THAT’S MYSANDRY, STRAIGHT UP: U. of Oregon ‘Men’s Center’: White Men Can’t Be Victims of Racism, Sexism.
Archive for 2017
May 4, 2017
AND WE’RE SHOCKED BECAUSE?Another Day, Another Pointless Media Attack on Ivanka Trump. (The Liberty Zone, standard language disclaimer applies. I mean, I didn’t actually catch some of Nicki’s patented language, but hey, some might have escaped.)
AND A LOT OF THESE ARE … FASTER PLEASE: NYC’s mad scientists could literally change our world.
MORE PRACTICAL THAN DECORATIVE: Student creates bra that can detect breast cancer.
TURNS OUT HOOKING UP IS… COMPLICATED: I was a victim of ‘stealthing’.
May 3, 2017
HMM: Royal staff called to Buckingham Palace for ’emergency meeting’: report. “Reports of the meeting, which was called at 3am (noon AEST), have sparked speculation about an announcement about the Queen or her husband, Prince Philip.” Please, no King Charles. He hasn’t even been a good Prince.
BECAUSE LEFTIST POLTICS: “Why is it, exactly, ‘immoral’ for a nation to have a certain preference as to whom it allows to migrate in?” But it’s nice that New York Times readers are asking this question.
A BOY WHO DID THIS WOULD BE UNIVERSALLY REGARDED AS PATHETIC: Teen’s Prom Date? Her Harvard Acceptance Letter.
VIDEO: THE UNBELIEVABLE FULL-ALBUM SGT. PEPPER/STAR WARS MASH-UP. “To cleanse the palate, one of the two or three greatest achievements in the history of the Internet. At long last, we’ve reached the pop-culture Singularity. And it was worth the wait. They did the whole farking album. The whole album.”
In other Beatles news, finally, the Beatles are getting their own Sirius-XM channel in a couple of weeks. Considering the surviving Beatles (and Yoko, who controls John’s estate) seem to license their product with an eyedropper (see also: lack of a non-bootleg version of Let It Be on DVD), I wonder how torturous the negotiations were to make this happen.
SO #WOKE IT’S STUPID: New York Times and Entertainment Weekly Contributor and Film Reviewer Blasts Murder on the Orient Express Remake For Not Featuring Any… Asians.
Near the beginning of All the President’s Men, Robert Redford, playing a very green Bob Woodward, asks Jack Warden, playing crusty but midlevel Washington Post editor Harry Rosenfeld, who is Nixon aide Chuck Colson. Warden’s character responds, “Sit down. You know I’m glad you asked me that question. The reason I’m glad you asked me is because if you had asked Simons or Bradlee they woulda said, ‘You know we’re gonna have to fire this schmuck at once because he’s so dumb.’”
Evidently, such sherpas no longer exist to aid tyro journalists at major metropolitan outposts of the DNC-MSM.
NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Irony Alert: Gender Bias Study by Women Researchers Suffers From Gender Bias, Peer Reviewers Say.
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SCIENCE: Judith Curry on “Nye’s Quadrant.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: This is what a witch hunt looks like. “Usually, an article like this, abstract and argumentatively complex as it is, wouldn’t attract all that much attention outside of its own academic subculture. But that isn’t what happened here — instead, Tuvel is now bearing the brunt of a massive internet witch-hunt, abetted in part by Hypatia’s refusal to stand up for her. The journal has already apologized for the article, despite the fact that it was approved through its normal editorial process, and Tuvel’s peers are busily wrecking her reputation by sharing all sorts of false claims about the article that don’t bear the scrutiny of even a single close read.”
Academia is increasingly like middle school, and academics increasingly like middle-schoolers. Question for taxpayers: Why subsidize middle-school behavior? Especially when it’s a middle school in East Germany. . . .
And it’s revealing that a feminist journal won’t defend a woman when the mean girls target her.
