Nevertheless, Melissa Click will try and the media apparently will be giving her their best helping hand. Consider this article in the “Columbia Missourian” I had much to say about it over on the twitters. And it appears I upset an editor/Mizzou Faculty member: @tsrblke This doesn't even make any sense. FYI. — reedkath (@reedkath) February…
Month: February 2016
The Nomination Must Go To Ted Cruz
I will stipulate that Trump’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for president has been entertaining. And his thumb in the eye of the mainstream media and the Republican Party apparatus has been a delightful thing to watch. He has shifted the discussion about immigration and our borders in ways that I would not have dreamed…
“I Dissent.”
Before I get to the meat of my thoughts, let me just note with a profound sense of loss the sudden passing of Justice Antonin Scalia. Considering he was 79 years old, I suppose the word “sudden” might not be quite accurate from the standpoint of biological longevity. But in the battle for the life of the…
Women Take Longer To Pay Off Student Loans: Apparently This Is Evidence Of…Something
In a blindingly stupid (and ignorant of basic economics) article titled Student Debt Makes College More Expensive for Women a Bloomberg Business reporter breathlessly reports that “Student debt haunts women for years longer than it stays with men…” Conspicuously lacking in this fact-free missive is any actual thought or explanation other than — and you…
Not So Bold Predictions 2: New Hampshire Boogaloo
Continuing a series, at least through New Hampshire. FWIW, I wrote these up last night for my brother’s pick ’em. You can find him on twitter @naterub and ask him if they were in last night 😛 1. Trump 24% 2. Rubio 19% 3. Cruz 15% 4. Kasich 12% 5. Bush 7% … 6. Christie…
Curiouser and Curiouser…
Hillary Clinton is currently running away at top speed from her speaking engagement history. At the CNN town hall she got a softball question about it that she couldn’t even answer. Why she figured “that’s what they offered!” was a reasonable answer is beyond me. What I find most interesting is she has an easy…
Food Talk: Let’s Get Ready for the [Redacted, CEASE AND DESIST, signed the NFL]
Eh, OK, so I’ll have to do this post without any trademarked terms. Time to break out the tricks from my state lotto’s marketing team (they actually ran a commercial using these trademark dodging tricks!) If you live under a rock you’ll be surprised to find out that tomorrow is the “SUPER[crowd cheering drowns out…
An Open Apology to @JonHaidt
The context is more or less here: https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/695619211159343104 You can click on the tweet to see what I had said exactly, but it boiled down to calling him “Anti-republican at best, Anti-conservative at worst.” So what went wrong with my thinking? I was reading this article and came across the following exchange: JONATHAN HAIDT: No,…
Miami-Dade Cops, And Their Union, Out Of Control? Say It Ain’t So!
The president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police Union, Javier Ortiz, has released identifying information about the woman who had the temerity to follow one of his union members because he was driving like an idiot, and then had the gall to criticize him for breaking the law! What’s next Javier? Are you going…
Bernie Sanders Isn’t Barack Obama, But It May Not Matter
Alternate Headline: “It’s 2008 all over again” and not just because Hillary Clinton is losing to someone who, by all sane theories, shouldn’t be winning. Some time back I wrote about Sanders’ Candidate appeal. I stand by most everything I’ve written there. (typos and all damn it!) I would however like to add an appendix to what I…