Monday, April 24. 2017
Why not just call him a poopy-head? Yale Psychiatrists Just Warned There Is Something Seriously Wrong With Trump
If my political history serves me, people in mental health found serious diagnoses for Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 2, but none for Johnson, Clinton, Obama, or Hillary. Is there a pattern here?
Instead of name-calling, I'd like to see some thoughtful policy critiques but I won't hold my breath. Trump Derangement Syndrome (DSM 5006.09) strikes again. We must be kind to the sufferers.
Saturday, April 22. 2017
 The Secret Life of Bipolar Disorder
Women burdened by birth control responsibility
What’s So Wrong with Melania Trump Dressing Like a Lady?
In public, women try to dress like ladies and men like gents. It's a civic duty. Even Caitlin Jenner dresses like a lady.
A very cool couple
What happens if you smoke marijuana every day?
Idiots try to rob a gun store
Love it
Harvard tells students gender identity can change ‘day to day’: Report
Or hour by hour? Sometimes I feel like a nut...
Another teacher who Left the Left
SCOTUS Case Could Allow Use of Vouchers at Religious Schools
Ann Coulter: Liberal Protesters are “Beta Males” – Engaging in “Rodney King” Riots Over My Speech
Alpha Gal throws down gauntlet
Berkeley Mayor Is Member of Antifa Facebook Group that Organized Riots
The Montana Republican running in the special election doesn't believe in retirement because Noah was still working when he was 600
Sheesh
PLEASE, GOD, STOP CHELSEA CLINTON FROM WHATEVER SHE IS DOING
She wants to be a "thing," like Paris Hilton, famous for being famous.
No gratitude for not being aborted: Chelsea Clinton: I Left the Church When I Was 6 Because It Opposed Abortion
"White House officials said Mr. Trump took a personal interest in her case.... 'He just said, "Let’s bring her home."'"
"We’re told by many wise and well-meaning people that it is a huge and even fatal mistake for liberals (and for constitutional conservatives) to respond negatively to every Trump initiative, every Trump policy, and every Trump idea."
Friday, April 21. 2017
The media's "angry, ignorant mouth-breather" stereotype of the Trump voter is no more than Lefty media spin. Since they do not talk to Trump voters, they will never report the reality. While working class white voters, male and female, might have given Trump his electoral edge, clearly large numbers of all sorts of demographics preferred him over Hillary. I did, and I do not think I am a knuckle-dragger.
Megan McArdle has a half-decent piece, Trump Voters Want Respect. Here’s How to Give It to Them, but it falls into the same stereotyping: sophisticated, educated elites vs. ignorant, feckless plebs referred to as "them." It is condescending and inaccurate.
If Megan wishes to contact me, I would be happy to introduce her to a goodly number of sophisticated, highly educated New York elites who were Trump voters - some enthused, some in the (political) closet, and some holding their noses but ok with it given the alternative.
A summary below of the hour of calisthenic circuits we did this morning (it's different every Friday) while we had the classical music station on pretty loud. The workout contained intense cardio bursts, explosive movements, agility work, and overall athleticism while igniting pretty much every muscle at some point. The endurance part comes in because for an hour your heart never has a chance to drop to a walking rate and you never stop moving hard except for the 1-minute breathing opportunities. Trainer uses a stopwatch to limit that.
A quick reminder that calis, like sports, are not really for strength-building, and strength is just one component of fitness. As fun as it sounds, after an hour you are ready for a nap. Such are the crazy burdens of having a white collar job in the First World.
A 3 min elliptical warm-up, then 4 band walks also as warm-up, then...
Continue reading "Vigorous Exercise: Calis Day"
Thursday, April 20. 2017
 Image via American Digest
The Transgender Madness Has Got to Stop
Boys Punching Girls: Feminism's Big Win
Berkeley: TODAY’S UNIVERSITY EPIC FAIL
Since the downfall of the Gestapo, nobody has treasured the verb “interrogate” as much as postmodern academics.:
She intervenes in popular visual media like reality television to interrogate how time moves and for whom to catalog desire and identification as taxonomy and type. Her preferred gender pronouns are she/her.
California Governor Brown acknowledges other states aren’t buying his climate hype…
Fox News moves Tucker Carlson up to O’Reilly time slot
Tucker is fine, but not a big personality like O'Reilly. By the way, O'Reilly was not a conservative. I don't know Carlson's politics.
