Archive for 2016
November 25, 2016
AND YES, I KNOW THE BOSS ALREADY LINKED IT, BUT COME ON, IT’S MY FAVORITE SITCOM MOMENT: As the DNC said the night of the election, “As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”
WHAT CATS TEACH US ABOUT PHYSICS: Scientists just can’t stop studying falling cats.
DOGS HAVE EPISODIC-LIKE MEMORY SIMILAR TO OURS: Your dog is watching you very carefully and remembers what you do. But you know that. At least, unlike cats, dogs don’t keep lists.
WHO IS TRYING TO PUT WOMEN IN BINDERS, AFTER ALL? Megyn Kelly Fails to Fit the Feminist Mold—and That’s a Good Thing.
A WOMAN WHO WALKED AND WRESTLED IN THE LIGHT OF FAITH: The Faith and Fiction of Madeleine L’Engle in a Politically Correct World.
THE RETURN TO EISENHOWER’S REPUBLICAN PARTY (SIGH): Trump’s GOP: The end of ‘checklist conservatism’.
TREATING COURT JESTERS LIKE PHILOSOPHER KINGS: Liberals are doubling down on ‘comedy news’.
PRETEND NUMBERS HAVE REAL CONSEQUENCES: Retail sales numbers are fake but the harm is real.
November 24, 2016
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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Men to America — Thanks for nothing: While Clinton and Obama were playing the woman card, men and boys were falling behind.
If we had a college gap that favored men as much as the existing one favors women, it would be treated as a national crisis. If our girls (instead of our boys) attended schools where teachers were overwhelmingly of the opposite sex, there’d be loud demands for government action. And if there were articles with titles such as The End of Women running in major national magazines, their tone would be alarmist, not smug.
Maybe it’s time for a Presidential Task Force on Men and Boys. Before things get worse.
It would be inexpensive, and help Trump with his base. And it would address a real problem.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Today US troops Afghanistan are celebrating Thanksgiving in-country for the 16th time. It’s “only” the 14th in Iraq. Endless war has a cost. The way to avoid endless war is to either not fight at all, or pursue a crushing victory.
NEW PROCEDURE PROVIDES a breast-lift without surgery. “ThermiTight, a heat technology that uses radio-frequency energy to stimulate the production of collagen, and therefore tighten skin), is now being used in a treatment on the breasts called ThermiBreast.”
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HOW A TRAIN TICKET could have saved the Clinton campaign. “Hillary Clinton ignored her husband’s advice and thus neglected the Rust Belt when campaigning. The Rust Belt ultimately rejected her. These rural voters — who heavily supported Barack Obama on the prospect of hope and change — voted for Trump in what they may believe to be their own economic self-interest. . . . The Capitol Limited is a 780-mile Amtrak route from the nation’s capital to Chicago. It traces several hundred miles of flyover country, a slow burn through the Rust Belt and the remnants of a 20th-century economic boom. Politicians en route to Chicago clearly prefer the two-hour flight to an 18-hour train ride. But if Clinton or any other Democratic leader had simply boarded the train, they might have seen first hand what this stretch of land has become over the last 40 years. . . . This is where Americans used to make things, the backbone of a rich and great economy. In these towns there are no “up-and-coming” neighborhoods, no HGTV fixer uppers, no grand plans to push capital back into desperate communities. From the train window, all one sees are the skeletons of something once great, something gutted in favor of cheap Chinese imports and trade deals that underestimated the economic impact on middle America.”
DEAR LEFTIES: SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, TAKE THE DAY OFF, proffers Michael Walsh.
Personally, I would recommend taking a subtle psychological approach as a response, if the conversation veers into lefty politics:
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Men to America — Thanks for nothing: While Clinton and Obama were playing the woman card, men and boys were falling behind.
If we had a college gap that favored men as much as the existing one favors women, it would be treated as a national crisis. If our girls (instead of our boys) attended schools where teachers were overwhelmingly of the opposite sex, there’d be loud demands for government action. And if there were articles with titles such as The End of Women running in major national magazines, their tone would be alarmist, not smug.
Maybe it’s time for a Presidential Task Force on Men and Boys. Before things get worse.
It would be inexpensive, and help Trump with his base. And it would address a real problem.
KINDA REGRETTING THAT WHOLE “OPEN BORDERS” THING NOW, HUH? “Native Americans gathered at Standing Rock are approaching this Thanksgiving with deeply conflicted feelings.”
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, THIS IS KIND OF A METAPHOR FOR THE HILLARY CAMPAIGN: “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”.
THE GREAT DEBATE: Red or white wine with your Thanksgiving turkey?
A LOOK AT Thanksgiving Meals for Astronauts.