CHANGE: Is An MBA Worth It? After Covid-19, Absolutely Not. “Covid-19 has shone a glaring spotlight on just how archaic this type of education is. Almost overnight, business plans have been torn up, the rules we’ve played by scrapped. Executives can’t lean on the tactics they learned from outdated case studies—all of us are learning about our new world in real time.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Concordia Is Sixth Law School To Close Since 2017.

I WASN’T ACTUALLY EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM, BUT COOL: Report: Massive Explosion in Tehran, Blackout in Shiraz. “A gas tank explosion rocked Tehran overnight near a military complex that had come under scrutiny five years ago from the UN nuclear watchdog, Iran’s defence ministry said Friday.”

LET’S GET RID OF EVERYTHING THAT DISADVANTAGES DEMOCRATS :  Now that we’ve decided to open up the prisons and jails, eliminate fines and fees, and send the police packing, the issue of the excessive number of  “collateral consequences” for felony convictions is becoming a popular topic again.

Last year, the Commission on Civil Rights released a report calling for fewer such consequences.  My Commission colleague Peter Kirsanow and I filed a Statement that was somewhat sympathetic toward that goal.  We did worry that our colleagues were getting a bit carried away.

The most troubling thing about the Commission’s report was its over-emphasis of voting rights.  The report lamented that collateral consequences (e.g. laws that exclude convicted felons from certain jobs or benefits) make it difficult for ex-convicts to re-integrate into the economy.  But the only collateral consequence that it treated at length and indeed waxed poetic on–the denial of the right to vote–is also one that has nothing to do with re-integrating into the economy.  Funny thing that.

DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE: Spyware hidden in Chinese tax software was probably planted by a nation-state, say experts. “The malware’s sophistication, and the lack of an obvious quick payoff, seems to show it was planted by a nation-state, says cybersecurity firm Trustwave.”

Earlier this year, a multinational technology vendor doing business in China was instructed by its Chinese bank to install software to pay local taxes.

The tax software was legitimate, but embedded inside it was a nasty surprise, according to a new report by a private security firm: A sophisticated piece of malware that gave attackers complete access to the company’s network.

The firm, Trustwave, has dubbed the malicious software “GoldenSpy,” and is warning others in a report released Thursday to search their networks for it.

It’s the latest example of how companies and individuals should take special care when operating in China, said Brian Hussey, a former FBI cyber specialist and Trustwave’s vice president for threat detection and response.

Once again, the headline refers to the Communist People’s Republic China on the mainland, and not the well-run Republic of China on Taiwan.

RADIO K.A.O.S.: Roger Waters Apologizes for Accusing Adelson of Being ‘Puppet Master’ Behind Trump Admin.

“During the Interview, in expressing my total solidarity with and support for the Palestinian people, when referring to Sheldon Adelson’s support for the racist policies of both Trump and Netanyahu, I used words that evoked metaphorical imagery which, my friends said, were ‘harmful to Jewish people and to the movement for Palestinian rights’ — and for this, I’m very sorry,” Water said. “At the time, I had no idea that I was evoking an anti-Semitic trope. I regret any harm or hurt my use of words caused Jewish people, and also any ways it may have reinforced damaging lies about Jews. Nothing could have been further from my intentions. I have only respect and compassion for my Jewish brothers and sisters in our collective struggle for a more just and peaceful world.”

Funny how this keeps happening to Waters.

Flashback: Wish You Weren’t Here: Roger Waters’ Jewish Problem Catches Eye of Award-Winning Filmmaker.

FLASHBACK, JUNE 26, 2016: Clinton Opens 12-Point Lead on Trump as Two-Thirds See Him as Biased.

YOU DON’T SAY: Facebook executive admits to “trust deficit” on call with advertisers.

FROM AMY GIBBONS:  Scorpions of the Deep.

As below, so above…

Sarah Blakely has lost the love of her life. With her world disintegrating under her feet, she abandons her post-college plans and moves back home. She’s trying to find her new direction when tragedy strikes.

On a hot summer night, one of her friends goes berserk and attacks, trying to take off with Sarah. No reason, no rhyme, just a man that took something and lost his mind, at least according to the police.

Sarah’s friend Beau isn’t so sure. The explanation that their friend snapped while on a bad trip doesn’t make sense. The whole thing feels wrong, and Beau thinks something more is going on, something beyond what most humans see.

