The Other McCain sometimes points and laughs.

You may not remember “Hard Times for Gender Studies Major,” a post last August featuring the lament of @Andria_XX, who had an “Honors BA in Social Justice and Peace Studies” and was pursuing a Master’s degree in Gender Studies:

“I have a honors BA and I’m defending my MA thesis in two weeks. I am also apply[ing] for jobs and I can only find stuff in the service industry. I applied for a Hotel Front Desk Clerk job today. My degrees mean NOTHING. I am at the end of my rope.”

That was absolutely one of the most popular posts in the six-year history of the blog. Her advanced degrees in trendy “studies” are worthless? Gosh, maybe she should have asked somebody.

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On April 26 Erika Soto Lamb–spokeswoman for Michael Bloomberg’s new “Everytown for Gun Safety” gun control group–defended her leadership’s use of armed security guards by claiming pro-gun Americans threatened their lives and it was the same kind of security pro-gun advocates want for themselves.

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You really don’t want to get on the wrong side of those pregnant football players….

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As if parents with school-age children don’t have enough to worry about already, what with whether or not their children are eating enough vegetables from the red-orange subgroups, or ensuring that they participate in as little physical activity as possible, now we have a scourge Planet Moron has been following for some time:

Imaginary weapons.

Some might dismiss the threat posed by imaginary weapons, however they’re not taking fully into account the many pretend deaths that could result if schools didn’t act quickly and decisively to neutralize the non-existent threat.

Take for example, the boy caught red-handed with an imaginary bow and arrow.

Look, you could put out a make-believe eye with that thing.

The essential guide.

When it comes to boyfriends, there’s a fine line between endearing quirks and severe personality disorders. Is he a pedophile or is he simply good with kids? How to Tell If Your Boyfriend Is the Antichrist teaches women to identify the warning signs associated with a spectrum of Mr. Wrongs….

Mark Steyn looks at Canadian culture.

On the radio, the CRTC requires you to play a certain amount of Canadian music – you get points according to whether your record has a Canadian performer, a Canadian producer, a Canadian composer, a Canadian lyricist. This is to strengthen and support Canadian culture. I had no idea a similar system applies to Canadian pornography, but ’tis so….

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The Dating Ring, a Y Combinator-incubated, group matchmaking startup that recently expanded from New York to San Francisco, is running a Crowdtilt campaign with the stated goal of flying women from NYC to SF. Here’s how the campaign page explains it:

    There are tons more single women in NYC, and tons more single men in SF. And, see, the two cities are only separated by a bunch of crappy airports, flight delays, and cheap roundtrip flights.

    So, we started joking about doing some cross country matchmaking. And you know what they say – make a joke 12 times and it becomes a Crowdtilt. So, America, let’s make this happen.

Mother Jones lives up (down?) to its fine, fine reputation.

Global warming isn’t just going to melt the Arctic and flood our cities—it’s also going to make Americans more likely to kill each other.

That’s the conclusion of a controversial new study that uses historic crime and temperature data to show that hotter weather leads to more murders, more rapes, more robberies, more assaults, and more property crimes.

“Looking at the past, we see a strong relationship between temperature and crime,” says study author Matthew Ranson, an economist with the policy consulting firm Abt Associates. “We think that is likely to continue in the future.”

Just how much more crime can we expect? Using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s warming projections, Ranson calculated that from 2010 to 2099, climate change will “cause” an additional “22,000 murders, 180,000 cases of rape, 1.2 million aggravated assaults, 2.3 million simple assaults, 260,000 robberies, 1.3 million burglaries, 2.2 million cases of larceny, and 580,000 cases of vehicle theft” in the United States.

This is the sort of pseudo-science that our ‘progressive’ ruling class swallows without a tremor.

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I am not making this up.

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So many gang members have been priced out of the neighborhood, he said, that their presence can be hard to spot during the week. But on Fridays and Saturdays, they make a pilgrimage back to their roots. They ride in from El Sereno, Eagle Rock, even the Inland Empire, to hang out. Each Monday, trash cans and stop signs wear fresh “ExP” graffiti.

“It becomes a weekend gang,” Arellano said.

Steve Sailer has a little fun with the pod people.

A few years ago, I came up with the idea for a sitcom called Korean Mother-in-Law, about a nice Stuff White People Like white guy (picture Joaquin Phoenix in Her) who has to live with his (wait for it) Korean mother-in-law, who regularly punctures his liberal American delusions with her bleak, Malthusian cackling.

Chua, however, more or less beat me to this shtick with Tiger Mother.

