Monday, August 17. 2015
The gals of UA's Alpha Phi strike back. Yes, they are in college, but they want friends, fun, dates, and a good husband at the end. But do not be fooled: some of them are math majors. I met one from this tribe, every bit as smart as the grouchy, unfeminine, poorly-dressed northern girls but full of charm, optimism, good cheer, and humor.
Normal and cheerful is today's counterculture.
Strictly speaking, a caricature of a New Yorker when he is presenting in public. He would make an excellent mayor and would be elected easily by any political party, if only for the fun of it.
The New Yorkers I hang with have nothing in common with him.
Saturday, August 15. 2015
It's a big joke. But - The Countless Crimes of Hillary Clinton: Special Prosecutor Needed Now. Hillary finally hands over her server—after it's been professionally wiped clean.
Hillary! and Bill are schemers, sociopaths, bad people with a 40-year record. I know that politics often attracts low-skill sociopaths, but Dems can do better. True that this is all far worse than Watergate which had nothing to do with anything important. That was pure scalp-hunting as was going after Bill for his female-abuse.
Federal criminal court is not the nightly news.
The Countless Crimes of Hillary Clinton: Special Prosecutor Needed Now
Hillary finally hands over her server—after it's been professionally wiped clean
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Quote du jour via Insty:
NASSIM TALEB: “The free-market system lets you notice the flaws and hides its benefits. All other systems hide the flaws and show the benefits.”
What is DARVO?
Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender
Being On Time
Shows respect. Late does not.
She looks good for age 57
Review: Black Rifle Coffee
Review: Black Rifle Coffee
Do you have the nerve to watch this?
In Defense of My Messy Desk
Alarmists are Growing Desperate in Their Efforts to Influence Public Opinion
Bloomberg: We Need to Keep Guns Away from Minorities to Keep Them Alive
Rubio: We need to modernize our antiquated, broken higher education system. Here’s how
Good enuf, but why would the Feds be involved at all?
How Hillary will probably shrug off the email server story
Contra Media Spin, It’s Hillary Who’s Being Investigated, Not Her Server
Joe Scarborough - Time for Special Prosecutor
This is worse, far worse, than Watergate, but the press hated Nixon.
Chris Christie is pretty good.
Nobody ever suggested banning the very words “pork” and “pig” to appease Jews.
Or oysters. Kosher forbids shellfish
Pentagon Fears It’s Not Ready for a War With Putin
There will never be that war
Nobody
ever suggested banning the very words “pork” and “pig” to appease Jews.
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Thursday, August 13. 2015
NYC's mayor and the poverty industry. MacDonald:
The overwhelming cause of poverty in America today is family breakdown, not inadequate government spending on welfare programs or low wages. Children in single-mother households are over four times as likely to be poor as children raised by married parents. And an adult can avoid poverty by taking just three simple steps: graduate from high school, work full-time, and wait until marriage to have children. Only 2 percent of adults who followed those rules are poor, according to the Brookings Institution’s Isabell Sawhill; 75 percent of adults who obey the rules have entered the middle class, defined as making at least $55,000 a year.
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Men may never truly get over a relationship break-up, says study
David Warren's Household hints
Fats, butter, and oils: "They could see no link to coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, ischaemic stroke or type 2 diabetes"
Raising kids: Finally, a complaint about “entitlement” we can all get behind
Finally, Unorganized Hancock hires a bass player
Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made?
The Illogic of All Sex Laws - A new book traces a century of legislative prudery.
Mich. State students protest Boy Scouts for 'cultural appropriation'
If You Love Lions, Let People Hunt Them, The New York Times Says
My Tank: Driving the Sherman M-4A3
Obama, Clinton Foundation Donors Sold ‘Green’ Fuel to Military for $149 per Gallon - San Francisco’s Solazyme also received millions in stimulus funds from DOE
From Steyn: "A Disgrace to the Profession" - The World's Scientists - in their own words - on Michael E Mann, his Hockey Stick and their Damage to Science
Police kill more whites than blacks, but minority deaths generate more outrage
California has now banned use of the word “alien” (as in ‘illegal alien’) from Labor Laws because it discriminates against illegal aliens looking for jobs and gives preference to American citizens.
