I find myself in the odd and distinctly uncomfortable position of defending Justin Bieber from SJW attacks, prompted by his “cultural appropriation” of dirty, unkempt hair….also known as dreadlocks. My experience with dreadlocks, and their stench, was mercifully brief….a matter of two weeks. I had to train someone as my replacement, and that required her…
NYT Shocked To Find Company Actively Promoting a Beneficial Viewpoint
Note: I started this post in September of 2015, but time prevented me from finishing it’s relevant again so I’m making updates and putting it out there now. So, the NYT did an expose about Monsanto’s work combating anti-GMO silliness by sending supportive academics out to give talks about their support of GMO. The times,…
Trump’s Supporters Mirroring Hillary Clinton
So…the Trump abortion fiasco. I don’t want to focus on Trump himself just yet, but rather his spinning minions. Just now (about 1:15 CT) on CNN one of his supporters/surrogates insisted that Trump was referring to what would happen if you made abortion illegal. Hillary Clinton with Anderson Cooper last night said “if you make…
So Donald…Let’s Say You Get The Nomination. What Will You Do If You Lose The General?
Donald Trump has spent his career inflating his successes and ignoring his failures, and that has worked rather well for him and his bankruptcy attorneys. Whether he really is the incredibly successful business man he claims is up to the forensic accountants, and I don’t much care either way. But Donald Trump claims that everything…
All Politics is Local: An Intelligence Agency, North St. Louis and Donald Trump
I haven’t blogged much about this because it seemed uninteresting to the national events, but there’s a brouhaha over relocating a federal agency in my town. Looking at it now, it’s a bit of a microcosm for what’s going on at a national level, namely why everyone hates politicans and Donald Trump is capitalizing on that….
“Donald Trump Is For Women, He’s The Only GOP Candidate That Supports PP”
You’re the GOP frontrunner you say? This is a more or less quote from a live CNN interview with Mary Kathrine Ham and a Trump surrogate. (Time 9:10ish CT. Please remember my editorial policy on live interviews.) She did try to qualify it by going on to try and distinguish between the “horrible” things and “good…
A Basic Flaw In The West’s Counter-Terrorism Efforts: Let Them Go To Syria; Just Don’t Let Them Back In!
I am truly puzzled that at least some of the counter-terrorism efforts in Europe and, presumably here in America is to prevent radicalized Muslims from going to Syria and Iraq and wherever else they want to go. Isn’t that exactly backwards? By allowing them to leave we immediately identify them as radicals, we can notify…
Why I Am Not A Trump Supporter
It is certainly not because he has confounded the Republican establishment at every turn! That amuses me to no end, and I hope that the precedent that he has set will continue until the Republican party has been purged of the professional political class that has done so much damage to our republic (no, I’m…
Prayers For Brussels.
A moment to send my prayers to Brussels. I can only hope it doesn’t get any worse. I’m sure we’ll endlessly hear about “outreach,” “not all Muslims,” and “tolerance” when what we really need to focus on is how the Paris attacker (who I’d place bets is involved) managed to elude authorities. There is no outreach…
The Media Needs To Stop Acting Like Cuba Is “quaint” By Choice
On @CNN now, 'The Wonder List'. It's a visit to Cuba to see it before tourism takes hold again. — Niedermeyer's Dead Horse (@NDH_j_m_f) March 21, 2016 I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed this. And I only saw one 3 minute clip from this show. NPR is even worse describing the pictures…