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Archive for 2018
June 8, 2018
DISPATCHES FROM THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: Feminists Now Want to Rename Female Body Parts… Because They Were Named by Men.
And, honestly, isn’t the fact that all these guys have been basically forgotten (Kaminsky herself didn’t even know it was Fallopius and not Fallopian!) kind of feminist in and of itself? Female bodies have literally subsumed these dead, white anatomists so that, now, we don’t remember that they were people at all — they’re just lady parts. We turned some dead white guys into female sex organs — isn’t that a feminist dream come true! Come on, people!
Yes, but how can you be a proper leftist these days without considering yourself a victim?
JAMES LILEKS: Graduation Day.
KEN MARCUS CONFIRMED AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF EDUCATION FOR CIVIL RIGHTS: He didn’t get a single vote from a Democrat.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: The curious death of George Wythe, founding father and the nation’s first law professor.
SKYNET SMILES; CONCURS. Jodie Foster: I’d Rather Robots Own Guns Than Humans.
Related: I could be mistaken about this, but I have the aura of a penumbra of a perturbation that Rex Reed may not have found Foster’s pro-gun control movie to be the most satisfying cinematic experience.
NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL A JOURNALIST BEING CLOSE TO A SOURCE. BuzzFeed Confirms It Knew About Reporter Ali Watkins’ Relationship With Indicted Senate Official.
As Twitchy notes, “Daily Caller’s scoop on Ali Watkins and James Wolfe could spell big trouble for BuzzFeed.”
BURIED LEDE: LEFT FINALLY DISCOVERS TAX CUT IT APPROVES OF. Tax break for illegal immigrants pushed by California Democrats. “Assembly Democrats want Gov. Jerry Brown to expand the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit in such a way that people who do not have Social Security numbers can apply for it.”
TAKING THE ‘BEAUTY’ OUT OF BEAUTY PAGEANTS:
What stereotype is Miss America competing against now?
According to the Miss America Organization, the new mission statement is: “To prepare great women for the world, and to prepare the world for great women.”
“We’re experiencing a cultural revolution in our country with women finding the courage to stand up and have their voices heard on many issues,” Carlson says.
In other words, they want to prove that women — attractive or, presumably, otherwise — can be smart, confident activists and leaders. Did we not know this already?
Why not just call it the Woke Olympics and be done with it? It might make a great radio show.
As Robert Conquest’s third law of politics states, “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.”
Plus a shocking admission from Jonah Goldberg: “Before I go on, let me confess my shameful secret: I like looking at really beautiful women, including when they wear bikinis. It feels so good to finally say that out loud for all to hear.”
In 2018, that’s the very definition of épater la bourgeoisie.
HOW TO SAVE THE AUTO INDUSTRY: President Obama claimed he saved the auto industry with his bailouts. President Trump is saving the industry in a different way – by axing the terrible CAFE standards that have added so much to the cost of a new car over the years (as well as making cars less safe). Peter Roff has the details.
GLAMOUR AS “A PERVASIVE, COMPLEX, AND OFTEN LIFE-ENHANCING FORCE”: A Q&A with Virginia Postrel.
MAKE THEM PAY: Canadian author and professor Steven Galloway just received $167,000 in damages after he was falsely accused of sexual assault following an affair with a student. The university publicly announced his suspension, violating his privacy, and a group of Canadian authors – including “Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood – signed a letter calling for due process for the professor.
Of course, the damage to his reputation has already been done.
CHARLIE MARTIN: Dealing With Suicide.
There’s no good way to excerpt from this one, so please just read the whole thing.
LAWSUIT: University of Minnesota football players sue for racial and gender discrimination in sexual assault case. The school ignored text messages and videos showing the woman was “lucid, alert, somewhat playful and fully conscious,” yet still five players were expelled or suspended, while others were found not responsible on appeal.
A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING EUROPE: And his name is Karl Marx.
HELLO INSTAREADERS! Ashe Schow here. I’m a journalist and columnist mostly covering campus issues, and now also the newest blogger to this site. You can follow me on Twitter @AsheSchow; I mostly snark on the news (who doesn’t?) and talk about animals and video games, if you’re into that. Happy to be on the team!
WINNING: Russia may lack the funds to compete with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. “The development of new boosters is doubtful from a practical perspective.”
You’d think by now that the Russians would have learned that the only way to beat capitalism is with more capitalism, but no.
CAMPUS’ WAR ON FREE SPEECH CLAIMS 16 STUDENT VICTIMS: Have you ever attended, participated in, or, like millions of Americans, watched a “roast” on TV? Maybe even found it funny? Well, you loathsome degenerate, you had better stay far, far away from Syracuse University, which suspended 16 students for 1 to 2 years(!) for roasting their fraternity brothers – in private, and with zero complaints filed by the roast-ees – after someone posted out-of-context video on Facebook several weeks later. What the students said sounds bad. But the more you look into this situation, the worse Syracuse looks, and the angrier you will get. If you’d like to help these students out by expressing your own thoughts to Syracuse (which literally has the First Amendment written in giant letters on the side of a building, for crying out loud), FIRE has made it easy.
AS A WISE BUSINESSMAN ONCE SAID TO THE BUREAUCRAT, “GET OUT OF MY WAY:” Michigan Legislature Puts An End To Job-Killing Pro-Union Law.