Archive for 2016

IN THE HEART OF DIVERSITY CULTURE: “Such is the parochialism of a Manhattan childhood that it seems entirely plausible I simply never imagined that anyone I was fond of could be a Republican.”

UPDATE (From Ed): There’s a reason why Manhattan liberal turned conservative Harry Stein’s book published shortly after Obama was elected was titled I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican!

It’s the phrase an elite lefty bellowed the previous year when Stein punctured the tulip-mania level groupthink a dinner party in tawny Hastings-on-Hudson (Keith Olbermann’s childhood town!) by suggesting that perhaps Obama might be just a tad ill-suited and unprepared for the presidency.

ON THIS DAY IN 2003, THE HUGE NYC BLACKOUT BEGAN.

Here’s Amy Langfield’s blog tick-tock. Her advice about keeping a stash of small bills handy — because ATMs and credit-card readers don’t work when the power’s out — is good.

Some related items here.

And here’s an InstaPundit post from that night, featuring live on-the-scene reports from Insta-readers. Much more of a novelty in 2003 than today!

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Man harpooned in brawl over photo of women in burkinis in Corsica: Fracas between North Africans and local youths a day after French court upheld ban on swimsuits.

Hatchets and harpoons were thrown in a beach brawl that broke out after a tourist was seen taking pictures of women wearing burkinis in Corsica.

The fracas between a group described as North African ‘Muslim families’ and local youths broke out a day after a ban on the head-to-toe swimsuits was upheld by a judge in Cannes.

A tourist was seen taking pictures of women wearing the full-body swimwear on a creek near the village of Sisco on the French island.

When the bathers objected, a group of local teenagers are said to have come to the photographer’s defence.

Local reports said that the group of North African men armed themselves and took on the young Corsicans. One man was hit by a spear-like weapon and a pregnant women was taken to hospital with injuries.

Tension between local communities in France and Muslims of North African origin has grown since 85 people were massacred by a lorry driver in a jihadi-linked terror attack in Nice on July 14.

This is fine.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Here’s why time seems to go by more quickly as we get older. So is there a limit to how long a human life might seem, even if it were actually endless? So that adding an extra century or millennium would just approach that limit asymptotically?

BLACK LIVES MATTER MAY STILL GET TRUMP ELECTED:

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