MANY WOMEN WOULD PREFER TO CARE FOR THEIR CHILDREN: Why Are Seemingly Satisfied Female Lawyers Running For The Exits? This is being pointed out in the comments.
Archive for 2019
August 9, 2019
THERE HE GOES AGAIN: Joe Biden Says ‘We Choose Truth Over Facts.’
Biden is just taking his cues from the Montagnard wing of his party.
TRUMP ORDER LETS BARR DECLASSIFY CLINTON EMAIL DOCS. WILL HE? That’s the question posed by Paul Sperry, writing today on Issues & Insights.
SOCIALISM MEANS CARING: Let fat people die to save NHS money, says Michael Buerk.
AT AMAZON, Deals Of The Day.
WHATEVER WORKS: How Sumo Taught Me To Love The Gym. “I never saw the allure of physical activity until I saw an athlete with a physique that resembled my own.”
THUMB ON THE SCALE: Liberal Psychologist: Google Generated At Least 2.6 Million Votes For Hillary.
OUT: INTERMITTENT FASTS. In: Sound Fasts. “I would listen to zero podcasts. I wouldn’t turn on any music. I wouldn’t use headphones. I’d look for opportunities to foster silence, encourage quiet contemplation, and allow myself to remain stubbornly unstimulated.”
It’s not always bad to be bored.
PLACE YOUR BETS: “Did he make an honest mistake, or did he, because of his animus against Palin and Republicans generally, repeat the smear even though he knew or suspected it was false?”
Of course, there’s an in-between that is more likely: What if he didn’t know or suspect it was false, but repeated the smear because of his animus and bias? As the Constitutional Law stands, if that’s the case, I think he gets off scot-free. (That’s common-law malice, not “Actual Malice.”)
One could argue that this is the transaction cost of living in a society that protects mistakes made for the right reason, but on the other hand, there’s something perverse in the fact that one can legitimately tell a judge in many circumstances that “my client was under no obligation to do any research” and have a libel case dismissed.
READINESS: U.S. Air Force gets F-35A fighter airborne five hours after delivery. “The accomplishment means that, if necessary, the Air Force can take an F-35 fresh from production line immediately into combat, officials said.”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Pro-Doxxing Cyberbully Joaquin Castro Once Praised Passage of a Texas Law Aimed at Preventing… Cyberbulling.
Yes, but that different in Castro’s mind, because, well, something. These days, Castro has “defined danger downward,” a topic that Kevin Williamson discusses in his new book, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics, which dovetails well with Glenn’s new book, The Social Media Upheaval:
If you go looking for an emergency, you will find one. And if you don’t find one, you can always make one up: That is the political impetus behind the rash of fake hate crimes on college campuses and the politically charged rape hoaxes advanced by such fabulists as Lena Dunham, Rolling Stone, and the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case. The principle at work here is defining danger down. If you wish to suppress certain speech or certain points of view, then all that you have to do is construct a crowded theater around it. For example, we might understand and even acquiesce to the suppression of neo-Nazi political propaganda in Germany on streitbare Demokratie grounds, especially in the immediate postwar era, when the possibility of a revanchist Nazi movement was far from unthinkable. We might, arguendo, accept such censorship in that situation because of the genuine danger that the policy is intended to head off. Likewise, Americans accepted certain kinds of formal and informal censorship during both world wars, and, as Professor Caplan notes, are generally supportive of such measures when they are undertaken in the cause of preventing terrorism. Of course those slopes are slippery—all slopes are. That fact does not liberate us from the necessity of cantering up and down those slopes or relieve us from having to exercise judgment and prudence. The corporate alternatives—such as Facebook’s attempt to replace wisdom with the fanatical application of comically malformed rules of discourse—are the product of hubris compounded with a highly cultivated form of stupidity.
Joaquin Castro — of course — doesn’t want ordinary people cyberbullied — but Trump supporters? Hey, Orange man bad (and dangerous), even if there’s an overlap between Trump supporters and Julian Castro supporters.
NICE WORK, VLADIMIR: Missile Explosion Prompts Radiation Warnings in Russia.
DEMOCRATS GOTTA DOXX: Trump Donor Doxxed by Joaquin Castro Gets Threatening Voicemail.
Related: “There was once a time when a mob of protesters outside a senator’s personal residence chanting death threats would be national news, but now major companies entrusted with disseminating the news are actively silencing those trying to raise awareness of the mob…[Ben Goldey, a House communications director from Kentucky] told The [New York] Post, ‘Twitter allowed ‘#MassacreMitch’ to trend nationwide, but decided to lock any account that raised awareness of actual threats made against Sen. McConnell. Interestingly, while our accounts were locked, the woman screaming the threats outside of the senator’s home has been able to freely use the platform without interruption.’”
Why, it’s like Twitter management openly tilts the scales to the left or something. Somebody should write a book about this sort of thing.
GIVE ME YOUR VOTE, HATERS: Buttigieg Says ‘Systemic racism is a white problem.’
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE REASONS: 121 migrants have been stranded at sea for 8 days. Europe won’t offer safe harbor.
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Meet Janna Jihad, Palestine’s new pin-up.
THE WEEKEND AFTER THAT, ANTIFA BUSINESS AS USUAL: Portland Mayor Says He Won’t Tolerate Street Violence Next Weekend.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: The ‘Death Race 2000’ Edition. “Florida Man Undresses in Front of Cop on Busy Street, Gets Dressed Again at Gunpoint.”
IN THE MAIL: From Andrew C. Mccarthy, Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.
