A BAD-MOM VERSION OF THELMA AND LOUISE: SUV carrying family accelerated off California cliff, officials say. “The deceased are two mothers, Jennifer Hart and Sarah Margaret Hart, who were both 38. Jennifer was driving at the time. Authorities determined that three of their six children are dead, the other three are missing and feared dead, The Washington Post reported. . . . Allman said there is no reason so far to think the crash was intentional but also mentioned there were no skid marks or signs the driver braked as the GMC Yukon crossed a flat, dirt pull-off area, about 75 feet wide, where motorists on the Pacific Coast Highway often walk their dogs.”
Archive for 2018
April 2, 2018
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: NASA funds plans to put robot bees on Mars.
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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Social media firms want us addicted to approval. So much for WiFi making us smarter.
#TIMESUP: EMBATTLED CONGRESSWOMAN ESTY (D-CT) WON’T SEEK RE-ELECTION.
As Glenn noted over the weekend, “the torpedoes they put in the water for Trump keep circling around on them.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE, THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY, AND THE MEMORY HOLE: Temple University Faculty Members Are Trying to Erase the ‘Gender Binary System.’
Shades of Chesterton’s Fence — perhaps Philadelphia’s Temple University should make sure their students know some of the basics before crafting the Brave New World.
WILL TRUMP INVOKE THE INSURRECTION ACT? California’s illegal alien voting law is secession.
21ST CENTURY DEATHS: Death on Autopilot: California Crash Victim’s Tesla Drove Itself Into Barrier. “A revealing tidbit of information comes from The Mercury News, which reports Huang made several complaints to Tesla about his vehicle’s Autopilot system. Huang’s family said he contacted the company on several occasions after his Model X veered off the road while Autopilot was engaged. Apparently, at least one of the incidents occurred on that same stretch of the 101.” So why did he still use it?
KEITH CAN’T ANSWER: Keith Ellison Dodges Four Times When Asked If He Will Repeal Tax Cuts — Calls The Cuts ‘Small Money.’
Crumbs, you might say (if, God forbid, you were Nancy Pelosi).
OMG NOT CLEAR BACKPACKS! ‘KIDS’ DEMANDING MORE GOV SUDDENLY NOT SO HAPPY WITH MORE GOV.
As “RBPundit” tweeted today, “Marjorie Stoneman-Douglas students should not have their right to an opaque backpack (let’s call them ‘Assault-style backpacks’) infringed because of one crazed individual.” But then, a century ago, during the heyday of early “Progressive” Woodrow Wilson, Mencken warned that those who seek more government often discover “good and hard” what that leads to. Or as an ad for the Libertarian Party during the heyday of Occupy Wall Street illustrated:
Related: Cry us a river! CNN wants you to feel bad because Parkland students say their school is ‘like a jail now.’ “It sucks when the actions of one crazy and monstrous person affect the innocent people around them, eh CNN? That so many people who did nothing wrong must pay the price for the one jackass who did. But tell us more about how we should ban firearms of law-abiding Americans and blame the NRA for this shooting.”
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Can We Expect a Hollywood “Roseanne” Boycott Next?
MOST PEOPLE ARE ILL-SUITED FOR ENDLESS LEISURE: Many Americans Try Retirement, Then Change Their Minds.
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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Social media firms want us addicted to approval. So much for WiFi making us smarter.
SUSAN L.M. GOLDBERG: 10 Essential Life Skills to Pass on to Your Kids.
I’d add an eleventh, umbrella item: Firearms safety and maintenance, and basic marksmanship.
REMINDER: THE LEFT HATES OUR CIVILIZATION.
Here once again we should repair to the observation of British historian Sir Geoffrey Elton, who wrote: “There are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill: whether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains, quite simply, a great man.”
Ah—that “great man” thing: contemporary leftist egalitarians cannot tolerate such distinctions among human beings.
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KIDS THESE DAYS: ‘Condom snorting challenge’ is the latest dangerous trend to go viral on the internet.
Videos posted on social media show people unwrapping a condom from the packaging, snorting it up one nostril, and then attempting to pull it through the pharynx and out of the mouth.
The challenge has been around for several years, but it is becoming popular again as people, mainly younger adults and teens, search for stupid trends to do during boredom that will go viral on the internet.
It’s dangerous because the condom could easily get stuck in the nose and throat, blocking breathing and causing the challenger to choke.
As near as I can tell, this story is not an April Fool’s prank.
BUT WASH YOUR HANDS ANYWAY: CDC: Flu season continuing its decline.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT LAST NIGHT, SHOWTIME AND CBS WISHED YOU A HAPPY EASTER: Colbert’s Easter Cartoon: ‘How Do Grown Adults Still Worship Jesus?’
FROM #TIMESUP TO #NOTME: Esty Says She Won’t Step Down Over Handling of Abusive Top Staffer. “Rep. Elizabeth Esty stood her ground over the weekend, weathering a series of calls from state Democratic leaders and Republicans for her to step down over how she handled abuse, battery, and sexual harassment allegations against her former chief of staff.”
ORANGE COUNTY BOARD MEMBER: We joined lawsuit against California because the state isn’t right.
Shawn Nelson, a Republican member of the Orange County board of supervisors, said on Sunday that California is trying to prevent the county from keeping its citizens safe.
Orange County recently joined the Justice Department in a federal lawsuit against California that opposes the state’s “sanctuary” laws.
California last October signed legislation making California a “sanctuary state” in part by blocking local law enforcement from complying with federal immigration officials on detainment requests for immigrants in the country illegally.
“What California’s law is requiring is our sheriffs not even cooperate, which is resulting in people that have committed crimes ending up on the streets of every county, but certainly Orange County,” Nelson told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace. “We got involved because we don’t think that’s right.”
“We are tired of the state trying to use these arguments to prevent us from keeping the citizens safe,” Nelson added.
Sacramento’s state-sanctioned lawlessness is incompatible with a republican form of government.