MAKING BAD WORSE: ‘New York’ Magazine’s War on Men.
Archive for 2016
May 26, 2016
ABOUT TIME: Tom Cotton Tells the Truth About Harry Reid.
AND THERE IT IS AGAIN, MY SHOCKED FACE: Obama Admin: U.S. Stopped Sanctioning Iranian Human Rights Abusers After Nuke Deal. That our president would sell his soul for a fake and exploitative deal with those who have declared war on us decades ago is a measure of the man.
I DON’T KNOW. ALL MY FRIENDS ARE WAY TOO BUSY TO ENGAGE IN THIS SORT OF THING. SO AM I. DOESN’T ANYONE WONDER IF THESE PEOPLE NEED MORE WORK? Manhattan Office Workers Start a Post-it War, and Stick With It. OTOH this type of playfulness is one thing I love America for.
FASTER PLEASE: A single injection can eliminate type 2 diabetes in mice for months. I mean I wish diabetic mice no harm, but I want this for diabetic PEOPLE.
IT’S NEVER TOO EARLY IN THE NIGHT FOR MY SHOCKED FACE: Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe Invited Chinese Donor to Hillary Clinton’s Home.
YEAH, ONE OF MY KIDS’ PROFESSORS TRIED TO SELL US THIS TOO: Our kids were supposedly unfairly privileged because our house is full of books. PFUI. You have to have an excellent education to believe something so loony. Professor: If You Read To Your Kids, You’re ‘Unfairly Disadvantaging’ Others.
IT’S NOT A PHANTOM: The menace of political ignorance.
May 25, 2016
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Teacher Had Sex With Teen Student On Night Of Fiance’s Bachelor Party.
STRANGE CREATURES: Romanian cave sealed for 5.5 million years is full of strange creatures.
HILLARY’S OBSTRUCTION.
SARA ELLIS goes bungee jumping.
THE WASHINGTON POST EDITORIALIZES: Hillary Clinton’s inexcusable, willful disregard for the rules. But they still pull their punches.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Defense Secretary Ponders How to Change ‘Unmanned’ Job Titles to Gender-Neutral Wording.
Better start with the White House, which has been effectively unmanned since January of 2009. Update Newspeak Dictionaries accordingly.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Rocky Top woman admits to statutory rape of boy, 14.
GOOD! Whole Foods Market to sell invasive lionfish starting Wednesday.
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
I’M NOT SAYING THIS IS A BAD IDEA, BUT I’M SUSPICIOUS THAT THEY ONLY STARTED TOUTING STUFF LIKE THIS ONCE OBAMACARE PASSED: More Men With Early Prostate Cancer Choosing to Avoid Treatment.
Seemingly overnight, treatment of men with early-stage prostate cancer has undergone a sea change. Five years ago, nearly all opted for surgery or radiation; now, nearly half are choosing no treatment at all.
The approach is called active surveillance. It means their cancers are left alone but regularly monitored to be sure they are not growing. Just 10 percent to 15 percent of early-stage prostate cancer patients were being treated by active surveillance several years ago. Now, national data from three independent sources consistently finds that 40 percent to 50 percent of them are making that choice.
In recent years, major research organizations have begun to recommend active surveillance, which for years had been promoted mostly by academic urologists in major medical centers, but not by urologists in private practice, who treat most men. In 2011, the National Institutes of Health held a consensus conference that concluded that it should be the preferred course for men with small and innocuous-looking tumors. Last year, the American Society of Clinical Oncology issued guidelines with the same advice.
My dad would be dead if he’d followed this approach, which doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s bad for everybody. But . . . .
WHAT CAPITALISM HAS DONE FOR HUMANITY: Poverty’s Amazing Decline.

STONE KNIVES AND BEARSKINS: US military uses 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate nuclear force operations.
AUSTIN BAY: The State Department’s Top Cop Imperils Hillary Clinton’s Campaign.
Earlier: L.A. Times Columnist Worries Trump’s ‘Crooked Hillary’ Moniker Could Stick.
Related: Politico spins on Hillary’s behalf: “Clinton expressed worries about exposure of personal emails at State Dept.”
Earlier: Feds Paid Politico $710K in 2015.
HILLARY CLINTON CLOBBERED BY STATE DEPARTMENT AUDIT: Report finds she kept hacker attacks on her server SECRET, failed to hand over emails – and top aide Huma ‘stonewalled’ inspector general.
Related: Inspector General Finds Hillary Clinton Violated Federal Records Act By Deleting Emails.
More:
Only five of the 26 current and former Clinton aides responded to questionnaires sent by the watchdog office. Clinton herself turned down a request to be interviewed.
In addition to Clinton, four close staffers conducted “extensive use of personal email accounts,” the inspector general said, adding up to nearly 72,000 pages worth of messages. In doing so, they also violated the State Department’s record-keeping policies.
As John Sexton writes at Hot Air, “What a difference an Inspector General’s report makes. Prior to today the silence and secrecy around the FBI investigation of Clinton’s private server meant there was relatively little detailed information in the public domain. And that meant that Clinton and her team could say almost anything about the matter without fear of contradiction.”