honduras next month
Sheriff: Border Fence Helped Cut Crime in Yuma by 91 Percent
NY Times Warmist: Forget The Carbon Tax Now (Till We Can Ram It Through)
THE NY TIMES WAS SILENT WHEN THE DCNF ASKED IF IT WOULD SUPPORT BANNING PRIVATE JETS. WHY?
Maurice Strong, Climate Crook
Democrats Hate the Wall because Trump Loves It
Could Venezuela's Socialist Disaster Get Any Worse? Just Ask Its Oil Company
Bashar Al-Assad Has Won The Syrian Civil War
Friday, December 28. 2018
Moral Confusion About Immigration
Interesting, but immigration is a politico-socio-economic issue more than a moral one, isn't it? An issue for the people to decide.
Only a world government can benevolently solve all of our problems: Angela Merkel: Nation States Must "Give Up Sovereignty" To New World Order
Governance is too important to be left to the people. Government has the guns, so shut up.
Photo: Christmas Eve moon over the Maggie's HQ after church and a late Christmas Eve party
Bill Ballou: Mariano Rivera not getting this writer’s Hall of Fame vote
Interesting. He's right that people always loved Mariano
6 Unexpected Ways Depression Can Impact Your Social Life & How To Spot The Signs
Jews on the Prairie - The rise and fall of Beersheba, a Jewish agricultural colony that brought immigrants to Kansas in the 1880s
Mizzou Official Claims Tall Men Asking Out Short Women Could Constitute Sexual Misconduct
What about tall women going after small men?
WRONG AGAIN: Obama and Gore Said Global Warming Would Cause More Severe Tornadoes – 2018 Was First EVER with NO VIOLENT TORNADOES
ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A MEMBER OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS?
John Kerry's Family Fights to Keep Peasants Away from Ancestral French Villa, Claiming Terror Threat
The cost of the wall is nothing compared to the yearly cost of illegal immigration
Steyn considers concept of lone wolves
Michael Walsh: Sweet Shutdown, Roll On
Williamson: Does the U.S. government do more harm than good?
The FBI and DOJ Were Working to Protect Hillary Clinton a Lot Longer Than Generally Discussed…
Byron York: When Democrats embraced the 'Southern Border Fencing Strategy'
Tom Friedman is having a bad old time 'getting' Trump
Althouse is no Trumper, but this:
I'll just add that I can barely read the news these days (and I absolutely cannot watch it on TV). The negativity toward Trump is so relentless, cluttering up everything. It's crying wolf times a thousand. If anything is worth taking seriously, I'm afraid I won't be able to notice.
For better or worse, Trump is now Trumpier than ever
After 60 years of revolution in Cuba, cracks in leadership emerge
Beijing continues its South China Sea imperialism and ups the military ante.
Commies are always imperialists
China To Take Over Kenya's Largest Port Over Unpaid Chinese Loan
Clever technique. China knew they'd never be able to pay the loan
Ecuador fell into the same trap
Taiwan’s growing role
Kim’s last chance
Thursday, December 27. 2018
Wednesday, December 26. 2018
More Babies Are Conceived Over the Holiday Season Than Other Times of Year
It was Christmas Eve 1967, and we had just returned from a four-day operation that took us into the rugged hills of Vietnam's Khe Sanh Plateau.
50 Years After 'Earthrise,' a Christmas Eve Message from Its Photographer
Ruling that blocked grizzly bear hunts appealed by US
End of Snow (Again): “under a high emissions scenario, skiing could be very limited … by the end of this century”
Morals are not products of reason
Can Intelligence Buy You Happiness?
These endless Happiness Studies bother me. What is happiness anyway? A warm gun? Seems to me that not feeling depressed or overly-anxious is worth feeling grateful for.
The Virtue Signalers Won’t Change the World - Third-wave antiracism makes sense, and fits into the longer struggle, but it’s a dead end.
Revising trauma downward
Fewer NYC High School Students Identify As Heterosexual Than Ever Before
Hetero isn't cool
Why Doesn’t the FBI Videotape Interviews?
College: CHECKING THE RACIAL BOX
Ticking Time Bombs in the Church
On The Continuing, Pervasive Hatred of Short-Sellers
Sorry, Lefties And Never-Trumpers, But Mattis Quitting Isn't A Crisis
Trump Derangement Goes International
Trump Signs Sweeping Bipartisan Prison Reform Ahead of Partisan Shutdown
Trump seeks peace not war
He could end up ending or getting the US out of several wars in four years - Yemen, Korea, Syria, Afghanistan, wars against Israel. Not bad.
