KEEPING RENTS COMPARATIVELY AFFORDABLE: There were more housing starts in Tokyo than in all of California or England.
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August 9, 2016
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SO CLICK OVER AT WARP SPEED, ALREADY: James Lileks Interviews William Shatner.
WELL, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE MEANING OF ‘IS’ IS: Clinton Defender Mike Morell Can’t Get Story Straight on Assad and Putin—Or Anything At All.
OUTRAGE OF THE DAY: SJW Internet Freaks Out about How ‘Wearing Camo Can Be Anti-Feminist’
“Let’s have a conversation about the basic origin of camouflage, shall we?” self-described “queer/femme antagonist” Annah Anti-Palindrome writes in a piece for Everyday Feminism titled “These 3 Powerful Stories Show Why Wearing Camo Can Be Anti-Feminist.”
“Camouflage is a dye pattern that was initially made to disguise the bodies of soldiers during combat, so that they could stealthily hunt people on opposing armies,” she writes. “Let me repeat this: Camo patterns were made for the purpose of human hunting.”
“In the spirit of feminism, let us not forget our most basic goal: to create and sustain a world in which people inherently value, revere, and actively support each other’s survival,” she continues.
Unless of course you don’t fall into line with the SJW crowd, in which case all bets are off.
THE WAR ON PLEASURE: Tough new vaping rules are suffocating e-cig retailers.
Garrett Blankenship, owner of Darth Vapor in Chatsworth, said he took a huge hit when the smoking age went up, and expects another blow to the business from the tougher federal regulations.
“It’s the beginning of a new generation,” he said of customers between 18 and 21. “We’ll see where this heads.”
The new regulations also cover hand-rolled cigars, hookahs and pipe tobacco.
FDA officials now must assess all e-cigarette products available since 2007. To stay on store shelves, nearly every vaping product must secure FDA approval, though manufacturers will be able to keep selling their wares for up to two years during the application process and for a year during FDA review.
Vaping likely saves lives, but that doesn’t seem to matter to the nanny staters.
SJW INTERNET FREAKS OUT ABOUT HOW ‘WEARING CAMO CAN BE ANTI-FEMINIST.’ But of course:
In case you’ve been too wrapped up in your own white privilege to think about these kinds of serious problems on your own, a feminist Internet journalist took the time to write a nearly 2,000-word piece about how “wearing camo can be anti-feminist.”
“Let’s have a conversation about the basic origin of camouflage, shall we?” self-described “queer/femme antagonist” Annah Anti-Palindrome writes in a piece for Everyday Feminism titled “These 3 Powerful Stories Show Why Wearing Camo Can Be Anti-Feminist.”
“Camouflage is a dye pattern that was initially made to disguise the bodies of soldiers during combat, so that they could stealthily hunt people on opposing armies,” she writes. “Let me repeat this: Camo patterns were made for the purpose of human hunting.”
Two questions: If I wear a camouflage T-shirt with a Gadsden flag, do the two graphic designs currently under fire by moronic SJW types cancel each other out and thus become acceptable? And in any case, didn’t Robin Williams say it best three decades ago?
FASTER, PLEASE: U.S. Government Starts Test of Zika Vaccine in Humans.
CIVILIZATION CAUSES ‘THE PATRIARCHY?’ Fire, Alphabet Called Sexist.
But then, what isn’t these days? Hey, I understand the left’s Rousseauian lust for re-primitivization by casting off, oh, fire, language, history, hygiene, etc. But doesn’t part of that desire require at least getting off the Internet first?
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AN ARMY OF ASTRONOMER DAVIDS: Backyard telescopes and amateur eyes see where “pro” astronomers can’t: Regular folks armed with the Internet are pushing sky science into fast forward.
I actually had a section on this back in An Army of Davids, which, shockingly, came out over a decade ago.
WHAT THE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION FETISH MEANS FOR JEWS.
Read the whole thing.
“NOW LET’S PRETEND MATEEN WAS A REPUBLICAN AND HIS FATHER SHOWED UP AT A TRUMP RALLY. YOU KNOW HOW THAT WOULD GO.”
SHORT-CIRCUIT DAMAGE: Lies without accountability.
IS THERE ANYTHING HE CAN’T DO? Eric Clapton Goes Fishing and Lands the Biggest Salmon of the Summer.
FRANK CAPRA, CALL YOUR OFFICE: How a Colorado drive-in theater fought big government and won.
RIGGED: Krugman In 2003: Hack The Vote. “To be clear, though there were many anomalies in that 2002 vote, there is no evidence that the machines miscounted. But there is also no evidence that the machines counted correctly. You see, Diebold machines leave no paper trail.”
Now if you say stuff like that, you’re undermining the very foundations of democracy or something.
THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES HITS BIOFUELS: “This should be a shock to nobody but the Greens. Ever since the beginning of the ethanol mandate it was obvious to anybody with eyes to see that the whole thing was a boondoggle and a huge waste for everybody except ADM. What the Greens failed to understand is that if you prop up corn prices by buying, distilling and burning massive amounts of corn whisky in cars, two things are going to happen. One the price is going to go up, making things like cow feed and other uses of corn more expensive and 2. farmer are going to, without restraints, plant ever larger amounts of corn, which will 1. push out other crops like wheat and 2. require more land use to plant even more corn. Which is why you can now go from Eastern Colorado to Western NY and essentially see nothing but corn. Millions of acres of corn, across the country, grown to burn. Somehow this was supposed to be environmentally friendly?”
Well, it’s a nice 21st century enviro-twist on the even more devastating boondoggles of FDR’s New Deal, which in order to prop up agricultural prices “restricted production to keep prices high. ‘Excess’ output was destroyed or dumped abroad. While millions of Americans were going hungry, the government plowed under 10,000,000 acres of crops, slaughtered 6,000,000 pigs, and left fruit to rot,” as Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute wrote, and Amity Shlaes similarly explored in the Forgotten Man.
(Via Maggie’s Farm.)
TOM STEYER’S LILY-WHITE GREENS PLAY THE RACE CARD AGAINST TRUMP FOR SOME REASON.
Don’t they know that some have said that Trump would be the real first black president?
In any case, as Viacom spokesman Jon Stewart reminded his fellow leftists way back in 2010, their race card is waaaay maxed out, and the unpaid bill is long overdue.
Related: Showing Up To Riot.
IT’S NOT A FAILURE UNTIL THE POLITICAL CLASS CAN’T WRING ANY MORE GRAFT FROM IT: Richard Epstein: The Blue State Model Has Failed.
I’M NOT SURE THIS IS POSSIBLE, BUT I’M WILLING TO STIPULATE IT: The Orlando terrorist’s father attending Hillary Clinton event is worse than you thought.
DNC, HOLLYWOOD AND BANANA REPUBLICS EVERYWHERE AGREE: IT’S A GREAT IDEA! Michelle Obama for Senate?
I SHOUTED OUT WHO BROUGHT YOU HILLARY, WHEN AFTER ALL, IT WAS…KATHY SHAIDLE? “INTJs account for an estimated 0.8 percent of the female population. We’re the rarest of the sixteen types, and having to share that distinction with Hillary takes some of the fun out of it. Then again, taking the fun out of things is an INTJ specialty, our Bitchy Resting Face telegraphing our disapproval of your trivial, so-called ‘fun’ preoccupations, even if that’s not our intention. ‘Ayn Rand, party animal’ is not a phrase that has ever been typed before this actual moment….learning that Hillary Clinton is basically my evil (in a different way) twin has been a revelation.”