Sarah doesn’t believe in anything more, though sometimes, she wishes she did.

But there are more things on Hell and Earth than are dreamt of in her philosophy. Dark things that feast on your emotions and use them to burrow in under your skin.

And one of those dark things has set its sights on Sarah.

EVEN SNOPES CAN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO WRITE THIS OFF: Did Joe Biden Say He Didn’t Want His Kids Growing Up in a ‘Racial Jungle’?

In early March 2020, readers asked Snopes to verify a quote in 1977 in which Biden, then a U.S. senator representing Delaware, allegedly expressed fear that desegregation, if not done in an “orderly” way, could result in his children growing up in “a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point.”

The quote was initially uncovered by Daria Roithmayr, a law professor at the University of Southern California (USC), in July 2019. But as Biden emerged from Super Tuesday on March 3, 2020, as a potential front-runner for the nomination, news stories containing the quote circulated anew.

Among stories readers widely shared was a July 15, 2019, Business Insider story that reported, “Former Vice President Joe Biden is facing increased scrutiny over his record on busing and racial issues, and this week old comments resurfaced in which he said, in 1977, that busing for the purpose of desegregation would cause his children to ‘grow up in a racial jungle.

The quote is accurate as reported.

Plus:

Biden made the remark in 1977 during a hearing about busing school children in order to desegregate public schools. As The New York Times reported in a detailed delineation of Biden’s history with busing, Biden at the time had emerged as the Democratic party’s crusader against busing, taking the same side as segregationists. Biden “joined up with Jesse Helms, the segregationist senator from North Carolina, to offer his own anti-busing amendment to that year’s education spending bill.” Biden’s “advocacy made it safe for other Democrats to oppose busing,” The Times reported.

The Times further reported that Biden sided with Helms in 1975 when the latter proposed to strip the federal government’s power to withhold funding from school districts that refused to comply with racial-equality measures.

More at the link.

TO BE HONEST, I KIND OF LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT: Santa Cruz ends beach closure because ‘people are not willing to be governed anymore.’

Given the sorry-ass track record of those who aspire to govern us, why should we be?

HEH: According to Ted Cruz, Attorney General Bill Barr Is the Honey Badger.

HEH: “I can’t read Left-wing twaddle. It reminds me that the Right sometimes has a valid point, and that upsets my world-view.”

OF ALL THE THEATER OUR POLITY ENGAGES IN, MASKS JUST MIGHT BE THE MOST ANNOYING:  To Mask or Not To Mask.

Second only to “appeal to experts” of course.

THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE JACKPOT:  Weird: Out of Nowhere, Something Just Rocked Earth’s Magnetic Field.

DUH:  Facebook Moderators Allowed ‘Hate Speech’ Against Whites, Lumped Trump Supporters With Nazis, Insiders Reveal.

THIS IS IMPORTANT:  US Will No Longer Be Passive Toward China, White House Adviser Says.

LOOK, GO IN THE BACKYARD AND BURN SOME TIRES. DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN AND THE CLIMATE. DO YOU WANT YOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN TO FREEZE TO DEATH SOMEDAY?  Climate Explainer: “If humans had not contributed to greenhouses gases in any way at all, what would the global temperature be today…”

IT’S NOW TIME TO CANCEL YAHOO NEWS:  Yahoo “News:” Yes, It’s Now Time to Cancel the Star Spangled Banner.

AND AGAIN, THIS IS WHY THINGS ARE BURNING AND AMERICANS ARE BEING DRIVEN INSANE:  Obama and his Gang of Untouchables.

WHO, IT SHOULD BE ADDED, ARE TRYING FOR CARGO CULT REVOLUTION.  “WE SHOUT THINGS, SET STUFF ON FIRE AND TOPPLE STATUES, REVOLUTION.”:  This is not the French Revolution; it is the acting out of spoiled, ignorant and ungrateful thugs.

AND THIS IS WHY THEY’VE UNLEASHED THE WOKE KIDDIES TO TOPPLE STATUES. IT’S BETTER THAN PEOPLE BECOMING AWARE OF THE DEEP CORRUPTION OF OBAMAGATE, RIGHT?  Obama and Biden were up to their necks in the Flynn persecution.

TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE ENEMIES OF ALL AMERICANS. THEY ARE UNDISGUISED MARXISTS:  The Black Lives Matter Movement is the Enemy of African-Americans.