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Archive for 2020
May 14, 2020
‘THEY WANT TO GET THE HELL OUT OF WHERE THEY’RE AT:’ TAHOE REAL ESTATE DEMAND SPIKES. “‘People are starting to ask themselves, ‘Why do I have to live in such an expensive area and drive an hour to work every day, or rent out an expensive office space when everyone can work remotely?’ If you don’t need to live in the city, why would you?’ Bednar said.”
ENFORCED QUALITY TIME: Coronavirus pandemic may actually be bringing families together. “The reality is a remarkable repudiation of the gloom and doom pumped out by relationship experts, child shrinks and divorce lawyers.”
This pandemic thing hasn’t exactly been kind to the “expert” class. Plus:
Such positive news flies in the face of this month’s Harvard Magazine cover story, which claims home schooling “violates children’s right to a meaningful education and their right to be protected from potential child abuse.”
It is rife with “racial segregation,” “female subservience” and, horror of horrors, “conservative Christian beliefs,” wrote Professor Elizabeth Bartholet of Harvard Law School.
Her timing couldn’t have been worse.
Like I said, this pandemic thing hasn’t exactly been kind to the “expert” class.
ACLU SUES TO OVERTURN DUE PROCESS PROTECTIONS FOR THE ACCUSED: Headlines I hoped I would never have to write, but feared I would.
IT ALREADY HAS: Get ready for ‘Obamagate’ to become ‘ObamaBidengate’: Goodwin.
2020 IS NOT MESSING ABOUT: Georgia officials warn of 4-foot-long invasive lizards that eat ‘anything they want.’
BEING THERE: Pretending Joe Biden Is Fine.
MAIL-IN VOTING AND BALLOT-HARVESTING ARE DEMS’ CURE FOR CORONAVIRUS: There it is on page 1,469 of Nancy Pelosi’s $3 trillion coronavirus relief proposal that will almost certainly pass the House on a straight-party line vote.
MADISON, WISCONSIN: “So, just like that, small religious groups lost their right to meet in person and must, at this late date, switch to teleconferencing. And that’s what you get when local government takes over. Why did they adopt everything else the State Department of Health Services had in its orders, but change that one thing? They rushed it out on the same day the court acted, but they had the time and motivation to go harder on religious groups? How did that happen?”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: The Atlantic welcomes us to “Shadowland:”
America owes its existence, at least in part, to conspiracy thinking. In the colonies, a theory was born that King George III was plotting the enslavement of all Americans. Even without evidence, this theory helped tip the scales toward revolution.
Yet conspiracism here and around the world has destroyed great institutions, eradicated knowledge, endangered democracy, and ended lives. Now—fueled by the internet, partisan media, and the 45th president of the United States—paranoid thinking is more powerful, and more dangerous, than ever, threatening not just individual facts, but the idea that empirical truth exists at all.
The rise of mainstream conspiracism is the result not just of bad information or bad politics or bad thinking, but of systems built to stoke paranoia and to profit from mistrust.
To be fair, that’s a topic the Atlantic’s editors know quite a bit about.
SURPRISED? STATES WITH MOST PUBLIC-EMPLOYEE UNIONS OVERWHELMINGLY DEMOCRATIC: No, me neither, but the Education Intelligence Agency’s Mike Antonucci’s spreadsheet makes it so totally clear.
“The states with the higher percentages of public-sector union members are overwhelmingly Democratic, and those with the lower percentages are overwhelmingly Republican,” Antonucci said. Just remember, correlation is not causation.
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POWERLINE: Tom Cotton has questions for Joe Biden. When will Slow Joe testify under oath in the Senate about what did he know and when did he know it? Pull quote from a Cotton tweet: “Biden is dishonest, senile, or both.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Welcome to COVID College — Corona bursts education’s business bubble.
Fortunately, Reynolds Online University has long touted the benefits of online learning!
NEVERTHELESS, Sidney Powell Persisted.
PAY ATTENTION: The press is now going to try to normalize unmaskings like they tried to normalize Oval Office blowjobs under Bill Clinton:
Related: CNN’s Jake Tapper Was a Willing #Obamagate Co-Conspirator.
UPDATE: Scott Adams:
SKYNET SMILES: Dogs Obey Commands Given by Social Robots.
TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE MOSTLY INTERESTED IN THE PROBLEMS OF WELL-OFF WHITE WOMEN: Women’s Magazines Will Cover #MeToo But Stay Silent About Female Sex Trafficking Victims. “Is this perhaps the reason why women’s publications like Cosmo and Refinery29 rarely cover stories about child sex abuse? Because digging deeper into the topic will uncover the uncomfortable truth of how women are just as capable as men of being the abuser?”