Archive for 2017
July 21, 2017
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ONCE AGAIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES DECLARES ITS CORE LEFTWING READERS TO BE RACIST. “NY Times reporter: White women seem racist on the city’s sidewalks,” John Sexton paraphrases at Hot Air – because they don’t appear to get out of the author’s way when he’s walking down the sidewalk:
The author does do some speculating on what this might mean, but all of his thoughts seem to boil down to white women being afraid to acknowledge him. He says he has asked white women he knows and they tell him they don’t know what he’s talking about. “Wait, am I crazy?” he wonders. But then when he asks black male friends and “they know what I’m talking about.”
What I see are a lot of unexplored variables. Since these are people passing in the opposite direction, the author doesn’t really know how these women behaved toward everyone else. In other words, maybe he has just encountered some rude women. The idea that there are rude people walking around New York being rude doesn’t exactly come as a shock to me.
Back in 2013, the Times ran an essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates that similarly assumed the paper’s core readers are racists. As I wrote at the time:
So just to add up the comments by Times contributors over the past couple of years: if you live in the big blank space between Manhattan and L.A. in the New Yorker cartoon, you’re a participant in “the dance of the low-sloping foreheads.” If you actually live in the Times’ backyard, you’re a potential Progressive racist. (Woodrow Wilson, call your office.) When the Weekly Standard noted recently that in the eyes of the MSM, the customer is always wrong, they had no idea how much he was truly loathed by those hoping that he’ll part with a note featuring Abraham Lincoln’s face and some change for a copy of the Sunday edition.
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Which brings us to the title of Coates’ article: “The Good, Racist People.” About which, [Ann] Althouse herself wrote, “My question is: How did some people get to be considered the ‘good’ people in the first place? It’s that question that fires my antagonism to liberals. They think they are good.”
Perhaps they feel they earn their penitence by paying to be harangued on a regular basis by the Gray Lady. I assume they enjoy wearing their NYT-emblazoned hairshirts, but all of the blue-on-blue action above is yet another reminder of Jon Gabriel’s classic tweet from 2014:
WHY DOES BLACK LIVES MATTER HATE MOTHERS? Civil unrest related to Freddie Gray death caused depressive symptoms among mothers in affected neighborhoods. It’s not surprising, of course, that people might be depressed seeing a bunch of thugs wrecking their neighborhoods after being given “space to destroy” by their mayor.
PEARL-CLUTCHING BOOKSTORE EMPLOYEE FRETS OVER SELLING HILLBILLY ELEGY TO CUSTOMERS: “The author of this, Douglas Koziol, doesn’t seem to have actually read Vance’s book.”
What, and risk exposure to the doubleplus ungood crimethink? Or to mix dystopian metaphors, as Ryan Holiday noted in a 2015 New York Observer article titled “The Real Reason We Need to Stop Trying to Protect Everyone’s Feelings,” “In the 50th anniversary edition, Bradbury includes a short afterword where he gives his thoughts on current culture. Almost as if he is speaking directly about the events above, he wrote: ‘There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running around with lit matches.’”
I’VE SEEN THIS MYSELF: Depression in heart attack survivors is common, often untreated.
I CERTAINLY HOPE NOT: Is Gen. Selva Right About the Dangers of Killer Robots Unleashed on Humanity?
BLOGGER RIDICULES OLIVE GARDEN’S DEMAND LETTER OVER TRADEMARK DISPUTE: “On Wednesday, a blogger in Southern California wrote the most epic response to a pasta-related legal demand letter that we have ever seen.”
Pretty ungrateful of Olive Garden, considering all that bloggers have done to defend the chain from its detractors.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Was John McCain a military hero?
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AND NOW IT’S SPICER’S TURN TO GET DOXXED BY THE MSM. Disgusting: Reuters Broadcasts Livestream of Sean Spicer’s House.
To paraphrase Stephen Jukes, Reuters’ former global news editor on Al Qaeda and September 11th, one man’s news agency is another man’s disciple of Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals.
Flashback: Reuters Instructs Reporters To Cover Trump Like An Authoritarian Regime.
REVIEW: 2017 Audi Q7.
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I’M WITH YOU ON THE FIRST HALF OF THE EQUATION; NOT SURE ABOUT THE SECOND. Rumours Turns 40: The Monumental Impact of the Album and of Stevie Nicks.
For those interested in all of the backstage machinations and intertwining soap operas while the album was being recorded, Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album by co-producer Ken Caillat is a very enjoyable read.
PEST CONTROL: To Shrink Mosquito Population, Scientists Are Releasing 20 Million Mosquitoes.
It sounds counterintuitive. But the plan is to release millions of sterile male mosquitoes, which will then mate with wild female mosquitoes. The eggs the females lay won’t hatch, researchers say.
The project is called Debug Fresno and it’s being undertaken by Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet, Google’s holding company. It’s the company’s first field study involving sterile mosquitoes in the U.S.
Scientists say the goal is to cut the population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes — the species responsible for spreading Zika, dengue and chikungunya. A. aegypti have been present in California’s Central Valley since 2013 and have been a problem in Fresno County.
“It’s a terrible nuisance, a terrible biting nuisance. It’s changed the way people can enjoy their back yard and it’s a threat for disease transmission,” Steve Mulligan of Fresno County’s Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District told The Washington Post.
There must be an easier way.
IT’S NOT JUST FOR CROSSFIT: As Workouts Intensify, a Harmful Side Effect Grows More Common. “Rhabdo, as many experts call it, has long been documented among soldiers, firefighters and others whose professions can be physically demanding. An Army study in 2012 estimated that about 400 cases of the condition are diagnosed among active-duty soldiers each year. On occasion there have also been large clusters of college athletes hospitalized with it after particularly grueling workouts. But doctors say they are now seeing more of it among weekend warriors driven in part by the popularity of high-intensity workouts.”
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SPACE: SpaceX Drops Plans for Powered Dragon Landings. “It would have taken a tremendous amount of effort to qualify that for safety, particularly for crew transport.”