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Thursday, November 2. 2017Good funAn engaging random session about human history, climate change, Ice Ages, etc. Just advance past the ads for cashews. Carlson does make the point that atmospheric CO2 is now at the bottom of the scale. He is fun to listen to.
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We're all gonna die! From China, How Trust Shapes Nations' Safety Rules - How does a country decide what risks are acceptable in everyday life? Pictures Reveal Life Inside Tiny Futuristic Cubes. Built in 1972, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was the benchmark of Japan’s post-war economic boom. Now, its future is uncertain. "Three [tenured] Dartmouth College professors whose research had included studies of sexual desire and attractiveness have been put on paid leave..." I see little wrong with profs flirting with students, or vice versa. They're adults Transgenderism as Social Contagion Companies Beware: Partisan Politics And Branding Don't Mix As the left surges back, Marxism’s bloody legacy is covered up. Monuments to the victims of fascism exist everywhere, but communism’s victims are hardly remembered at all FBI Seeking Second Person In Connection With Manhattan Terror Attack What The NYC Attack Revealed About ISIS’s Supporters Terrorist Bragging About His Murders In His Hospital Bed, Vowing "ISIS Will Endure". Motives remain a mystery. TRUMP CANCELS Diversity Lottery Program – NYC Killer Sponsored 23 PEOPLE Since Coming to US! UTSA Student Learns That Muslims Rank Higher Than Gays "Muslims Fear Backlash from Tomorrow's Terror Attack" Yale prof David Gelernter, a Maggie's hero, supports Trump despite his many flaws Stockman Slams Mueller's Mugging Of America: The Case Of Baby George Papadopoulos Politico Hides Fusion GPS Employment Of Key Source - There's just one approach you have to take if you're a member of the media: undying fealty to Robert Mueller, no questions asked. Democracy dies in darkness, as we all know. Russia's real 2016 plan was to drive Americans crazy My life as a hostage of al-Qaeda Stalin’s ism: A review of Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin. Wednesday, November 1. 2017Hillary colluded with Russians
Millions of dollars are not petty cash. Dirty tricks with spies and Russians. It's like "The one who smelled it dealt it."
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UZBEK NYC TERROR SUSPECT ENTERED U.S. UNDER DIVERSITY VISA PROGRAM The US has a "Diversity Visa Program"? MSNBC “Terrorism Analyst” on NYC ‘Allahu Akbar’ Attack: “Not Islam Whatsoever” No, it's Amish Group Plans to Boycott NFL on Veterans Day Weekend DNC Hiring For Its Tech Team, Won’t Consider Candidates Who Are “Cisgender Straight White Males”… So just lie Trump Jr. jokes he'll take half of daughter's Halloween candy to 'teach her about socialism' Tinseltown Travelogue: A deplorable's adventure in lala land It's a 3-part somewhat lengthy personal report Which trait most accounts for the spectacular career of Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic’s race blogger–turned–intellectual superstar? Wind farms would need to ‘cover whole of Scotland’ to power Britain’s electric vehicles Spooky: U.S. To Prepare For ‘Climate Change’ Caused Vampire Bat Invasion Why Americans have stopped eating leftovers Not me. I love leftovers. Get On the Bus or Get Under It: Shouting Down Free Speech at Rutgers Protesters claim facts are oppressive and patriarchal
Thousands Protested Trump Last November In Rally Organized By Russia Calling the Cops in Europe? Don't Bother Tuesday, October 31. 2017Foolish ignorant newspaper reporters swallowed this dubious story, and editors OKed it as good clickbait
A 50-ft sailboat loaded with food? Needing rescue? The story smelled to anybody used to boating or sailing. Broken motor? It's an ocean-going sailboat! The Story Of Those Two Women Lost At Sea Is Looking Awfully Fishy Idiots. All of them.
