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Archive for 2012
March 10, 2012
SHOCKER: Occupy Wall Street Needs Bailout.
THEY’RE SELECTED FOR LOYALTY, NOT INTELLIGENCE:
They seem to feel empowered by their numbers and my aloneness, but they can see I’m filming, and they’re only interested in harassing me because I’ve put things on the internet in the past. Are they so into the moment that they don’t have a clue that I’m going to put up this blog post?
Madison seems to be a sad, pathetic place, with its public spaces occupied by sad, pathetic people who think they’re a lot more potent than they are.
Related: Wishing Scalia Dead At Wesleyan.
BARACK OBAMA DOESN’T CARE ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE: FEMA Denies Kasich’s Disaster Declaration Request. “The Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied Gov. John Kasich’s request for federal assistance in Clermont County after last week’s tornadoes. . . . More than 70 percent of Moscow was destroyed by Friday’s storms. Franklin Township also suffered heavy damage. The storms killed three people in Clermont County.”
UPDATE: Reader Bart Hall writes: “Reminder: This is far from the first time the Obama administration has denied assistance to Republican areas. Nashville floods. Texas drought. Texas fires. To name but three.” Yeah, but Ohio is a swing state, not a red state.
MICHIO KAKU on the world in 2100. Plus a concern: “The U.S. is losing its edge because we’re not producing enough scientists.”
EDUCATION’S GENDER GAP: Colleges Graduate Nearly 3 Women for Every 2 Men.
In every other academic realm, the existence of a statistical disparity — such as the fact that fewer men than women pursue advanced degrees in certain science and technology fields — is taken as definitive proof of gender discrimination.
For instance, in 2010 the American Association of University Women lamented the “striking disparity between the numbers of men and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics,” and concluded that “we must take a hard look at the stereotypes and biases that still pervade our culture. Encouraging more girls and women to enter these vital fields will require careful attention to the environment in our classrooms and workplaces and throughout our culture.”
We look forward to a robust debate on how institutions of higher learning can correct the discriminatory circumstances that are leading them to graduate nearly three women for every two men.
Indeed. But don’t expect help on gender equality from a hate group. (Story via NewsAlert).
THE OBAMACARE SHELLACKING: DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT FOR HEALTH CARE LAW MAY HAVE COST THEM THE HOUSE IN 2010, STUDY FINDS. This doesn’t seem especially shocking to me.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Washington Supreme Court Puts an End to Gun Ban in Seattle Parks.
THE MYSTIFYING HISTORY of neutrino experiments. “More often than not, neutrino experiments throughout history have turned up perplexing results.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Mapping The College Culture Gap. “When Britain still had an Empire, what mattered most was to get your daughters married and your sons into a good regiment. In Homeland America, all that matters to middle-class and affluent parents is getting their children into the best colleges that money can buy or that the [Scholastic] Aptitude Test will allow.”
THE CHART THAT OBAMA SUPPORTERS can’t stand.
They say it is unfair.
They say it proves nothing.
They say it is racist, sexist and taken out of context.
But mostly, they cry because they made the chart up and the chart is being used against them. Conservatives are making them eat the chart of “Unemployment Rate With and Without the Recovery Plan,” which Barack Obama used to sell the $787 billion stimulus — the largest gamble ever made in the history of the world.
This was their chart.
Indeed.
TEACH YOUR ROBOTS WELL: “Georgia Tech researchers from the school’s Center for Robotics & Intelligent Machines presented findings this week about how humans might best communicate with robots by talking to them as opposed to programming them. The researchers explained that humans would be best off with robots who ask mainly the same sort of questions they do, namely questions about certain features of tasks, such as how to hold a ketchup bottle when trying to pour from it.”
WANT TO LIMIT AGGRESSION? Practice Self-Control.
BLU-RAY DEAL OF THE WEEK: The Austin Powers Collection for $16.99.
JOHN COX OF COX & FORKUM had a heart attack last week. He’s doing OK now, but you might drop by and wish him well.
LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Lean Times For Law School Grads. “Johnson graduated in the top 25 percent of his class and was confident he’d find a job with a Juris Doctorate degree, especially when he saw his law school reporting an employment rate of almost 90 percent on its website.”
IF YOU SKIPPED COLLEGE AND YOU’RE UNDER 30, the Insta-Wife would like to hear from you.
POLL: Romney 48, Obama 43. “That’s Romney’s largest lead since December.”
Even Santorum is ahead of Obama, 46-45. And yet the perception is that last week was bad for Republicans and good for the Dems because the Dems succeeded in painting the GOP as a bunch of ugly social-cons. What gives?
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Another EU Greenfail As Poland Vetoes Carbon Targets. “The EU’s carbon agenda has launched a trade war that has China blocking purchases of Airbus’s troubled new jumbo jets; now word comes that the EU climate agenda is beginning to fall apart at home.” Remember how people used to want us to practice “smart diplomacy,” like the Europeans used?
BLOG COMMENT OF THE WEEK:
SPLC has been an incredibly successful organization. It has consistently solved the poverty problems of its directors. . . .
If I didn’t know any better, I would say they are secret monocle wearing libertarians. Not only do they take millions in donations that could otherwise go to liberal political causes, but also, they use that money that they don’t pocket to run an organization that does nothing but discredit and embarrass liberals.
Heh. And calling the pickup-artist crowd a hate group has got to be the best embarrassment so far.
ANNALS OF THE ONE PERCENT (CONT’D): New York Times paid former CEO $24 million.
UPDATE: Prof. Jacobson emails: “Question: How many law students could have been provided with free contraception for a year for the $24,000,000 The NY Times is spending on Janet Robinson’s exit bonus?”
FIGHT THE POWER: New Civic Activists Shine at Anti-Putin Protest. 20,000 of them, according to this report.
ANNALS OF THE ONE PERCENT: Elizabeth Warren And Her Super-Rich Hollywood Supporters.
