A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Man arrested for assault on conservative activist at UC Berkeley.
Archive for 2019
March 1, 2019
OPEN THREAD: Friday’s here.
WILLIAM JACOBSON REMEMBERS ANDREW BREITBART: “Wake up, Conservatives: Left is involved in 100% organized class & race warfare & you think you can sit this one out & not fight back?!?!”
IN WHICH I AGREE WITH GLENN GREENWALD:
A LITTLE LATE: Facing a $250M Lawsuit, Washington Post Walks Back Its Covington Story. “Basically, the Post is admitting it made an error. But I don’t see an apology, do you?”
MICHAEL LEDEEN: What Does a Successful Revolution Smell Like?
I have long said that the most important human instrument for perceiving when a revolution is on the verge of success is the nose. It’s not the mind, as you can easily see by the “intelligence community’s” repeated failure to see one coming. For a revolution to succeed, the current leader must sense that his or her time has come, that the forces of history have turned against him, and that he or she had best arrange a safe haven, or make a deal with the revolutionaries, instead of dedicating all efforts to prolonging his or her rule, and the dominating system.
You can’t measure this sort of thing, you can only smell it.
Read the whole thing.
WAIT, I THOUGHT IT WOULD DELIVER A USEFUL SETBACK TO GLOBAL WARMING: Even a ‘Limited’ Nuclear War Could Wreck Earth’s Climate And Trigger Global Famine.
FLASHBACK: Donald Trump is a symptom of a new kind of class warfare raging at home and abroad.
UPDATE: Yes, this post is a followup to the “Bulwark” item below.
THE BULWARK, BILL KRISTOL’S SUCCESSOR TO THE WEEKLY STANDARD, CALLED OUT FOR SENDING PRO-CHOICE LIB TO ‘OWN THE CONS’ AT CPAC. As Twitchy notes, “If you are part of a conservative website that trashes and condescends to conservatives who have a problem with you mocking their movement, YOU’RE the problem. Seriously. We’d expect to see this nonsense on Buzzfeed, or even Mediaite, but on The Bulwark, where they’re supposedly conserving conservatism? Wow:”
Contrast the above with the Bulwark’s slogan:
As Stephen Miller responds to Jong-Fast, “I don’t have a problem with your opinion. Pretty sure you’re aware of that. I just want to know what’s being conserved by the conservatism conserved official dispatch going after pro-life panels. Sure is a lot of dancing around this question and not much answering of it.”
Related: The Bulwark’s token lib deleted a tweet mocking a CPAC panelist who is battling cancer.
More: Why is the Bulwark bullying Victor Davis Hanson?
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): “Conservatism conserved?” They haven’t even conserved women’s sports without penises. And, more tellingly, they haven’t even tried.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Robo-pill that replaces injections could be ‘holy grail’ for biotech industry.
GREAT MOMENTS IN COVER STORIES: High-end coffee company Blue Bottle will ban cash at 12 locations across the country starting on March 11 as part of a month-long experiment that aims to speed up purchases, the San Francisco Chronicle reports:
Two of Blue Bottle’s San Francisco locations, at 1355 Market St. and 2 South Park, will participate.
“Credit card transactions are smoother for both our guests and the baristas,” said Shawna Sharie, vice president of retail for Blue Bottle, which is headquartered in Oakland and majority-owned by Swiss food giant Nestlé.
The move reflects a growing cashless trend across the restaurant industry, which is eager to make service more efficient. But that trend has also triggered a backlash from those who say banning cash excludes people unable to obtain credit cards or other electronic payment methods.
“For a lot of low-income San Franciscans, credit cards or other phone-based mobile payments aren’t an option,” said San Francisco Supervisor Vallie Brown. Brown introduced a measure in December to ban cash bans at permanent brick-and-mortar businesses in San Francisco.
“My message to businesses like Blue Bottle that serve the public is simple: accept cash,” she said in an email. “Do we really want to live in a city where our neighbors are excluded from certain coffee shops or lunch counters? I don’t.”
On Twitter, Rob Province, aka, “Educated Hillbilly” asks, “Am I a total racist for thinking this is a way to keep poor & minority customers out of their hip San Francisco coffee shop?” Not at all. Beyond that, as Glenn noted in December, “This is mostly a stealthy way to keep homeless people out.”
Even in San Francisco (read: especially in San Francisco) as Robert Conquest’s First Law of Politics states, everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
MILLER HIGH LIFE: GMO Beer that Can Produce a High Like Marijuana. “Researchers at UC Berkeley have produced brewers yeast that contains THC and CBD.”
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
I liked political theater, so I watched that initially rooting for Clarence Thomas to be taken down. By the very end, I believed the seeds of my future were planted right there when I realized that Ted Kennedy knew something. What did he know that he could ask Clarence Thomas these questions of a man who came from humble beginnings as an African-American? What did he know about the media? What did he know about the political process? What did he know about Hollywood? That they would side with a known Lothario with Chappaquiddick, you know, in his background. That they would allow for him and his allies in the Democratic Party to ask this man in the realm of privacy have you ever rented any pornography. Do you know who Long Dong Silver is? It was so obvious that this was a takedown that eventually I started to see things through what I called the Democrat Media Complex.
—Andrew Breitbart, in conversation with Peter Robinson, April, 2009.
EVEN THE TREES ARE HATEFUL IN SOUTH CAROLINA: In early February, the mayor of Lamar, South Carolina observed a sticky, yellowish substance on her car and her husband’s car. Believing it to be spray paint, she reported it to the police and issued a statement that “my husband and I refuse to be intimidated by those who perpetrated this act of vandalism which I classify as an act of hatred.” Police, however, have determined that the substance was likely pollen.
CNN DIDN’T DISCLOSE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TIES OF QUESTIONERS IN SANDERS TOWN HALL.
To be fair, isn’t that the baseline assumption of who will be the studio audience for all CNN town halls and debates?
SO I SAY WELCOME, WELCOME TO THE BOOMTOWN: In This Texas Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180,000.
How odd — I can remember prominent “community organizers” telling us that we couldn’t drill our way to prosperity only a decade ago.
(Classical reference in headline.)
RUN ALL THE CANDIDATES! Former Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper expected to announce presidential bid next week.
CLAUDIA ROSETT: Trump, Kim and the Death of Otto Warmbier.
For generations, North Korea’s Kim regime, with its rogue art of the deal, has done well for itself by keeping its foes off balance — punctuating its threats with diplomatic enticements. Trump in his own way has doubled down on that approach, as he just did by flying all the way to Vietnam to talk with Kim, and then walking from the table. It’s no bad thing that Kim, arriving in Hanoi with demands for sweeping concessions from the American president, got nothing but dinner, and was left to contemplate the relative wealth, compared to North Korea, of the non-nuclear despotism that is Vietnam.
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