IT SHOULD GET OUT OF THE WHOLE BUSINESS, AND IF IT WEREN’T CORRUPT AND OVERREACHING IT WOULD: “Does the federal government need more power to go after colleges that mishandle sexual assault cases, or has it already overstepped its authority in telling colleges how to handle those cases?”
Archive for 2014
June 29, 2014
MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE EDITORIAL: Appoint A Special Prosecutor In The IRS Scandal. “The old caution against ascribing to malice what can explained by incompetence is worth keeping in mind when evaluating a high-profile blunder in either the private or public sector, such as the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny. But the latest twist in the long-running controversy — the eye-rollingly convenient loss of IRS e-mails — moves the needle from ineptitude and toward the other, more troubling end of the spectrum. While the lost e-mails aren’t definitive proof of an orchestrated effort by the IRS or the Obama administration, the recent news that thousands of e-mails were obliterated in a computer hard-drive crash in 2011 is tough to swallow, not only for technology professionals, but also for an increasingly tech-savvy public.”
True. However, I strongly doubt that Eric Holder will appoint a special prosecutor who isn’t an apparatchik who’ll just run out the clock until 2017.
UPDATE: Ed Driscoll: The Dense-Pack Theory of Obama Scandals Accelerates into Hyperdrive. “In the years to come, sociologists and historians will marvel at the level of mass delusion (or worse) in 2007 and 2008 that swept much of America.” They should start by reading this piece by Andrew Klavan, and this from Mark Levin. Levin’s piece from 2008 is especially prescient.
ROGER KIMBALL: The Rot Of Intolerance At Swarthmore.
THAT’S RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Dem Party hires few minority firms. “Less than 2 percent of the money disbursed by the Democratic Party’s three largest committees went to firms with full or partial minority ownership, according to a new report released Wednesday that suggests a disconnect between the party’s increasingly diverse voter base and its Beltway leadership.”
Hey, blacks always vote Democratic anyway. Why spread the valuta around?
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Rise of the female ‘relationship terrorists’: Study finds women are more controlling and aggressive towards their partners than men. “Convention has it that women are the gentler sex. But when it comes to relationships they are more likely than men to be controlling and aggressive, a study claims. Increasing numbers of women can now be classed as ‘intimate terrorists’, meaning that they are verbally and physically violent towards a partner.”
IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: Top GOP lawmakers push Eric Holder to appoint IRS investigator.
WOMAN ARRESTED for false rape reports. “Starkville police arrested a Crawford woman for filing a false police report Thursday. Authorities say Carolyn Monroe, 47, reported she had been raped by a male acquaintance at America’s Best Value Inn on Highway 12 Sunday. Detectives say Monroe admitted the claims were false during an interview and stated she did not want to press charges.”
THE FOLKS WHO GAVE US THE “FOOD PYRAMID” HAVE NO BUSINESS LECTURING ANYONE ELSE ON QUACKERY: Congress took Dr. Oz to task for offering dietary advice. One needn’t have any affection for Oz to recognize the chilling effect this has on free speech.
THAT’S RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Hillary “Disrespects” Obama. To people clucking that the First Black President deserves more respect, may I suggest that you should have done a better job of picking the First Black President? I mean, Jackie Robinson was a really good ballplayer. If he’d instead, well . . . thrown a baseball like Barack Obama, it would have been different.
THE PRESIDENT IS A MOCKER: 10 times Obama made fun of Republicans in the past year. The smaller he becomes, the more he belittles his opponents.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Hangover cure as simple as a fried breakfast, researcher says.
June 28, 2014
CAN YOU GIVE INFORMED CONSENT IN A BOILERPLATE TERMS-OF-USE AGREEMENT? “Facebook Conducted Psychological Experiments On Unknowing Users.”
21st CENTURY WEDDINGS: The Latest Trend For Bridesmaids Is To Pull Up Their Dresses And Show Off Their Butts (Photos).
Now see, in my day you waited to show your ass until the reception. By which time everyone was too drunk to notice.
WELL, THESE ARE THE “CRAZY YEARS:” Matt Drudge: News Business is “Psychotic” Now.
SEX AND PSYCHOLOGICAL NEOTENY: “But you forget! You forget how old you are!”
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT SEX IS WRONG: Possibly true for its intended audience.
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RETURN OF THE VULCAN: Britain’s Most Glorious Cold War Bomber Jet Takes Flight Again.
SUPREME COURT 2, word-magic 0.
NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Robust triangular RNA brick adds to RNA nanotechnology toolkit.
VIRGINIA POSTREL, CALL YOUR OFFICE: People Will Pay Twice As Much For An Artfully Composed Salad.