THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD: Breaking: Kaepernick’s Kaper. “Stay tuned for updates. My hunch is, this workout may not come off at all, but if it does and if teams are unimpressed with his readiness to play, he’ll blame it on the NFL’s conditions that “forced” him to change the venue, and we’ll start a new round of stunts.”
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November 16, 2019
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FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE: Hair care a barrier to exercise for black women, study says.
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PAUL KRUGMAN: Always wrong, never in doubt.
At some point, of course, doomsayers such as Krugman are going to be right. In the past 60 years the United States has been hit with recessions in 1960–61, 1969–70, 1973–75, 1980, 1981–82, 1990–91, 2001, and 2007–09. History says we’re probably due for another one soon. When it hits, Krugman will blame tax cuts, unfettered capitalist greed, a dearth of regulations — and maybe climate change, or whatever hobbyhorse he’s riding at the time. MSNBC hosts will hail him as a seer.
In the meantime, I’m going to continue to mock him
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ANDREW SULLIVAN ON THE “ANTIRACIST” LEFT’S POLITICAL ENDGAME:
Every now and again, it’s worth thinking about what the intersectional left’s ultimate endgame really is — and here it strikes me as both useful and fair to extrapolate from Kendi’s project. They seem not to genuinely believe in liberalism, liberal democracy, or persuasion. They have no clear foundational devotion to individual rights or freedom of speech. Rather, the ultimate aim seems to be running the entire country by fiat to purge it of racism (and every other intersectional “-ism” and “phobia”, while they’re at it). And they demand “disciplinary tools” by unelected bodies to enforce “a radical reorientation of our consciousness.” There is a word for this kind of politics and this kind of theory when it is fully and completely realized, and it is totalitarian.
Let me be clear here: They aren’t doing this because they’re good people who just feel too strongly about injustice. It’s because they’re terrible, awful, evil people who are using injustice as an excuse to indulge their garbage natures.
MESS WITH MAMA DREHER AT YOUR OWN PERIL: The Tucker Carlson Defense League.
IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE THIS WEEKEND, MAKE IT THIS: Glenn highlighted it earlier today and for good reason. Attorney General William Barr’s Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture at the Federalist Society is a deeply thoughtful assessment of how unbalanced our three “equal and separate” branches of the federal government have become since the 1960s.
Consider this graph on the growing intrusions of the courts into the everyday decisions of living:
“In recent years, we have lost sight of the fact that many critical decisions in life are not amenable to the model of judicial decision-making. They cannot be reduced to tidy evidentiary standards and specific quantums of proof in an adversarial process. They require what we used to call prudential judgment. They are decisions that frequently have to be made promptly, on incomplete and uncertain information and necessarily involve weighing a wide range of competing risks and making predictions about the future. Such decisions frequently call into play the “precautionary principle.” This is the principle that when a decision maker is accountable for discharging a certain obligation – such as protecting the public’s safety – it is better, when assessing imperfect information, to be wrong and safe, than wrong and sorry.”
Barr may be President Donald Trump’s best appointment. If you doubt that, just keep scrolling through his lecture.
BOMB CANADA: Hockey Broadcaster Don Cherry Keeps His Independence.
(Classical reference in headline.)
KANYE WEST GOES TO JAIL: No, not like that! He made a surprise visit to the county jail in Houston, Texas, Friday and brought his choir with him to give the inmates and officers a worship experience they will remember for a long time.
THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD: Colin Kaepernick Moves Workout After Dispute with NFL.
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JOHN NOLTE ON FORD V. FERRARI: Exhilarating, Touching, Only-In-America Story.
John doesn’t mention what he once dubbed Hollywood’s “liberal sucker punch” appearing in this otherwise testosterone and petrol-fueled movie, which is all the more surprising coming from a leftwing monopoly institution in the days of the Green Nude Eel.
YET ANOTHER ACTING ROLE SCARLETT JOHANSSON LOSES, THANKS TO PC-CRAZED HOLLYWOOD: Nicolas Cage to play Nicolas Cage in movie about Nicolas Cage.
IRAN BURNING: Shock Gas Price Hike Triggers Violent Protests After Subsidy Cuts. “There are also reports that protesters have begun targeting banks, after video was posted online of what appears to show the Central Bank In Behbahan, Iran being engulfed in flames as demonstrators chant.”
UPDATE: “Thank Trump,” Rick Moran writes at the PJ Mothership:
The oil industry is broken, the economy is dead in the water, inflation is at 30 percent and rising, there’s little food, and little hope for younger Iranians. These demonstrations could easily become a referendum on the incompetent and corrupt government currently in power. That’s what happened in neighboring Iraq and Lebanon. And it wouldn’t take much to start a revolution in the streets in Iran.
Read the whole thing.
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Major Report Says Drug-Resistant Superbugs Are Already Killing More People Than Feared.
#METOO CONTINUES ITS DESCENT INTO #SELF-PARODY: Serial Groper Al Franken Mingles With Wealthy Democratic Donors.
SAFE TEXTING: How SMS Works—and Why You Shouldn’t Use It Anymore.