SOON ALL THE GUN FACTORIES WILL BE IN RED STATES: Firearms manufacturer CZ-USA chooses Little Rock for headquarters.
Archive for 2019
April 23, 2019
#JOURNALISM: ABC News flubs presidential candidates’ ages. If they can’t get that right . . . .
Well, as Mark Steyn notes, they’re more about giving you the narrative than the facts.
EVER NOTICE THAT STUDENTS WHO SPEND THEIR TIME ON SJW PROTESTS TEND TO BE THE STUDENTS IN NEED OF SPENDING MORE TIME ON THEIR EDUCATION?: Consider this gobbleygook from students at Williams College protesting the potential adoption of the pro-free speech Chicago Principles:
In their rebuttal, the students, who called themselves the Coalition Against Racist Education Now, or CARE, wrote that the faculty petition “prioritizes the protection of ideas over the protection of people [because ideas come from animals? plants?] and fails to recognize that behind every idea is a person with a particular subjectivity [what?]. Our beliefs, and the consequences of our actions, are choices we make [umm, no, many consequences of our actions are unintended and unpredictable]. Any claim to the ‘protection of ideas’ that is not founded in the insurance [assurance?] of people’s safety [you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means] poses a real threat — one which targets most pointedly marginalized people. An ideology of free speech absolutism that prioritizes ideas over people [again: because ideas come from animals? plants?], giving ‘deeply offensive’ language a platform at this institution, will inevitably imperil marginalized students.”
A greater threat to these students’ future than the imagined threat from having the occasional “offensive” (read: conservative?) speaker on campus is that they are going to one of the best colleges in the United States, where tuition costs almost $57k a year plus room and board, and yet can’t competently write and edit several sentences of argument.
WORST. NAZI. PRESIDENT. EVER. Israel Loves Trump So Much, They Are Planning to Name a Town After Him.
PEOPLE WITH GLASS INHERITANCES SHOULDN’T THROW STONES: Roy Disney’s granddaughter thinks Bob Iger’s paycheck is ‘insane’.
Iger is rich because he creates wealth for Disney shareholders, and creates value for the public at large. Roy Disney’s granddaughter is rich ($500 million net worth!) because she’s Roy Disney’s granddaughter. I know who I think is less deserving of the money.
UPDATE: The fact that Iger, unlike the Disney granddaughter, actually worked for his money doesn’t necessarily mean that he “deserves” his full and immense salary. But it’s worth noting that since Iger took the helm at Disney in 2005, its stock has beaten the (tech-heavy!) S&P 500 by about 50%, or an extra $80 billion or so for Disney shareholders.
OPEN THREAD: Well, you know what to do by now.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: What It’s Really Like To Be An Escort (And Why I Prefer It To Stripping).
INFLAMMATION SEEMS TO BE AT THE CENTER OF A LOT OF THINGS: Why Does Exercise Guard Against Cancer? Inflammation May Play a Role. “One of the most important benefits of exercise is in how it reduces our risk of developing a number of types of cancer — especially colorectal cancer, which according to some estimates is the malignancy most influenced by physical activity. But how workouts guard against colon cancer remains largely unknown. . . . In the dishes containing fluid taken from the men immediately after a single workout, the scientists counted far fewer cancer cells than in those awash in fluid drawn two hours after exercise. There was no similar decline in the dishes from the men who had trained for a month. In effect, something about the blood drawn immediately after the workout was slowing the growth of cancer cells.”
BUILDING A BETTER BAR EXAM.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Your Socialism Is Bad And You Should Feel Bad.
IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Scientists Discover Gigantic Prehistoric Cat in a Neglected Museum Drawer.
Erwin Schrodinger could not be reached for comment.
HE DID BETTER WITH THE ACTUAL MAO THAN WITH THE LITTLE MAOISTS INFESTING UNIVERSITIES TODAY: Henry Kissinger, Shouted Down at NYU, Addresses Yale’s WFB Society.
Kissinger’s student critics say he is a war criminal who had a role in “multiple atrocities worldwide,” most especially his “well-known role in prolonging the Vietnam War.” Those are quotations from an article published this February by students at MIT, who were then running their own (unsuccessful) disinvitation campaign. But the students who object so strenuously to Kissinger’s “war crimes” are the same students who wear Che Guevara t-shirts and quote Mao. They do not criticize (or are unaware of) North Vietnam’s mass-murder campaign following the American withdrawal.
So what these students really object to is not anything Kissinger has done or is supposed to have done — they object to him as a representative of Western culture, and of the belief that Western culture and civilization are a positive good to be protected and preserved.
They’re trash. Plus:
In his remarks at the Disinvitation Dinner, Kissinger pointed out that the First World War destroyed Europe’s confidence and sense of purpose, and that Europe has never recovered. A society needs great objectives to which it can apply itself with conviction, instead of being “obsessed with its own shortcomings.”
The students who object to Kissinger’s presence on campus are emblematic of this loss of confidence, and of that obsession. They hate the West (and in particular the United States) for suppressing and oppressing other cultures, ranging from the American Indians to the Communist Chinese.
It’s just a projection of their — generally quite justified — self-loathing. They deserve neither respect nor deference. What they need is to face consequences.
JUST DON’T MENTION THE WAR: 2020 Democrats Don’t Mention Sri Lanka Islamist Attacks Once at CNN “Town Hall.”
INTERNET OF THINGS STILL LOOKING UNTRUSTWORTHY: How Nest, designed to keep intruders out of people’s homes, effectively allowed hackers to get in.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. If We Cancel Kate Smith, We Must Cancel The New York Yankees.
THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Mumps outbreak hits Indiana Univ. ahead of finals. Trust me, you do NOT want mumps as a post-pubescent male.
FOR ALL THE USUAL TALK OF COMING ECONOMIC DOOM, the price of gold seems pretty steady. It’s up a bit from 6 months ago, but down a bit from two or three months ago.
EMILY JASHINKSKY: Yes, ‘Chick Flick’ Is Still A Perfectly Valid Label.
The argument “there’s nothing inherently gendered about liking a light-hearted film with a strong female lead and emotional arc” is just bizarre, and predicated on the ascendant notion there’s something wrong with “gendering” products. Men and women like different things, and our entertainment options should absolutely cater to those divergent interests. But if you don’t buy into that reality, as is increasingly the case on the left, the world you seek is one in which a timeless masterpiece like “Crossroads” would either be advertised unsuccessfully to men or scrapped entirely (a world I hope I’m never alive to see).
Netflix’s anonymous Twitter pundit also complained that “chick flick” is a trivializing categorization, which I suspect is really at the heart of their disgruntlement.
It isn’t trivializing at all, but I might be biased here since the VodkaWife’s idea of a chick flick is “Die Hard.”
How did Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger not originate in this country?