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Archive for 2020
May 12, 2020
AT AMAZON, Suncloud Sentry Polarized Sunglasses.
VIDEO: No, Gov. Cuomo, It Isn’t A European Virus. “The Left Is Gearing Up For A Criticism-Of-China-Is-Racist Campaign.”
Useful idiot? Fellow traveler? On the take?
You make the call!
WELL, TO BE HONEST, LIFE WAS PRETTY BORING DURING THE NEOLITHIC: Why Our Ancestors Drilled Holes in Each Other’s Skulls.
HIS EMPLOYEES COULD SAVE A BUNDLE, TOO: Elon Musk could save billions in taxes if Tesla moves its headquarters to Nevada or Texas.
THAT’S PRETTY MUCH ANYWHERE YOU GO: Democrats to Austin Businesses: Drop Dead!
Or as America’s Newspaper of Record noted at the beginning of the month: Governor Unveils Innovative 37-Step Plan To Reopen State Over The Next 10 Years.
I HATE YOUR HATING HATE, HATER: Canadian ‘Anti-Hate’ Activists Get Real Estate Agent Fired for Daring to Criticize ‘Allahu Akbar.’
CALIFORNIA PROTESTOR SAYS ‘ALL JOBS ARE ESSENTIAL:’ So much common sense, so little honest media coverage. But then there’s The Epoch Times, which gave the protestors their turn. Am I biased? You bet I am, in favor of real journalism.
SHOT: Elon Musk Dares California to Arrest Him for Re-Starting His Tesla Plant. Who’s With Him?
That answers that.
HOW COLLEGES GET RID OF CONSERVATIVE ADMINS: Honestly, you’d think they would make sure they could keep a few token right-leaning folks around, for appearance’s sake. That’s just good politics!
IT’S COME TO THIS: Bryan Adams Faces Backlash After Blaming His Canceled Shows on People Who Eat Bats.
UPDATE:He always was more muzak than rock: Bryan Adams apologizes for COVID-19 Instagram post that was condemned as racist, inflammatory.
NO, ABSENTEE BALLOTS AREN’T THE SAME THING AS VOTE-BY-MAIL: There are huge differences, as a group of House Republicans, led by Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois of the House Committee on Administration, explains.
ENDORSED: Require administration layoffs before colleges get any more higher ed bailouts: scholars. “Colleges and universities should be required to cut administrative bloat by 50 percent or more before they are entitled to receive any more bailout money from the feds, argues a right-leaning group of scholars. That’s one of several suggestions spelled out by the National Association of Scholars — a nonprofit working to reform higher education — in its newly released Critical Care report.”
ELON MUSK’S THREAT TO LEAVE IS A SYMPTOM OF CALIFORNIA’S DISEASE — AND, NO, IT ISN’T COVID-19.
Related: As a wise community organizer likes to say, get in their faces, and punch back twice as hard:
CAN ATHEISTS DO GOOD? Of course they can, but that question leads down a rabbit hole. At least according to this from philosopher William Lane Craig’s video shop. Better question: If atheists are right about God, what can be objectively good?
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): On that last question, read Arthur Allen Leff’s classic, Memorandum from the Devil. “I am something of a connoisseur of these attempts by scholarly humans to find and describe some meaning in their personal and species existence, and when nonironic divine address comes out of Langdell Hall these days, attention must be paid.”
MANY OF THEIR METRICS, LIKE BAR PASSAGE RATES, ARE GOING TO BE HOPELESSLY DISTORTED: Businessweek Suspends MBA Rankings Due To COVID-19; Will US News Follow Suit? What About Law School Rankings?
I BET IT BECOMES A NET GAIN AS TECH GLITCHES AND HURDLES GET IRONED OUT: Working from home: Average productivity loss of remote work is 1%. “A report from research firm Valoir found that the abrupt move to working from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has had only had a 1 percent reduction on work productivity. And more than 40 percent of workers would prefer to work remotely full time in the future.”
YES, GOVERNMENT MADE THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS WORSE: Christopher Jacobs of The Federalist counts the many ways.