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The 2016 Election and the Demise of Journalistic StandardsMichael Goodwin offers an excellent 5-pager on the above, with special attention to his previous employer, the NYT. He begins:
Big Journalists: Because we're smart and you are stupid, we are idealists and you are not. When you think about it, it's tough on the ego to be a journalist, always watching others, never doing anything. But always imagining that you know better than the common folk or even the big people they write about. Egotism is for people who feel small. Well, that is not really fair to reporters. Most likely most reporters are humble folk who enjoy their reporter roles covering the Zoning Commission and the obits, but the ones in the big time want to be players not observers, moral leaders or some such grandiose BS. Baloney. Nobody anointed you. Just the facts, please. Thank God for the internet. Michael Goodwin has always been one of the humble guys.
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Are men equivalent to women?
It's difficult to keep up. If they want to Stamp out Masculinity, then these haters must find something different about biological males (via Thompson):
Clearly 99.9% of normal American females do not see things in this crackpot way. We link such things for amusement purposes. Women tend to like manly men, but growing into a "manly man" from a hormone-fueled feral child or man-child is not an easy developmental task in western culture. We all know the list of Manly Virtues (strength/athleticism, success/dominance, honor/integrity, loyalty, courage, respect for females/protectiveness, generosity, helpfulness, etc etc) into which males struggle to learn to channel their primitive apelike biological selves. What do women struggle to become, as their best and highest selves, to make their parents and children proud?
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Tuesday morning linksIs Halloween a Christian Holiday? Halloween is actually deeply rooted in the Christian tradition. Duh. Plus some pagan elements, same as Christmas Mark Twain had one goal: To make money A Pill to Make Exercise Obsolete. What if a drug could give you all the benefits of a workout? Too easy, and no cardio exertion Turns out it's less dangerous than coffee Average global IQ = 86 Sometime in the next 40 years, robots are going to take your job. Buzzfeed Crew Shocked To Learn They Have Low Testosterone Levels Reed College professor calls on faculty not to “stay silent about this extremist moment on campuses” Transgender Candidate Targets Kindergartens, GOP Legislator Why Do American Jews Idealize Soviet Communism? Perpetuating the romance of the Bolshevik regime, whose ‘good intentions’ cannot mask the horrors imposed in its name I think I missed those "good intentions" NY Times: The Economy Can’t Grow Without Free Birth Control For Women Or Something The Iconoclasts Come For George Washington. By removing its historic memorials to George Washington and Robert E. Lee, Christ Church is yielding to the relentless logic of identity politics. It’s Come To This: Activist Group’s Virginia Ad Shows Republican Trying To Run Down Minority Children Gregg Jarrett: Still no evidence of Trump-Russia 'collusion' - but Hillary is a different matter 'The walls are closing in,' said one senior Republican in close contact with top staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly. 'Everyone is freaking out.'" UK Labour Leader to Snub Netanyahu, London Balfour Celebration Monday, October 30. 2017Monday morning links
Mali's elephants get a fighting chance Episcopalians: HOW CHURCHES DIE
