Inaugurated on schedule as expected, despite attempts to derail it with strange parliamentary tricks. I’ll be brief so we can all return to your lives as usual (and yes, we’ll all return to your lives as usual.) It seems to me, and I don’t want to give them any ideas, that the progressive left is…
Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics
https://twitter.com/Beer__Wolf/status/820989799574175744 I have an theory actually, but I suspect people won’t like it. It’s actually related to “And that’s how you got Trump!” Every time people point to crime problems you get that familiar refrain “Actually, crime rates are down.” And yes, this is factually true at a broad level, but not necessarily true for…
Et tu, Cleveland Clinic?
In the rush to the intellectual bottom, it’s painful to see once respectable Cleveland Clinic is racing to the bottom. Frankly this article doesn’t just border on screed, it is one. Phenomenally stupid, but needs a quick amount of picking apart in areas that are empirically wrong. We live in a toxic soup. There are over…
Ah…Fascism Rears Its Ugly Head…Again
The too cozy relationship between tech companies and the myriad law-enforcement arms of the US government is troubling. But when government pays employees in those tech companies to do what is essentially free-lance snooping, it is beyond the pale. The O.C. Weekly writes about United States of America v. Mark A. Rettenmaier. Rettenmaier is a…
Trigger Alert: Do You Know Someone Who Owns A Pickup Truck?
John Ekdahl asked a deceptively simple question of the nattering class on Twitter, and their collective head exploded. Based on the uniformity of the answers, they really do share a single brain….or maybe even just a single thought. And that thought is one that is immensely, profoundly, singlemindedly contemptuous of anything that smacks of Middle…
Happy New Year!
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!
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,…
Financial Regulation As A Template For Journalistic Transparency
(Reposted from Ace of Spades) Look at any financial or economic report from the research arm of an American investment bank and you will discover a bewildering array of disclosures, mandated by the Federal government as part of its never-ending drive to level the playing field of investing and – possibly more important to the…