Archive for 2014

BUSINESS GENIUS: So I didn’t realize that popular college party website The Chive has Chapters.

What this means is you could go to online school — avoiding rape or accusations thereof — and still enjoy a college party lifestyle. The best of both worlds, and quite possibly cheaper than regular college.

I wrote about unbundling Higher Ed in The New School, but here you can see it happening.

SO APPARENTLY, IT’S NOT JUST THE BORDER THAT NEEDS A BETTER FENCE: Police comb White House lawn after ‘unarmed’ fence jumper got inside front doors. “The incident prompted fresh questions about the storied agency and its ability to protect the president.”

You know, one of the Secret Service’s best tools has been a reputation for extreme competence, such that people who think about killing the President decide the chance of success is too low to bother. That reputation has taken quite a hit over the past few years.

SO THIS PIECE BY JAMELLE BOUIE SAYS THAT blacks share the views of most Americans on corporal punishment, and that’s the white man’s fault. Take it from somebody with African family — the attitudes on corporal punishment over there are pretty stout, too.

Bouie’s real problem is that while 70% of Americans support corporal punishment, basically nobody among the politico-journalistic Clerisy does. So defending blacks on the ground that they’re just like other Americans risks someone throwing an oikophobia flag — ewww, just like other Americans? Yuk.

RAISING AWARENESS OF SEPSIS. “Dr. Patrick Conway, the chief medical officer for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, said that in a pilot study, 73 hospitals had been able to reduce deaths by sepsis by 10 to 40 percent. He expects the proven techniques to become national standards.”

ANGELO CODEVILLA: Washington’s Ruling Class Is Fooling Itself About The Islamic State. “Yet again, consensus within the ruling class is setting America on course to demonstrate impotence. Its preferences, prejudices, and proclivities guarantee that the Islamic State and those among us whom it inspires will be a growing problem as months and years pass. Harsh consequences will follow until a political vehicle for the expression of the American people’s common sense comes into being.”

I said something similar recently. “It’s like antibiotics and bacteria: Best to kill them all before they up their resistance.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Teacher at troubled youths center charged with rape. “A female teacher at a residential center for troubled youths in Yonkers, N.Y., was arrested Wednesday after allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old male student, authorities said Thursday. The 34-year-old Leake & Watts teacher, Meaghan White, is charged with rape. She is accused of having sex with the boy at Willson’s Woods Park, a Westchester County park in Mount Vernon, N.Y., said Kieran O’Leary, a county police spokesman.”

Related: Double standard seen when boys abused by women.