The ObamaCare Individual Mandate's Harsh Reality
The return of the Showtrial
The Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillary’s Emails
Is Obama taking Hillary out?
Via Powerline:
Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show:
Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents’ plan to make college affordable: “Be good at sports.”
Carly Fiorina Shows How to Address the Left on Climate Change
Army Leaders: Changes to Basic Training Will Produce Better Soldiers
Cuban dissidents say being snubbed from Embassy opening is ‘slap in the face’
America Naively Swoons While Communist Cuba Cracks Down
The U.S. has been complacent and lazy in responding to cyberattacks
ISIS Organizing Small Armies Inside America
Why Iran’s Anti-Semitism Matters
How President Erdogan Mastered the Media - Turkey's once-feisty press has succumbed to an artful mix of bribery, muscle, and ideology.
Film preview: The Unknowns is a documentary film by U.S. Army Veterans Neal Schrodetzki and Ethan Morse.
Hamas has dug ‘several tunnels’ into Israel, in new Iran-funded war drive
Wednesday, August 12. 2015
Hurricane Trump blows away speech police Indeed he does. That's probably the only thing I appreciate about the guy. He is the real Honey Badger Don't Care
Heh! Rush Limbaugh Has A Theory On Why Bernie Sanders Is Drawing Record Crowds
Hillary! says Marco Rubio is too young. Below the fold, a pic of Bill and Hill on a dreamy beach vacation...somebody was lucky to get that photo because those two have hardly ever been together for 8 years:
Continue reading "Fun with politics"
AmazingRibs.com Is All About The Science Of Barbecue, Grilling, And Outdoor Cooking
Parenthood is worse than divorce, unemployment — even the death of a partner
Buffalo, NY: Where the Cool Kids Want to Live
Annie Lennox's daughter rescued after kayak capsizes; boyfriend still missing
No life-preserver? On a big strong river? I have kayaked on the Hudson. Best with a flotation device.
NC State receives approval for new dorm to house basketball players
Whatever happened to good old jock fraternities?
Peak Oilers Shut Up Forever Please
Renewables Offer No Bang for Your Megawatt
Tesla Burns Taxpayers' Dollars Like A Corvette Burns Gas
Tesla runs on coal
What Still Works in the USA?
Well, me, for starters
The Plight of the Unarmed Perp
New Yorker Writer Thinks 'Speech Nuts' Are Like 'Gun Nuts' - Kelefa Sanneh thinks the American devotion to free speech is overrated because there's less of it in Europe.
A Thoughtless Age - The West has cut ties with the great thinkers of the past.
Only an elite few ever studied these
Hillary Clinton’s higher education plan touches all the bases, except reality.
Liberals Can't Admit to Thinking Like Conservatives:
I'm an enormous fan of Jonathan Haidt's work. Nonetheless, I've always had two outstanding questions about it (and would note that these are not exactly questions of which Professor Haidt is unaware). The first is simply whether his surveys capture the actual moral reasoning that people do, or represent people pretending to do the sort of moral reasoning they think they ought to do.
Is Hillary above the Law?
Why a huge Los Angeles crowd turned out for Bernie Sanders
"Trump is not a candidate, he's making an infomercial for a yet-to-be fully develped political reality show."
Because Nothing Says ‘Protecting Her Honor’ Like A Father Letting His Own Daughter Drown
Like Abraham and Isaac?
Dalrymple: Isis Happens - On the linguistic constructions of liberal intellectuals:
... they laughed when I said how strange it was that I met many people who fell in with the wrong crowd but never any members of the wrong crowd itself.
The War Against the Swedish Flag - How love of country became racism.
China Steps Up the War on the Cross
White House Should Leave Politics Out of Iran Deal
5 Big Lessons from the First Gulf War
Major Jewish Groups Slam White House, Allies for Use of Antisemitic Language in Debate Over Iran Nuclear Deal
Tuesday, August 11. 2015
China’s interference in its stock markets reflects a global trend of states trying to govern economic activity.
