BRING THE LAW DOWN ON THEM: ‘Free Gaza’: Anti-Israel Protesters Vandalize Los Angeles National Cemetery.
The stupid won’t stop till we do. And until we do, authorities are complicit in their malfeasance.
Archive for 2024
January 9, 2024
SO SHOULD WE ALL BE. CUT OFF THEIR PURSE: House Freedom Caucus Furious Over Johnson-Schumer Spending Deal.
Oh, I know. leaders on the right are still terrified of the press. Don’t be. The press is a paper tiger. Their fuel tanks are filled with water.
THEY’D BETTER LEARN TO SWIM, OR THEY’LL SINK LIKE A STONE: In Stunning About-Face, 9th Circuit Prohibits California from Banning Concealed Carry in Public Places.
For the times, they are achanging.
YEAH. THEIR POWER BUTTON IS BROKEN, AND THEY’RE GOING TO FIND OUT: Americans push back against government overreach with some real defiance.
They’ll own no one. And be unhappy.
BUREAUCRACIES MUST BE PRUNED TO THE BARE MINIMUM: Administrative Bureaucracy: Lessons from China.
NO ONE IS TAUGHT MATH ANYMORE: Economic illiteracy strikes again at the WSJ.
This leads to stolen elections, and very, very bad economic thinking.
IT’S JUST HOWLING AT THE MOON: Biden visit lets us know how his 2024 run will go.
YOU KNOW THE ONLY WAY THIS RESOLVES ITSELF IS WITH MIGRANTS FLOWING THE OTHER WAY LIKE REVERSE PERISTALSIS, AND THAT WHEN THAT HAPPENS IT’S GOING TO WRECK MEXICO: Mexico raises its price to Biden for halting the migrant flow.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer asshole.
NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE TO REBUILD, OR AT LEAST TO AVOID TOTALING THE COUNTRY: Before The Crash 1.
BEHOLD, MY OH SO VERY SHOCKED FACE: Prosecutor on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Team Shut Down FBI Investigation into the Clinton Foundation in 2016.
THE PROFESSOR (NOT THAT ONE) IS DESPONDENT: A Culture in Collapse.
While I agree with every sign of culture in collapse he mentions, I want to point out — and he’ll feel much better when he realizes that — that it’s not American culture. What’s collapsing is the culture of Marxists who have infested our institutions. To be fair, it’s been collapsing and making them crazy since the USSR fell. They have power of coercion and can make it seem like it’s America, but it’s not. America, by and large is all right. Our political class and intelligensia needs to collapse faster and stop displaying their pathologies to the world.
Butch it up, Mary. And class it up. Caligula had more dignity and gravitas even while screwing boys and raising his horse to Senator.
WE CONDOLE WITH PEOPLE WHO MUST ENDURE THE PRESENCE OF THIS GREASY LITTLE MAN: Fauci Appears Before Congress to Answer Questions on Mask Mandates, COVID-19 Origins.
Who will of course not answer any questions.
January 8, 2024
NOW OUT FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: The Attack.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Josh Barro: Universities Are Not on the Level.
What seems to be happening here is they are suffering from Chris Rufo Derangement Syndrome. That is, they know conservative activist Chris Rufo is a bad guy, and therefore the only way they can analyze a question on which he has opined is by assuming that the opposite of whatever he said was true. If Rufo says Gay plagiarized, then she must not have plagiarized, regardless of whatever near-duplicate paragraphs we can see with our own eyes. In addition to being a terrible approach to learning the truth, this mental model endows Rufo with tremendous power: If you have Rufo Derangement Syndrome, all Chris Rufo has to do to make you look like a total idiot is be right about something, once.
And so we got a lot of idiotic statements. Gay was merely guilty of “duplicative language,” the Harvard Corporation said, back when it was still defending her appointment. We were told that everybody does it: “Claudine Gay has resigned on the basis of a plagiarism charge that could have been leveled at anyone we know via the power of text mining applied without sound standards of how to assess the results,” wrote Jo Gludi, a history professor at Emory. (Really? Anyone we know?) Charles Blow even wrote in the New York Times that the expectation that the president of Harvard should not plagiarize (or should not be the subject of “questions about missing citations and quotation marks,” as he more verbosely described plagiarism) constitutes a “Wonder Woman problem” in which black women in positions of power “are trapped in prisons of others’ demands for perfection.”7
The demand that we should define academic honesty down in order to address the fact that Harvard’s first black female president is a plagiarist is insulting to academics of all races who don’t copy other people’s works, even the “banal” parts of them. And the insistence that this is how it always was, that actually this kind of copying is a standard industry practice, is just gaslighting. I went to college. I know that’s not true.
