Archive for 2019
March 30, 2019
WHERE THERE’S RARELY A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE: ASSISTED LIVING.
It’s an expensive, disruptive response to problems that often could be handled in the building, if health care professionals were more available to assess residents and provide treatment when needed.
But most assisted living facilities have no doctors on site or on call; only about half have nurses on staff or on call. Thus, many symptoms trigger a trip to an outside doctor or, in too many cases, an ambulance ride, perhaps followed by a hospital stay.
Twenty years after the initial boom in assisted living — which now houses more than 800,000 people — that approach may be shifting.
Sounds like it’s time.
WHAT’S IN THE MUELLER REPORT? The Last Refuge undertakes an analysis based solely on the character and actions of the principal players in the anti-Trump campaign. By way of preface, Refuge notes:
“The most overlooked aspect is how the 2016 DOJ/FBI investigative unit that existed to investigate Trump before the election, is the same group of people who transferred into Mueller’s probe in 2017 to continue investigating Trump after the election. It always seems odd to me that people don’t realize this very basic point.
“If what the investigators were doing in 2016 was unethical, corrupt and likely unlawful, it is not wise to think they suddenly became bastions of investigative moral integrity just because they transferred into the Mueller probe in 2017. In fact, the reality is, those same people held/hold a motive to cover-up for their prior conduct; and, for the purposes of Robert Mueller, their corrupt motives were perfectly aligned.”
It’s essential reading and will make for a fascinating comparison when the Mueller Report becomes public. Go here. Yes, it’s long, but, hey, it’s the weekend.
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GOOD: Man gets 20 years for deadly “swatting” hoax. “Tyler Barriss, whose hoax call to Wichita police led to the shooting death of an innocent man, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, the Associated Press reports. The sentence in Kansas federal court is a stark reminder of the serious consequences of the deadly prank called ‘swatting.'” It’s not a “prank,” it’s a species of felonious assault.
PEOPLE SHOULD BE AFRAID EVEN TO PROPOSE THIS SORT OF THING, WITH THE KIND OF FEAR CURRENTLY RESERVED FOR USING THE WRONG PRONOUNS, BUT ALAS, THEY’RE NOT: Europe Wants Cars To Have Speed Limiters and More by 2022. We need to update Voltaire’s saying for when the last bureaucrat is strangled with the entrails of the last “activist.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A Mole Hunt for Diversity ‘Bias’ at Villanova: An atmosphere of fear-imposed silence makes it impossible to achieve a real liberal-arts education.
Last fall we were notified by the Villanova administration that new “diversity and inclusion” questions would be added to the course and teaching evaluations that students fill out each semester. In addition to the standard questions about the intellectual worth of the course and the quality of instruction, students are now being asked heavily politicized questions such as whether the instructor has demonstrated “cultural awareness” or created an “environment free of bias based on individual differences or social identities.”
In short, students are being asked to rate professors according to their perceived agreement with progressive political opinion on bias and identity. Students are also invited to “comment on the instructor’s sensitivity to the diversity of the students in the class.” Professors are rated on their “sensitivity” to a student’s “biological sex, disability, gender identity, national origin, political viewpoint, race/ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, etc.” The “etc.” in particular seems like an ominous catchall, as if the sole principle of sound teaching has become “that no student shall be offended.” . . .
The larger implications are even more disturbing. The new evaluations will allow a professor’s professional performance to be recast as a human resources or even a legal problem. Think about it: You can’t fire a professor for being conservative, but you certainly can fire him for creating a “hostile work environment.” At a minimum, all charges of insensitivity, injustice and bigotry will become part of the faculty’s permanent record. How long will it be before professors cease to challenge their students for fear of losing their careers and livelihoods?
Sounds like it may put Villanova at risk to lose funding under President Trump’s new executive order. Someone should tell the Department of Education.
JUST IN TIME FOR STEVE’S DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY DEBATE DRUNKBLOGGING: Giant mixing truck serving cocktails in Florida.
A PRIMER ON “VENTRILOQUIST JOURNALISM.” “When you deal with the media, it is not just their innate liberalism you need to be on guard for—you need to keep in mind that they already have their story written.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: This Wake Forest student said her offended peers ‘need to grow up.’ She got death threats.
ROGER SIMON: Trump Was Not Just Spied Upon But Entrapped.
THE REALLY SCARY THING IS THAT THIS INCOMPETENT NITWIT WAS RUNNING OUR INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS FOR YEARS: John Brennan: From spittle to flop sweat. “In Brennan’s many television appearances pronouncing President Trump a traitorous Russian stooge, one could hardly miss the rabid hatred beneath Brennan’s pronouncements. Given his former responsibilities, the thin smile and spittle flecked visage of the man might send a shiver down your spine.”
SHE’S JUST A WHITE GIRL IN A HIJAB: Linda Sarsour preaches to NYU about voting for ‘people of color.’
Flashback: ‘Before wearing a hijab, I was just an ordinary white girl.’
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT WORKING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: “I Broke Up With Her Because She’s White,” notes a columnist in the New York Times’ “Modern Love” section:
But the real reason I think I can no longer date white women isn’t any of that. It’s because in today’s hashtag-woke society, there is mad pressure to be hashtag-woke. To be aware of the implications of whom you’re attracted to and why. Which means that in the eyes of others, the color of the women I date is a big deal. Like I’m the problem. Like I’m betraying my people if I date white women.
But I was taught that we were all one people!*
I see people watching me with a stink eye, noses turned up, as if they think black and brown people would somehow be better off if I dumped my white girlfriend. It’s a lot of pressure. Along with each watchful eye, the whispers of, “Pick a side, Chris, pick a side,” fill my already noisy mind.
I started reading James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates and other black and brown authors looking for guidance, a road map, help on what it means to be a brown man in the world. Like: Yes, our bodies have been colonized. Yes, I am a child of blackness. Yes, the black body has done more for society than it has gotten in return. Yes, society seems to want to embrace a lot of things associated with blackness without actually being black.
How did we get here? If everyone is so woke, why are things so terrible?
Found via Allahpundit, who tweets, “It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at this [last] line.”
“Unexpectedly,” the institutional left is once again acting like the mirror image of the alt-right.
* Not reading the New York Times since the early 1990s, you weren’t.
AOC IS STUDYING THIS ARTICLE LIKE IT’S A HOW-TO GUIDE: Venezuela returns to ‘Middle Ages’ during power outages.
Gosh, that’s quite a bit of “unexpected” bad luck.