We here at Cut,Jib.Newsletter (and I guess by “we” I mostly mean I) would like to wish you and yours a Happy New Year as we approach midnight in a matter of hours (depending on time zone.) My 2017 be slightly less interesting than 2016!
Author: tsrblke
Science “Journalism” Continues To Be A Mess
Headline: Many GMO studies have financial conflicts of interest. Opening Paragraph: Financial conflicts of interest were found in 40 percent of published research articles on the genetically modified crops, also known as GMO crops, French researchers said this week. OMG, it’s a science apocalypse. Now I’ve noted before, one should fully expect that companies will…
Lessons Are Never Learned By The Left
This may be axiomatic at this blog, but I think it bears repeating. Today’s lesson: Government provided income chains you to government. LinkedIn decided to put some dreck in my email agitating for a “Universal Basic Income.” (UBI) I tweeted about it, and someone with an autosearch function spit this back at me: Is that also…
Professor Watchlists Are Stupid, So Is The Response To Them By The Left
Hello 3 readers we have left since I’ve been forced to post sporadically. Via @PeetySDee and @Aggierican I have this…Uhh Screed against that “Professor Watch List” somebody started that I’ve only heard of because of the number of people complaining about it. (Seriously, I haven’t heard anyone actually promoting it, just people complaining.) Now for my part,…
President-Elect Trump
So…That happened. Sorry, busy couple of days aside for the election (still work on that dissertation, even though I fully expect the backlash from academia to basically keep me in exile for at least another 4 years even though I supported a giant space rock.) I will confess to being a bit cautiously optimistic here….
“Choose The Form Of Your Destroyer”
So it’s finally here, the end to this shitty ass cycle. Consider this the clip show version of a blog post to fill the day. Honestly, I have no predictions, other than I think Blunt holds his seat in my home state. Past that, this is like nothing I’ve seen in my short time on…
Progressive Virtue Signaling And Taxing “Sin”
So, let’s turn a bit local for a second. The MO constitution is insanely easy to amend (something I hope the MO Legislature will fix some day) effectively making it a “dumping ground” for whatever the idea du jour is. Enter Missouri Amendment 3, a tobacco tax of fairly epic proportions (considering MO’s low tobacco…
Who Put WHO In Charge Of Anything?
Gizmodo has a bizarre article up suggesting the World Health Organization (WHO) is about to change the definition of “infertility” such that it now includes single people. (Link to my twitter in case you don’t feel like giving Gizmodo clicks but want to see the headline.) Apparently WHO is not a fan of Gizmodo’s characterization…
Thoughts On @Avik’s Recent Altantic Interview.
Hi all! My writing will be light over the next few weeks/months as I triple down on my dissertation to try and wrap things up. Also, if you couldn’t tell I’m just sorta fed up with this political season and am mostly considering what comes next. In that vein I wanted to take a look at…
Blog War 2.0: What Is Culture?
So as you can see, Co-Blogger CBD wrote a big thing about boycotting the NFL and pleasure shaming and the like. I’m apparently whiny and delusional, but it’s OK, I’m a conservative academic, I’m used to having names thrown at me. I probably am both of those anyway. There are however, 2 points I think…