Gutierrez’s point here is that, “whether we recognize it or not, mathematics teaching is a highly political activity.” Pediatrician: Attempting to transform children into transsexuals is an appalling form of child abuse and should be regarded as such by the law. FREE SPEECH–WHERE ARE THE ADULTS IN THE ROOM? Cowering under their desks Oberlin College Now Paying Students for Social Justice Activism Angry Puerto Ricans Attack Whitefish Energy Workers; Canceling Contract Will Delay Power 2 to 3 Months Brilliant. Spend time throwing rocks at the electrical workers Enjoyment Is All - Max Eastman’s life of twists and turns Woman Whose Tweets Precipitated NAACP Travel Warning Against American Reportedly Behaved Very Badly NY Times Publishes Column Critical Of The Left’s Soft Spot For Communism With Predictable Results Communist apologist: Guys, guys, I have some news. Stalin was bad. Did I just blow your mind? CNN’s Undisclosed Ties To Fusion GPS New York Times: Alarmingly, Perhaps Even Chillingly, General Kelly Seems to Share Trump's Patriotism Maggie Haberman is shocked — shocked — to find that Hillary Clinton's people are dishonest. Steyn: How to Steele an Election TOOBIN: ‘MUELLER’S OFFICE WILL BE UP AND RUNNING WELL INTO 2018, IF NOT’ BEYOND I CAN’T IMAGINE WHY TRUMP DOESN’T TRUST THE STATE DEPARTMENT The Atlantic: What Is Really Unprecedented About Trump? Not much but in many respects, the way that the president thinks about politics is utterly conventional. The Clintons started the so-called Russian collusion scandal and may be destroyed by it GOP Would Rather Lose than Fight It's difficult to fight government when you're in it How effective is media censorship in China? Académie Française rejects push to make French language less masculine Sunday, October 29. 2017Inflammatory wild-eyed hateful provocateur Prof. Jacobson speaks at Vassar"I’m still trying to get my mind around the Vassar College campus reaction to my planned lecture on “hate speech” and free speech..." You can listen to his speech and the Q&A here. Actually, nothing controversial at all from my view. Even the kids' questions were pretty good for a third-tier $60,000/year college. Some angry-sounding women of course, as usual. Saturday, October 28. 2017Saturday morning links
Japan’s Whaling Fleet Set to Embark on Hunt for 333 Minke Whales To Keep Up With AI, We’ll Need High-Tech Brains Climate: Warmth is no Worry but Cold Kills Yale ‘decolonizes’ English dept. after complaints studying white authors ‘actively harms’ students College costume crackdown ramps up as Halloween draws near A University of Southern California professor says he stands behind his tweets that… call for whiteness to be “destroyed,” and the promotion of violence against the “white supremacist heterosexist patriarchy.” Jacobson: Safe Spaces and Safety Teams at Vassar College for My Lecture on Free Speech It's all political theater College's ‘deconstruct masculinity’ program doubles in size It's past time we begin to deconstruct deconstruction British Government: “Men Get Pregnant, Too” GOVERNMENT IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR THE MEAN THINGS WE CHOOSE TO DO TO EACH OTHER
How Team Hillary played the press for fools on Russia Panetta: Intelligence Committee Needs to Look into Clinton/DNC Dossier Payment FBI Partially Reimbursed the DNC, Clinton Campaign Opposition Research Levin: Hey Democrats, YOU were in bed with the Russians! Spain clamors for two-state solution, but not in Catalonia Friday, October 27. 2017Good newsThe World's Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster than Anyone Else. In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%.
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That guy reads more books than anybody I know WHAT IS THE ACLU PREPARED TO DO TO DEFEND FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS? Not much. It seems that social justice and free speech don't mix It Begins: UK Hate Crime Police Come to Blogger’s Home to Arrest Him for Thought Crimes Free speech means not having to lie UC to launch national free speech center American Publisher Apologizes For ‘Anti-Semitic’ Directives in Textbook "Protesters splattered red liquid onto the base of the bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan..." Nobody told them he was a greenie and a progressive Schlicter: Culturally Appropriate This, Social Justice Jerks Hey, Non-Celts: Stop Appropriating Halloween I am part Celt, and and feel offended by non-Celts appropriating my special day Elizabeth Warren lied about being sexually harassed. Liberal senator shared a fake experience on Meet the Press Nobody would harass a real squaw 19-Year-Old Girl Has Sex with Underage Teen; Years Later, She's a Mom and a Sex Offender for Life. Sex