Archive for 2019
January 27, 2019
NO. AND BY THE WAY YOUR EMPIRICAL STUDIES ARE BOGUS: Was [the Department of Education’s decision to rescind] the school discipline guidance a mistake?
I LOVE NEWS LIKE THIS: Aspirin, Ibuprofen can triple survival rates for some cancers.
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THE OLD DOMINION’S COLORING: The once-red Commonwealth of Virginia has long since gone purple. Hans Bader argues that a recent court ruling imposing a political gerrymander on voters will turn Virginia blue.
WILLIE BROWN ATTACKS HIS OLD GIRLFRIEND KAMALA HARRIS: It’s going to be an interesting election.
WITHOUT THE GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT US, WE’D ALL BE AT RISK OF TAINTED DRUGS: FDA: Blood pressure drug carcinogens went undetected for four years. “The FDA’s investigation concluded the contaminants likely resulted from a manufacturing change adopted by factories in China and India that make the drug ingredients.”
WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES TO CALL YOU “HARD LEFT” AS OPPOSED TO “HARD RIGHT?” Walter Olson answers. “Should I continue past search result number 50 in trying to locate an instance where the @nytimes has labeled a named US person or organization as ‘hard left’? Or should I call it an evening?”
YEAH, IT’S TOUGH WHEN YOU’RE LAID OFF FROM YOUR JOB IN A DECLINING INDUSTRY AND ALL PEOPLE OFFER IS CONDESCENDING ADVICE: ‘A special section of Hell’: Laid-off journalists are not appreciating the suggestion they learn to code.
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Faking it: how selfie dysmorphia is driving people to seek surgery.
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AN INNOVATIVE RESPONSE TO DUMB GUN RULES: Tamara Keel: CompMag: Fast-Loading Fixed Magazine.
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Washington State Lawmaker Wants to Ban Dwarf Tossing, Says It ‘Ridicules and Demeans.’
OFFENDED BY ESTABLISHMENT ARROGANCE, BRITISH LEFTY CHANGES TUNE: I was a die-hard Remainer. But arrogant MPs have made me a hard Brexiteer. “In the moments after the referendum result had been confirmed by the BBC, I went upstairs to my bedroom and looked out of the window. ‘What’s happening out there?’ I asked. ‘Where did the anger come from?’ I understand now. It comes in response to men like Dominic Grieve. People who willingly embrace the title ‘Honourable Member’ then deceive their constituents, agitate in direct opposition to their wishes and laugh in their faces while they’re doing it.”
Yep. And it’s a worldwide phenomenon.
I’M GONNA LIVE FOREVER: New Research Says Men Who Marry Intelligent Women Live Longer.
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I WAS A SECRET TRUMP SUPPORTER: MODEL FEARED POLITICS WOULD KILL HER CAREER.
Once, after working a 10-hour-day on the Trump campaign, I went to meet with my manager (who was not affiliated with a modeling agency). He and a colleague were enraged, screaming about how much they hate Trump. My manager kept saying how evil the people who work for him must be and that he would never work with anyone who supported him.
I was terrified they would find out that I was one of the so-called evil people.
So I lied and told people I was coaching ice skating — I was a competitive figure skater for seven years — whenever I was really hard at work in Trump Tower. When I ran into a modeling friend on my way there one day, I immediately hid my badge and said I was running errands.
But at every modeling job or meeting, the talk inevitably turned to Trump, and it was always high-stress.
At one shoot, the photographer came in wearing a black T-shirt with a gigantic red slash over Trump’s face. I was so unnerved, I could barely concentrate on the job at hand.
Another time, in July 2016, Trump had said something controversial and it was all over the news. I was at Miami Swim Week for fashion shows, and the 15 other models were bashing him. I just sat in the corner and pretended to be on my phone. I didn’t want to be ostracized.
Curiously, the phrase “blacklisting myself” precedes Trump by almost a decade.
HARSH, BUT FAIR:
ROGER KIMBALL: A Better Guide than Elite Opinion Is Public Revulsion at It.
The public—though not, for the most part, the academic elite—has reacted with condign disgust at the treatment of the boys from Covington Catholic. It knows that Nathan Phillips is no more “native American” than Nick Sandmann: both were born here and have equal title to American natality. And it senses that the culprit is the political correctness that has distorted our common life and even our ability to speak the truth about sensitive issues. If there is a silver lining in this disturbing episode, it is that public revulsion at this episode may, just possibly, spark a reconsideration of our ill-advised and demeaning adherence to the tenets of political correctness.
Read the whole thing.
MICHAEL WALSH: Tired of Living Paycheck to Paycheck? Repeal the 16th Amendment. “The income tax was always just a way to prevent the middle class from ever accumulating wealth.”