FASTER, PLEASE. MUCH FASTER: Trump is quietly succeeding in chipping away at Obama-era regulations.
HMM: SEC Probes Solar Companies Over Disclosure of Customer Cancellations.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining whether San Francisco-based Sunrun Inc. RUN -8.06% and Elon Musk’s San Mateo, Calif.-based SolarCity Corp. have adequately disclosed how many customers have canceled contracts after signing up for a home solar-energy system, the person said.
Investors use that cancellation metric as one way to gauge the companies’ health. Companies typically give customers a few days after signing a contract, or even up until the time of installation, to back out of a deal.
Some solar-energy companies have recently disclosed in public filings and earnings calls that increasing numbers of customers are canceling, but the companies have provided few details about the number of cancellations or their impact on the companies’ business.
The SEC recently issued a subpoena to Sunrun and interviewed current and former employees about the adequacy of its disclosures on account cancellations, said the person familiar with the investigation. The SEC is also looking at SolarCity, the person said.
An SEC spokesman declined to comment. Representatives for Sunrun didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment. A spokeswoman for SolarCity said in a statement that the company “has remained focused on reporting the quality of our installed assets, not pre-install cancellation rates. Our growth projections have always been based on actual deployments.”
My wife and I looked into solar, thinking that the combination of tax breaks, subsidies, and 300 days of sunshine each year might make it economical — but no.
It looks like increasing numbers of people are coming to the same conclusion.
AND THEY WONDER WHY THEY’RE LOSING VIEWERS: Leftist Network BLASTS Democrats: ESPN Host Declares Every ‘City In America’ a ‘Racist City.’
No business publicly trashes its customers like the DNC-MSM. Speaking of which, long before ESPN went full SJW, we’ve known that Manhattan is a racist city – our source was the New York Times.
IS THERE ANYTHING TRUMP CAN’T DO? The New York Times just had its ‘single best quarter for subscriber growth’
IT’S COME TO THIS: “Want to know what it looks like to be über-woke? Look no further than Entertainment Weekly and New York Times contributor Rebecca Theodore, who dropped a hell of a bomb this morning regarding the upcoming film adaptation of “Murder on the Orient Express.’” A person whose Twitter handle is “Film Fatale” and employed by Entertainment Weekly, Forbes, Roger Ebert.com, and the New York Times actually tweeted this:
Back in 2001, during the very early days of Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds advised pioneering bloggers, “Any time you start to doubt yourself, and wonder if you’re fit for the big leagues of American thought and opinion, you can just read The Times and be thankful that the standards of the big leagues aren’t so high.”
And the Gray Lady certainly hasn’t upped her standards since.
It’s true, as Matthew Continetti wrote in 2014 that “it is to high school, I think, that the New York Times is most aptly compared,” except that when I was in high school, I’m pretty sure most of us already knew where the Orient Express train ran (hint: not to China!) and the characters in Agatha Christie’s novel and its various film adaptations. And as Michael Medved tweets, “The Orient Express is based on a novel & previous film about a famous train. Sorry, trains don’t have ethnicity — either Asian or otherwise.”
Exit Question to Theodore from Iowahawk:
Hey, this is a person employed by the New York Times after all. In other words, the verdict is still out on this query.
Unrelated to today’s beclowning by a Timesperson, but in regards to this latest attempt to remake Murder on the Orient Express, I’ll be curious to read the reviews of Kennth Branagh’s version. Though I doubt I can accept anyone other than David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, and he’s already made Orient Express, an excellent if unremittingly grim 2010 segment of his long-running series for Britain’s ITV.
UPDATE (5:56 PM Eastern): It’s a mystery worthy of Hercule Poirot himself as to why Theodore has made her Twitter account private…
WE LIVE IN A MAGICAL TIME FOR MUSCLE: The Ten Cheapest New Cars You Can Buy With More Than 500 HP. When I was a kid, 300 hp was a big deal.