WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING URINE, FECES: ‘Cow toilets’ in Netherlands aim to cut e-moo-ssions.
(Classical reference in headline.)
Archive for 2019
March 31, 2019
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Which should you buy? Macbook 2018 vs. 2017.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: What’s the matter with Joe Biden?
Related: Is Biden apologizing his way out of the nomination?
As Paul Mirengoff writes at Power Line, “A normal person would flatly deny the allegation if he didn’t believe it. If he did believe it, he would either deny the allegation anyway or apologize…Unfortunately, the modern Democratic party is post-normal. Biden, for his part, is hiding behind postmodernism under which truth is just a construct and people are entitled to their own reality. Biden’s reality is that he didn’t inappropriately touch Flores, her reality is different, and far be it for Biden to impose his reality (as opposed to his hands and face) on her.”
On Friday, Jim Geraghty wrote, “You think the 2016 Democratic primary fight between the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders got rough? The 2020 primary is going to look like Mad Max’s ‘Fury Road.’ The great irony is that this long process may eventually undermine the power of identity politics, as the surviving Democratic nominee will probably have been accused of racism, sexism, etcetera in the process of winning the primary.”
I don’t think he expected the first shots to be fired immediately afterwards, however.
HARMEET DHILLON straightens out the confusion at NPR. “The NPR baloney meets the grinder of a most capable advocate in this all too brief interview. You can almost hear the NPR interviewer begging ‘no más.’ Instead she just summarily wraps it up.” Audio at the link; transcript here.
#FIGHTFOR15: The new minimum wage is killing NYC’s once-thriving restaurant scene.
Meanwhile, upstate: Albany’s congestion pricing plan will drive up cost of food.
But it’s probably all for the best, though: White People are Killing Earth by Eating Food.
FINALLY, A RESOLUTION THAT ACTUALLY CONDEMNS ANTI-SEMITISM: Ted Cruz replaces the Democrats’ muddled manifesto with a clear and unequivocal exploration of the hatred of Jews and its particular evils.
Related: Too Many Are Ignoring the Rise of Anti-Semitism on the Left.
SHOCKER: New Zealand Gang Leader Says Members Won’t Be Turning In Their Guns. And I predict that law enforcement will be less strict on them than on normals who keep theirs.
THE PIKETON FAMILY MURDERS: I was interviewed for the Oxygen channel special on this case that airs tonight, Sunday, March 31st at 7 p.m. eastern. My appearance starts about 35 minutes in for those who are interested. The schedule is here.
WALTER DURANTY COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: “Are the New York Times and the Washington Post going to return the ill-gotten Pulitzer Prizes the two papers received for their coverage of the nonexistent collusion between President Trump’s administration and the Russians?”
A FRIEND ON FACEBOOK REALLY LIKED this Kevin Williamson essay on Trump and nationalism, but I was unimpressed. Okay, it has one truly brilliant line:
The Capitol dome is a great dome, but I know who’s in there.
But it rambles on and on and misses the obvious source of Trump’s nationalism talk and why it resonates. For 50-plus years, the academic and political classes have been telling people that America isn’t great, and often that it’s uniquely evil, and that anyone who thinks otherwise is a loser. This is pushback against that attitude. It’s working-class defiance in the face of the political/academic elite. Remember: In America, culture war is generally just a disguise for class war.
You can’t understand what’s going on in America today without understanding that and Williamson doesn’t seem to understand that. Which is weird, because in 2015 he wrote this: “Questions about patriotism and love of country are, according to our self-appointed referees, out of bounds, déclassé, boob bait for bubbas, etc. Those are questions that we are not allowed to ask in polite society. Why? Because polite society does not want to hear the answers. Does Barack Obama like America? The people around him certainly seem to have their reservations.” Strange that he should miss the point now, when he correctly identified our political class as a bunch of Holden Caulfields then.
Related: “Listening to Trump’s pitch, I felt it was so upbeat, so admiring and praising of people who usually hear that they’re washed up and pathetic.” These days, even from Kevin Williamson.
TREVOR NOAH ON JUSSIE SMOLLETT: ‘THOU SHALT NOT LIE.’ “Charges were dropped, I don’t think somebody was exonerated.”
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: “According to AOC, Congress amended the Constitution to prevent FDR from being re-elected: ‘They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected.’ (Reminder, FDR died in office in 1945; the 22nd Amendment came in 1947.)”
AOC should check with Joe Biden for notes on FDR’s early days in office:
I’M INTERVIEWED IN this story on splitting up New York State. “Governor Cuomo did not respond to requests for comment.”
Related: My paper on state secession.
THE THRILL IS GONE: ‘Her heart is not in The Bronx’: Ocasio-Cortez’s constituents turn against her.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, COVERUP EDITION: UCLA sued for hiding public records on disruption of Trump official’s speech.
HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: POLL: Overwhelming majority favor free speech executive order. “A whopping 73 percent of all respondents said that they favor such an idea.”