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Archive for 2016
March 20, 2016
THAT’S THE NICEST THING I’VE HEARD FROM A HEAVENLY BODY SINCE THE INSTA-WIFE COMPLIMENTED ME THIS MORNING.
I guess I’m still doomed, though.
STACY MCCAIN: The Columbia University School of Journalism is Decadent and Depraved. “Hunter S. Thompson understood this completely.”
WHAT WE DO NOW INSTEAD OF WINNING WARS: All Marines Forced To Go Through Training To Erase ‘Unconscious Bias’ As Women Enter Combat Roles.
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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: How David Brooks created Donald Trump: The political establishment denounced bourgeois Tea Partiers. Now, they must face raucous working-class Trumpsters.
UPDATE: On Facebook, Jerry Bowyer comments: “Weird how many people on the left who hate the authoritarian soft fascism of Trump somehow how manage to blame libertarian movements like the Tea Party. Weirder still, that the Tea Partiest candidate of all is basically the last man standing in Trump’s way.”
DON SURBER: Versailles On The Potomac.
READER BOOK PLUG: From reader Patrick Chiles, Farside.
FLASHBACK: Kurt Schlichter: Liberals May Regret Their New Rules. “Conservatives have principles, but human nature is a powerful thing, and human nature favors payback.”
Prediction: Everything that lefties do to Trump and other Republicans will return on them, threefold. And they will try to pretend that there’s no connection.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Two College Degrees Later, I Was Still Picking Kale For Rich People.
She doesn’t say what she majored in, but I’m guessing that this advice applies:
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
I LIKE A STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING: Antioch woman shot home intruder, police say. “A man who broke into a woman’s apartment in Antioch late Friday morning was met with an unexpected surprise when he walked into her bedroom and she shot him, according to Metro police. . . . Hartman was treated and released and is now charged with aggravated burglary, police said. His bond is set at $100,000. Hartman was free on $4,000 bond on a felony theft charge stemming from his arrest earlier this month in connection to stolen lottery tickets from a local convenience market.”
IN VINO, VERITAS: Flashback: Hillary called Obama ‘incompetent and feckless’ in boozy rant.
Hillary Clinton called President Obama “incompetent and feckless” and charged that he had “no hand on the tiller half the time” during a boozy reunion with college pals, a new book claims.
The scathing attacks came as the wine was flowing at a May 2013 dinner at Le Jardin Du Roi, a cozy French bistro near the Clinton family home in Westchester, according to “Blood Feud,” by best-selling author Edward Klein.
The former first lady, months removed from being Obama’s secretary of state, unleashed the verbal assault between sips of vino, sources told the author.
“When her friends asked Hillary to tell them what she thought — really thought — about the president she had served for four draining years, she lit into Obama with a passion that surprised them all,” Klein wrote.
Clinton ranted, “The thing with Obama is that he can’t be bothered, and there is no hand on the tiller half the time. That’s the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f–king tiller,” according to the book, which was excerpted exclusively in Sunday’s Post.
“Obama has turned into a joke,” she went on, according to Klein.
“The IRS targeting the Tea Party, the Justice Department’s seizure of AP phone records and [Fox reporter] James Rosen’s e-mails — all these scandals. Obama’s allowed his hatred for his enemies to screw him the way Nixon did,” she raged, the book says, adding that she called the president “incompetent and feckless.”
Well, she and I are on the same page here.
CHARLES GASPARINO: Will Hillary Get Charged, Or What?
LIFE INSIDE “A FAITH OF LIES.”
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LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: More than 200 dissidents rounded up and arrested in Cuba one day before Obama’s arrival.
FASTER, PLEASE: Osteoporosis in Mice Reversed with a Single Injection of Stem Cells.
Age-related osteoporosis, where the bone structure deteriorates and becomes more vulnerable to fracture, is said to affect more than 200 million people worldwide. Drugs are available to treat or delay the condition, but a cure has remained elusive. Much-needed help may now be on the way, however, with scientists discovering healthy bone structure can be restored in mice with a single injection of stem cells.
Researchers at the University of Toronto and The Ottawa Hospital had previously found a causal effect between mice developing age-related osteoporosis and a deficiency in mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). One of the promising attributes of MSCs is that, while they can grow into different cells in the body just like other stem cells, they can be transplanted without the need for a match.
“We reasoned that if defective MSCs are responsible for osteoporosis, transplantation of healthy MSCs should be able to prevent or treat osteoporosis,” says William Stanford, senior scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and Professor at the University of Ottawa.
To put this reasoning to the test, the scientists injected MSCs into mice with the condition. Six months later, which is one quarter of the life span of the animal, they observed a healthy functional bone in place of the damaged one.
“We had hoped for a general increase in bone health,” says John E. Davies, co-author of the study. “But the huge surprise was to find that the exquisite inner ‘coral-like’ architecture of the bone structure of the injected animals – which is severely compromised in osteoporosis – was restored to normal.”
I hope this turns out to work equally well in people. I also wonder if this treatment, or a derivative, might help reverse microgravity-induced bone loss in space.
“THE PRETENTIOUS HOVERS ON THE BRINK OF THE PREPOSTEROUS:” On the architectural horror of Albert Speer.
Related: ‘In the Land of Faust, They Eagerly Followed a Faustian Script.’
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, OVERPAID-ADMINISTRATOR EDITION: Ex-Bridgewater State President Cleans Up:
C’mon down, Dana Mohler-Faria. Former president of Bridgewater State College, or is it a university now, the better to jack up all the paper-shufflers’ salaries yet again? Whatever, here is the only curriculum vitae that mattered when he retired last July:
Pension of $183,421 a year. Plus a contract as “adviser” to the school — $100,000 a year.
But here’s the frosting on the cake. He walked out the door with an extra check for $269,984 in, ahem, unused sick and vacation time.
It’s one thing to feed at the trough, as the old saying goes, it’s another to lick the plate. . . .
How come in the Democratic presidential debates, whenever Bernie Sanders is railing about Big Oil, or Big Pharma, or Wall Street, he never mentions … Big College? Because he and his wife are capos in that particular 1-percenter crime family, which puts almost all of the other grifts to shame. If there were real truth in labeling, the nation’s colleges would have to rebrand as Ripoffs ’R Us — just ask the fake Indian, Sen. Granny Warren, she of the $350,000 salary for teaching one course.
Well, and because the higher education industry is the biggest single source of donations, and footsoldiers, for Democratic causes.
Well, it’s not like people weren’t warned.
One of our favorite newspaper stories is about the editor of the Washington Times, Smith Hempstone, who was asked what it was like to work for the Times’s proprietor, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Supposedly said Hempstone: “It’s not the first time I’ve worked for a publisher who thought he was God.”
The story may — or may not — be apocryphal. We thought of it when the jury found against Gawker and its founder, Nick Denton, in the case in which they were sued for airing a tape of the wrestler Hulk Hogan in an act of fornication. Mr. Hogan’s lawyer accused Gawker’s Mr. Denton of “playing God with other people’s lives.”
This strikes us as a serious moment in the evolution of journalism onto the World Wide Web.
Read the whole thing.
SO THE WHATABURGER SPICY KETCHUP, mentioned here a while back, was such a hit that I ordered a 3-pack this time. Now if Knoxville would just get its own Whataburger.
LOOK, IT’S TRAUMATIC ENOUGH WHEN AUTISTIC HUMANS START TO FEEL EMOTIONS: When Machines Think And Feel.