INSTITUTIONAL CRAZINESS: BBC yanking singer out of line-up for her TERF-iness kinda backfires.
Archive for 2023
September 13, 2023
BOB MCMANUS: Andrew Cuomo? Oh no! Ex-NY gov should not be the one to save us from Biden-Trump.
New York was saved from him. That should be enough.
HEY, NOBODY’S PERFECT: Member of group honored by LA Dodgers arrested for sex crime. “An active member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of predominantly gay men who openly mock Catholics, was arrested in California last month for indecent exposure after witnesses say he masturbated in public for an hour, according to a sheriff’s office report obtained by The Daily Wire.”
ARNOLD KLING: Distracting Ourselves to Death.
I FIGURED THIS OUT THE FIRST TIME I TOOK IT: A Decongestant in Cold Medicines Doesn’t Work at All, an F.D.A. Panel Says. When they replaced the pseudoephedrine in cold meds with this (to produce failures like “Sudafed PE”) out of meth hysteria, I could quickly tell that phenylephrine wasn’t nearly as good as pseudoephedrine. And it did such an ineffective job of limiting meth availability that I’m looking for the recipe to turn meth back into sudafed to avoid the third degree I get when I try to buy the real thing at the drug store . . . .
Related: This story about cold medicine is infuriating. “So instead of something that worked, we got sold something that didn’t.”
TOTALITARIAN HABITS COME NATURALLY TO HIGHER EDUCATION THESE DAYS: When Your Professor Disappears and No One Will Tell You Why. “Amarasekare, a tenured professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, would no longer be able to advise them, Johnson told the students. It soon became clear that they wouldn’t be able to communicate with her at all, even as they were putting the final touches on conference presentations and working through the kinds of complex mathematical equations and analyses she specialized in. Their adviser was strictly off limits, and no one would tell them why. . . . The next 14 months would become a blur of confusing email exchanges with administrators, copies of which the graduate students shared with The Chronicle, and failed attempts to figure out why Amarasekare had been erased from their academic lives. ‘In her capacity as your research adviser, Priyanga is not able to provide advising,’ Johnson reiterated in August 2022. The frustration, and the questions, escalated to the point over the past few weeks that the three graduate students decided to speak publicly. They’d waited more than a year to resume work with their adviser, but when July 1 came around, their emails to her were still bouncing and she hadn’t returned to campus. . . . The university has forbidden her from discussing the proceedings that led to sanctions against her, and she declined comment for this article.”
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: The big questions about AI have nothing to do with killer machines.
I believe that I’ve noted that in the past.
SPACE: Study highlights the young age of permanently shadowed lunar areas. It’s interesting that the permanently shadowed regions on Mercury may hold more ice than the Moon. I remember Larry Niven’s classic short story, “The Coldest Place,” set on Mercury. Niven is a smart guy, but Mercury turned out not to be tidally locked. But maybe he’ll turn out to be right in a sense, as the shadowed craters at the poll may fit the bill.
AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD: Democrats Scramble To Find Replacement For Retiring Mitt Romney.
I think David Kirkham should have that seat. Of course, he’s doing useful work, which probably disqualifies him from the Senate.
DON’T GIVE HER ANY IDEAS, BEE: New Mexico Governor Suspends First Amendment To Silence Criticism Over Suspending Second Amendment.
IT’S EXACTLY WHO YOU THINK IT IS (UNLESS IT ISN’T): Here’s Who PJ Media Is Supporting in the GOP Primary.
AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Ukraine strikes Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. “There has been a big news story this week about Elon Musk’s decision not to extend Starlink communications to an area which might allow Ukraine to sink Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. It turns out that story was originally misreported and major outlets have since made corrections. In any case, today Ukraine demonstrated that it is capable of striking the Black Sea Fleet. The attack reportedly did serious damage two naval vessels which were in dry dock for repairs including a Russian sub. . . . There was no way to hide this because the explosion was massive and was caught on video by lots of people.”
NOW OUT: Elon Musk. #CommissionEarned
INFLATION ISN’T AS BAD AS IT WAS, BUT SO LONG AS WASHINGTON KEEPS PRINTING AND BORROWING BY THE TRILLIONS, WE AREN’T OUT OF THE WOODS: Inflation Jumps in August As Warning Signs Blink Red at the Fed.
ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Meta’s Threads is temporarily blocking searches about Covid-19. “People will be able to search for keywords such as ‘COVID’ in future updates once we are confident in the quality of the results.”
All the results that fit the narrative, I’m sure.
Related: Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Twitter killer’ stalls after launch.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Experts Believe Aaron Rodgers Ankle Injury A Result Of Being Unvaccinated.
After the devastating reports came out that star New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers had suffered what is suspected to be a season-ending injury to his Achilles tendon, experts immediately expressed belief that the injury was a result of Rodgers being unvaccinated.
“Taking the vaccine would have likely prevented this,” said Dr. Arthur MacArthur, a sports physician who has never treated Rodgers. “Research that we just came up with a few moments ago indicates there is a new COVID-19 variant that specifically attacks tendons and ligaments, particularly in the ankle. So Aaron Rodgers, due to his unvaccinated state, clearly came down with a sudden case of what we are referring to, as of right now, ‘COVID ankle.'”
On the flip side, now we know the limits of the benefits of an Ayahuasca retreat.
JUST ANOTHER TOOL FOR SKYNET TO MANIPULATE US: Humans can feel empathic embarrassment towards robots.