TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Gallery: Notorious Teacher Sex Scandals.

TRUMP’S GREAT GIFT IS TO REVEAL THE TRUE NATURE OF HIS OPPONENTS: “Yes, that’s skin lightening advice (in Vanity Fair). How can that be okay? Trump brings chaos.”

IN THE WASHINGTON POST, THE BUSINESS CASE FOR HIRING KAEPERNICK. NO, REALLY!

UVA’s Darden School of Business is at the forefront of popularizing a new, cutting edge business model: antagonize your best customers. Turning the laws of commerce on their head, Darden professor Morela Hernandez and MLB candidate Joseph (Sonny) Siragusa, are arguing that, long-term, flipping off America is a growth industry.

That hasn’t worked out very well for the Post’s bottom line, as Jeff Bezos purchased the newspaper in 2013 for about what he’s been rumored to spend to acquire the former cast and producer of the BBC’s Top Gear series to create Amazon Prime Video’s Grand Tour car series. And speaking of Bezos, in case Kaepernick’s career as chief wokesperson (sorry) in the NFL’s front office doesn’t work out, presumably, the Post will send a resume for him  over to Bezos’ desk, right?

THE DIRTY SECRET OF THE BBC SISTERHOOD.

All forms of positive discrimination are pernicious, and Ollie rightly decried McGovern’s chippy belief that a presenter from humble origins, speaking in a regional accent, has intrinsic merit. Nevertheless, with many BBC women continuing to claim gender discrimination over pay, she also offered the heretical opinion: ‘It’s not as simple as a gender issue; it’s partly down to class. There are a lot of women who do a similar job to me who are paid a hell of a lot more . . . who are a lot posher than me.’ Claiming there to be a charmed circle of women is most certainly not from the script approved by the BBC sisterhood.

McGovern revealed that, following the latest stushie over pay differentials, only now has her salary been increased to six figures. Not being an aficionado of her work, I make no judgment on whether or not the increased pay reflects her ability. Until now, the only occasion upon which McGovern had crossed my radar was a report in January of viewers congratulating her on being pregnant, to which she had replied: ‘I am not “with child”, I am “with pot belly”’ – a response which, if nothing else, points to a degree of self-deprecation seldom evident amongst the solemn pay-gap protesters at the BBC.

She also opined that the pay of a BBC presenter should not exceed £150,000, which must have greatly annoyed many of the BBC women who last year signed the letter of complaint to director general Tony Hall. Those signatories included Fiona Bruce, Victoria Derbyshire, Mishal Husain, Martha Kearney and Laura Kuenssberg, all of whom already receive north of £200,000 and, by coincidence, all had the privilege of a private education. Also, despite six well-known BBC men having agreed in January to sizeable pay cuts, oddly there has been no report of a concomitant sacrifice by any of the Beeb’s exceptionally high-earning women, such as Claudia Winkleman, Alex Jones, Vanessa Feltz and the aforementioned Fiona Bruce.

It is instructive that following McGovern’s well-publicised assertion that many ‘posh’ female presenters still far earn more than she does, other BBC women, normally so vocal on matters of pay discrimination at the Corporation, have been strangely mute.

It’s almost as if all this gender-gap stuff is just a self-serving ploy.

HOLLYWOOD’S ELITE SHOULD BE ASHAMED: That’s the consensus of opinion among 20 everyday Americans when asked about tonight’s Oscars awards, according to LifeZette.

FROM THE ANNALS OF CREATIVE HUMBLEBRAGGING: Zimbabwe Health Minister: Chinese Condoms Too Small for Zimbabwean Men.

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FLASHBACK: Biden Family Drama Has Everything: Sex, Hookers, Debt, Cocaine And A Son Sleeping With His Dead Bro’s Wife.

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Membership in Gun Groups Is Spiking After the Florida Shooting.

A FRIEND OF MINE TOLD ME HE’S STARTING WEIGHT TRAINING FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND I’M KINDA JEALOUS. You never make the gains you make in the first year of seriously lifting. I sent him this: Who Wants To Be A Novice? You Do.

In the comments, someone’s worried that he’ll follow a “silly BS program.” No, he’s following this one.

BREAKING THE TAXI MONOPOLY IN ORDER TO GET ONE OF THEIR OWN? Uber and Lyft Are Begging Government for a Monopoly on Self-Driving Cars.

DAVE KOPEL: The History of the ‘Assault Weapon’ Hoax. Part 1: The Crime that Started it All.. “A 1989 shooting at a Cal. schoolyard began the national ‘assault weapon’ issue. It was a consequence of law enforcement failure.”

A MEDIA CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE. “[A] realization within mainstream media that all their melodrama about Trump hasn’t worked and is incredibly tiresome to normal people who might still retain shreds of the old the habit of reading serious news.”

I DOUBT VERY MUCH THAT THIS IS BEING DONE IN THE SERVICE OF IMPROVING STUDENT EDUCATION: University of Tennessee faculty: Administrative proposal would essentially eliminate tenure. I’d consider it more seriously if it were bundled with a hard cap on administrators at half the current level, but at present I think it’s just an administrative power grab.

WHERE DO THESE COME FROM? Hand Grenades and Gang Violence Rattle Sweden’s Middle Class. “Sweden’s far right-wing party blames the government’s liberal immigration policy for the rising crime, and will thrust the issue to the fore in the fall campaign.” This is a Swedish version of “Republicans Pounce.”

AXIOS: The NRA Has Hit The Mark On Digital Activism. “The NRA’s official app, NRA-ILA, is used by tens of thousands of people. Through push notifications and in-app reminders, users (who aren’t necessarily NRA members) are encouraged to call their representatives, post on social media, and donate.”

ROBERT BORK’S AMERICA: Published 40 years ago, Bork’s book on antitrust law fundamentally changed America’s economy for the worse. I have always felt — I remember arguing this with a classmate’s economist-boyfriend — that the Bork approach to antitrust ignores the political aspect of concentrated economic power, something I’m pretty sure the framers of the Sherman Act, etc., considered significant.

BUT I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED!  Did Homo erectus speak?

WHERE I LIVE NOW, I GET EAGLES CIRCLING RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY 3RD FLOOR OFFICE.  ADMITTEDLY MORE DIGNIFIED POSES:  So Much for Avian Dignity…

THE READING MASOCHIST TAKES A BREAK FROM PAIN:   When Facts Fail and Knees Jerk An Introduction to Thomas Sowell’s “Black Rednecks & White Liberals” – By Amanda S. Green.

DO RUSSIAN TROLLS HAVE SOME POWER OUR HOMEGROWN ONES DON’T?  COME ON PEOPLE, THEY’RE NOT CALLED TROLLS BECAUSE THEY’RE PERSUASIVE:  Facebook’s Russian Troll Problem Just Got Worse with Revelations of Instagram Coverup.

SIGH:  On Guns and Virtue-Signaling.

MANIPULATED IDIOTS THINK THEMSELVES NEW FOUNDING FATHERS:   Generation Snowflake Needs to Start Learning, and Stop Yapping.