Archive for 2017
September 26, 2017
THE NFL TURNS MAOIST: Good News: A Steeler Issues an Apology for the Anthem Protest
Bad News: It Was the Lone Player Who Stood for the Anthem, Apologizing for “Throwing [His] Teammates Under the Bus”.
OFFICIAL CHILD ABUSE: 8th-Graders Made to Lie in Dark with Wrists Taped, Watching ‘Roots’ at Calif. School.
OF COURSE SHE DOES: Dianne Feinstein Laments Return of Due Process.
SOMEHOW A FEW TYPOS GOT BY MY EDITORS BUT WELL… I WAS VERY ANGRY, SO THERE WERE MANY OF THEM: The Puffington Host Now Doing Bad Science Fiction. The typos will be dealt with.
September 25, 2017
JOSH BLACKMAN & SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: The Emoluments Clauses litigation, Part 1: The Constitution’s taxonomy of officers and offices.
AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Military History.
GLENN LOURY: “We’re not supposed to notice that Asians are being turned away in droves from the elite universities.
Well, some people have noticed.
BRET STEPHENS: The Dying Art of Disagreement.
DAVID FRENCH: I Understand Why They Knelt.
MARK KLEIMAN TRIES TO SHAME ALTHOUSE AGAIN, FAILS MISERABLY.
AMERICA’S TEAM KNEES AMERICA? Cowboys Take A Knee In Prayer Before National Anthem.
“According to Kristi Scales, the pregame kneel was in prayer for equality and unity, and purposely not during the anthem.”
Hmmmm.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Hugh Hewitt says this is an effort at de-escalation. That’s a good idea, but I don’t know if it will be interpreted that way.
21ST CENTURY MEDICINE: Studying 1 million people to end cookie-cutter health care.
ROB LONG: The Age of the Outraged is killing all my best gags.
In an outrage culture, it pays to be outrageous, as Glenn has written about Milo Yiannopoulos (see also: the 45th president). But as Long writes in the London Spectator, that’s increasingly difficult when you’re dealing with network TV censors terrified of offending an incredibly diverse audience base comprising of both elderly core viewers, and crazed millennial SJWs, whose immediate response is first this…
…And then a raging Tweetstorm.
THE STORY BEHIND DEVO’S ICONIC COVER OF THE ROLLING STONES’ “SATISFACTION:”
One afternoon in 1978, Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale—the two prime architects of the band Devo—were fidgeting in Peter Rudge’s office, near the Warwick Hotel, in Manhattan, with Mick Jagger. Rudge was the Rolling Stones’ manager, and Devo had recorded an odd cover of the band’s hit “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”—so odd that their label said they needed Jagger’s blessing to release it. Mothersbaugh put the tape in a boom box and pressed Play.
Read the whole thing.
HOW YOU CAN TELL IF YOU’VE OUTGROWN A FOOD ALLERGY.
‘MY FAULT ONLY’: Steelers’ Alejandro Villanueva apologizes in press conference for throwing Steelers ‘under the bus:’
Villenueva:”I made coach Tomlin look bad, and that is my fault and my fault only…Every single time I see that picture of me standing by myself, I feel embarrassed.”
Oh to have been a fly on the wall when Mike Tomlin read Villenueva the riot act, as he trips up yet another player. First class, Steelers and NFL.
Related: Ben Roethlisberger’s sleepless regret after Steelers’ protest.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The Very Model of a Modern Male Millennial:
Here’s the strangest part: I didn’t start out this way. I was a very industrious kid. I got my first job, working in a nursery, when I was 12 years-old. I worked at a responsible job in a church rectory until I was 17. I have never “not” worked. I’m an Eagle Scout and (nominally) a Knight of Columbus. I went to college, got the quarter-million dollar degree – the diploma hangs above my bed like the Sword of Damocles – and I’m faithfully paying off the student loans by working part-time jobs. There are the “seeds” of traditional masculinity inside me, and I never consciously rejected them.
But something has changed, and it hasn’t changed only for me, but for my contemporaries, too. Most of us are still living at home; a few of us have married, but we’re mostly still single. Why haven’t we moved on?
Why, indeed?
WAR ON WOMEN UPDATE: Sanders Donor Clarifies She Doesn’t Want Betsy DeVos to Be Raped, Just Tortured.
As Glenn noted in August:
Two months ago, Steve Scalise was shot by a Trump-hating, Bernie-backing gunman who set out intentionally to massacre Republican congressmen.
The next day: ‘F*ck Steve Scalise’: HuffPost writer wishes ‘violent resistance’ were more ‘organized.’
Why is the Democratic party, and its socialist fellow travelers, such a cesspit of violent rhetoric — and at times, actual violence?
I DONATE TWO OR THREE TIMES A YEAR: Frequent blood donations safe for some, but not all. “Blood donors give about a pint of blood each time, explained Murphy, who co-authored an editorial published with the study. That depletes them of about 200 to 250 milligrams of iron, he said. And it takes the average donor about six months to fully recover those iron stores, if no supplements are used. That window shrinks to around 90 days if a donor takes a standard daily iron pill, according to Murphy. Yet the currently recommended blood-donation intervals do not reflect that.”