Here’s why Rush survived pressure on advertisers while O’Reilly didn’t
Simon: The Republican Congress Must Get Its Act Together NOW
Confirmed: John Brennan Colluded With Foreign Spies to Defeat Trump
A new book reveals that Hillary Clinton’s campaign was way more dysfunctional than we realized.
Krauthammer’s Take: Devastated Democratic Party Has Lost an ‘Ideological Center’
Are parties about ideology? I don't think so
Venezuelan president to arm nearly half a million “militia” members
Wednesday, April 19. 2017
 I Learned The Hard Way That You Can't Take A Vacation From Grief
A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepening a Mystery - After a surprise discovery, astrophysicists are racing to understand superenergetic flashes of radio waves that sometimes beep out from distant galaxies.
Your teen's brain on pot
Battling Turkish intimidation, Armenian genocide epic set for big screen
Universities Seek to Defend Endowments From Republican Tax Plan
"The students ... characterize truth as a “myth” and a white supremacist concept."
They blame the Enlightenment
WHERE FREE SPEECH GOES TO LIVE: The University of Chicago has issued another warning to snowflakes.
Z-man:
Going on campus to harass Charles Murray is not changing minds and it is not intended to change minds. It’s just something to do in order to show off to friends. Its bored children coloring on the walls, even though they know mom with be pissed. Since mom is not going to give them up for adoption over it, the act is just pointless, risk-free theater.
Supreme Court rejects appeal for Latin American refugees seeking U.S. asylum
Asylum is not for economic migrants but they all provide a sob story
The Sad Cancer Of Third Party Pay Medical Care
Man With Two Homes And A Lake House Whines About People Being Too Rich…
Here’s One Reason Why the Dems Still Love Hillary
Elizabeth Warren's new book, "This Fight is Our Fight", says that ordinary folk can do better economically if we only had more government control and less individual freedom.
Williamson: Surprise: The New York Democrat is a New York Democrat.
THE FATE TRUMP SPARED US
Photo scandal not what Marines are made of
If a shooting war comes, the US Air Force is not ready
‘Germany Is a Nation of Immigrants’: Employers’ Unions Demand Open Borders
British Olympian: North Korea has really got a “handle on obesity”
French Election: Le Pen Vows to Quit the EU, End Mass-Migration
She is a left-wing nutjob, regardless of her nationalism
Allies knew of Holocaust in 1942, 2 years before previously assumed, UN documents prove
Bashar al-Assad still has 'hundreds of tonnes' of chemicals stockpiled, former Syrian weapons research chief claims
Tuesday, April 18. 2017
If you can't write coherent and grammatical English, it is difficult to get a job outside academia.
Monday, April 17. 2017
Murray speaks and writes mostly about his data, not about his politics. A Conservative firebrand he is not. Unsurprisingly, college profs judged his speeches "liberal to "liberal/centrist."
I guess they mean in his tone because he does not give political speeches. His work is fascinating social analysis but far from provocative.
 Why do you attend church? Gallup found some unexpected answers
Preaching (ie Teaching) seems over-emphasized. I think people go to be part of a community which is body of Christ. Jesus clubs. When teaching becomes performance, I turn off.
Why American men may have less luck finding a job than women
"How realistic are New York apartments on TV shows?"
Why Americans have stopped moving
Also, if you are an owner it is very expensive to move
California: AND YET THEY LEARNED NO LESSONS FROM THIS...
SOLAR POWER: AN ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER
OUT OF “THEIR” “MINDS” AT BROWN
WELLESLEY NEWS: FREE SPEECH ONLY APPLIES TO LEFT-WING SPEECH
If You Paid $63,916 Per Year To Attend Wellesley And You Write Like This, You Got Ripped Off
College Kids Are Intolerant Jerks
University’s LGBT Students ‘Fear’ Arrival Of Chick-fil-A
Liars. They say they don't feel "safe." Bullshit.
" My committee colleagues argued that "we do not teach grammar" in our writing classes."
Correct grammar is for the elites. It is difficult to learn. I am still learning grammar.
Gay Porn Kingpin: Protect America From Muslim ‘Barbarians’
No institution or agency has done more to help the poor than Walmart.
Is government ever big enough?
Andrew Sullivan Says Good-bye to Hillary
Why Do Democrats Feel Sorry for Hillary Clinton?
Borders: There is a sheriff in town
DONALD TRUMP ASKS A GOOD QUESTION
Trump’s first 100 days have been better than you think
France 2017
The problem of moral grandiosity, perhaps seen in purest culture in Sweden.
