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March 10, 2018
I THINK THIS IS PROOF THAT TWITTER IS DANGEROUSLY ADDICTIVE AND SHOULD BE BANNED: The Times tech columnist ‘unplugged’ from the internet. Except he didn’t.
Manjoo wrote about what he learned from his two months away from social media, and dispensed avuncular advice to his readers about the benefits of slowing down one’s news consumption.
But he didn’t really unplug from social media at all. The evidence is right there in his Twitter feed, just below where he tweeted out his column: Manjoo remained a daily, active Twitter user throughout the two months he claims to have gone cold turkey, tweeting many hundreds of times, perhaps more than 1,000. In an email interview on Thursday, he stuck to his story, essentially arguing that the gist of what he wrote remains true, despite the tweets throughout his self-imposed hiatus.
It seems likely that Manjoo isn’t lying, and that he really believes he had unplugged, and really believes that his weak-sauce explanations don’t belie the point of his column. It could be that Manjoo’s column really does serve as a warning about the pernicious effects of social media. Just not in the way he meant it.
The Insta-Wife used to interview people who said they had “quit drinking,” which generally meant that they had cut down to a 12-pack of Busch per day. The thing is, compared to their prior intake, which probably added a fifth of whiskey on top of that, they probably felt like they weren’t drinking.
NO. NEXT QUESTION? New York Times on Al Sharpton, ‘the Martin Luther King of the North’?
Flashback: Al Sharpton: Power Dem.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO BATTER: British swimmer studying at Connecticut college shows off his bloodied broken nose face after American model girlfriend was arrested for assaulting him when he tried to split up. Since she’s female and cute, she’ll probably get off light.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? “David Hogg, one of the survivors of the Valentine’s Day Massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, has been a vocal proponent of gun control as a means of protecting school kids. Now, his sister, Lauren Hogg, is attempting to stir the national debate with her ‘armbands for change’ movement.”
Hogg deleted her tweet and apologized after James Woods replied to her, “You might have a little trouble getting Jewish Americans to embrace this look. Do you have some shiny jackboots and brown shirts to go with it? Guessing maybe you skipped history class while you were shilling for the @DNC.”
As Jonah Goldberg (who wrote a book on the historic fascistic excesses of liberalism that the Hoggs would be well-advised to read) writes this weekend, “Youth Politics Are Stupid. Let’s establish a baseline. I assume we can all agree that everyone is born remarkably dumb. Ever try to talk about the causes of the First World War with a newborn? So frustrating.”
Or Hogan’s Heroes-level WWII history with today’s uber-woke teenagers, apparently.
BUT OF COURSE: Maxine Waters Vows Legislation On Reparations If Dems Retake Congress.
Earlier:
● Maxine Waters Basks in Glow of “Impeach 45” Chant.
● So the Democrats have decided to run on abolishing ICE.
● Democrats Release Tax-Hike Plan.
As Steve noted last month, “All Democrats have to do is not act crazy, somebody recently quipped, and they can’t even manage that.”
UPDATE: Tucker Carlson Warns That Democrats Could Be Coming For Your Guns If They Win Elections.
MICHAEL WALSH ON THE MEDEA COMPLEX, FEMINIST-STYLE: “Pace Baudelaire, but the Devil’s greatest trick was not to persuade us he didn’t exist, but to convince women to kill their own children and feel good about it. Unfettered abortion, when you stop to think about it, is truly satanic.”
Read the whole thing.
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PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
● Shot: So the Democrats have decided to run on abolishing ICE.
—Jazz Shaw, Hot Air, today.
● Chaser: Bill Clinton warns of “the large number of illegal aliens” coming into America, and explains his crackdown during his 1995 State of the Union address:
As Glenn wrote last year, “From the comments: ‘My sister-in-law Mary Wilson sent me this clip, and I forwarded it to Glenn (who probably received it from a hundred other people as well….) Mary’s comment was ‘Donald Trump should televise this Bill Clinton speech from 1995 and then simply state ‘I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message.’”
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Hating Whitey At Stanford.
Why are lefty-dominated institutions such cesspits of racism?
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CHECK YOUR QUANTUM PRIVILEGE: Google thinks it’s close to “quantum supremacy.” Here’s what that really means.
HOW MANY PRO-HILLARY HUSBAND-WIFE TEAMS DOES FUSION GPS HAVE? House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigators appear to have found another Obama administration inside-outside duo linked to Hillary’s favorite political mud drilling team, Fusion GPS.
CNN’S ACOSTA: ‘IN SOME WAYS’ TRUMP AND KIM JONG UN ARE ‘VERY SIMILAR LEADERS.’
Fake news. If it was true, CNN would respect Trump more.
I BLAME ALIENS: Raging Cyclones and Jet Streams on Jupiter Perplex Scientists.
I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THE LEFT WAS AGAINST BULLYING: Parkland Survivors Attack Dana Loesch’s Children.
THIS IS ELECTORAL GOLD, JERRY! GOLD! Democrats Release Tax-Hike Plan. At least the accompanying photo features the fresh faces of the party’s youthful leadership.
I REMEMBER WHEN EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT MS-13 WAS RACIST: WaPo: MS-13 is “taking over the school,” one teen warned before she was killed.
TRUTH EVENTUALLY WINS OUT: As far back as 2009, moral deity, overall supergenius and carbon footprint monster Paul Krugman told us lesser mortals that:
“In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We’ve all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false.”
Really? Says a victim of the NHS in one “scare story” from the Socialist-leaning Guardian:
“I was expecting to get the treatment, but they gave me a form requesting a British passport, so that was the end of that,” he said. Thompson has never had a British passport, and was not aware he needed one. The Jamaican passport he arrived with was lost many years ago…The lady wasn’t at all polite. She said you have to produce it or pay £54,000. I said: ‘Oh my god, I don’t have 54 pence, let alone £54,000.’”
Krugman uses the word “false.” I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
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