DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: The MSM Continues To Cover Up Al Sharpton’s Racism, Homophobia, Misogyny, And Antisemitism.
Archive for 2020
June 9, 2020
MISTER, WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE FRANK RIZZO AGAIN: Scenes from Philadelphia’s Meltdown.
Related: New York and California Freed Thousands of Criminals and the Riots Began.
AND ALWAYS WILL BE: Every day use of AI for health diagnoses still years away.
TRUE. WHEN I LIVED IN DC, MY NEIGHBORHOOD WAS STILL SCARRED FROM THE 1968 RIOTS: A Few Days of Riots Can Echo for Many Years. And, of course, it was poor people who suffered.
Researchers in a 2004 National Bureau of Economic Research paper found that “riots depressed the median value of black-owned property between 1960 and 1970, with little or no rebound in the 1970s,” and “that the racial gap in the value of property widened in riot-afflicted cities during the 1970s….Using both city-level and household-level data, we find negative, persistent, and economically significant correlations between riot severity and black-owned property values.”
But the people promoting the riots aren’t the ones who suffer, and have their own agendas.
TRUMP SHOULD SELL IT AS DEFUNDIERUNG DER POLIZEI: Trump’s Plan to Pull U.S. Troops from Germany Irks Merkel Government and the Media.
MOVING ON TO BECOME GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, OR PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA? Bon Appetit Editor Resigns After ‘Brownface’ Photos Surface.
Related: Refinery29 Editor Resigns After Former Employees Describe ‘Toxic Culture.’
More: Cancel culture was propped up by the media. Now, they’re suffering the consequences.
IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN EVENTUALLY: Cadillac may have finally built a sedan that people will want to buy.
WOW: Dramatic details emerge in capture of Air Force sergeant accused of killing Santa Cruz sheriff’s deputy. “U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Steven Carrillo, who allegedly killed a Santa Cruz deputy and wounded two others with gunfire and improvised explosives in a weekend ambush in the Santa Cruz Mountains, was captured by a local resident who wrestled him to the ground and disarmed him of an AR-15, pipe bomb and pistol in a life-or-death confrontation, CBS San Francisco Bay Area reports.”
I guess that would be local resident Chuck Norris.
NONDISCRIMINATION? WHAT’S THAT? Kentucky governor plans to provide 100-percent healthcare coverage for black residents.
I wonder how all this black-pandering is playing with nonwhite minorities in Kentucky and elsewhere?
WOKE: “Defund the Police.”
Bespoke: Defund the BBC:
THE FLASH ACTOR HARTLEY SAWYER CANCELLED FOR BAD TWEETS FROM BEFORE HE WAS FAMOUS: “Hartley Sawyer sent some bad tweets before anybody had ever heard of him, and in the space of one day he’s irredeemably fallen. He mocked Al Sharpton, and now he must pay. Now his friends and colleagues have thrown him to the wolves, because they know if they don’t, they could be next.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): If they do, they could still be next. That’s how these things work. But a lot of people who live for the approval of their peers are learning just how sad and shallow their peers are.
ANSWERS TO THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: The 10 best performance cars of the 1980s.
I still kind of miss my IROC.
I CAN’T IMAGINE WHY: Wealthy buyers reportedly in ‘mad rush’ to leave San Francisco.
Related: Coronavirus sparks ‘insane’ evacuation from NYC, movers say, as residents head south. I have a couple of real-estate agent friends in Nashville who say they’re doing a booming business with relocating yankees. Come here if you want, but don’t vote for the same crap that ruined the places you’re moving from.
Somebody really needs to fund and start my Red-State Welcome Wagon idea soon.
HAWLEY CALLS FOR DOJ CIVIL RIGHTS PROBE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ABUSES: It may already be underway, but the Missouri Republican is urging Attorney General Bill Barr to move on it.
THEY DON’T WANT TO ABOLISH THE POLICE. THEY WANT TO REPLACE THEM WITH STATE-SANCTIONED MOB VIOLENCE: New Video Exposes the Armed Antifa ‘Militia’ Who Want to Abolish the Police.
SO ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT TO THE INTERIOR OF THE AVERAGE CAR PARKED IN FLORIDA IN SUMMERTIME: Exoplanets Exist That Are So Hot They Rain Titanium And Have Aluminium Oxide Clouds.
DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: Remember when Joe Biden gave a eulogy for Strom Thurmond?
NEUTRAL EXPERTS ONCE AGAIN TURN OUT TO BE NEITHER: Tribalism Comes for Pandemic Science.
Our polarized political culture has reflexively approached the pandemic as just another culture-war drama of this sort — demanding that we each prove our loyalty to our team and express exasperated outrage at the other. This has left us clinging to various strategies rooted in provisional hypotheses (about re-opening the economy, for instance, or enforcing lockdowns, or using hydroxychloroquine), insisting that evidence against our view does not exist, and unwilling to change our minds when new facts emerge.
Worse yet, the very communities of experts we rely on to assess provisional knowledge and provide us their best judgment have failed the test of professional restraint in key moments, giving in to political tribalism themselves. The latest example has involved the protests (and at times riots) that have broken out across the country after the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis. Their cause is just, and when they remain peaceful these protests are surely a force for good. But even acknowledging the evidence that outdoor transmission is uncommon with normal activities, there is simply no doubt that hundreds or thousands of people marching in close proximity and yelling increases the risk of spreading the virus. Yet after months of their supporting lockdowns, scolding those who violate social-distancing rules, and even demanding that some elections be postponed, we now find not only progressive political leaders but even public health experts downplaying the risks.
This politicized hypocrisy was especially evident in an open letter published by more than a thousand public-health academics and practitioners this week. As noted in an excellent piece by Conor Friedersdorf, the group simply asserted its willingness to put political considerations above professional obligations.
Our overall political/academic/managerial class is mostly garbage. Which is a problem.