Marine Le Pen: Pope Francis Exceeds His Role as Religious Leader -Tells States to Disregard Their Own Citizens
Saturday, April 15. 2017
Photo from An Untouched Frank Lloyd Wright Home from 1960 Is on the Market
The Profound Connection Between Easter and Passover
Why more men will soon find themselves doing ‘women’s work’
Is Facebook a Monopoly? Just Ask Snapchat
All businesses try to dominate their "spaces". Somebody ought to make up a board game about that.
What is Betteridge's Law of Headlines?
McDonalds Should Not Bring Back Szechuan Sauce Because It’s ‘Low-Key Racist’. From a commenter there:
"People stay up at nights thinking of what next to put on the racist list. Next it will be mayonnaise for glorying whiteness…"
There is so little racism in this great country -that "they" have to hijack the English language and invent new definitions for "racism" -in order to have something to point at and say "see?".
According to environmentalists, if members of the EPA can’t hide their data and refuse to show their calculations they’ll be “crippled”
Saving Vladmir Putin's Face
Microsoft Transparency Report Shows Massive Increase in 2016 Obama Era FISA Orders…
Spying on citizens is not American
Basically, Trump won’t Make America Great Again. Instead he’ll mostly maintain Obama’s policies.
Why Trump Will Win Bigly in 2020
Hezbollah forces retreat from Israel’s border following US demand
Chavista Marxists Attack Venezuelan Archbishop After His Calls for Freedom – Start Brawl Inside Church
Sounds like Middlebury College
Death toll mounts among Venezuelan protesters
North Korean Army Officials Arrested After Calling Kim Jong-un ‘Mentally ill’ And A ‘Kindergartener’
Thursday, April 13. 2017
One by one, getting them done for better or worse. Business guys just try to get through their checklists as fast as they can regardless of nuances and sensitivities. Promised he would blow the shit out of ISIS. Had this chance to do it without civilian damage, and he just did it. That's a bigtime traditional NYC F- you from a rough New Yorker from Queens. Manhattanites can be refined and delicate sometimes, but people from the boroughs can be tough as nails. Just ask any WW2 vet if you can find one. I have.
I had thought we were done with Afghanistan. Must have missed something. Remind me where it is again. Z-man is right: it is today's Balkans. Nobody really cared about the Balkans then either, and nobody cares about the Middle East now. Or the Balkans.
However, it's a message to the world: Don't f- with Trump. With Trump, nothing is predictable so watch your back, as they say in NY. Anyway, this is the only language the Islamists understand clearly.
When you think about it, without 9-11 little or none of this Middle East involvement would have happened. So was 9-11 a success for them, or not? I want the USA out of there. And I want those baboons to leave me alone.
Today is Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday)
UMD student calls hippie-inspired fashion 'deeply offensive'
Guess what, Idiot du Jour: Hippie was fashion. Fashion + drugs.
Why won't my shoes stay tied? Scientists are trying to figure it out. All knots inevitably fail
The pros behind the hit records: The Wrecking Crew
Paul Ekman: Three mottos I live by
Evolving war technologies
Food: Loonie Labels In La La Land
By the way, Joss Whedon has announced that Trump will exterminate all gay men in America if you don't join #TheResistance.
Alternate headlines
Notre Dame Students Feel ‘Unsafe’ about Mike Pence Speaking
Manipulative little lying punks
CNN’s Acosta Rules It’s Un-American to Slam CNN, News Media; Doesn’t Regret Screaming at Trump
Syria Strike Fails To Follow Progressive Playbook, Leading To Unhinged Op-Eds
Bummer: Immigration Crackdown Leads To Illegals With Minor Crimes And No Criminal History Being Arrested
VDH: Trump’s Cultural Optics
Trump Was Right! Obama Got FISA Warrant to Spy on Trump Team
Trump is plowing and salting the fields of a bureaucratic oligarchy
Winning behind the scenes
Trump Team Moves Closer to Gutting Some Federal Agencies.
Steyn:
... Christian leaders, friom Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury on down, seem to have more to say about potential, hypothetical upticks in "Islamophobia" than about the sustained attempt to eradicate the oldest adherents of their own faith. Western politicians don't seem to have much to say about it, either, perhaps out of shame: On America's watch, public expression of Christianity was obliterated in Iraq, and the last Christian church in Afghanistan razed to the ground. Almost exactly two years ago, when 148 students were slaughtered at a school in Kenya, President Obama could not bring himself to identify them as Christian, even though their killers had gone to great pains to separate their captives according to their faith, releasing the Muslims and killing the Christians. As I remarked somewhat mordantly, apparently black lives don't matter when they're Christian.
