WELL, THAT’S A NICE EFFORT TO DISTRACT FROM THEIR CORRUPTION AND INCOMPETENCE: New York City’s Subways Are Slow, Crowded and Smelly—Officials Say Part of the Problem Is You.
Archive for 2018
September 22, 2018
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Japan’s Space Agency Is About to Land Bouncing Rovers on an Asteroid.
UPDATE (From Ed): Japan successfully lands robot rovers on an asteroid’s surface.
(Bumped.)
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
● Shot: Obesity ‘epidemic’ turns global.
—Headline, BBC News, October 23rd, 2007.
—Headline, BBC News, today.
THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR BAD ECONOMIC PREDICTIONS: Continually Mistaken, Chronically Admired. From his admiration of Hugo Chavez’ economic policies to his predictions about Fannie Mae, Joseph Stigliz has proven that you don’t have to be correct to be a celebrated left-wing economist. (To be fair, Paul Krugman deserves priority for this discovery.)
I’M SORRY, BUT LIKE “MICROAGGRESSIONS,” “MICROCHEATING is worthy of no more than micro-concern.
THE NEW COLOR LINE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: I can’t help but believe that Heman Sweatt would be baffled by the move toward campus separatism.
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Politicized Entertainment Award Shows Continue to Hemorrhage Viewers.
JONAH GOLDBERG ON THE ZERO-SUM THINKING BEHIND GROUP RIGHTS:
I am making a moral point rather than a political or geopolitical one. Nation-states, for example, can hold grievances against other nation-states on all sorts of issues. It is right for Armenians to demand an apology from Turkey for the Armenian genocide, even if it was long ago.
But at the ground level, intergenerational guilt is one of the oldest and nastiest bigotries, because it is among the most natural. For much of human history, people were born into communities that were in large part defined by their hatred for other communities.
We see it all over the place on the issue of race. Some argue that white people today should carry some of the guilt for slavery. Never mind that many white people today are descended from people who: did not immigrate here until after slavery ended, were not slaveholders in the first place, were not considered “white” when they moved here, etc.
But, as much as I find such arguments unpersuasive and often ludicrous, I can at least understand them on an emotional level.
I can’t quite get my head around the idea that men today should suffer or be treated unjustly to make amends for how men, now long dead, treated women, now long dead.
And yet, this is now the very definition of a woke take.
Someone get Matt a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird stat!
Read the whole thing. Though to be fair, in today’s environment, there’s always the risk that Dowd would view Atticus Finch as “American literature’s most celebrated rape apologist.”
Related: Screw due process: Ron Fournier says to “stop the whataboutism and defend every woman.”
As Jamie Kirchick of Tablet tweets, “It’s been very revealing this week to see some of the loudest voices in the ‘protect norms’ crowd suddenly dispense with the norm of presumed innocence.”
THIS IS NOT ENCOURAGING: Biosafety Reforms Still Lagging at Military Labs.
THIS WEEK IN MEDIA BIAS HISTORY: I Didn’t See ‘Any Brutality’ in North Korea.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Recalling Dianne Feinstein’s ‘gracious tribute’ to sex-harasser Bob Packwood.
HEY, THAT MEANS THERE’S A 95% CHANCE THAT DRINKING WON’T KILL YOU, RIGHT! WHO: Alcohol a factor in one in 20 deaths worldwide.
MARK RIPPETOE goes off.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: “If you wanted to harm the prospects of minority students, to diminish their chances in life, while congratulating yourself and being applauded by your peers, what would you do differently?”
Read the whole thing.
IN THE MAIL: From George Gilder, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy.
It’s satire — but is it, really?