They’re Not Sending Their Best: Democrat Leaders Pelosi and Schumer Post Same Exact Trump-Hating Tweet on Christmas Eve
TRUMP BESTS THE GENIUSES IN SYRIA - All those foreign policy wizards who got us into this mess are now screaming. No wonder.
In the Middle East, Christians are under grave threat - let us show them they are not forgotten
The Vanishing - The plight of Christians in an age of intolerance
Iraqi Christians Celebrate Hopeful Christmas After Defeat Of ISIS
Monday, December 24. 2018
Saturday, December 22. 2018
Stolen from Insty
Photo is our Christmas card from Uberhof Duer in Bulla, Italy. Dolomites' Val Gardena. Nice place to stay, classic hiking of course and great high skiing. Yes, the food up there is mainly German/Austrian. There is no single Italy.
New discoveries about the genetic history of corn (maize)
Prince Harry WILL join friends at Boxing Day pheasant shoot after rumours animal rights supporter wife Meghan had ´banned him´ from going
Glad to hear it
Hey guys! Does your dick hang down into the toilet water?
Psychological research shows that the harder we strive to be happy, the less likely we are to achieve that goal
Organic farming is 'much worse' for the climate than conventional food production, researchers say
How I Quit Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon
GE Powered the American Century—Then It Burned Out
A book from Austin Bay: Cocktails from Hell: Five Complex Wars
#MeToo In A Star Is Born
The end of Lean In: How Sheryl Sandberg’s message of empowerment fully unraveled
Church Of England’s Transgender Baptisms Blaze Trail For 3 More Blasphemous Rites
Steyn:
Betrothed gays looking for wedding cakes and floral arrangements are not just carelessly stumbling into homophobic bakeries and florists. It's an organized campaign consciously targeting particular establishments. That's why no gay couples have wandered into a Muslim patisserie in Dearborn... and, if they did, they'd be the ones in hiding. Tim Cook, the Apple CEO who'll have no truck with hoosier homophobes, is happy to enrich Iran's mullahs so they can build fancier gay gallows on which to hang the sodomites. Muscle respects muscle.
Jerry Brown Thinks Democrats Want Too Much Spending And Regulation. Wait… What?
Yesterday DHS Secretary Nielsen announced an administrative reform of the enraging asylum scam that is aided and abetted by the Democrats
"EXPERT" ACCUSING TRUMP OF RUSSIAN SUPPORT CAUGHT FAKING RUSSIAN SUPPORT FOR GOP
Heed Emanuel - Illinois is facing a fiscal nightmare, Chicago’s outgoing mayor warns.
‘The Walls Are Closing In’: Cable Journalists Chant Dems' New Mantra Five Times a Day
Let me suggest that Trump’s behavior is perfectly understandable if viewed in the context of his business background.
If Trump does it, it becomes wrong
Soros Spent $1.35 Million Funding Organization That is Flooding President Donald Trump With Lawsuits
Russians Funding U.S. Anti-Fracking Groups?
Is UK Heading for a ‘No-Deal’ Brexit?
Bringing Troops Home From Syria and Afghanistan Also Brings Fits of Bipartisan Rage
Friday, December 21. 2018
Old, but I wish my kids were this creative...
VIDEO
DNA tests: The Christmas present that could tear your family apart
Who's yo daddy?
As Chick-fil-A surges, McDonald’s and Wendy’s are under threat
What Makes Chickens Happy? Nobody Is Quite Sure
Who cares?
Decades of data suggest parenthood makes people unhappy
Happiness is a momentary thing
Loony Lefty Churches Sing Rewritten Christmas Songs About ‘Climate Change’
Break Up Google For the Sake of National Security
Greenpeace Business Report
When Will It Be OK To Laugh At The Climate Campaigners?
Who Gets to Look Out to the Edge of the Universe? For years, more men than women were allowed to use the world's most powerful telescope—until the system changed.
Feminism"s dependency trap:
We hear a lot about “male privilege” but historically it has been the “privilege” of men to make their way in the hard world in order to first win a woman’s affections, and then support the family structure financially. We might call this “patriarchy,” but this term isn’t the synonym for misogyny that contemporary progressive political culture seems to think it is. (One has to appreciate the misplaced sincerity of many of my university students who roundly condemn The Patriarchy, while driving their father’s Toyota to campus every day, and using his savings to pay for their tuition. Not infrequently it occurs to me that the people who are most vocal against The Patriarchy are those who have benefited from it the most.)
Gallup: Top Problems Are Government, Immigration
U.S. Cites Sovereignty as One of 5 Countries to Vote Against UN Migration Compact
Good. Still waiting for China and japan to accept immigration.
Even CNBC’s Jim Cramer Agrees! – Fed Chair Powell “Trump’s Worst Nightmare” — Who the Hell Raises Rates w/Dow Down 12% in 3 Mos.?
