Archive for 2018
March 8, 2018
BECAUSE THEY HATE AND MALIGN US? Why We Hate the Media, Chapter 12, 879.
YEAH. WHERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE? Political Pundits and Pollsters Miss the Mark — Again.
WHY? LIBERAL LIAR IS NOT A GENE: Senator Warren Needs To Take A DNA Test Now.
THIS IS DEFINITELY THE 21ST CENTURY I’VE BEEN EXPECTING: This new device can ‘X-ray’ moles to check for skin cancer.
CHECK BEFORE YOU BOARD, EVEN IF IT IS ONLY FOR A THREE HOUR CRUISE: More cruise ships than ever are flunking health inspections.
WAIT, WHAT? IS THIS A JOKE SITE? Group Implores Court to Defend Consumers’ Right to Buy Eggs, Meat.
March 7, 2018
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CAMPUS CRAZINESS IN CANADA SEEMS EVEN WORSE THAN HERE: Woman arrested after rally against controversial professor Jordan Peterson.
Police say the woman, who isn’t a student at Queen’s, stood on one of the building’s window ledges during the protest and started to bang on the window, causing it to break and cutting her hand.
They say she fled the scene but was stopped nearby by plain-clothes officers, who had to bring in extra officers when the woman became violent during her arrest.
Police add that the woman also tried to kick out the cruiser’s window while she was being transported to police headquarters.Officials say officers searched her backpack and found a weapon — a metal wire with handles commonly known as a garrotte.
Really? Really?
BARI WEISS: When Everyone Is A Fascist, No One Is A Fascist.
Christina Hoff Sommers is a self-identified feminist and registered Democrat with a Ph.D. in philosophy and a wicked sense of humor. She is also a woman who says bad things. Things like: Men and women are equal, but there are differences between them. Or: The gender gap in STEM fields isn’t simply the result of sexism. Or: Contrary to received wisdom, the American school system actually favors girls, not boys.
When such a person steps foot on a college campus these days, you know what’s coming. So it was on Monday at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Ore., where Ms. Sommers had been invited by the Federalist Society to give a talk about feminism.
In advance of the lecture, nine student groups, among them the Portland National Lawyers Guild, the Minority Law Student Association, the Women’s Law Caucus, the Jewish Law Society and the school’s Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter sent a letter protesting the appearance by this “known fascist.”
The letter added that her invitation amounted to an “act of aggression and violence” and went on to offer a curious definition of free speech: “Freedom of speech is certainly an important tenet to a free, healthy society, but that freedom stops when it has a negative and violent impact on other individuals.”
Yes, these future lawyers believe that free speech is acceptable only when it doesn’t offend them. Which is to say, they don’t believe in it at all.
Losers.
OPEN THREAD: When a problem comes along . . . you must thread it!
HEH: “Taylor Swift! Her idol is Taylor Swift! Not me? Taylor Swift!!! That’s the music in the background of this stupid clip? Taylor Swift?? And that means I have to dance to Taylor Swift? What’s the critical race theory on that?”
Plus: “I guess that’s the mother, in the background, tending to another child, a less politically useful child. The useful child, the cute 2-year-old girl, is not looking at her supposed idol, but staring at what I presume is a television or computer monitor showing her how to dance with the video ‘Shake It Off.'”
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN:
● Shot:
But it is also a concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech. By tossing people like Mary Beard and Christina Hoff Sommers into the slop bucket with the likes of Richard Spencer, they are attempting to place their reasonable ideas firmly outside the mainstream. They are trying to make criticism of identity politics, radical Islam and third-wave feminism, among various other subjects, verboten. For even the most minor transgressions, as in the case of Professor Beard, people are turned radioactive.
There are consequences to all this “fascism” — and not just the reputational damage to those who are smeared, though there is surely that.
—“We’re All Fascists Now,” Bari Weiss, the New York Times, today.
● Chaser: “PRESIDENT LIKENS DEWEY TO HITLER AS FASCISTS’ TOOL; Says When Bigots, Profiteers Get Control of Country They Select ‘Front Man’ to Rule DICTATORSHIP STRESSED Truman Tells Chicago Audience a Republican Victory Will Threaten U.S. Liberty TRUMAN SAYS GOP PERILS U.S. LIBERTY.”
—Headline, the New York Times, October 26, 1948.
I’M SUSPICIOUS OF THIS STORY, AS THERE ARE NO HARD NUMBERS: Teens inhale cancer-causing chemicals in e-cigarettes. If you ignore amounts, there are “cancer-causing chemicals” in everything.
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COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: She Carried a Garrotte!
Local media reports say more than 150 people took part in the rally against University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson. He has come under fire for refusing to use gender-neutral pronouns and opposing Bill C-16, which extends legal protections to transgender people in Canada.
Police say the woman, who isn’t a student at Queen’s, stood on one of the building’s window ledges during the protest and started to bang on the window, causing it to break and cutting her hand.
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Police add that the woman also tried to kick out the cruiser’s window while she was being transported to police headquarters.
Officials say officers searched her backpack and found a weapon — a metal wire with handles commonly known as a garrotte.”
A garrotte is “a crude weapon used to strangle a person. That is: to kill them by strangulation,” Rod Dreher adds.
As Kurt Schlichter writes, “Progressives Must Stop Using Terror To Try And Intimidate Conservatives.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Pepe the Frog Creator Sues Alex Jones’s Infowars.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Florida considering guns in schools.
THIS IS ON TOP OF THE CITY’S DAY-TO-DAY CRAZY: All the crazy things happening in San Francisco because of its out-of-control housing prices.
The telling detail explaining what California has done to its middle class is in this one line: “Only about 12% of households in San Francisco can afford the median-priced home.”
