WHY DIDN’T THEY JUST USE A DRONE, LIKE GOD AND OBAMA INTENDED? Police: Peeping Toms fall through bathroom ceiling.
Archive for 2013
May 2, 2013
RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. “While the US is focused on its own domestic dramas, Europe as the Economist puts it, ‘is bleeding out.’ Silently, exsanguinating below the fold, but bleeding all the same.”
YEAH, PRETTY MUCH: A psychotherapist contends that the DSM, psychiatry’s “bible” that defines all mental illness, is not scientific but a product of unscrupulous bureaucracy. It’s the product of a committee, which at best reflects unconscious biases and groupthink. At worst. . . .
WHAT’S MORE DANGEROUS: Puppies, Or Fracking?
RAND SIMBERG ON Fraud In The Sciences.
And here are some related thoughts of mine from a while back.
MEN 30-50 LESS INTERESTED IN MARRIAGE. “27% to 8% is a big gap. It’s no wonder that women in the same age group have a hard time finding men.”
UPDATE: I should note that the reasons for this gap are found in the Insta-Wife’s forthcoming book. Pre-order it now!
21ST CENTURY PARENTING: Police say mom reported finding her own baby on Hawaii beach. “A day after a woman reported finding an abandoned newborn crying in the sand on a Hawaii beach, police arrested her and revealed she’s the baby’s mother. Keala Simeona, 21, of Honolulu, was arrested Tuesday for filing a false police report. Police don’t expect to pursue additional offenses at this time. She posted $250 bail and was released.” Well, at least it wasn’t one of those fake rape reports.
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: IRS Grabs Man’s Tax Refund to Recoup Social Security’s Alleged $895 Overpayment to Mother 42 Years Ago.
WHEREVER SOCIALISM GOES, STARVATION FOLLOWS: Starving Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism.
Yes, Jamestown started out without free enterprise and people starved. Then private property was recognized, and saved the day. Also as usual. That’s when the American exceptionalism got started.
NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: World’s smallest stop-motion film made with individual atoms.
OVERCOMING FEAR OF FITTING ROOMS.
THE UNION-LEADER GOES AFTER GUN-CONTROL PROPONENTS’ “BULLYING” OF SEN. KELLY AYOTTE: “What is disgusting is deliberately mischaracterizing someone’s position for the purpose of portraying that person as a willing accomplice to murder. That has been the left’s strategy since Newtown. It is a testament to the Senate that a majority of its members, including Ayotte, did not cave to such bullying.” Hiding behind victims and the grieving is a sort of rhetorical “human shield” strategy, designed to block counterarguments with claims that disagreeing with the victims is mean.
Indeed. Related thoughts here.
KENNETH ANDERSON AND BENJAMIN WITTES: Terror And The Obama Doctrine.
Related item here.
IN THE MAIL: From Andre Norton, Moonsinger’s Quest.
J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Pay Attention: Colorado Democrats Use Election Process to Enshrine Power. “The Left cares about process so much they are pouring $100,000,000 into the ‘Democracy Initiative,’ a plot to permanently reshape American politics by altering election process laws. The conservative and GOP response? Next to nothing. It will include more money for door knocking the weekend before an election and more tweets. . . . When you control election process rules, your ideas need not appeal to a majority of people to obtain power.”
WASHINGTON POST: Obama group misleadingly cites a vote on a climate change bill. “This sort of gamesmanship with congressional votes is simply not acceptable.”
LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: The Failure of Leftist Law Professors to Defend Progressive Causes (When It Would Affect Their Pocketbooks).
Plus, from Professor Bainbridge: Think Law School Tuition is too High? Blame Liberals. “I don’t lose much sleep about living the law prof life. But then I teach my students something useful, instead of teaching them about speaking truth to power (whatever the hell that means), so I actually earn my money.”
RON BAILEY ON PLAN B: “What’s especially ridiculous is that the folks in the Obama administration overruled the scientific determinations of the FDA and arbitrarily imposed age restrictions on the availability of Plan B out obvious electoral considerations. Since the president can’t run for office again, the only plausible reason that the Justice Department would oppose making Plan B available without a prescription to all women of reproductive age now is out of sheer embarassment at the fact the administration would be admitting its original decision was completely political.”