GRIFTERS UNDER PRESSURE: Maher To Schmidt: “Where Did The Other Money Go?”
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February 13, 2021
INTERESTING BOOK ON ANTI-AGING: I am reading David Sinclair’s book Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don’t Have To and am finding the suggestions he makes to live longer very helpful. The book is a bit technical but his tips seem to boil down to taking NAD boosters in the morning along with Resveratrol, Vitamin D, K and 83 mg. of aspirin. He also skips a meal a day or has a very small one, lifts weights and jogs a bit and goes in a sauna at the gym before dunking into a cold pool. I guess one could live longer with this regimen (perhaps) but being cold and hungry doesn’t sound all that fun. If you have tried some of these techniques, have they worked for you?
DEMOCRATIC IMPEACHMENT CHAOS: Schumer blindsided by Democrat impeachment managers: He didn’t want to call witnesses in the trial.
UPDATE: From a friend.
TRUMP ACQUITTED, AND THE LINCOLN PROJECT IMPLODING ON THE SAME WEEKEND. Seems like an inflection point.
THE NEW YORK TIMES HAS BEEN AFTER SLATESTARCODEX FOR A WHILE:
But if you strike him down, he will only become more powerful than you can imagine.
Plus, a Fisking of the NYT article. “This seems like a weirdly brazen type of falsehood for a major newspaper.” Only if you haven’t been reading them lately.
Plus: “The journalist involved hasn’t known about Slate Star Codex for three years, so this is undoubtedly the version he read, and he still chose to make this attack. I have 1,557 other posts worth of material he could have used, and the sentence he chose to go with was the one that was crossed out and included a plea for people to stop taking it out of context.”
Also: “I don’t want to accuse the New York Times of lying about me, exactly, but if they were truthful, it was in the same way as that famous movie review which describes the Wizard of Oz as: ‘Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.'”
MORE: You are writing about one of the most prolific and talented writers of our generation. How the hell do you not actually quote them? It’s kinda obvious, really.
OPEN THREAD: Saturday night’s alright for commenting.
IS THERE AN ANALOGY TO COLLEGE CAMPUSES? A Peculiar Side Effect of Prozac: Fish Swimming in Our Waste Lose Their Individuality.
RICHARD FERNANDEZ: ACQUITTED:
Up next: the battle to define conservative politics as Biden faces a new world. . . .
The ancien regime needed a Blue Tsunami to effect a restoration. But they achieved a mild and perhaps doubtful electoral surf despite a maximum effort. The impeachment was a second chance at pursuit. Its failure means the populists will be back.
Trump and the Democratic leader’s age means a new cast of characters will be coming on for Season 2. The Blue failure to smash the populists means people are now refiguring the odds. Expect new political startups.
The reason why threats to go after Trump in court are pointless is because the Biden administration, like every incumbent, will soon be on the political defensive. New challenges are going to put Biden between the hard rock of the left and even more obdurate reality.
Hang on: It’s going to be fun.
NEWS YOU CAN USE THIS WEEKEND: N.C. station airs viewer’s gravy and sweet tea advice for driving in the snow:
NO, MR. RASKIN, WE DIDN’T GIVE YOU OUR SOVEREIGN POWERS: James Bovard, writing for the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), points to something Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said during one of his numerous Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump:
“In his final pitch to senators on Thursday, Raskin included the usual hackneyed references to Abraham Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence. Then Raskin recited the first ‘We the People’ sentence of the preamble of the Constitution and declared: ‘You see what just happened? The sovereign power of the people … flowed right into Congress.’”
Maybe Raskin missed class that day at Harvard Law when the concepts of sovereignty and public servant were covered.
JONATHAN TURLEY: Did The Democrats “Tank” The Second Trump Trial?
IS IT IN COFFEE, TOO? Green tea compound aids tumor-suppressing, DNA-repairing protein.
TRUMP 2, IMPEACHMENT 0. The Democrats have converted impeachment from a measure of “high crimes and misdemeanors” to simply an indicator that the House of Representatives is controlled by the opposition party. Once again, people claiming to stand up in favor of institutions and traditions against Donald Trump have actually wrecked those institutions and traditions out of pique. This has done lasting damage to the Republic, and they don’t care. They never care.
As I told my twentysomething Con Law students, they have now lived through 75% of America’s presidential impeachments. Of course, if they were one year old, they would still have lived through 50%.
That’s not normal, and the source of the abnormality isn’t Trump.
UPDATE:
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: BEFORE INCITING RIOTS, KAMALA HARRIS JOKED ABOUT KILLING TRUMP, PENCE.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why You Should Practice Drawing From Concealment.
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Yes, There’s a Safe Way to Have a Cannibalism Fetish. The Armie Hammer Story’s Not It.
QUESTION ASKED: What Happened to Officer Brian Sicknick?
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How much chocolate would you have to eat for it to kill you?