The Islamic supremacists' assault on Christianity is not confined to the Holy Land and the more benighted parts of the developing world. Monday's subway bloodbath in St Petersburg was also celebrated by Isis as making "a metro to Hell for worshipers of the Cross". It's doubtful that most of the victims, who included many students, would have seen themselves as such. But that's the point: you might not think of yourself as a "worshiper of the Cross", but that's how the guys who want to kill you see you.
And so it went in Stockholm also...
Wednesday, April 12. 2017
One would hope so: CLAREMONT RIOTERS TO BE PUNISHED?
The college’s conduct was craven. The fact that leftists planned to disrupt Mac Donald’s speech was well known, and the administration had plenty of time to prepare. It made a conscious decision to let the barbarians rule. Hiram Chodosh, president of Claremont McKenna College, said in a statement that “the school will develop strategies to make sure a mob of students cannot shut down a sanctioned campus event again.”
Why not go to the church which is closest to your house?
Makes sense to me, but it's not what we do
Peanut-Free School Zones Don't Work
Peanut allergies are caused by avoiding peanuts. I love peanuts, and especially Thai peanut sauce.
13,000-Year-Old Fillings Prove Ancient Dentistry Was Brutal
The Third Sex in India
Towns which have outlived their purpose: Cairo, Ill
Toyota shows robotic leg brace to help paralyzed people walk
On the Front Lines of India’s Rhino Wars
What's Causing the Retail Meltdown of 2017?
Is Tesla worth more than GM?
More Reminders That Global Warming Is Good
Boys Don’t Need Books That ‘Put Them in Touch with Their Feelings
Arizona Scored a Big Win With School Choice. Here’s How It Will Help Children.
Female Student Shaves Head to Fight 'Gender Norms'
School groups that interfere with free speech should be criminally prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. 241, and civilly sued under 42 U.S.C. 1985.
How today’s liberal kids are going to ruin college
How Colleges Try to Get Rid of Inconvenient Professors
LA Times Editorial Board: Dear Colleges, Stop Squeezing Free Speech
The US rolls out the Unwelcome Mat
Sessions Announces Illegal Aliens Who Illegally Re-Enter The U.S. Will Be Charged With a Felony
"What If?" Ron Paul Asks The Two Most Important Words
Coyote:
We look back and criticize the major powers in 1914 for getting involved in the constant squabbles in the Balkans but do the same thing in the Middle East, the 21st century's Balkans.
Who will pay California's bills?
The Authoritarian Impulse: Getting What We Really Don’t Want
Hillary Criticizes Obama's Syria Policy, Says "We Should've Done More"
Turns out Obama was the real Russian stooge
Migrants are being sold at open slave markets in Libya
Piers Morgan: Why Isn't Christian Genocide 'Dominating' Mainstream Media?
Sweden: The Silence of the Feminists
Trump Refuses To Sign G7 Statement Endorsing Paris Climate Agreement
France: Migrants Torch New Migrant Camp 34 Days After Torching Last Migrant Camp
China Threatens To Bomb North Korea's Nuclear Facilities If It Crosses Beijing's "Bottom Line"
North Korean Ships Head Home After China Orders Coal Returned
Cuba after Fidel Castro: Full of life, but it is life on the brink of death
Tuesday, April 11. 2017
"Trump, regarded by many including myself as the sensible “peace candidate,” appears to be preparing to engage militarily on multiple fronts worldwide."
Why Are So Many People Popping Vitamin D?
Dalrymple wonders how many Springs he has left, with A E Housman
"Time may be considered precise or fluid depending on the culture."
That explains a few members of my family, I guess. Always late.
Do We Need More Roads and Bridges?
Michael Mann Adjusts the Climate “Turning Point” Out to 2020
I spent a week exploring how we'll have to live in post-water America
Idiot du Jour. Of course if you live in a desert, it's different. Expecting water in a desert is plain retarded.
Banned on YouTube: Cartoon Video Spoofing Vehicle Jihadists
The decline of history at schools is furthering the SJW madness
How Government Makes the Poor Poorer
America's taxes are the most progressive in the world
Trump is so much like Hitler
How Mitch McConnell elected Donald Trump president
Monday, April 10. 2017
Preparing adult workers for the artificial intelligence revolution
Quiz: Are you CEO material?
