MISTER, WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE DONALD DRAPER AGAIN: “So, Chips Ahoy is now the drag cookie, and Coconut Water wants critics to drink pee. I don’t think they’ve gamed out where this ends. Oh and there’s more!”
As James Lileks writes, “Don’t these guys realize that whatever social capital they accumulate can be washed away in a second by the very people they’re trying to court?”
Get woke, go broke, to coin a phrase.
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: 2020 Democrats Are Literally Begging For $1 On Facebook: “Can You Chip In?”
I am amused.
WHY BUREAUCRATS TEND TO IGNORE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS ON THEIR POWER: A Skeptic’s Look at Administrative Constitutionalism. Now a Notre Dame Law Review article, by yours truly.
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LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Nadler Refuses Negotiation with DoJ, Barr. “As you may know, the statute for the special counsel only requires that the special counsel turn over a report to the Attorney General. That’s done. Over. Finished. The Attorney General can decide to release some or all of the report and Barr has gone above and beyond what is required of him. Fat Jerry is like that drunk guy at the neighborhood dive bar who just wants to get in a fight, and if a nice lady goes over to the juke box and puts on Jimi Hendrix’s ‘All Along the Watchtower,’ he is going to walk over and smash his Rolling Rock beer bottle on her head. It doesn’t matter what Barr offers, Nadler is going to smash his Rolling Rock bottle on Barr’s head.”
BUSTING THE NARRATIVE: Trump has recognized Pride month. Here’s why the left is very, very unhappy about it.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: School apologizes after boy with autism given ‘most annoying’ award.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: PC insanity may mean the end of American universities.
Last month at a conference in London, the distinguished British philosopher Sir Roger Scruton added his voice to this chorus when responding to a questioner who complained of the physical violence meted out to conservative students at Birkbeck University.
There were two possible responses to this situation, Sir Roger said. One was to start competing institutions, outside the academic establishment, that welcomed conservative voices.
The other possibility was “get rid of universities altogether.”
That response was met with enthusiastic applause.
It’s Roger Kimball, so read the whole thing.
BIDEN HAS A THING FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S WORDS: Joe Biden’s climate plan appears to directly copy multiple lines from other organizations. His campaign says it was a mistake. I mean, you’d think they’d be extra careful about that sort of thing now . . . .
Of course, Slow Joe isn’t the only one to do a bit of stealing: Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Economic Patriotism’ Plan Cribs Heavily From Trump.
Well, she’s not really stealing Trump’s ideas, just, er, redistributing them. But it’s not very good stealing: “She complains about sluggish economic growth, then links to an Atlantic article from October 2016, which was trying to justify the terrible economy under President Obama. Didn’t anyone tell her that it’s 2019, and the economy has been booming?”
HMM: Charting China, the (Not Always) Super Power. “Measuring Beijing’s influence shows mixed results for all the supposed diplomatic sway and billions spent on media.”
China now leads in four of the eight core measures of power in the Index: economic resources, future resources, diplomatic influence and economic relationships. That’s up one compared to its lead in only three measures last year. China has overtaken the U.S. in economic resources: despite a slowing growth rate its GDP grew by the size of Australia’s entire economy in 2018, speaking to the sheer scale.
Yet, taking a view below the headline power findings, the picture becomes more mixed.
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The results show that despite investing billions into its international media influence, China has some way to go in determining the fonts of information in Asia. The United States remains the dominant source of media across Asia after domestic media are discounted.
Lots of data at the link. Here’s my short version.
Beijing has a lot of dollars to spend, which can buy the friendship of a lot of people whose friendship is up for sale. But in the cultural battle for hearts and minds, Chinese Communists suffer the same handicap the Soviets labored under: Commies are just no damn fun.
PROGRESSIVE GOVERNANCE: San Francisco Police Got a Warrant to Monitor a Journalist’s Phone Before Raiding His Apartment.
You couldn’t find a better female icon than First Lady Melania Trump: an immigrant who came to America to flee communism and in pursuit of the American dream. She is beautiful, classy, educated, and fluent in six languages.
So why do feminists detest her?
Feminists, like leftists in general, detest anything and anyone they don’t control.
VICTORY GIRLS: Scot Peterson Might Finally Face Justice.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Is Germany Becoming Germany — Again?
REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: Policing Noncitizen Voting: What We Have Here Is a Failure of Data.
WOW: ‘Pumping heart patch’ ready for human use.
Sewn on to the heart, the 3cm (1in) by 2cm patch, grown in a lab from a sample of the patient’s own cells, then turns itself into healthy working muscle.
It also releases chemicals that repair and regenerate existing heart cells.
Tests in rabbits show it appears safe, Imperial College London experts told a leading heart conference in Manchester.
Patient trials should start in the next two years, the British Cardiovascular Society meeting heard.
Researcher Dr Richard Jabbour said: “One day, we hope to add heart patches to the treatments that doctors can routinely offer people after a heart attack.
“We could prescribe one of these patches alongside medicines for someone with heart failure, which you could take from a shelf and implant straight in to a person.”
Two years is a long time to wait for anyone who’s suffered a heart attack, so… faster, please.
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