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July 13, 2018
THE THINGS MEN WISH THEY HAD KNOWN, before they got married.
EW: Tingling in woman’s legs turns out to be a worm in her spine. “An X-ray showed something in her spine. It turned out to be a tapeworm known as Echinococcus granulosus, the hydatid worm, or dog tapeworm. It took some careful surgery to get the parasite out, and the woman was also treated with anti-parasitic drugs. She fully recovered.”
FAIL, BRITANNIA: Teenage girl brutally raped and abused by SEVENTY men – and most are still walking the streets.
Kate Elysia, who was 18 when she was first raped, says she believed she was an inhuman “sex thing” after being repeatedly attacked.
A victim of grooming gangs, she says she was trafficked “all over England” and given to many men – sometimes up to 10 in one night.
“They degraded me to the point where I’d become this sex thing, this thing that wasn’t human, but just an object,” she says in a harrowing new book, titled No Way Out.
“To the point where I believed that’s what I was.”
Eventually, the horrific sexual abuse seemed like “normal life” to Kate.
She ended up addicted to drugs and suffering from severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Good Lord.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Kentucky Activists Are Mad That Men Won’t Face Double Jeopardy In Campus Kangaroo Court.
MICHAEL LEDEEN’S FALL FORECAST: An Anti-Leftist Electoral Rout.
I’d add a Ledeen-esque “Faster, please,” but the date of the election is established by the Constitution.
“HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A LAW STUDENT WHO FEELS UNSAFE:” Andrew Ferguson on What the Yale Law School Freakout Says About the Opposition to Kavanaugh.
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Vermont Strips Tenure From 14 Of 19 Law Profs.
CREDIBILITY: Joy Reid Sees 20-Percent Ratings Drop After Fallout From Unverified Hacking Claims.
80% are still watching?
FREDO CORLEONE, CALL YOUR OFFICE: CNN’s Jim Acosta Tells Trump, ‘We’re A Real Network Too.’
We’re smart! Not like everybody says… like dumb… we’re smart and we want respect!
FIVE KEY THINGS THE LEFT WILL NEVER GET ABOUT TRUMP’S DEPLORABLES: Former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich also spent four terms in Congress, so his thoughts about why Trump’s supporters love him might come as a suprise to some.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Lockheed Martin Is 3D-Printing Giant Titanium Space Parts.
ALLIES: Trump Says NATO Members Agreed to ‘Substantially Up’ Contributions; Macron Says It’s Still 2%. “Alliance communique put target at 2014 agreement with 2024 target date; president tweets that he wants increases effective immediately.”
BUSINESS INSIDER SURRENDERS TO THE SOCIAL-JUSTICE WARRIORS:
Trace Lysette, a transgender actress who plays a transgender character on the Amazon series Transparent, protested the casting of [Scarlett] Johansson not because the character was an insult to the transgendered. Lysette was offended that Johansson was taking work from people like her.
Lysette complained on Twitter that “not only do you play us and steal our narrative and our opportunity but you pat yourselves on the back with trophies and accolades for mimicking what we have lived . . . so twisted. I’m so done.”
This strikes me as silly. Not long ago, simply calling attention to the existence of the transgendered was deemed a victory for their cause. In 1999, Hillary Swank received massive critical praise — and an Oscar — for playing a transgender woman in Boys Don’t Cry (a movie I despised). No one complained about stolen narratives then. (By the way, did anyone complain when Charlton Heston, an Episcopalian, stole the most famous Jewish narrative of all time by playing Moses?)
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If Business Insider had simply opted to reject the piece at first, that would have been fine, and it would have spared itself a lot of embarrassment. Instead, its editors opted to cave to political pressure. Its surrender to the mob tells us a lot about the power of the social-justice-warrior mob and the weakness of Business Insider’s editors.
Business Insider was always left-leaning, but usually appeared pretty sane. As with the Atlantic, beginning with Andrew Sullivan’s Trig Truther obsession and culminating in its recent institutional meltdown over the hiring of Kevin Williamson, its editors may find it’s quite difficult to recapture their publication’s reputation after this week’s debacle.
Related: In the Washington Post today, Daniella Greenbaum, the author of the column that the SJWs at Business Insider attempted to memory hole writes, “The social media mob is a danger to society:”
As the definition of what constitutes offensive speech grows ever wider, more and more people who are certain that their views fall somewhere in the mainstream will find themselves backed into corners. Ultimately, even the wokest of the warriors will realize that when it comes to outrunning the predatory mob they’ve created, no space is safe.
As conservative videomaker Ladd Ehlinger warned in 2013 while Justine Sacco was having her life destroyed by the Twitter outrage mob being ginned up by BuzzFeed, “Just because you’re in the mob one day, don’t think it protects you from the mob the next day.”
NEW RUSSIA INDICTMENTS, BUT NOT A LOT OF HELP FOR THE NARRATIVE:
Deputy AG Rosenstein: "There is no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime. There is no allegation that the conspiracy changed the vote count or affected any election result." https://t.co/aoH3azcMZ8 pic.twitter.com/pvPnMi06GS
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) July 13, 2018
BLUE ON BLUE: Consumer group sues Ben & Jerry’s over eco-friendly claims.
The Organic Consumers Association filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Superior Court of the District of Columbia that accuses Unilever, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, of using advertising to create the false perception that the ice cream company “is committed to a clean environment and high animal welfare standards.”
The nonprofit says most of the milk used in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream doesn’t meet its standards for animal care and labor practices, but instead “comes from cows raised in regular factory-style, mass-production dairy operations,” according to the suit. It also claims that farms supplying the company are polluting Lake Champlain and Lake Carmi, and that several ice cream flavors contain traces of the pesticide glyphosate.
A decent gelato tastes better and has 33% less pretension.
CHANGE YOU CAN WILL BELIEVE IN: Saudi Prince Alwaleed pledges support for crown prince’s reforms.
Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who was detained for three months in an anti-corruption campaign under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, pledged support on Thursday for the young leader’s program of sweeping reforms.
“I was honoured to meet with my brother HRH the Crown Prince and to discuss economic matters and the private sector’s future & role in #Vision2030 success,” he tweeted with a photograph of the royal cousins embracing in front of a desk.
It is the first publicly disclosed meeting between the two men since the anti-corruption crackdown was launched in November.
“I shall be one of the biggest supporters of the Vision through @Kingdom_KHC & all its affiliates,” Prince Alwaleed added, referring to his international investment company.
Just don’t leave your back turned, bin Salman.
JANE FONDA: #METOO MOVEMENT ‘BURST FORTH’ BECAUSE WOMEN SPEAKING OUT WERE ‘WHITE AND FAMOUS.’
Curiously, googling around, I haven’t found any quotes from Jane Fonda attacking Bill Clinton for some strange reason.
PROFILES IN COURAGE: Dems who drafted bill to abolish ICE now say they’ll vote against it.