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Archive for 2016
July 29, 2016
THE SCALE ISN’T A LIE, IF IT ACCURATELY TELLS YOUR WEIGHT. But your body composition and general fitness matters just about as much. Fitness blogger proves that weight is a meaningless number.
And, honestly, she looks pretty good in all of them.
THE DEMISE OF THE TRADITIONAL COLLEGE LECTURE is bad for students. Well, but student learning isn’t the priority.
LEFTIST FILMMAKER UPLOADS VIDEO SHOWING HIS SHOCK AT JUST HOW EMPTY THE DNC IS.
A POLITICAL PARTY CAN’T BE ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE:
Chaser: Jack Dunphy on “The Mothers of the Movement.”
GOOD: ASU biochemist invents a more comfortable condom. The ultimate goal, of course, is to make a condom that feels better than nothing. And note how federal regulation is holding things up.
TROUBLE IN PARADISE: Kaine Says He Still Disagrees with Hillary on Hyde Amendment.
EVEN HER SUPPORTERS KNOW HILLARY CLINTON IS THE TERMINATOR.
I dunno — his firmware seems a lot more reliable.
LET’S FACE IT — TODAY WOULD BE THE PERFECT MOMENT FOR SMOD 2016’s ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: Will the world end tonight? Conspiracy theorists predict doomsday caused by ‘second coming of Jesus Christ’ and a magnetic polar flip.
HOW HILLARY BLEW HER BIG MOMENT: “We’ve seen candidates transcend their past ineloquence in these circumstances before, to great effect,” John Podhoretz writes in the New York Post, listing modern presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle rise to the occasion of their nomination speech. “Not Hillary. Which is why her supporters and fans should be disappointed in her rather than mad at me.”
Read the whole thing.
DAVID MASTIO: The Election Is Over: Trump Won. “No one is listening anymore. When mild-mannered technocrat Mitt Romney was running for president, Clinton’s obscure Obama-administration colleague Joe Biden told a black audience that Republicans ‘are going to put ya’ll back in chains.’ If you listen to Democrats, every Republican who has run for anything in my lifetime has Klan robes in their closet and secret Confederate memorabilia collection.” (Bumped).
UPDATE:
When everyone is Hitler, no one is Hitler.
Related thoughts here.
MOST GENEROUS CITIES ARE ALSO MOST CHURCH-GOING: The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Thomas Phippen looks at a new Barna Group data analysis that found some huge surprises among the nation’s 50 most generous cities. Take El Paso, for example, where 92 percent of the adults in that Texas border metropolis donate to charity regularly, most through local churches.
If you are guessing there is a connection between church attendance and generosity, you got it. Just imagine how America’s social welfare scene would change if 92 percent of the adults living in the 50 largest cities were as generous as those in El Paso.
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MY GOD MAN, PICK YOUR BATTLES A BIT MORE CAREFULLY: “A minor matter it may be, and with no legal repercussions, I hope, but let me mention that I hate Piet Mondrian:”
I only realized this yesterday. Prior to that I rather liked him, or more precisely, dutifully applauded his uncompromising abstractions, his pursuit of “the absolute” in growing disregard of all the traditional “content” of painting, such as representation, draughtsmanship, colouring and shading; the “pure plasticity” he advertised. The actual enjoyment was tepid at best.
Funny, I really like Mondrian. As with Mies van der Rohe, he’s a fascinating case study to watch his transition from a trained traditional artist to radical modernist. And as with postwar pop culture, modernism in general was only interesting when it had a traditional culture to push against. Once that was vanquished, both high and low art lost a great deal of vitality.
(Via Maggie’s Farm.)
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Run a Successful Mobile Crowdsourcing Project.
SECURING THE AIRSPACE along the Mexican border.
THE MAN WHO MADE BLUE ÖYSTER CULT AND THE CLASH: RIP Producer Sandy Pearlman.
DAVID BROOKS: A MARTIAN WATCHING WOULD THINK DEMOCRATS ARE MORE PATRIOTIC, CONSERVATIVE.
And have better pants creases as well.
JUST CALL HER #HEDGEFUNDHILLARY.