SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Alcohol a factor in many e-scooter injuries, study finds.
Archive for 2019
September 1, 2019
QUESTION ASKED: Tiananmen Square and Hong Kong — Has Beijing Learned Anything?
AS ALWAYS, LIFE IN THE 21st CENTURY IMITATES MONTY PYTHON: New York Times: Scientist says she’s received ‘Yoda-like advice’ from shrubbery.
The Knights who say “Ni!” could not be reached for comment.
SOMETHING SO OBVIOUS, IT’S AMAZING IT TOOK THIS LONG: Federal Court Rules State Judges Cannot Profit From Fines and Fees Imposed on Defendants in the Cases Before Them. I’m actually working on a piece now arguing that prosecutors and law enforcement officials shouldn’t profit from the cases before them, either.
A COOL AND LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BICYCLE MENACE: NYC bicyclists are killing pedestrians and the city won’t stop it.
Related: Central Park is full of signal-snubbing cyclists who need to be stopped.
(Classical reference in headline.)
ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: One Killed, Nine Injured in France Knife Rampage; Authorities Say Attack ‘Does Not Appear to Be Terror Related.’ “The suspect, armed with a knife and a ‘skewer’ of some sort, was arrested at the scene. He is reportedly a 33-year-old Afghan citizen who was hoping to gain asylum in France.”
We may never know the motive…
IN THE MAIL: From Anthony T. Kronman, The Assault on American Excellence.
DEMOCRACY DIES IN DOXXING: Washington Post: Did a barista mishear a name or was it anti-Islamic bias?
So the Post story is basically a rewrite of this CAIR press release only the Post doesn’t tell you that. That’s an odd choice given that CAIR has a vested interest in seeing stories of anti-Islamic bias make the news. Also, the Inquirer quotes the line from the CAIR press release which acknowledges that this might have been an innocent mistake. The Post never mentions that even though it seems like a significant admission, one that matches with the explanation given by Starbucks.
The Post is literally pushing the bias incident angle harder than CAIR. Let that sink in a moment.
I’m so old, I can remember when the media pretended their goal was “speaking truth to power,” instead of getting shop clerks fired for clicks and grins. As Stephen Miller tweeted on Friday night, “Congrats guys, you just got a barista probably fired for mishearing a name in a loud working environment,” adding, “But whatever you do don’t go digging through the old tweets of these people,” and “We’re not the enemy of the people. Also yo, that barista misheard a dude, let’s go f**k their life up with the weight of millions of dollars behind us.”
PUBLIC SCHOOL AS CHILD ABUSE: School district investigates student for four-year-old photo showing him holding a gun.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: Why Couldn’t I Make Myself Like Kirsten Gillibrand?
“Gillibrand kept getting compared to the character of Tracey Flick from Election,” Jim Geraghty noted on Thursday. “Flick is a fascinating but thoroughly unlikeable character, and she’s supposed to be one.”
WILLIE BROWN: San Francisco streets are a tragedy waiting to happen. Do we have the will to head it off?
Willie didn’t — and this is an awesome bit of both buck passing and gaslighting to pretend that things were all that much better in San Francisco under his watch.
LEFTISTS ALWAYS WANT TO SILENCE THEIR OPPONENTS: Liberal FEC chairwoman targets online news she considers ‘fraudulent.’
NOW A CAT 5, AND MORE LIKELY TO HIT THE CAROLINA COAST THAN FLORIDA: Hurricane Dorian now Category 5 storm as it bears down on the Bahamas.
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S STENOGRAPHERS: On fifth anniversary of Obama’s tan suit, media keep lying that his White House was scandal-free.
SWIMMING ASHORE: Assault Amphibious Vehicles assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit cruise towards land after exiting the well deck of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry. Photo taken August 28, 2019.
MICKEY KAUS: Jeffrey Epstein, Red Pill: Why This Scandal Should Just Be Getting Started.
We’re in the middle of a global populist surge. There’s a sense that elites are not playing by the same rules as everyone else. They might not even be playing the same game. It’s pretty clear that Epstein was running some kind of a sex ring for the rich and well connected. How big a ring? We don’t know until we try to find out. But there are reports out there [click if you dare] that it’s bigger than we might think — bigger than old, familiar Prince Andrew, involving a non-trivial cross-section of business and entertainment leaders, plus some prominent Anglo-American families and maybe a handful of nation states.
Do we live in a society where people try to get rich so they can build bigger houses, drive faster cars, wear nice clothes and send their children to the best schools. Or is that really a facade behind which they escape into a secret lawless world where they order up underage girls and boys to rape and abuse? Are we living in Disney movie or a Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie?
Don’t we want to know? If we follow the Epstein case to its conclusion, we might learn which is the reality. Epstein’s the biggest red pill we’ve been handed in decades.
A lot of people are eager for us to forget all about it.
THE STARS OF WILL & GRACE WENT FULL McCARTHYITE SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED:
“This isn’t an isolated incident,” Christian Toto writes in response:
A crush of stories shows how conservatives are treated like second-class citizens, or worse, in Hollywood today. That intensified following Trump’s election. They lose jobs and aren’t allowed to fully express themselves like their liberal peers.
Many right-leaning actors and crew members stay silent, both on the set and via social media. They fear risking key opportunities if they don’t toe the progressive line.
And while a select few actors, like Nick Searcy, are loud and proud of their conservative opinions, others think speaking up can have consequences.
You’d think the actor best known for a show about love and tolerance would understand that.
I’m sure Messing and McCormack justify their doublethink the same way that Ted Knight, playing Caddyshack’s smug Judge Elihu Smails character, said to Danny, the movie’s teenage golf caddy and chief protagonist, “I’ve sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn’t want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.”
“This ploy keeping Hollywood a liberal bastion is subtle, but extraordinarily effective – smoke out right-wingers and their sympathizers, spread the word of their apostasy, freeze them out, repeat. This process is seen in every crevice of Tinseltown, and it quietly teaches a lesson to all watching… The Deep Hollywood enforcers are everywhere, at every level…ejecting the deplorables while fortifying the liberal wall. It’s a process they’ve been employing and perfecting since the 1930s, with undeniable results,” conservative entrepreneur Patrick Courrielche wrote in “Tinseltown Travelogue – a deplorable’s adventures in la la land,” in 2017.
As Glenn added at the time, “You know the difference between a Republican and a pedophile? Hollywood will work with a pedophile.”
Basically, anyone working in Hollywood who attends a Trump fundraiser and is outed by the media will be “blacklisting himself,” to slightly modify the original title of Roger Simon’s autobiography. And just like that, an entire genre of Hollywood anti-blacklist movies are about to be cut up into guitar picks.
JEFF CARTER: Bond Markets Don’t Bend, They Snap. “When there is a recession or some shock the non US Treasury bond market liquidity dries up. You’ll be holding some paper and looking for a bid and there literally is no bid. “Not for sale at any price” is a hard number to stomach on the way down when you need to get out. I hope we don’t find out but I suspect someday in the next five or ten years we will experience that.”
Illinois is a prime suspect. “States, municipalities and private companies that are extended will see credit totally dry up. No one would finance Detroit at any price. When the tide rolls out we will see who’s really naked. The state of Illinois and every county and city are naked right now. Some just don’t see it, or it’s so ugly they don’t want to look.”