MICHAEL KINSLEY: How the Internet will disrupt higher education’s most valuable asset: Prestige.
All is proceeding as I have foretold.
Archive for 2016
February 7, 2016
CIRCLING THE WAGONS FOR HILLARY: Press finds sexism in Dems who support Sanders.
Well, as they say, Nobody circles the wagons like the “liberal” media.
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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1004.
HEY, IT’S JUST A CASE OF “DOMESTIC ABUSE,” RIGHT? Italian wife risks six years in jail for not doing housework.
A man from Lazio is taking his wife to court for “mistreatment of the family” because she did not cook or clean enough, Italian media reported on Thursday.
The 40-year-old woman from the town of Sonnino has been charged with “mistreatment of the family” due to what her husband describes as “poor management of the household chores”.
The charge could result in a jail sentence of up to six years.
In his statement, the husband, who is seven years his wife’s senior, claimed he had been “insulted” for over two years by his wife’s negligence.
According to Il Fatto Quotidiano, he said that on occasion his wife has kicked him out of their bedroom and that he has been “forced to live in conditions with poor hygiene”.
She’s lucky he brought this case now. Once ISIS takes over, the penalty will be death by stoning.
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EVERYTHING HE’S DONE ON GUN CONTROL MAKES SENSE NOW: “Barack Obama might seem an unlikely investor in the firearms industry. But the U.S. president, a fierce advocate for gun regulation, has money in a pension fund that holds stock in gun and ammunition companies.”
I wish I’d bought Ruger and S&W stock in 2009.
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NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: North Korea launches ‘satellite,’ sparks fears about long-range missile program.
HYPOTHESIS: THE MORE AN INDUSTRY OR A COMPANY TALKS ABOUT ITS COMMITMENT TO “SOCIAL JUSTICE,” THE WORSE ITS FUNDAMENTALS ARE DOING: ‘Diversity and inclusion’ take center stage at American Bar Association this year.
Forget prison reform and police brutality. The real struggle that must be addressed by lawyers in this country is the lack of diversity inside and outside the legal profession.
The American Bar Association will focus on “diversity and inclusion” at its midyear meeting on Thursday in San Diego. The organization will discuss at least three resolutions that promote these policies, including one that would urge public companies “to adopt plans, politics and practices to diversify their boards and to include board composition in public disclosure materials.”
The ABA wants public boards to “more closely reflect the diversity of society and the workforce in the United States.” Having fewer old white men might not seem like such a bad idea, but such systems smack of quotas and shaming. Who can honestly say that a company publicly disclosing the composition of its board isn’t just opening itself up to hostile attacks from the diversity-outrage brigade?
The resolution breaks down the population of the U.S. — which is 50.8 percent women and 49.2 percent men. Along racial lines, the population is 77 percent white, 17.1 percent Hispanic, 13.2 percent African American, 5.3 percent Asian, 0.2 percent native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. (Yes, I realize that comes to 112.8 percent, but that’s because “Hispanics” can be white or black.)
The resolution is further complicated by its demand for inclusion of persons with disabilities. It might sound good to say public boards should reflect America, but in practice, it would be impossible for every public board to have the correct percentage of non-white members, including an adequate number of LGBTQ and disabled individuals. Such impossibility will lead either to the hiring of under-qualified persons to fill a diversity quota or public shaming of companies that considered all candidates fairly but couldn’t find the right number of appropriate candidates in each “diversity” category.
Naturally, the resolution brings up equal pay for women, ignoring the realities that women often leave the workforce in the prime of their career to care for families or choose to work fewer hours or take less demanding work.
Well, it’s easier to talk about this stuff than about the fact that lawyers are increasingly facing declining salaries and unemployment.
WOW, JEB BUSH MORPHED INTO BILL CLINTON SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED:
“I could drop my pants,” [Jeb] said in an interview. “Moon the whole crowd. Everybody would be aghast, except the press guys would never notice.”
Jeb’s gone from being GOPe all the way towards being the Man from Hope. Maybe he’d have better luck shooting a guy on Fifth Avenue, instead.
TWEET OF THE DAY, NEW HAMPSHIRE IS NOW IN PLAY EDITION: “This should send up warning signs for the Trump campaign.”
Celebrity alone won’t win primaries without a solid ground game, as Rudy Giuliani and the late Fred Thompson discovered the hard way in 2008. Or as I wrote a few years ago, “Rudy did the impossible in the 1990s — make New York livable again after the Dinkins years, capped off by a brilliant job on 9/11 and its immediate aftermath. But as with Fred Thompson (another fine man as well), their belief that they were above the GOP primary system killed their chances in 2008, unlike McCain (John, not Stacy) who at least showed up to play.”
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN EUROPE: “Europe was once the world’s most boring continent. Not any more. Here’s a selection of just one day of stories.”
Europe’s stability was never inherent, but the result of extensive and committed US efforts to keep Europe stable. Now our feckless commander-in-chief has abandoned that, and Europe’s equally-feckless leaders aren’t able to pick up the slack. The result will be unfortunate for all concerned.
FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Obama Spares ISIS Oil Facilities to Save the Earth.
CHANGE: Wanted in China: More Male Teachers, to Make Boys Men. “Worried that a shortage of male teachers has produced a generation of timid, self-centered and effeminate boys, Chinese educators are working to reinforce traditional gender roles and values in the classroom.”
Well, Thomas Friedman, is this another way we should be emulating China?
Related item here. Maybe the Chinese read it.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Howard Dean: ‘Labor unions are super-PACs Democrats like.’
All campaign finance “reform” talk is just about keeping out “bad” Republican money while protecting and enhancing “good” Democratic money. Everything else is just sloganeering for the rubes.
INSOMNIA THEATER (INTERNATIONAL CENSORSHIP EDITION): This week’s video features my interview of Index on Censorship CEO Jodie Ginsberg, which I conducted while I was visiting London in 2015. In addition to giving an insightful overview of the state of free expression and censorship efforts across the globe, Jodie covers a variety of other topics, including her former work as a journalist and the political power of music and comedy. Watch the full video below, and make sure to also check out the Index on Censorship.
February 6, 2016
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DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Five migrants among seven young men who ‘laughed, danced and sang in Arabic as they gang raped unconscious girl of 17.’
HORRIFIC footage has emerged of a group of young men, including five migrants, laughing, dancing and singing in Arabic as they gang rape an unconscious 17-year-old girl.
It is believed the attack happened after the girl passed out after drinking at a party.
One of the rapists later told police: “She can’t complain. Women must obey men.”
The shocking assault happened in November but was only discovered this week by a teacher at a school in Ostend, Belgium.
A police probe was launched after a 14-year-old boy at the Ostend Technical Institute bragged about a photo of himself dressed in military fatigues and holding a sub-machine gun.
Funny how you never hear anything from feminists about this actual rape culture. I guess it’s all about the feminist hierarchy of values.
UPDATE: Rick Moran emails that the photo above is photoshopped, and that the original is to be found here. Though you can debate about how different the message is between the original and the photoshopped version. . . .
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TONIGHT’S GOP DEBATE IS ON ABC — THE ANYBODY BUT CARLY NETWORK:
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Why does the House of Stephanopoulos hate women not named Hillary Clinton so much?
HE’S STEVE GREEN, AND YOU’RE NOT:* Live From New Hampshire, It’s Saturday Night G.O.P!
* And your liver says thanks.
