Archive for 2019

HOW DARE YOU! British yacht skipper wiped out the carbon emissions saved by Greta Thunberg’s sail across the Atlantic by flying out to the US to help her.

Related: Greta Snaps: ‘Change Everything,’ ‘Climate Crisis’ About ‘Colonial, Racist, And Patriarchal Systems Of Oppression,’ Fossil Fuel ‘Literally’ Killing Us.

UPDATE: “And just like that, it never actually was about climate. It’s always about changing society into a Marxist utopia and every one of these movements prove it,” the Daily Wire’s Jeremy Frankel tweets.

THERE IS NO WAY ANY SATIRIST CAN IMPROVE UPON REAL LIFE FOR ITS PURE ABSURDITY:

Shot: Bloomberg: Darned right we need to tax the poor.

—Jazz Shaw, Hot Air, Friday.

Chaser: “The press went with it without explaining that it was an April Fool’s joke. Patsy Schroeder referenced it on the floor of the House of Representatives, a bunch of other Democrat and liberals. By the way, the condition of the poor has vastly improved since the tax the poor update. That was April 1st, 1991, by the way.”

“20th Anniversary Flashback: Rush Demands We Tax the Poor,” Rush Limbaugh.com, July 31, 2008.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, ADMINISTRATIVE BIGOTRY EDITION: Law professors question university’s punishment of Christian professor for ‘vile and stupid’ views. “A university spokesperson emphasized to The Fix that [Provost Lauren] Robel was not attacking Christian beliefs in her criticism of Rasmusen’s expressed views. But some of those views are hard to separate from the professor’s orthodox Christian faith, particularly on sexuality.”

If you say, as Robel does, that you’re protecting someone’s first amendment rights, and then subject them to differential treatment based on their views, you’re not protecting their first amendment rights. Robel should know better, and, I fear, probably does.