offender registries are cruel and unjust. Electoral College: Can We Get A Copy Of The Constitution That The DNC Chair Is Using, Please? ‘No Excuse’: Sessions Makes Major Announcement on IRS Tea Party Scandal CORRUPT MEDIA UPDATE: Evening News Spent 1,000 Minutes on Trump-Russia Story… 20 Seconds on Hillary-Russia Story DOJ Authorizes FBI Informant to Speak to Congress on Alleged Clinton Uranium One Corruption Can I trust the FBI on this? With FBI Actions Now Under Suspicion, WSJ Editors Call on Special Counsel Mueller to Resign Gregg Jarrett: Hillary Clinton Can Now Be Charged with 13 Crimes Clintons have always felt above the law Holy sh*t! This wins Twitter!’ Iowahawk sums up Hillary Clinton’s year in just two PERFECT pics Cruel Are Democrats trying to lose Virginia's governor's race? Theresa May's Middle East Travel Agency The bad war: Vietnam gets the Ken Burns treatment Trump to bypass U.N. and send aid directly to persecuted Christians in Middle East The Impact of Academic Boycotters of Israel on U.S. Campuses Trump’s Malaysia Gambit: Call It Another Win Thursday, October 26. 2017Everybody was colluding with Russia except Trump
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Is Marriage Obsolete? 4 Essential Reads Daimler One-Ups Elon Again; Reveals Electric Semi-Truck Weeks Before Tesla Progressive, “Fair Wage” Pizza Shop Closing Its Doors Too small for a bailout The big myth about dirty jobs, minimum wage, and illegal immigration Kent State mulls whether telling someone ‘You need Jesus’ is hate speech A Catholic university considers sanctioning Catholic doctrine The Global Warming Thought Police Want Climate Skeptics In ‘Jail’ What is America's civic religion today? Bill Clinton Ditched Secret Service Protective Detail Multiple Times to Take the Lolita Express to Pedo Isle FEC complaint accuses Clinton campaign, DNC of violating campaign finance law with dossier payments Former Clinton Spox: Hillary ‘May Have Known’ About Dossier Funding The Russia Dossier Story: A Perfect Storm of Clinton Deception, Media Irresponsibility, and Democratic Moral Blindness ELITES MOVE TO SACRIFICE CLINTONS JUST LIKE WEINSTEIN Poll: Voters see President Trump as 'reckless' and 'not honest' Wednesday, October 25. 2017VDH on California's futureHe is always intelligent and interesting. And he is a multigenerational California farmer and prof.
Communist apologistsThornton: A CENTURY OF MURDER AND ILLUSION, The New York Times' continuing romance with an evil ideology cries out for an answer. The creation of a scientific utopia requires mass murder, terror, and a complete loss of individual freedom. Then, if you survive long enough, and wait long enough, utopia appears. Or doesn't.
Wednesday morning links Men Take Classes To 'Unlearn' Toxic Masculinity - "Rethink Masculinity" Related, some adult men play video games Study: Men Are Getting Weaker Sorry, Cosmopolitan. Dressing As Moana For Halloween Isn't Offensive. Hoax du Jour: Another Graffiti “Hate Crime” Is Solved University of Wisconsin-Madison Students Protest Abraham Lincoln Statue Because ‘He Owned Slaves’ Illegals jump over border fence — as MSNBC reports on Trump wall! Good Drugetaposition Anthropology: Former NPR CEO Spends Time With Republicans, Changes His Mind Anthropology: On Safari in Trump's America - The country’s elites are desperate to figure out what they got wrong in 2016. But can they handle the truth? Paul Joseph Watson SAVAGES Leftists Plan To ‘Scream Helplessly At Sky On Anniversary’ Of Trump’s Election Great idea. Keep it up Hillary says the Clinton Foundation-Russia-uranium-deal story is just a right-wing distraction from the Trump-Russia story House Intel Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) announced an “inquiry” into the Russian-Uranium One scandal Tuesday from Capitol Hill. BREAKING: DNC, Hillary Campaign Paid To Compile Trump-Russia Dossier, Clinton Lawyer Allegedly Lied About It A Blueprint for Minimizing Iran's Influence in the Middle East Tuesday, October 24. 2017Math is all about whiteness
Meanwhile no worries about Asians and people from India doing better, overall, than those white kids. I noted that she is not a Math Prof, but a Math Education Prof. But still... Tuesday morning links
