WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED INDUSTRIES SUCH BASTIONS OF SEXISM? “Gender Equality: Patricia Arquette’s Speech Cost Her Jobs,” Variety claims.
The struggle is real. Never more so than when your net worth is reported to be $24 million dollars.
Archive for 2016
February 26, 2016
FRIDAY EVENING DOCUMENT DUMP: State Dept. releases 800 new Clinton emails.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ROTC student banned from starting conservative club, university refuses to say why.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: The New Republic Is Sold:
Chris Hughes, the owner of The New Republic, said on Friday that he had sold the magazine to Win McCormack, a publisher and editor based in New York and Portland, Ore., who founded the literary quarterly Tin House.
Mr. McCormack will appoint Hamilton Fish, the publisher of The Washington Spectator and a former publisher of The Nation, to be publisher and editorial director, The New Republic said.
Mr. Hughes, a Facebook founder whose tenure at the magazine was marked by turmoil, including the resignations of multiple employees protesting his decision to replace its top editor, signaled an intention to sell last month. Mr. McCormack’s and Mr. Fish’s backgrounds in journalism and progressive politics, he said, “make them uniquely qualified to lead such a historic institution. I look forward to watching their progress over the years to come.”
Ham Fish to oversee dead carcass!
THE DANGERS OF DAILY WEIGHT TRAINING: “So his advice is to wait 48 hours between sessions of strenuous weight training that target a particular muscle group. You could focus on upper-body muscles on one day and leg and lower-back muscles the next, if you enjoy visiting the gym daily. But don’t exercise all of the muscles every day.”
You don’t want to get into overtraining, which takes a long time to recover from. As Mark Rippetoe says, your muscles grow during the recovery period, not during the workout.
‘HOUSE OF CARDS’ PRESIDENT ‘NOT GOING TO GET INVOLVED IN REAL POLITICS:’ Kevin Spacey and Bernie Sanders-admiring Neve Campbell talk on camera with PJM’s Nicholas Ballasy.
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Woman arrested at JFK for smuggling half pound of cocaine in vagina from Jamaica.
Related! “I never expected Idiocracy to become a documentary.”
THE JOKE HERE IS TWOFOLD: THE EXAGGERATED FEAR, AND THE PRESUMPTION THAT CLASSROOM DISCUSSIONS WERE FREE AND OPEN BEFORE: UH faculty suggest steering clear of some topics if students armed.
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: “Rotherham gang sentenced to 102 years in prison for abusing young girls,” John Sexton writes today at Hot Air. Note this detail: “According to the 2014 report, one reason police utterly failed to protect so many young girls was the ‘politically inconvenient truth’ that most the victims in Rotherham were white while most of the perpetrators were Pakistani men.”
As Sexton adds, “the perpetrators in Rotherham seemed to operate with impunity even when face to face with police.” And while the Rotherham perpetrators used race and Islam to their advantage in PC-obsessed England, as Jonah Goldberg notes today, England’s Jimmy Savile used celebrity and power:
A hugely popular DJ and TV personality in the United Kingdom for decades, Savile lived a double life as a child molester and rapist. He abused older victims as well. His victims, many of whom were patients in hospitals, ranged from five to 75 years old. As a major fundraiser for hospitals, he had free rein to prey on boys and girls. He assaulted one ten-year-old boy with a broken arm while he was waiting on a gurney for an X-ray. He assaulted teenagers recovering from surgery in bed.
All in all, at several hospitals and at nearly every division of the BBC where he worked, he raped or abused dozens of children — boys and girls — and scores of teenagers and adults.
Savile also reportedly did things to corpses best left unsaid.
He was so popular and so powerful, many victims felt comfortable coming forward only after Savile died in 2011 at the age of 84, to that point regarded as an esteemed member of the community. Sir Jimmy was even a knight.
The BBC has just published a nearly 800-page report detailing its complicity in Savile’s crimes. I haven’t read the whole thing, nor do I have much desire to. The main takeaway, however, is that the BBC shares blame for turning a blind eye owing to its “culture of deference” to celebrities. There was ample evidence that Savile was up to no good, but few were willing to say anything.
Let’s discuss the culture of deference.
Read the whole thing. (Perhaps as with Gloria Steinem in the earlier post, the photo of a young Savile burning a hole into the camera atop Jonah’s article should also merit a trigger warning.)
UPDATE: ‘Atmosphere of fear’ at BBC allowed Jimmy Savile to commit sex crimes, report finds.
NEW CIVILITY WATCH: How to Get Away with Murdering Ted Cruz.
QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: What’s Gloria Steinem Doing in the Lands’ End Catalog?
Lands’ End caters to women looking for reasonably priced, conservative clothing for themselves and their families. The designs follow the trends but are reliably un-risqué and tend toward classic cuts. That’s how I would describe them, anyway—as a regular shopper at Lands’ End. Someone more fashionable and less charitable might also classify them as middle class mom clothes.
Given that clientele, one would think the Lands’ End marketing department would stay out of politics. In such a divided and often passionately partisan country, little is gained by appearing to take sides in the culture wars or showing one’s red or blue political stripes.
