TOLERANCE: Northeastern University Bars Chik-Fil-A From Campus. See, if the Chik-Fil-A folks were really smart they’d refuse to locate on gay-friendly campuses, and then those same student activists would be working to force them to open branches there and then lining up for Ice Dreams out of spite.
Archive for 2012
March 2, 2012
LIFE AMONG THE BARBARIANS: Dad Arrested After Daughter Draws Gun Pic Wants Answers. Tar. Feathers.
DELVING INTO THE MIND OF THE TECHNOCRAT: “Everyone interested in contemporary society should read Robert H Frank’s The Darwin Economy or a book like it. It is not that it is amazingly astute or beautifully written. It is neither. But it does give readers an exceedingly important perspective: an inside view of how the current generation of politician-technocrats thinks.”
WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE JURY DUTY? I think it’s a matter of respect, ultimately. The jury is supposed to be coequal with the judge, but they treat you like cattle instead. As someone — Akhil Amar? — once said, if you believe that stuff about the jury being coequal with the judge, compare the furnishings in the jury room and the judge’s chambers and see if you still feel that way.
WHEN A KNEE REPLACEMENT IS A LIFESAVER. “Three years after diagnosis, the knee replacement patients had an 11 percent lower risk of heart failure. And after seven years, their risk of dying for any reason was 50 percent lower.” Well, it’s a lot easier to be active when your knees work.
MEGAN MCARDLE: EXPLAINING THE U.S. HOME HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.
NICK GILLESPIE: How Andrew Breitbart Changed The News.
March 1, 2012
BREITBART’S last laugh.
WHERE AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE went wrong.
MATT WELCH: Farewell to a Friend: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012). “The next Breitbart-hater to match his entrepreneurial esprit-de-corps will be the first.”
UPDATE: Jonah Goldberg:
One thing that he [Breitbart] and Bill [Buckley] shared was this basic contempt for the premise that the mainstream liberal elite institutions in the United States are in a position to judge and adjudicate the worth of conservatives. That they are in a position to judge our souls. That if we disagree with liberals, that proves that we are somehow wanting or lacking in compassion; lacking in humanity. That is a fundamental thing that enraged Andrew, this idea that if you disagreed about public policy, if you disagreed about how to organize society, that proved you were a racist. That proved you were a fascist. That proved you were a homophobe. It was the fundamental bad faith of the leading liberal institutions that controlled the commanding heights of this culture that infuriated him. And he refused, at the most basic level, to give them that authority over him or his ideas, and that is was fueled his Righteous Indignation, as his book title called it.
Yes, his recognition — and proclamation — that they lack any moral authority was a major reason why they hated him; and, by so hating, acted in ways that proved their lack.
THE GOOD NEWS IS, YOU CAN BUY BOOBS BUT YOU CAN’T BUY IQ: Research: Third of young women would swap IQ for larger breasts. “The study, which has alarmed women’s groups, also found a quarter of those surveyed felt bigger breasts would make them feel ‘happier’. And almost 60 per cent of the respondents believed that men would be ‘more interested’ in them romantically if they had bigger breasts.”
AND THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING, IT MIGHT STILL HAPPEN: Yes, Google Once Considered Issuing Its Own Currency.
ANDREW MALCOLM: Andrew Breitbart Is Dead. So What Are You Going To Do?
On Facebook, Jim Treacher writes: “If you want to know who’s going to replace Andrew Breitbart, you’re asking the wrong question.”
A big roundup here.
UPDATE: Via email, Treacher delivers the right question:
It’s…
“What’s stopping me?”
Army of Davids, baby. I could never do what he did, because I’m just not that guy. But there are aspects of what he did that I can do. And I sure as hell am gonna try.
Preach it, brother.
CROWDSOURCING the search for alien life.
AT AMAZON, markdowns on Men’s Underwear.
THE GOP’S “ENTHUSIASM PROBLEM” — a creation of the pundits?
Plus this: “President Obama has some enthusiasm problems of his own.”
HOW RESTAURANT LETTER GRADES make your food worse.
The New York Times looks today at what factors go into the scorecards that produce the letter grades that, for about a year, New York City restaurants have been forced to display in their front windows. Some of the rules—you’re not supposed to have rat droppings in the kitchen—are uncontroversial. But others are criticized by chefs and restaurateurs as needlessly costly or even interfering with the quality of food.
One has to do with holding and serving temperatures for foods. Certain foods, like terrines and cheese, should be served at room temperature for the best flavor. But this is either prohibited or, in the case of cheese, subject to onerous requirements.
Natch.
THE LATEST SAD PROTESTS AT DUKE: Remember, comrades, it is only bourgeois truth that is concerned with actual facts. Revolutionary truth is concerned with what advances the revolution. That is the truth we should be embracing.
ED DRISCOLL observes his Tenth Bloggiversary today.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Craigslist Bestiality case lands ‘swinger’ couple, friend in jail. “Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the trio used the popular Craigslist classified ads website to find a dog to take part in the act.”
HERE’S THE PLAN: Plant Our Brains in Robots, Keep Them Alive Forever. Can some of the robots look like Summer Glau?
LIFE AMONG THE BARBARIANS: Egyptian Christian Imprisoned for 6 Years for Insulting Mohammed.