It says I am but I am sure I am not
"Do" and did" in English
Scientists stunned by huge octopus discovery
We sleep less as we age because our brains don’t think we're tired
What about the possibility that sleep needs diminish with age? We still do not know why sleep is necessary.
Teaching Obesity, Selling Sickness - We are subsidizing our own disease burden.
Turkish cabin crew help woman give birth at 42,000ft
I have flown Turkish Air and I like it
New York Times Op-Ed Says Families Where Wife Stays Home Aren't 'Egalitarian'
And if the guy stays home?
Why we stink at longevity
Millions of Americans are desperate to trade part-time work for full-time
Men's Looks Matter More Than Women Admit, Study Shows
Duh. But money, power, and charm do a lot for appearance
Teaching doctors to give hormones to ‘transgendered’ pre-teens
NY Times: Doctors Right To Give Transgender Kids Puberty Blockers, Hormones At Younger Ages
Meet the Chinese Billionaire Who’s Moving Manufacturing to the U.S. to Cut Costs
Despite global warming, California drought is over
Drought is over cuz of climate change. Hey, isn't most of California a desert?
Trump Preparing Order to Expand Offshore Oil Drilling
Kubota Tractor Moves Headquarters To Texas From California…
From killer diesel fumes to ruinous floods, every green initiative imposed on us by politicians has ended in disaster... and this is the great folly of our age, says CHRISTOPHER BOOKER
DEMOCRATS LOSE ARGUMENT, TRY TO BURN BOOKS
Dodd-Frank Helps Wall Street But Harms Small Banks
23 Ways Big Government Is Hurting the Poor
Dan Rather, Faux Marine
Democrats have zero leverage after Gorsuch
WaPo: Could it be? Is President Trump on a roll?
Prof Calls for Trump to Be Hanged, Random Republicans to Be Executed
Defiant conservatives invite Coulter to Berkeley after riots
The Deification of Hillary Clinton
ICE Agents Arrest 82 Illegals From 26 Different Countries In DC Area Operation
ICE is back to work
Time Magazine Gets Roasted After Falsely Claiming Republicans ‘Tore Up Senate Rules’ to Confirm Gorsuch
Reasonable Inferences About The Weird Obsession With Russia
Did the Obama Administration’s Abuse of Foreign-Intelligence Collection Start Before Trump?
Wikileaks Bombshell: Guccifer 2.0 Admits “Seth” Rich Was DNC Leaker
Trump’s airstrike on Syria delivers another blow to Obama’s legacy
WSJ: In Striking Syria, Trump Made All the Right Calls
MSNBC's O'Donnell: Putin 'Might Have Orchestrated' Syria Strike to Help Trump
Brit clergy bewildered by Islamist terror
"We'll never know why he did it"
The EU's Utter Contempt for European Freedom
Sweden will ´never go back´ to the days of mass immigration after failed asylum seeker launched Friday´s truck attack in Stockholm, says the country´s shell-shocked PM
One Week, Five Terror Attacks: Beginnings of Another 'Summer of Terror'?
Saturday, April 8. 2017
The state’s politicians now want to bribe college grads to stay.
They got those blue state blues...
 “Sex Traffickers at Ikea?” Free-Range Kids Cited by Snopes!
The only good thing Ikea sells is Loganberry Jam. Excellent stuff. Have not heard of child sex slaves for sale there yet, but with Sweden going the way it is going, who knows what the future holds for Ikea?
Feminist Author: Women Need to Stop Playing the Victim
MELANIA TRUMP WORE THE MOST STUNNING RED DRESS
Guy Builds Water Cooled, 72,000 Lumen LED Flashlight and Takes it for a Nighttime Stroll (h/t Thompson)
Autism Moms Have Stress Similar To Combat Soldiers
U.K. Bans Body-Positive Video Game Ad for Sexually Objectifying Women
I am constantly amazed by the amount of censorship in Europe. Their governments have never permitted free speech.
Bee Experts Challenge Environmental Claim That Wild Bees Are Near Extinction
California doubles down on stupid – Court upholds cap and trade program, new fuel tax coming
The United States has no interest in Syria. There are no good guys to back. There’s no “solution” to what ails that part of the world, short of another flood. Syria is a mess because it is full of Syrians. The only sane policy is to make sure it remains full of Syrians. Let them kill each other there, not in Paris or Portland. If the Russians want to build their pipeline there and pay the price for it, good for them. If the Saudis want to stop them, best of luck with it. This is not an American problem. It is their problem. Let them own it.
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