Related: Don’t F*** With Bill Ackman’s Wife.
You know that you struck a chord when they go after your wife, in this case my love and partner in life, @NeriOxman.
I am one of the most fortunate people in the universe in large part because of Neri.
Please see her post below about today’s Business Insider piece about her… https://t.co/SJb9iFsKJY
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 4, 2024
But that wasn’t enough. In Ackman’s view, the leftists have p***ed off the wrong guy. Following the above tweet, he went on offense. Could it possibly be that reporters at Business Insider, or others at MIT, might be living in glass houses? Well, yes, it could well be:
This experience has inspired me to save all news organizations from the trouble of doing plagiarism reviews.
We will begin with a review of the work of all current @MIT faculty members, President Kornbluth, other officers of the Corporation, and its board members for plagiarism.
We will be using MIT’s own plagiarism standards which can be found here:
https://integrity.mit.edu/handbook/what-plagiarism
We will share our findings in the public domain as they are completed in the spirit of transparency.
Faster, please.
UPDATE: “But Michael, senators and presidents don’t plagiarize on their way to getting elected!” “Now who’s being naive, Kay?”
I feel compelled to respond to the accusation that I am connected with the Italian mafia. I have never had any business, financial, or professional relationship with any member of any organized crime family, in the US or in Italy.
Does our family lore include a colorful cast of… pic.twitter.com/QdA56apmyd
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) January 8, 2024
Here’s the link to the Twitchy post: Christopher Rufo Suspected of Being a Foreign Agent or Having Ties to the Mafia.
(Updated and bumped.)
SUBSTANDARD WORK ON A BOEING? ONCE THAT WAS UNTHINKABLE. United Airlines found loose bolts, other issues on a key part of grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners.
United Airlines said Monday it found loose bolts and other “installation issues” on a part of some Boeing 737 Max 9 jets that were inspected after a mid-flight blowout on a similar Alaska Airlines jet on Friday.
The inspections are focused on plugs used to seal an area set aside for extra emergency doors that are not required on United and Alaska Max 9s.
“Since we began preliminary inspections on Saturday, we have found instances that appear to relate to installation issues in the door plug – for example, bolts that needed additional tightening,” Chicago-based United said.
Well, that inspires confidence. Plus:
The Boeing jetliner that suffered an inflight blowout over Oregon was not being used for flights to Hawaii after a warning light that could have indicated a pressurization problem lit up on three different flights.
Alaska Airlines decided to restrict the aircraft from long flights over water so the plane “could return very quickly to an airport” if the warning light reappeared, Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, said Sunday.
Homendy cautioned that the pressurization light might be unrelated to Friday’s incident in which a plug covering an unused exit door blew off the Boeing 737 Max 9 as it cruised about three miles (4.8 kilometers) over Oregon.
Hmm.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Bill Ackman’s war to make universities accountable has the left panicked.
OPEN THREAD: Well, here we are.
HOWARD STERN FINALLY GOT COVID, BACK TO LOCKDOWN:
To be clear, it wasn’t only Covid that turned Stern into a depressing sponge. It was also Donald Trump.
Stern spends hours a week on his radio show complaining about Trump, calling him a Nazi, and foreshadowing a bloody civil war between MAGAs and wokes.
“I am a woke motherfucker, and I love it,” Stern declared last month. “I support people who want to be transgender. I’m for the vaccine. I won’t get behind Trump.”
He is, admittedly, on Team Woke.
Today’s Howard Stern is what happens when years of fear and indignation take over an already neurotic figure.
He’s Stephen King with a microphone. He’s Keith Olbermann with a wife and slightly less severe case of psychosis. And he’s headed back to the basement.
“It’s time to go back down into lockdown,” said Stern. “I’m just emerging and now I’m going back into lockdown.”
No word yet if Stern will reemerge from his basement on the third day for his resurrection, ala then-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo:
Exit question: What Happened to Howard Stern?
SURELY YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS: How Airplane! Crashed onto Movie Screens in 1980.
My latest, over at EdDriscoll.com.
DENTISTRY IS OLDER THAN SUPPOSED: Scientists Studied 3,000 Viking Teeth And Discovered Surprisingly Advanced Dentistry.