Archive for 2013
March 11, 2013
ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE THREATENING A “HEALTH CATASTROPHE.”
HOW DID CHINESE MISSILES get into Yemen?
ED DRISCOLL: ‘The Good, Racist People’ of Manhattan.
By way of background, some related observations from Ace.
A SMALL VICTORY FOR FREEDOM: Judge: New York City cannot ban sales of large sodas. “State Supreme Court Justice Milton Tingling in Manhattan ruled the new regulation was ‘arbitrary and capricious’ and declared it invalid, after the American Beverage Association and other business groups had sued the city challenging the ban.”
It’s been a bad day for Mike Bloomberg.
AT AMAZON, coupons galore in Electronics.
LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Coalition of 67 Law Profs and Deans Pushes for Legal Education Reform.
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LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: “Remember how I said my colleagues wouldn’t discriminate based on ideology? I was wrong.”
READER BOOK PLUG: From reader Paul Leone: Vatican Vampire Hunters: Mysterious Albion.
MORE ON RESVERATROL: New drug being developed using compound found in red wine ‘could help humans live until they are 150.’ Faster, please. I’m not getting any younger. And neither is anyone else.
D.C. “ACTIVISTS” mourn Hugo Chavez. Hint: If you want to hang with them, don’t wear a pro-Israel shirt. . . .
MISSING FROM THIS STORY: THE WORD “DEMOCRAT.” Kwame Kilpatrick found guilty of racketeering.
LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Strategic Austerity May Save Law Schools and Improve Learning Outcomes.
#NARRATIVEFAIL: Witness in Trayvon Martin Case Lied. Will It Even Go To Trial? “Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, two significantly responsible for the national furor, do not respond to requests for comment.” It was all about heating up the base for November, 2012. That’s over now.
BJORN LOMBORG: Green Cars Have A Dirty Secret: Producing and charging electric cars means heavy carbon-dioxide emissions. On the other hand, give the Fallen Angels scenario, that may be a feature, rather than a bug!
PRAGER UNIVERSITY: Amity Shlaes talks about her new book on the misunderstood Calvin Coolidge.
APPARENTLY, ALL THAT GUN-CONTROL STUFF WASN’T POPULARITY-ENHANCING: Andrew Cuomo’s Favorability Rating Drops To All-Time Low.
MIKE BLOOMBERG HARDEST HIT: Study: Even ancient mummies had clogged arteries. “Even without modern-day temptations like fast food or cigarettes, people had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to the biggest-ever hunt for the condition in mummies. Researchers say that suggests heart disease may be more a natural part of human aging rather than being directly tied to contemporary risk factors like smoking, eating fatty foods and not exercising.”
IN THE MAIL: From Sarah Hoyt, A Few Good Men and Darkship Renegades. Highly recommended.
SMART DIPLOMACY UPDATE: Sadder, Wiser Obama Lowers Expectations for Israel Trip.
BARACK OBAMA’S POLL NUMBERS PLUNGE IN NEW YORK. “On second thought, maybe Michael Bloomberg is onto something after all. Maybe weaning New Yorkers off trans fats and high-fructose corn syrup is starting to clear their heads.”
No wonder we’re suddenly hearing that New York is a hotbed of racism.
THE ENDLESS RECYCLING OF LEFTY LIES: So this piece includes the bit:
Or as that deep thinker Glenn Reynolds once put it, gleefully: “More rubble, less trouble.”
Of course, as noted since, what I was actually saying in the quoted but not linked post was that if we failed in Iraq and Afghanistan, we might wind up pursuing a “more rubble, less trouble” policy at the expense of democratization. There was no glee.
But then, more rubble, less trouble is now the Obama Administration’s approach — what I called in the original “more rubble less trouble” post, quoting Victor Davis Hanson, a kind of punitive isolationism, so maybe I should take that as praise, not criticism. After all lots of things that were once decried are now okay since it’s Obama doing them.
DEMOGRAPHY AS DESTINY: Daily Beast writers Harry Siegel and Allison Yarrow get the vapors over the possibility that conservative religion might be the only viable solution to America’s low birth rate problem. “Listen to the desperation.”