Wrong. Strong economy needs rate hikes. Dow doesn't matter
WikiLeaks, Julian Assange’s Official Account and Legal Team All LOCKED OUT of Twitter
Influencing Foreigners Is What Intelligence Agencies Do
Is that news to the New York Times?
The Art Of The Deal: Mexico Agrees To House Asylum Applicants
Mattis Always Understood Trump’s Severe Defects - And his resignation means he knows that the president will never change.
Trump has great strengths and great flaws
Why Trump Is Right to Withdraw Troops. Withdrawal from Syria will be Trump’s first practical application of a true “America First” foreign policy. It has been long overdue.
President Xi Jinping opened the 40th Anniversary of China’s reform by warning of “unimaginable” perils that only his leadership of the Communist Party can control.
China goes full out against labor unions
Thursday, December 20. 2018
It's getting closer to the time to begin Christmas shopping. Whether you like Bezos or not, Amazon Prime is your friend. A daughter says Macy's is her friend now, too (the big store in Manhattan).
A book: Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball
Not out til March though. Looks cool.
‘Equal Pay Day’ this year was April 10 — the next ‘Equal Occupational Fatality Day’ will be on May 3, 2029
I do not like seeing pilots so high on the list. Those are not commercial pilots, though. GA pilots.
This year in museums - On movements within, and reactions against, art museums in 2018.
The secret of Apple's success in selling premium tech as an affordable luxury
Democrats Promise “Dawn Of New Era” On ‘Climate Change’ Or Something
Appeals court rules colleges must censor and block online services if they offend someone
Everything offends somebody, but grievance-collectors are the worst
5 most outrageous professor statements of 2018
University offers students contradictory instructions on sexual consent : “One should never assume by the way a person…acts, that they [want] to have sex with you.”
What? It's pretty obvious when men want sex (most of the time).
Radicals, left or right, are high in dogma, more resistant to evidence
Lefties more so than conservatives
Get Ready for the Coming War Against Merit
I am not convinced that the SAT is a measure of merit. It's really just an IQ test. Achievements tests are better merit measures but lots of schools do not have AP courses. Grades are not very reliable measures these days. If I ran a school, I'd use an IQ test, a Curiosity test, a Talent test, and an Energy test. No straight-A drones please.
CNN's "Journalist Of The Year" Committed Journalistic Fraud "On A Grand Scale" At Der Spiegel
US Government Announces $10.6 Billion in Aid to Mexico and Central America — But ZERO DOLLARS for Border Wall
Mexico is not a poor nation. Lots of oil This payment is a deal to make them stop the caravans, probably.
Trump Wanted Out of Syria. It’s Finally Happening. The announcement is in stark contrast to recent remarks by senior U.S. officials on the presence of troops.
I'm with Trump on this. Not my problem, not essential to US security.
Trump’s Syrian Retreat: A Disaster in the Making
Maybe their disaster, but not mine. Disasters are normal all over the world, due to human nature.
Looking for China’s spies
Of course they have tons of them. No surprise.
Russia Russia Russia. They elected Trump?
Some feckless Russians spent $4000 in Facebooks ads about masturbation. How much did Hillary spend on her Russian info?
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Wednesday, December 19. 2018
Who Were the 1st Americans? 11,000-Year-Old DNA Reveals Clues
This 87-Year-Old Woman Donated Her Body So Doctors Could Slice It into 27,000 Pieces
The Pitfalls of Too Much Security
The Babysitter's Lament
I disagree with our friend. This is simply what happens when young males and females spend a lot of time together. Biology happens.
Harvard Zealots Abuse Title IX to Nail the Accused
HOW TOTALITARIAN REGIMES WILL TAKE OVER SOCIAL MEDIA AND DESTROY THE WEST
Is Michael Savage the latest victim of TDS and the left's 'pacification effort'?
Big corporations hate conservatives
Liberal Media Loves Immigrants, Except for Melania Trump
Correction: Media loves illegal immigrants
Advertisers flee Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show as controversy grows over immigration remarks
Officials baffled by large migrant groups at remote crossing
Two-Tiered Justice: Mike Flynn and Tony Podesta Did Same Work for Turkey, Both Filed Retroactively. Flynn’s Life Is in Tatters As Podesta Walks Free
KLAVAN: James Comey, Sanctimonious Crapweasel
Former FBI chief lashes out at Trump, Republicans
Christians 'Standing in the Way' of China's Xi Jinping's Totalitarian Rule
Brexit: How Europe does second referendums
Make the peasants vote until they vote right
Venezuela update
A lesson in how to destroy a wonderful country