Governments hate freedom, even in the USA. Freedom's just another word... Re the New York Times: Who was Lenin? NFL Teams Play Before Empty Stadiums As Fan Backlash Spreads Too much exercise can kill you - especially if you're a white man: Study finds 7.5 hours a week of fitness DOUBLES your risk of heart disease My doc is highly skeptical Neo-neo wonders what the rules are for sexuality these days Harvey Sweinstein and Hollywood's Hos Actually, it looks to me like Harvey is a crim COLLEGE ADMINISTRATOR COMES UP SHORT IN ANALYSIS OF SHOUT-DOWN CRISIS Men without chests McKibben really hates oil I love oil and gas Most Countries Who Love The Paris Climate Agreement Aren’t Actually Implementing It Polar Bears Lay Siege to Russian Village Now we worry about too many Polar Bears DC Swamp denizens strike back on biodiesel It's a scam So what was John Podesta's now-collapsed Russian green energy scheme really all about? No, Really, Gun Bans Work: Crime Stats Show London Now More Dangerous Than New York City… Bad comparison. NYC is a very safe and semi-friendly city Trump’s latest big interview is both funny and terrifying. POTUS swings and misses at the softest softballs. To be charitable, can we say that policy detail is not his forte? Face it, Germany plays America for a fool. We are its military. GERMANY: TERROR CASES QUADRUPLE TO 900
Monday, October 23. 2017What does Ben Shapiro think about Jordan Peterson?
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How Sure Are We That The Universe Is 13.8 Billion Years Old? Scientists’ Letter to EPA Calling for Immediate Reopening of its GHG Endangerment Finding Forgetfulness: the dangers of a modern culture that wages war on its own past - Francis O’Gorman believes the systematic devaluation of the past began in earnest in the 19th century. "Speech codes are written by and for the privileged. They are written by the oppressor to shut up the oppressed." Free speech: Andrew Sullivan Gets One Right Diapers, bubbles offend at anti-safe space event White, male student under fire for defending diversity of thought: ‘punchable, drag him, expel him’ A Warped Mirror - Omissions and distortions mar Ken Burns’s Vietnam War, a missed opportunity to provide an historically honest look at the conflict. A LIBERAL VISITS SOUTH DAKOTA AND FREAKS OUT AT THE SIGHT OF GUNS The NFL managed to pi$$ off their core audience by nearly 40 points in the last three weeks. U.K. Government Blasts U.N. Because Treaty Says ´Pregnant Women´ Instead Of´Pregnant People´ The New York Times Is Not Hitler But... 93-Year-Old President Carter: Russians Didn't Alter Election, Obama Didn't Deliver, We Didn't Vote For Hillary Not only the Clintons are implicated in a uranium deal with the Russians that compromised national-security interests. Russia-Obsessed Media Shocked To Discover Facts About Russia Stories That Discredit Their Narrative Czech Donald Trump wins Report: Chinese-North Korea Relationship At End, ‘Another Missile Test Will Mean War’ By The Chinese Against North Korea Sunday, October 22. 2017Moving to Trump Country
Lloyd Marcus (who is a black guy) moved to West Virginia.
Saturday, October 21. 2017Saturday morning linksBig crosses not allowed How The Government Created American Suburbia
Professor Evil Calls for the End of Humanity MELTDOWN AT MIDDLEBURY:
Scotland the unbrave: Shakespeare Now Comes With Trigger Warning Harvey claims he´s cured! Weinstein completes sex addict rehab in one week then blasts accuser Lupita Nyong´o as a liar for her claims he forced her to massage him Wow. That's quite a therapy place he went to Williamson's polemic: ‘Acting white’ for white people A world without hate speech A celebration of Charles Blow, the first pundit ever to compare the two figures (Trump and Hitler) That is Hate Speech "Narcissistic Altruism" - is it real? Sure it is. So is virtue-signaling Trump’s General Is Right: Soldiering Is Not a Normal Job Migration: The Straw That’s Breaking Europe’s Back Friday, October 20. 2017The Dangers of Unconscious Bias TestingToday's enjoyable bit on the above topic. I am pleased that Peterson's talks are getting around:
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