NEW YORK (AP) — Pressure continued to mount on NBC to cancel Donald Trump’s guest-host appearance on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” as a coalition of advocacy groups delivered petitions to the network Wednesday calling… Source: Protest against Trump hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ grows Hell, Ace beat me to this one, which I’d put into…
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Attacker identified as UC Merced freshman
Source: Attacker identified as UC Merced freshman | The Sacramento Bee So they’ve now identified the hairball who stabbed four people at UC Merced: The student has been identified as Faisal Mohammad, a freshman student from Santa Clara. Faisal Mohammed? Oh. Mohammed factor 50%. Color me stunned. And just for the record, I doubt very…
The science of biopolitics
Via the AoS Coblogger @JohnEkdahl we have this little bit from Ars Technica Oxytocin makes socializing more enjoyable. First let’s clear up a common misconception. This is Oxytocin, a naturally occurring hormone not to be confused with OxyContin, the name brand for oxycodone a narcotic. (Ars’s comparison to pot does not help this confusion.) Nevertheless,…
Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math
Source: Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math So 90+% of Detroit students are not proficient in math or reading? The hell you say. Cue the shopworn liberal bleat about needing more money. Yet Detroit spends $18,361 per student. That’s not enough? The average private school tuition in Michigan…
CNN Breaking News: TSA Utter Failure
Ok that’s not their headline. But to them this news is so breaking they used their fancy infographic at 8AM CT and haven’t even posted the story to their website yet. The gist of it is this: the GAO is going to report today that the TSA has largely been a waste of money that…
The Rights of “Transgenders” Trump The Rights Of All Others
In our increasingly Kafka-esque country, the right of a high school student who “identifies” as a girl to use the girl’s locker room in his high school is being supported by the Federal Department of Education. Ignoring the insanity of this support, I am embarrassed that I never thought of this scam as a way…
CNBC delivers a rabbit punch
College-level speaking not required at the GOP debates Trump is speaking at a fifth-grade level, according to an analysis of three GOP debates. And Cruz is the only candidate at a high school level. Source: College-level speaking not required at the GOP debates Here is a particularly illuminating insight into how liberal media bias works,…
Limbaugh: Republican Bipartisanship Has One Goal….The Destruction Of Conservatism
I happened to listen to Rush Limbaugh yesterday as he railed against the Republican party and specifically the leadership’s incomprehensible (to him) rush to the left. His rhetorical flourishes aside, he describes the situation accurately, but as I listened, I kept saying to myself (well, yelling it) “Where the fuck have you been?” Limbaugh is…
Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity
Vanderbilt’s Women’s Center tells men how to be men at ‘Healthy Masculinities Week.’ Source: Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity – The College Fix The Women’s Center tells men how to be men? Oh. Thanks for the tips, girls. Now we need some fraternity brothers to give the distaff side some tips…
Cycles of History
From Ace of Spades book thread this morning, where OregonMuse allowed: I thought the USSR was therefore here to stay, because nobody wanted to go that route. The future was pretty grim. And then one day in 1989, poof, it was gone. Just like that. Of course it wasn’t “just like that”, the USSR was…