Yet Lands’ End has incautiously taken a great leap into the political waters by proudly featuring Gloria Steinem as a “Legend” in their most recent catalogue. In addition to showcasing her in their finery, they include an interview conducted by Lands’ End’s CEO Federica Marchionni. The interview avoids hot button political topics—the uninformed reader would have no inkling of Steinem’s strident brand of feminism—instead offering a series of vacuous exchanges about pursuing one’s dreams, overcoming challenges, and living a meaningful life.
Shades of Restoration Hardware, which responded in the summer of 2010 to both the Obama recession and the looming Tea Party-driven GOP Congressional landslide by casting off their previous jaunty Ralph Lauren-inspired retro-American style and going full Weimar, with one of the most depressing catalogs that’s ever graced my mailbox. Or as I said to my wife as we flipped through its pages full of somber taupe-on-taupe weirdly desaturated colors, “My God, it’s the furniture of the damned” — or perhaps The Damned, Luchino Visconti’s 1969 movie on Nazi-era decadence and dissipation.
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CHRIS CHRISTIE ENDORSES TRUMP. This may be part of that preference cascade among establishment GOPs, but given that it comes from a guy who did worse than Kasich, does it matter?
GLAD THIS IS GETTING ATTENTION FROM USA TODAY: Poll finds Sanders & Clinton backers twice as racist as Rubio supporters: The rest of the story about that goofy YouGov survey that found Trump voters were fans of slavery.
THE OMINOUS PARALLELS: In the Weekly Standard, Robert Wargas reviews a new Roosevelt biography, Man of Destiny by Alonzo Hamby. Note this detail:
Why, then, do many even outside the progressive tradition look fondly on Roosevelt’s presidency? It may be because he was an effective steward of American power at a time when it was most critical, combining just the right amount of hard-boiled realism and democratic idealism. But while FDR could hit all the right notes about American liberty and democracy, Hamby sniffs out some hypocrisy:
When Roosevelt and the wider liberal community talked about the breakup of empires, somehow the Soviet empire, stretching from the Bering Strait to the Baltic Sea and harboring open designs on eastern Europe, seems never to have come to mind. Were the people of Gambia more oppressed than the people of Ukraine?
During the Cold War, Jeane Kirkpatrick would define this syndrome by its most recognizable trait: demanding liberalization from everyone except Moscow. FDR’s own attitude toward Soviet Russia was an odd combination of resentment and admiration. He recognized that communism, especially under Stalin’s direction, was totalitarian; yet he could never quite condemn it the way an American progressive was apt to take on bankers.
Some things never change.
MARK RIPPETOE READS NEWSWEEK SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO. Newsweek: Ken Dolls(!) Are ‘Too Lean, Muscular,’ Damage Vulnerable Boys.
For contrast, Rippetoe illustrates the story with “non-threatening, developmentally safe male fitness model.” Read the whole thing.
IT ONLY NEEDS TO BE AS SAFE AS OTHER FORMS OF “ADVENTURE TOURISM:” Virgin Galactic’s New SpaceShipTwo Will Be Safer, But Will It Be Safe Enough?
WHAT ARE YOU REBELLING AGAINST? WHADDA YA GOT? Harvard ‘racial justice’ protesters protest award ceremony about … racial injustice.
HEALTH NEWS: Viral con foils drug-resistant microbes, may nix need for poop transplants. “The researchers, led by immunologists at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, got started on the idea of harnessing a viral decoy knowing that such germs normally manipulate and prune the gut microbiome. The community of viruses that bustle in human guts—called the virome or microvirome—trigger anti-microbial immune responses that can put the microbial communities on lock down, preventing new microbes from colonizing. Such a state of “colonization resistance” in the gut could thwart harmful germs from moving in, particularly when the microbiome is imbalanced and vulnerable after antibiotic treatments, the researchers hypothesized—and they found they were right.”
TENNESSEE DOESN’T HAVE A TRUE INCOME TAX, BUT WE DO HAVE THE “HALL INCOME TAX” ON EARNINGS FROM STOCKS AND BONDS. There’s a move to get rid of it now. The libertarian Beacon Center of Tennessee is involved.
FLASHBACK: This Is What Broadband Satellite Communication Looked Like in 1965: Intelsat 1, the first commercial telecom satellite, could relay 240 phone calls at once. We’ve come a long way in 50 years.
For years, we’ve been told that over prescribing antibiotics would eventually lead to the evolution of super bugs that couldn’t be killed. Well, it’s happened, and over two million people a year are infected with drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, gonorrhea, and staph. In the past few months, we’ve seen another bug become super powered, lice. Over the years, the strongest lice have defeated over-the-counter treatments and bred to create all-powerful and uber-disgusting super lice.
2015 and ‘16 has seen an outbreak of these super-powered critters take over 25 states and they can’t be killed with traditional medications. “The lice themselves have sort of built up a resistance to conventional over-the-counter treatments that most patients use for the treatments,” said Pediatrician Daniel McCrimons.
Prevention tips include teaching your kids “If it touches hair, we don’t share,” not over-washing your child’s hair, and using a lice-preventative spray.