Archive for 2019
September 30, 2019
THE LUDDITES RETURN TO THEIR BIRTHPLACE: British employees are deliberately sabotaging workplace robots over fears the machines will take their jobs, new study claims.
AT U. OF IOWA, “UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS HELD ‘PERSONALLY LIABLE’ FOR DISCRIMINATION AGAINST CHRISTIAN STUDENT GROUP.” More of this needs to happen. There has to be some cost to college officials who just flat-out ignore the law when it comes to disfavored groups on campus. Those denied “qualified immunity,” a doctrine that effectively gives public college administrators a blank check to abuse nearly any and all student rights, include Vice President for Student Life Melissa Shivers, Associate Dean of Student Organizations William Nelson, and Coordinator for Student Organization Development Andrew Kutcher. It takes serious work to lose this immunity, so whenever a college administrator does so, it’s worth sitting up to take notice.
WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE IT IS: The University of Edinburgh has been slated for hosting an event where white people will be banned from asking questions – which has been described as ‘blatantly racist’.
The racial attitudes of our political/academic elites are twisted and disgusting.
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15 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: Why Nancy Pelosi Now Supports Impeachment Even Though It’s Insane.
With the House vote done by December, Pelosi can congratulate the troops, and move on, regardless of the result (not that it’s in any doubt). She can then proudly proclaim that the House Democrats have been diligent in saving the republic, while Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and those nasty obstructionist unpatriotic Republicans in the Senate refuse to see the light.
With a straight face, she can tell the lunatics and the impeachment fanatics that she has given them exactly what they asked for, and that it is up to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer now. Then she can privately breathe a sigh of relief.
Pelosi can then spend 2020 working to retain her House majority, while hoping Republican voters lose their energy by next November. Democratic candidates can spend the next year talking about something else, anything else, and at least have a chance of defeating Trump.
Pelosi knows that if impeachment is on the voters’ minds next year, Trump will be reelected in a tsunami. Her majority and speakership will go the way of the Dodo bird. The only way to change that narrative is to do the impeachment show now, and forget all about it next year.
Read the whole thing.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for September 30, 2019. “The Biden clan gets rich, Klobuchar kills a duck, O’Rourke threatens a kitten and calls Journey punk rock, while Yang channels The Dead Kennedys and the Q3 fundraising deadline looms.”
THEY’RE INVENTIONS OF THE DEVIL: Open Offices Distract Us From Deep Work. “Open offices were sold to workers as a boon to collaboration — liberated from barriers, stuffed in like sardines, people would chat more and, supposedly, come up with lots of brilliant new ideas. Yet study after study has shown open offices to foster seclusion more than innovation; in order to combat noise, the loss of privacy and the sense of being watched, people in an open office put on headphones, talk less, and feel terrible.”
ROGER SIMON: Mukasey Oped Should Strike Fear in Democrats.
The definitive answer to the obvious question—what’s that about?—is known only to Mr. Durham and his colleagues. But publicly available reports, including by Andrew McCarthy in his new book, “Ball of Collusion,” suggest that during the 2016 campaign the Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to get evidence from Ukrainian government officials against Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, to pressure him into cooperating against Mr. Trump. When you grope through the miasma of Slavic names and follow the daisy chain of related people and entities, it appears that Ukrainian officials who backed the Clinton campaign provided information that generated the investigation of Mr. Manafort—acts that one Ukrainian court has said violated Ukrainian law and “led to interference in the electoral processes of the United States in 2016 and harmed the interests of Ukraine as a state.”
Read the whole thing.
THE WORDS “DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL DONOR” ANSWER THE QUESTION: Activists wonder why California Democratic political donor Ed Buck wasn’t arrested sooner.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: This Is Why We Don’t Shoot Earth’s Garbage Into The Sun.
20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: Republicans Begin Impeachment Investigation…
Mitch McConnell strides into the press conference, exuding that air of masculine confidence that made him, inevitably, a leader of men. He taps the microphone, clears his throat, and begins his presentation to the assembled reporters: “Good afternoon, everyone. I have an important announcement to make. In fact, one of historical significance.” Before the murmur in the room can die down, he declares, “Republicans of both houses of Congress are officially launching an impeachment investigation of the next Democratic President of the United States.”
After 10-15 seconds of stunned silence, the questions begin:
REPORTER 1: “But, the next Democratic President hasn’t even been inaugurated yet.”
MCCONNELL: “Neither had President Trump, when his impeachment investigation started. One example of the bipartisan nature of this investigation is how closely we are modeling it on the admirably effective techniques of our esteemed Democratic colleagues. After all, it’s all about the children.”
Heh. Read the whole thing.
FLASHBACK: Advice to first-year law students.
CBC GOING ALL-IN TO PROTECT JUSTIN TRUDEAU: “This is jawdropping. Man makes photo of World leader in blackface public. Immediately, CBC is on the case… …doorstopping the man who made the photo public at his home and bringing you live footage of him backing his ‘luxury SUV’ into his garage.”
To slightly paraphrase Jim Treacher’s great line about old media, “Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Liberals.”
MARK RIPPETOE ON The Texas Method.
HERE’S ANOTHER ONE: “Girl Who Claimed Hair Was Cut in Racist Attack Admits She Made It Up.”
WHEN YOU’RE A DEMOCRAT WHO’S LOST NEW YORK MAGAZINE: Another Woman Says Al Franken Groped Her.
Elsewhere in news of NBC employees past and present: NBC News preps for Ronan Farrow’s bombshell book.