This never works. Genius planners only mess it up.
Saturday, August 8. 2015
Recall that Mrs. Bill Clinton worked on the Watergate committee, but was fired for incompetence.
From Cheryl Mills to erase Hillary emails:
Hillary and Cheryl and Huma ought to have one of those seances Hillary used to have with Eleanor Roosevelt's ghost, only this time contact Richard Nixon's ghost and ask about the wisdom of getting in a urination match with a federal judge.
 How To Slice A Bagel Along A Mobius Strip — And Why
Is Our Universe a Fake?
Lion Hunting Is For Cowards
Artificial intelligence is already weirdly inhuman
EPA Dumps One Million Gallons of Wastewater Into Colorado River
Attorney General’s Charity Chief: Fraud Is “Surprisingly Common”
An ‘unarmed’ white teen was shot dead by police. His family asks: Where is the outrage?
Why White Men Get Shot by Cops
Ben Carson: Our Skin Does Not Make Us Who We Are, Our Brain Does
That’s Not Funny! Today’s college students can’t seem to take a joke.
O, Utopia. Why must your sweet governance always turn so quickly from the Edenic to the Stalinist? The college revolutions of the 1960s—the ones that gave rise to the social-justice warriors of today’s campuses—were fueled by free speech. But once you’ve won a culture war, free speech is a nuisance, and “eliminating” language becomes a necessity.
New doc highlights Buckley-Vidal debates, a turning point in TV news history
The New York Times Gets Money in Politics All Wrong
The 2016 election for dummies
Democrats: They're All Socialists Now
The Return of the Silent Majority
Cheryl Mills To Destroy Emails About Boss Hillary Clinton
Clinton Campaign Deems GOP ‘Out of Touch,’ Hillary Selfies with Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Kris Jenner
Cheryl Mills To Destroy Emails About Boss Hillary Clinton
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Yazidi Child Soldiers Take Revenge on ISIS
Turkey and Its Kurds: At War Again
HIROSHIMA 70TH ANNIVERSARY: A JUST END TO WORLD WAR II
Friday, August 7. 2015
 Notes on the Republican Presidential Debate
Hope y'all have as fun a summer weekend as I am planning - fishing and thriving on seafood and beer with my gal off Block Island on the usual shared Whaler. I still have no idea why the gal likes me. Yes, I do have a cooler with wasabi, fresh ginger, and soy sauce so we can have sushi fresh from the sea, still flipping, so that might be why. Sushi + Corona with some lime in it.
They predict good sized seas on the ocean this weekend. Ride 'em, cowboy! Carpe diem, friends.
Wednesday, August 5. 2015
We do not make fun of true mental ailments here because there is nothing funny about them, but sometimes we encounter relatively-normal people who sound totally batshit crazy. Not sometimes, often. Good example: Undone By Her Radical ‘Do. "New frontiers of outrage."
Annah Anti-Palindrome is “a Bay Area-based writer, musician, optical sound-smith and queer/femme antagonist.”
Wow. She sounds mighty talented but she seems to be all about her hair style. Probably lives on the dole. Heck, reality and haircuts are difficult for everybody. I try to be understanding towards those who avoid reality, but there are always plenty enough nuts around to make you feel normal within your own "community." The internet says 2% of people are Borderline psychotics living in a mental world between ordinary and totally nuts. That 2% manages to get plenty of press if only for entertainment value.
FDA Report Finds Food Prevents Hunger 98% Of Time When Properly Used
African wildlife:
For those who actually want to do something other than make noise, there is no shortage of challenges. Chinese-sponsored gangs, well armed with heavy rifles and automatic weapons, are presently killing elephant at an unprecedented rate. Recently, elephant-rich areas of Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia have been all but wiped out. The demand for lion and leopard bones from the Far East is at an all-time high, putting a premium on big cats. Meat hunters are wiping out the antelope and buffalo herds throughout Africa. For many of these animals the safari hunters were their only hope.
