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Archive for 2016
February 11, 2016
SHUT UP AND SING: Beyoncé’s Black Panther Posturing at the Super Bowl.
OF COURSE THE PARTIES COULD PAY ATTENTION TO THE VOTERS! WAIT, THAT’S CRAZY TALK: The New Hampshire primaries were a bipartisan revolt.
RUMOR HAS IT SHE WAS AS CLOSE TO THEM AS BILL TO INTERNS: Why Hillary wants to bury her ‘rah-rah’ Goldman speeches.
CAUGHT BETWEEN THE SCYLLA OF ANDROPHOBIA AND THE CHARYBDIS OF MULTI-CULTURALISM: Just like the vile-prog patsies they are. Euro-feminists in meltdown over immigrant rape.
WITH FOLDED HANDS: The Dream—Or Is It a Nightmare?—of No Work.
THE REPUBLICANS WHO WEREN’T THERE: Which Republicans?
AH THERE IS THE SHOCKED FACE, AGAIN: Apparently speak loudly and carry no stick doesn’t work. Who knew? The latest in nuclear cheating, from Iran to North Korea.
HAVEN’T THEY HEARD HE’S JUST ANOTHER DEAD WHITE MALE? Shakespeare in the Calais Jungle.
SOCIALIZATION INTO WHAT: Homeschooling, Socialization, and the New Groupthink. The Not-So-Hidden Agenda of Public Education.
MEET THE NEW LEFT, SAME AS THE OLD LEFT: On health care, Bernie betrayed vets to protect unions.
PUT YOUR BEST SHOCKED FACE ON: Left Wing Bias in Publishing: Your Wrongthink Will Be Punished! Shocked, I tel you. SO shocked.
February 10, 2016
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: When Threatening Violence Against Women Is Allowed On Twitter. And on campus. I’m predicting silence from Anita Sarkeesian et al. on this one.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The presidential diversity myth at Stanford.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Purdue Univ. investigating staff member’s alleged threat to rape pro-life women.
TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ALZHEIMER’S, EAT FISH. Well, maybe. But there’s a catch: “Eating seafood is linked to a reduced risk of dementia-associated brain changes in people who carry the ApoE4 gene variation, which increases the risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Eating seafood was not linked to similar changes in those who carried other forms of the ApoE gene.”
I notice that “eat more fish” is a default headline trope, even when the evidence is sketchy.
ITS BIG PROBLEM IS CONTEMPT FOR ITS USERS, AND FOR FREE SPEECH: Why Twitter has run into trouble.
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OVER 3,000 DOWNLOADS for my Second Amendment Limitations piece.
HMM: ABA Asks States To Adopt Uniform Bar Exam ‘Expeditiously.’ This has been a good idea for decades; why is it suddenly getting traction now?
SO DOES THIS MEAN HE ALWAYS WINS HIS AGE CLASS? Meet The World’s Oldest Competitive Powerlifter.
At Yale Law School they used to have — and maybe still do, I don’t know — a 5K race called the “Race Judicata.” (Slogans: “A Parade of Horribles,” “With All Deliberate Speed,” etc., etc.) I remember Charlie Black used to run in it, and always won his division: “Medicare Eligible.”
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
To young girls and women across the country, I say: do not let others define you. Do not listen to anyone who says you have to vote a certain way or for a certain candidate because you’re a woman. That is not feminism. Feminism doesn’t shut down conversations or threaten women. It is not about ideology. It is not a weapon to wield against your political opponent. A feminist is a woman who lives the life she chooses and uses all her God-given gifts. And always remember that a leader is not born, but made. Choose leadership.
—Carly Fiorina Suspends Her Campaign, Blasts ‘Feminism’ In Farewell Statement.
Curiously though, no fire-and-brimstone eschatological statements that women would be going to Hell for not supporting her, or for choosing a different ideological path.
SO WEIRD. FIRST TWITTER CRAPS ALL OVER ITS USERS, NOW THIS: Twitter shares fall on user decline. Who could have seen this coming?