HARD TO IMAGINE THAT THIS COULD BE DANGEROUS: Gay ‘chemsex’ is fuelling urban HIV epidemics, AIDS experts warn. “A surge in ‘chemsex’ parties, where people spend days getting high on drugs and having sex with scores of partners, is re-fuelling epidemics of HIV among gay men in European towns and cities, doctors say.”
Archive for 2019
September 13, 2019
THE UNIVERSE IS A GLAMOROUS ACTRESS FROM HOLLYWOOD’S GOLDEN ERA — WE MAY NEVER KNOW HER TRUE AGE: Study finds the universe might be 2 billion years younger.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: After cancer took their spouses, couple found new love through grief.
HIS POSITION HAS EVOLVED: Presidential Candidate O’Rourke And Texas Senate Candidate O’Rourke Disagree On AR-15 Ownership.
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Also, Men’s Swimwear.
GEE, I WONDER WHO HE WAS SPYING FOR? Canada police employee charged under national security act. “Cameron Ortis, a civilian member of the RCMP, is accused of breaching the Security of Information Act and the Criminal Code.”
YES, BUT HE’S A DEMOCRAT: Giuliani: Yang’s $1,000 Per Month Giveaway ‘Illegal.’
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Lots of time on social media linked to anxiety, depression in teens. We should probably treat social media like tobacco or alcohol and ban their use by people under 21. For the children!
EDDIE MONEY DIES AT 70, WEEKS AFTER ANNOUNCING ESOPHAGEAL CANCER DIAGNOSIS.
“Two Tickets to Paradise” was a song my college-era band played often. RIP.
IS THE HEAVY HAND OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT EDITING THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST? On this piece, the headline went from Hong Kong Protesters Are Scarred, Shaken, But Pressing On to the current one: Hong Kong protests: three months on and the anti-government activists want their enemies to burn with them. Is there any end in sight?
Seems like there’s an agenda here.
It’s so difficult to tell these days whether gun confiscation or socialized medicine is the more truly conservative position under True Conservatism™, so I’ll just let you decide.
LEFTISTS ARE STILL TRYING TO COPE WITH THE LOSS OF THEIR ACCUSTOMED IMPUNITY: The Ad That Ran During The Dem Debate That Has Ocasio-Cortez Outraged.
It’s here:
Ocasio-Cortez’s response is to call Cambodian refugee Elizabeth Heng a “white supremacist.” Because of course.
CHANGE: At Colleges, What’s Old Is New: Retirees Living on Campus. Since all Hollywood makes these days are remakes and sequels, here’s an idea: The cast of Porky’s, or Back to School, moves into one of these facilities and the current woke-prude students are scandalized by their antics, with hilarity ensuing.
Of course, jokes aside this is basically about schools facing declining enrollments looking for another income stream.
MAKE ARMS SALES GREAT AGAIN: Poland Gets All-Clear to Buy US F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: The Progressive Dystopia Of NYC Schools.
You have to read this long Atlantic piece by George Packer, in which he describes the disillusioning of him and his wife — good urban liberals — by the militant wokeness that overtook the New York City public schools that their children attended (and that their son still attends)…It gets crazier and crazier, as identity politics comes to control not only that school, but the entire NYC public school system. The authoritarianism and radicalism of progressive ideology has destroyed what schools are supposed to be, and, in the liberal writer’s anxious view, are kicking the supports out from underneath liberal democracy.
Is there anything that the new woke progressivism touches that it doesn’t destroy? If it weren’t for the fact that one of the parents at that school is a nationally known journalist with a prominent platform, would any of us know what a disaster the militant left has made of the nation’s largest school system, all because of identity politics?
As Iowahawk memorably put it:
Which also neatly describes what happened to the Atlantic itself, come to think of it.
JON CALDERA: Denver’s Airbnb rules intolerant to property rights, freedom of association.
When I see one, I have two contradictory thoughts: What an eyesore, and why can’t I live there?
Living next to loud neighbors isn’t much fun. So, it is easy to understand the frustration some have living next to an Airbnb rental.
Most short-term rental guests are just fine until they rent a house or condo for a weekend bachelor party or a marathon session of “cannabis tourism.”
But the City of Denver’s little jihad against fledgling entrepreneurs, like those who do short-term rentals of their property, isn’t about noisy guests. It’s about control, limiting choice and stopping free association.
There’s a word for a political system under which people are allowed a veneer of property rights, but in which unaccountable government actually calls the shots.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The Garden of College Excellence Is Growing Weeds.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Marianne Williamson: “What does it say that the conservatives are nicer to me?…I didn’t think the Left was as mean as the Right, [but] they are.”
THE FREE MARKET, CONSERVATIVES, AND WOKE CAPITALISM: A couple of weeks back I had an article (paywall, sorry) in the Wall Street Journal noting that free marketers have taken conservatives for granted, and that we should do something about that.
Erick Erickson has written a typically thoughtful response, noting the areas that need the most work. One of those areas is dealing with the issue of “woke capitalism.”
On that point, Liberty Fund philosopher Douglas Den Uyl has an excellent essay at Law & Liberty on “stakeholder capitalism.” As he notes, this movement, most recently embraced by the Business Roundtable of all things, socializes businesses – and “can only result in the obliteration of the private portion and thus of the essence of capitalism.” Woke Capitalism is in many ways just another, insidious form of socialism. Which means we have work to do.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: Slippery Florida Woman Slips Out Of Handcuffs, Climbs Into Front Seat, Drives Off In Cop Car. “There is almost nothing in the world I would rather see more right now, maybe not even my sons bring home straight A’s, than that police officer trying to report to his chief where his patrol cruiser went.”
Much, much more at the link.
SOCIALISM WITH A SOUR FACE: ‘Extremely Unfair’: Sanders Denies His Form of Socialism Is the Same as Venezuela’s or Cuba’s.
I DON’T KNOW ART, BUT I KNOW WHAT I LIKE: One of the World’s Biggest Porn Sites Is Branching Into Fine Art.
Link is safe for work.
SUCK IT UP, BUTTERCUP: Students protest Sean Spicer campus talk: ‘makes me really scared.’ Call your mother and tell her to come get you, you’re not ready for college.