How do we know the age of the Universe?
1936 Film Perfectly Explains How a Manual Transmission Works (h/t Insty)
Giant gates to Goliath's home discovered: Monumental fortification belonging to the Biblical city of Philistine Gath unearthed
Why Millennials Are Still Living with Their Parents
Uber Battle in New York Shows the Problems and Promise of the Sharing Economy
From Milton Friedman’s greatest hits
“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it… gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide
Discouraging News on College-Bound Black Students
New York’s grade-fixing scandal was entirely predictable — and predicted
Not enough boys in college?
The Immigration Onslaught Continues
The H-1B Visa Program Gives American Workers a Raw Deal
Netherlands abandoning multiculturalism
Gov't watchdogs urge Congress to reverse Obama administration IG crackdown
Has the Justice Department Seized Hillary’s Server? If Not, Why Not?
German critics blast Berlin over economic minister’s ‘scandalous’ trip to Tehran
Tuesday, August 4. 2015
At Ace. Amusing. I find it hard to care right now, but I know it matters.
Monday, August 3. 2015
 Image via NYM
But Cecil was a vegan
5 Rucking Rules Every Backpacker Should Know
Uber is just the tip of the iceberg
Yes, people do not like to work for a boss.
The arc of progressivism is on the wrong side of history when it comes to the disruptive technologies that benefit the middle class that progressives love to defend. Whether conservative and libertarian-leaning leaders can offer an alternative vision remains to be seen, but the progressive tendency to stand athwart history on these matters has given them an open door to try.
Thanks Vancouver (BC) for a 40-minute Black Car Wait
The life of Philip Glass
Company with crowds for hire sees opportunity in politics
The Twitter Mob: Society’s New Mechanism for Enforcing Morality
Is it a lynch mob or a modern-day stocks?
Can College Tenure Survive the 2016 Election?
Audit: Too Many Administrators With No One to Administer at Syracuse U.
TV legend Norman Lear gives 6 strong opinions about American life
In Defense of White Dudes
How Corporate Welfare Harms Efficiency, Growth And Fairness
The Six-Year Slough - New GDP revisions show the worst recovery in 70 years was even weaker.
Spending More on Health Care Is Actually Sort of Good
Chinese Company Replaces Humans With Robots, Production Skyrockets, Mistakes Disappear
Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture
Is the U.S. Ready to Become Scandinavia?
Drought, flooding, disease - climate change is already threatening the source of our caffeine fix. Are we facing the end of coffee as we know it
Good grief, Now I'm scared!
‘Toxic lunacy': Salon’s concerned editorial to ‘White America’ is both ‘tragic and hilarious’
Ghetto Pride Day
The New York Times begrudgingly admitted that raising pay arbitrarily to $15 an hour stinks.
Congress wonders: Can the nation survive without Planned Parenthood?
What if baby parts could cure…malnutrition?
Will: Planned Parenthood and the barbarity of America
Combative Fiorina targets Bush, Clinton and the media at Koch-funded summit
Obama Wants 5-Year Plan: ‘I Guarantee You This Is Not How China’ Handles Its Infrastructure
Navy to Charge Officer Who Fired on Islamist During Chattanooga Terror Attack
Here Comes Puerto Rico’s Default
A Home Without young Yazidi Slave Girls Is So Boring
Venezuela Increasingly Looks Like A War Zone
More "bad luck" for Venezuela as the phones go out.
DEMOCRAT POLICIES WORK! Which country is out of food, pays doctors $15 a month, and has no beer?
The UK: Migrants think our streets are paved with gold
Behind the Lines: Erdogan’s bait and switch
Saturday, August 1. 2015
Uber Valued at More Than $50 Billion. Microsoft a major investor in the venture deal. We love Uber in NY. Only in America can people do these things.
Related, SOCIALISM ALWAYS STARTS WITH THE SAME PROMISES AND END WITH THE SAME DISASTERS
More: L.A. City Council Wants to Make Life Worse For People Trying to Get from LA's Main Airport: Uber shows-not-tells the people why legal transportation cartels suck
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