Archive for 2015
April 9, 2015
WELL, THEY MAY HAVE STARTED OUT THAT WAY: Hair Regrowth Discovery Suggests Skin Cells Communicate Like Bacteria.
SO, SORT OF A METAPHOR FOR THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, THEN: Valet hits wrong pedal, destroys Ferrari 599 GTO.
HEALTH: 2 New Ebola Vaccines Pass Important Early Test, Researchers Say. “Two new Ebola vaccines have passed an important test, protecting monkeys against the strain of the virus responsible for the current deadly outbreak, researchers reported on Wednesday. Only one dose was needed, and there were no apparent side effects. The vaccines have not yet been tested in people, but safety trials in healthy volunteers will probably begin early this summer, said Thomas W. Geisbert, an Ebola expert at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and the senior author of a report published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.”
MARK RIPPETOE: Losing Bodyfat or Gaining Muscle Mass: Which is More Important? “It is not an overstatement to say that the activity that keeps muscles big is also the activity that prevents type II diabetes.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: We Are Ready To Believe You!
HIGH INTENSITY EXERCISE: Better Before Fatty Meal.
NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: New scaffold for nanotechnology engineered from amyloid-like proteins.
READER BOOK PLUG: From Michele and Richard Bledsoe, The Secret Kingdom.
TO BE FAIR, SO DID IRAN: Scott Walker bests Obama on Iran.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why You Should Start a Brain Technology Company.
TALKING POINTS MEMO MOCKS THIS STATEMENT, BUT IT’S TRUE: GOP Lawmaker Says It’s Harder To Get A Vasectomy Than An Abortion.
I mean, if a married woman wants an abortion, they don’t demand her husband’s permission. But if a married man wants a vasectomy, well . . . .
More here. I think we need civil rights legislation banning this practice, as an infringement on men’s reproductive rights.
I’LL BE THERE DOING SOME VIDEOS FOR PJTV: PJ Media Special Coverage of the NRA Annual Meeting.
IN THE MAIL: Killing O’Reilly: A Parody.
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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 700.
ANOTHER CULTURE-OF-CORRUPTION COVERUP? House panel wants enviro activist group’s communications with EPA’s McCarthy. “A House committee investigating the destruction of more than 5,000 official cellular telephone text messages by the Environmental Protection Agency wants a major nonprofit activist group to provide copies of all its communications with Gina McCarthy, the agency’s chief, on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. . . . Karpinski’s group has received nearly $90 million in 1,056 contributions since 2000 from liberal philanthropies and individuals, including the Tides Foundation. Tides pioneered the use of an umbrella foundation of wealthy individuals wishing to remain anonymous to funnel millions of dollars in ‘dark money’ to their favored causes.”
Our public discourse, even over matters that used to be and still should be above partisan politics, has become increasingly less rational, less responsible, and less civil. For every veteran Bush-hater out there we have now an equal and opposite Obama-hater. Some personal experiences, if I may, to illustrate the point.
It has become embedded in “common knowledge” on the Left in the United States, and certainly abroad, that the Bush Administration generally, and Colin Powell in particular in his February 2003 speech to the UN Security Council, knowingly lied about weapons of mass destruction stockpiles in Iraq. It is simply beyond discussion that Administration principals actually worried about that subject; it was all allegedly mere pretext. I have even had people look me in the eye and declare that there is no difference, morally or otherwise, between knowingly lying and simply being mistaken about some point of fact. Such is the underwhelming capacity for moral logic among true Bush haters.
Obama haters are equally certain that the President actually despises his own country and its history, and a certain subset of haters is as certain that he hates Israel and Jews and has conspired from the start to do irreparable harm to Israeli security and well-being. Thus all that the President said about Israel in the Friedman interview, and by implication his explicit acknowledgement of the anti-Semitism of the Iranian leadership, has to be out and out duplicitous to such haters. He is indeed lying through his teeth, they are sure.
Hmm.
TEACH THE CHILDREN WELL: My Little Pony To Children: Marxism Is Not Magic.
WELL, GOOD: University of Michigan Relents, Will Show American Sniper as Originally Planned. And Paddington Too!
UPDATE: Backstory here. Nice to see a coach standing up against PC for a change.
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