LEADING DEMS DON’T THINK HILLARY 2.0 CAN DO IT: Deval Patrick Entrance Is Stab In Back To Warren.
Archive for 2019
November 15, 2019
#HIMTOO? Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings, 83, under investigation for personal relationship with staffer.
Earlier: “Striking that in House Rules Committee meeting on impeachment inquiry resolution, No. 2 Democrat, Rep. Alcee Hastings, has actually been impeached. (Was federal judge, impeached, convicted, and removed for bribery in 1989.)”
REALCLEARINVESTIGATIONS: The Brennan Dossier: All About a Prime Mover of Russiagate.
THE DARK PSYCHOLOGY OF SOCIAL NETWORKS: Why it feels like everything is going haywire. “At its inception, social media felt very different than it does today. Friendster, Myspace, and Facebook all appeared between 2002 and 2004, offering tools that helped users connect with friends. The sites encouraged people to post highly curated versions of their lives, but they offered no way to spark contagious outrage. This changed with a series of small steps, designed to improve user experience, that collectively altered the way news and anger spread through American society. In order to fix social media—and reduce its harm to democracy—we must try to understand this evolution.”
You could start here.
BAN ALL THE THINGS PEOPLE: Conservatives Are Now Getting Expelled From the Scientific Community Over LGBT Issues.
SQUAD GOALS: Rashida Tlaib frantically asked campaign for personal money, messages show, as ethics probes announced.
As Glenn has joked, getting Tlaib, AOC, and the rest of “the squad” elected was Roger Stone’s last and greatest political dirty trick.
IT’S AMAZING HOW LITTLE ATTENTION THIS IS GETTING, EVEN FROM OUTFITS LIKE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Uighur researchers say China running more camps than known.
PETER HITCHENS ON “BIG DOPE:” How marijuana benefited from one of the slickest PR campaigns in history.
Loughner’s supposed political views are incoherent drivel of the sort that makes the average Klansman sound like Socrates. He had no politics worth the name, and if he had, the murder of six people including a nine-year-old girl could not possibly have advanced them.
For the killer was officially crazy. Or at least not officially sane. Pima Community College, where he was a constant menace, eventually asked him to get a certificate showing he was mentally OK. He never did. It took this bizarre step after he repeatedly caused noisy and worrying disruptions. One classmate, Lynda Sorensen, told friends that Loughner was ‘mentally unstable’ and ‘scares the living crap out of me’. She added that he was the sort of person ‘whose picture you see on the news, after he has come into class with an automatic weapon’.
This kind of individual madness was rare before 1960. Why is there now so much of it? Well, we know that Loughner, described by a high-school classmate as a pothead, had been rejected by the US Army in 2008 because of his admitted marijuana use. It was not minor. Pima police picked him up in 2007 because his car stank of marijuana. The offense was recorded, but, as so often in the alleged War on Drugs, nothing happened to him. Much of this information emerged some time after the shootings, when interest had cooled.
Earlier: Second Thoughts on Pot: “‘Yeah, they all smoke.’ ‘Well . . . other things too, right?’ ‘Sometimes. But they all smoke.’”
I’M SORRY, BUT HASN’T THIS BEEN THE NERD LIFESTYLE FOREVER? Dopamine fasts: Why Silicon Valley tech workers are avoiding food, TV, sex, music, exercise and eye contact.
November 14, 2019
OPEN THREAD: Talk about stuff.
HMM: Model said she didn’t know she was pregnant until giving birth in the bathroom. “Langmaid, who told the news outlet that she had been using birth control injections throughout the unsuspected pregnancy, said the entire labor and birth was ‘over in about 10 minutes,’ and that baby Isla weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces.” Many women will be jealous of that record.
HMM: 1st Methane, Now Oxygen: Another Possible ‘Biosignature’ Gas Is Acting Weird on Mars. I dunno, there’s a lot of this stuff on Titan and nobody seems to think there’s life there.
THE DIPLOMAD 2.0: New Whine in an Old Battle.
Let me put it in nice simple terms so that the Swamp Beings will understand: The President sets and conducts foreign policy, not State, not the NSC, not the DOD, not any other alphabet agency. He does not have to go through State or NSC to conduct said policy; he does not have to consult with Kent or Taylor or anybody else on Ukraine or any other aspect of foreign policy.
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Plus, Fall Deals in Kitchen and Dining. The holidays are coming!
IMPEACHMENT COUNSELS ARE POLAR OPPOSITES: It’s like Daniel Goldman for the Democrats and Stephen Castor for the Republicans are from two different planets. Or perhaps two different galaxies. Wonder what they talk about if they happen to step onto the same elevator?
LOOKS A BIT LIKE A 21ST CENTURY MIURA: Ferrari Roma Is Maranello’s New, Modern Ode to the GT.