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Archive for 2019
June 5, 2019
JUST APOLOGIZE, AND REMEMBER TO KNOCK FIRST IN THE FUTURE: Exoplanets Have Been Caught In The Act Of Forming Moons For The First Time.
BILL DE BLASIO: Let’s face it, anti-Semitism is a right-wing movement.
Fully 60 percent of hate crimes in NYC this past year were committed against Jews, easily the largest share of any targeted minority. I assure you that not all of the perpetrators were right-wing. New York being New York, it’s possible if not likely that few were. What is Blas thinking?
Mainly he’s thinking about his no-shot presidential candidacy. A mayor who’s interested in being a mayor would have little reason to apportion ideological blame for a rising tide of hate crimes. His interest would be in uniting the community to solve the problem. Instead de Blasio’s hinting to NYC’s great liberal majority that this isn’t really “their” problem, hoping that that message will be carried to the great mass of progressive 2020 primary voters whom he’s trying to woo. The left imagines a straight line from growing anti-semitism to Trump’s admirers in Charlottesville to Trump himself. De Blasio’s trying to ingratiate himself to them by validating that belief, and of course by preemptively spinning about why NYC has become more threatening to Jews on his watch. Simply deflect all questions about anti-semitism to the right, never mind the gory history of that prejudice among ideologues of both sides.
The Corbynization of the Democratic Party continues apace, and apparently, Bill De Blasio doesn’t seem to mind.
HE WEARS A TOUPEE OF LIES: Joe Biden Has Reportedly Lied For Decades About Marching In The Civil Rights Movement.
WHAT A HOSS: 97-year-old veteran recreates D-Day jump 75 years later.
ANOTHER LEFTY DARK MONEY FRONT GROUP EXPOSED: Ever hear of or contributed money to SalmonState? You probably thought it’s an Alaska-based environmental non-profit. It’s not, it’s a front for the New Venture Fund. Hayden Ludwig of the Capital Research Center explains:
“Together with its three ‘sister’ nonprofits, the New Venture Fund forms a massive ‘dark money’ network housed in the D.C. headquarters of Arabella Advisors, a for-profit philanthropy consulting firm created by ex-Clinton administration staffer Eric Kessler.
“And Arabella’s empire is dark. Between 2013 and 2017, its four interlocking nonprofits brought in a staggering $1.6 billion—largely from untraceable donors and major foundations on the Left, including George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.”
Ludwig has much more here.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The College Bureaucracy That Never Shrinks.
DAN RATHER AND BRIAN WILLIAMS WERE UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: Many Americans Say Made-Up News Is a Critical Problem That Needs To Be Fixed.
THE ERA OF TIM COOK: A $999 monitor stand is everything wrong with Apple today.
RATS ON THE WESTSIDE, BEDBUGS UPTOWN: Rats Are Taking Over New York City. What a mess, this town’s in tatters.
I DID NOT SEE THIS COMING: AOC: ‘Manafort should be released’ rather than face ‘torture’ at Rikers.
RESPONDING TO THE SOCIAL MEDIA UPHEAVAL WITH PROJECT BE.
Related: The Rise of Digital Media and the Fall of Everything Else. (Bumped).
INTO THE VIDEO MIXMASTER: Karol Markowicz was interviewed for two hours by the Daily Show in April on socialism – which they puréed down to one minute of video to contrast a puff-piece on Bernie Sanders. As she writes:
A few things about this clip, though. I tell the story of my great-grandfather dying in a Soviet gulag for the crime of owning a bakery. Jaboukie then asks Sanders if anyone will be sent to the gulag under his presidency. They make a joke about it which, gross, but whatever.
Bernie says USSR or Venezuela is not what he means and Democratic Socialists “stood up and fought” against Soviet system. That really pisses me off. Bro, you honeymooned in the Soviet Union. You didn’t stand up & fight against shit. You enabled the boot on the neck of my family.
I’m really disgusted by that revisionist history. Then at 4:36 mark there’s an absurd “fact check” about what critics of socialism get wrong by comparing Democratic Socialists to those in Soviet Union or Venezuela. Why is a comedy show doing this kind of bs fact check? Unclear.
Markowicz is far from the first conservative to be interviewed for hours by the Daily Show, only to have the responses cut up into tiny (often deceptive) sound-bites. Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with editing software, and it all makes sense.
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Too Many People Want To Travel. International travel should be limited to the better sorts, you know?
Related: “I like to see how the NYT deals with this subject — the NYT, with all its concern-mongering about climate change and all its travel articles and ads and its need to serve the emotions and vanities of its readers. What are we having today? A little shame, spiced with humorous self-deprecation, along with the usual self-esteem boosting about our progressivism and our love of the good life? . . . What’s morally bewildering? If you believe what the consensus of climate scientists and the proponents of the Green New Deal are telling us, you should never travel. Everything else is morally wrong. If you are bewildered, you’re just bewildered about whether you — as opposed to those other people — want to center your life on morality. . . . Newman presents himself as the model for the NYT reader’s miniature moral reasoning. You mean well, you’ll buy an indulgence, and you have such exquisite taste.”
Climate change is a crisis urgent enough to demand immediate sacrifice from others, but not yet so urgent as to demand immediate sacrifice from oneself. Personally, I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who keep telling me a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.
FAIR ENOUGH. NUKING HIROSHIMA IT IS, THEN: Elizabeth Warren Says Combating Climate Change Is ‘A Bigger Challenge Than WWII.’
It’s the moral equivalent of a quagmire: “Progressive” philosopher William James’ moral equivalent of war trope is over a century old, and Warren apparently sees no sign of an exit strategy for the Democratic Party.
(Classical reference in headline.)
‘THE POWER OF BULLYING:’ YouTube caves to the Vox Mob, demonetizes Steven Crowder for ‘egregious actions.’
It’s as though these tech firms are run by 27-year-olds who literally know nothing, to borrow a phrase. Although to be fair, there’s a lot of that going on in progressive-run industries.
FASTER, PLEASE: Stem cell patch may help repair damage caused by heart attacks.
NON-DIVERSITY AND THE SPELLING BEE: Congratulations to the winners of the National Spelling Bee!!! An eight-way tie! And, no, I am not in the least troubled that they don’t look like a cross section of America.