I’M PRETTY SURE “CORPORATE WIFE” IS A RACIST DOG-WHISTLE FOR DEMOCRATS: “Real reporter” and real sexist Juan Williams attacks Ann Romney as “corporate wife.”
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August 28, 2012
#NARRATIVEMANAGEMENT: MSNBC abandons GOP convention during every speech by a minority. Can’t confuse their viewers with counter-narrative events.
EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH: Is The Hookup Culture Empowering? Does it depend on who you hook up with? . . . .
BESTSELLING KINDLE BOOKS FROM AMAZON PUBLISHING.
KEEP IT CLASSY, DEMS: Mia Love’s Wikipedia Entry Now Being Defaced.
UPDATE: Reader David Bricker writes: “Thanks for pointing out the Wikipedia outrage. I’m furious and would love to donate. Could you update with a link on where to donate? I can’t believe I’m the only one who is motivated to help her tonight. And what a story it would make if she pulled in big bucks in the next 24 hours.”
I believe that would be the Mia Love Love Bomb. Bombs away!
But wait. You aint’s seen nothing yet. At this rate of growth, total US debt will surpass:
$17 trillion on June 10, 2013;
$18 trillion on March 23, 2014;
$19 trillion on January 3, 2015; and
$20 trillion on October 16, 2015And on, and on, and on…
How’s that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for ya?
LOWER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: High School students and sleep deprivation. “Taken together, the evidence we have on the connection between sleep and academic performance suggests that the problem isn’t merely an issue of student behavior, and the solution probably shouldn’t be confined to lecturing kids on how they ought to be getting a full 8 hours of rest. It’s also a systemic problem with the way we do education. Consider when high school starts, for instance. Studies in Minnesota (and elsewhere) have shown that simply shifting first period from 7:20 to 8:30 makes a difference not only in attendance, but also in how well students do once they get to school.”
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Who’s your daddy? DNA clinic gives answers, sparks concerns.
WHEN FEMALE ACADEMICS suffer from envy.
AT AMAZON, Labor Day Deals In Kitchen & Dining.
HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): The Mean Economy: Even law firms hit hard by recession.
HOW TO TEACH A ROBOT TO IMPROVISE. “Self-piloted drones have become sophisticated enough to land on moving aircraft carriers, but put a single unexpected tree in the way, and they will crash. Now a five-university group that includes specialists in biology, computer vision and robotics is trying to teach drones to dodge obstacles on the fly. Working with $7.5 million from the Office of Naval Research, the scientists aim to build an autonomous, fixed-wing surveillance drone that can navigate through an unfamiliar city or forest at 35 miles an hour.”
If there’s a tree in your way while you attempt a carrier landing, I think being taken aback is entirely understandable.
UPDATE: Broken link now fixed.
A SWING STATE REPORT ON 2016:
I wore my new Ryan “Math” shirt on its first public outing today, to see 2016: Obama’s America. I am something of a movie nut, and try to watch films in the middle of the day on weekdays whenever possible so as to minimize the size of the crowd. I don’t think I’ve seen a daytime/weekday theatre this crowded since the last time I did one of those crazy movie marathons (showing all the Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings films, one right after another) on a Thursday afternoon before a movie premiere.
The audience was reasonably fired up; of the fifty or so people maybe ten of us were under age 40, but everyone seemed really engaged, with a smattering of vocal reactions (especially towards 2008 campaign footage.) One guy said “it’s too bad they can’t let you vote just outside the door” as I was leaving.
We’re in Central Ohio – the theatre draws pretty evenly from congressional districts 12 (Tiberi – went for Obama in 08) and 15 (Stivers – went for McCain) with some folks coming in from 7 (Austria – went for McCain.) The new districts 3, 12, and 15 cover the same general area (3 being the new “mostly Democrat” seat likely to be taken by Joyce Beatty, a typical midwestern city Democrat [http://beattyforcongress.com/].)
I think it’s pretty darned impressive, in any case. Also, several people took a good hard look at my shirt. ;)
(If you publish, please don’t mention my name; I don’t want trouble at work/with relatives.)
You know how we’ll know when things are really changing? When people aren’t afraid to have their names published in support of mainstream Republican causes. . . .
IS “POLITIFACT” MORE LIKE POLITIFICTION? It’s clear that the various “fact-checking” sites have squandered their reputation as honest brokers through repetitive partisanship.
PHOTOSHOPPING BEFORE PHOTOSHOP. “Today the manipulations seem quaint next to pixel-by-pixel airbrushing, sophisticated masking and light modeling, but considering the tools at hand, the products are remarkable.”
FIRST IT WAS WEDDING AND BABY REGISTRIES, NOW IT’S student gift registries. “As students head back to school and recent graduates start their first jobs, many are using gift registries — long an important feature of weddings and baby showers — to help them nab some of the items they want to set up their dorm rooms and furnish new apartments. The Container Store, Bed Bath & Beyond and online retailers with names such as DormSmart.com and DormCo.com are encouraging college students to register and clue in relatives who need help with gift ideas.”
RACISM WATCH: Did Businessweek’s Joshua Green Just call Artur Davis a “minstrel”? “It seems to me there’s little difference between what Joshua Green Tweeted to Artur Davis and his accusing him of putting on black face and shucking and jiving for da man.”
UPDATE: Reader Aaron Kuehn says Riehl is wrong: “‘U MAD BRO’ clearly is aimed at the Democrats who have turned their ire on Davis. Check the comments on the article.”
WHEN THE MANGO BITES BACK. Note this well: In most places, the natives’ “immunity” to food-borne illness is quite partial. They get sick a lot too. Meanwhile, consider the mango experience as a possible answer to this question.
A BRYAN PRESTON INTERVIEW: Sen. John Cornyn: Republicans Can Win Senate ‘Regardless’ of What Happens in Presidential Race.
ANNOUNCING THE MIA LOVE LOVE BOMB. (Via Prof. Jacobson). (Bumped).
THE LINK WAS IN THE RICHARD EPSTEIN PIECE I posted earlier, but here’s a direct link to the Reader’s Digest condensation of Hayek’s Road to Serfdom from 1946. Worth posting on its own.
EVERYONE HAS A CROSS TO BEAR: Bra-Shopping with Sofia Vergara. “Sofia Vergara says she struggles to find a 32F bra to fit her busting top side, and often has to settle for a 34DD in a pinch. ‘Nobody with real boobs usually has those measurements.’”
#WARONWOMENFAIL: “Reclaim Women’s Equality” rally at the Wisconsin Capitol draws only 100 people. It’s as if this whole war-on-women thing is a dumb talking point without grassroots traction or something.
UPDATE: Reader Karen Webb writes: “That’s probably because most women don’t define themselves as a vagina.” No, these days it’s only progressive feminists who see women as no more than their ladyparts.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Niall Ferguson: College Becoming the New Caste System. “The real problem is not that our college system is failing. The problem is that it is succeeding all too well—at ranking and sorting each cohort of school-leavers by academic performance. . . . In 1997, just over a hundred elite colleges, which admitted fewer than a fifth of all freshmen, also accounted for three quarters of the ones with SAT or ACT scores in the top 5 percent. Meritocracy in action? The problem is that this cognitive elite has become self-perpetuating: they marry one another, live in close proximity to one another, and use every means, fair or foul, to ensure that their kids follow in their academic footsteps (even when Junior is innately less smart than Mom and Dad). Paradoxically, our universities now offer social mobility mostly to foreigners. For Americans, they risk creating a new caste system.”