BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU IT IS: Younger red wine ‘more beneficial’ than aged wines, study finds. “Younger red wines are likely to be more beneficial than aged wines, a new study from Australia has found, due to the significant decrease in healthy antioxidants in wine over time.”
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August 20, 2020
THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE JOINERS AND SOME AREN’T DOESN’T SEEM LIKE A HUGE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY: Newly Identified Social Trait Could Explain Why Some People Are Particularly Tribal.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree. “Remember: Nowadays, it’s all about skills. Not degrees. Because if there’s anything this pandemic has taught us, it’s the importance of maximizing ROI on both time and money. And that’s an area where universities have been failing for a very long time.”
WHISTLEBLOWER DETAILS ‘TRAINING MANUAL’ USED FOR CENSORSHIP ON FACEBOOK.
Flashback: It appears “that Facebook helped the reporter who wrote this story identify the person behind the doctored video of Nancy Pelosi — i.e., Facebook used its own internal data to help publicly identify a private citizen. That’s extremely troubling.”
As Ed Morrissey warned in 2018, “When the service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product. If you don’t want to be the product, don’t sign up in the first place.”
Somebody really needs to write a book on the myriad dangers of relying on social media.
YES, BUT NOT FOR THE REASONS THEY GIVE: Facebook is a ‘Major Threat’ To Public Health, Report Warns. “Coronavirus misinformation” is just as likely to come from the WHO or the CDC as from Facebook.
BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DID: DNC Meetings Cut ‘Under God’ Out of the Pledge of Allegiance.
RESEARCHERS FINDING LOTS OF REASONS ‘JUNK DNA’ ISN’T: Sooner or later, the mounting evidence for Intelligent Design will get its day in the court of public opinion.
IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN YOU THINK ON CAMPUS: Heather MacDonald, writing for City Journal, shows why the typical American college campus has become a kill-zone for learning, logic and liberty:
“Fealty to ‘diversity’ and denunciations of white privilege have been a unifying theme in academia for decades, of course. What’s different this time is the sheer venom of the denunciations. College presidents and deans competed for the most sweeping indictment of the American polity, rooted in the claim that blacks are everywhere and at all times under threat.”
NOT SO JUNKY: Study finds clues to aging in ‘junk’ DNA.
BATTLESWARM BLOG: Austin Police Defunding/Homeless Update.
Unlike Abbott’s various Wuhan Coronavirus mandates, this will require the Texas legislature to enact, which won’t happen until next year. And Socialist Austin city councilman Greg Casar says it won’t deter his anti-police agenda.
Meanwhile, Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell blasted Austin’s defunding vote and asked Gov. Abbott to send more law enforcement. “In the correspondence, Gravell blasts Austin City Council members for cuts to the Austin Police Department valued at $150 million — including some $20 million in immediate budget cuts and a transfer of several departments away from police oversight to civilian functions, such as interacting with the homeless and dealing with mental health-related cuts.”
It always seems to go back to the decision to make Austin bumsville, doesn’t it?
I’ve never understood the Progressive compulsion to make their own cities unlivable.
THAT WOULD BE HARD. ABOLISHING AGING AND DISEASE WOULD ONLY GET YOU TO AROUND A THOUSAND. What if We Could Live for a Million Years?
AD ASTRA PER ARDUA: Sierra Nevada aims to complete Dream Chaser space plane in March.
HMM: Could Trump Executive Order Eliminate AARP’s Sweetheart Deal? “These carveouts protect its crony regime at the expense of its dwindling member base. So if seniors are canceling AARP over its actions, why should it continue to receive a special carveout from ObamaCare?”
Read the whole thing.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVE WITH A LAVALIER PRETENDS TO BE SHOCKED: ‘Were You Watching?’: CBS’s Gayle King Shocked Reince Priebus Unimpressed by Dem Convention.
WHY CALIFORNIA’S LATEST ‘SOAK THE RICH’ TAX PROPOSALS ARE LIKELY TO BACKFIRE: One big problem: Nearby states such as Nevada have no income tax at all.
YES: Joe Biden’s Flip-Flops Prove He’s Not Running His Own Campaign.
After watching Biden over his career, and more closely this year, I’m left feeling like a panelist on the old “To Tell the Truth” television show. Somebody please say it: “Will the real Joe Biden please stand up?”
Biden has been known for a few things over the years: a moderate-Democrat voting record, an outstanding ability to plagiarize (it takes quite a lot of chutzpah to steal another man’s life story), a penchant for telling entertaining and sometimes untrue stories, and an almost unparalleled tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time (“Chuck, stand up. … Let them see ya!”).
But after comparing his long voting record to the proposals of his presidential campaign, I’m left wondering if this is even the same Joe Biden.
It’s as though the party’s hard-left watched Simon one too many times and launched their own version of the Nixon Substitution Scenario.
But really, Biden will do or say anything to get elected, and stipulating for the moment that he’s still aware of what he’s doing and saying, he knows the hardcore progressive left is in full control of the party now.