But it’s probably just as well, since Korean Mother-in-Law would have been the lowest rated show ever, judging by how only Charles Murray and I noticed that Tiger Mother was awfully funny. Most of the press, which is heavily driven by the primal resentments of Jewish women writers and editors, was outraged by Chua’s act. First, she steals our husbands, and then she steals our children’s spots at Harvard!

Steve Sailer never seems to lack for material.

 To prevent white people from robbing blacks, the only kind of popular music white people should be allowed to create is square dance calling. By the way, as Malcolm McClaren unkindly pointed out 31 years ago in “Buffalo Gals,” hip-hop was Stolen from the great white art form of square dance calling….

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I’m lovin’ it.

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This year’s meeting, beginning on December 9th and concluding on Friday, included several exhibitions on space exploration, extreme weather events, and studies on the impact of various natural energy resource gathering techniques on the planet. It also included a panel on the Arctic and the dangers of a “sustained warming trend in the region,” as well as a panel dedicated to the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Hey, who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

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Name another country in which illegal immigrants can use the legal system to sue a state. Name one. I’ll wait.

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 Bumping fists has a negative bro-stigma, but it’s better than shaking hands—in that it transmits significantly fewer bacteria. At a time of global concern that our antibiotics are becoming obsolete, new research shows how fist bumping could save lives.

This is from The Atlantic, a Real National Magazine. They actually pay people to write about this stuff.

I regard someone holding a fist out at me as an unsolicited act of aggression, and reserve the right to respond accordingly.

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    Chantal Chagnon with the Idle No More movement, said they’re trying to get the attention of the energy industry and the Canadian Parliament to the growing global opposition to “pipelines, tar sands expansions and other polices that contribute to runaway climate change.”

“We’re seeing the effects of global warming and we can’t keep denying it because obviously something is happening,” Chagnon said.

Well, maybe not:

    Originally about 300 people were slated to participate in the Calgary protest, but due to a snow storm only about 50 showed up.

Funny how that works.

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Two quick-thinking men on Newfoundland’s northeast coast managed to save a Greenland shark from choking to death on a large piece of moose hide this past weekend.

They just had to help him out, eh.

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A few weeks ago the taxpayer-funded Thanks ObamaCare campaign released the “Brosurance” ads, which featured young men drinking beer, doing keg stands, and asking “Got Insurance?” The same organization has since released new ads, this time aimed at young woman. One features a young woman holding birth control pills while standing next to a young man.

Your tax dollars at work.

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The town is only 6 years old, designed to appeal to the Chinese middle class who hanker after a bit of British charm. Unfortunately, most bought their houses as second homes, and the place is a virtual ghost town.

So to speak.

Several week ago, Jessica Dever-Jakusz resigned her position as a police officer in Tempe, Arizona. A memo from the police chief confirming her resignation led to a public records request, which revealed that Dever-Jakusz had told an alleged drug dealer she was having sex with that she and two other females buying “Molly” (MDMA, mostly, kinda) from him were undercover cops investigating him. Cops found out what happened when the target of the investigation showed up at a police station to tell them.

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In a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction moment, the Navy has given a man bearing the name of the famed, fictional captain of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise real command of the USS Zumwalt, an advanced, $3 billion dollar, 610-foot destroyer equipped with advanced missiles and stealth technology.

His full name is James A. Kirk, but his nickname is “T,” a reference to Star Trek’s James T. Kirk, the character first played on television and the big screen by William Shatner, said Lt. Cmdr. Chris Servello, a Navy spokesman.

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Note that each of these is a distortion of a Protestant distortion of a Roman Catholic distortion of true Christian theology.

To call this person a Professor of Theology is like calling an astrologer an astrophycist.

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My insurance agent told me a week ago that I will be receiving notice that my insurance policy is not ACA compliant and will be discontinued. He told me my option is to start shopping for an Obamacare (ACA compliant) policy.

The policy is just on me. I am a 61 year old male with no health issues. I asked my agent, “Why is this policy not compliant with the ACA?”

Answer: “Your policy doesn’t include maternity care”.

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“In Austin today, our current leadership thinks promises are just something you make to the people who write big checks,” she said. “But the promise I’m talking about is bigger than that. It’s the promise of a better tomorrow for everyone. Texans deserves a leader who will protect this promise. Texas deserves a leader who will keep it.”

More abortions will make a better tomorrow for everyone? It certainly won’t make things better for the innocent babies who are murdered — I guess they don’t deserve any kind of tomorrow.

And promises to people who write big checks? The people writing big checks these days (George Soros? John Kerry? Pick a Kennedy, any Kennedy) are writing them to Democrats, if you really take a look around you.

Texas deserves a leader who will let people spend their own money rather than having it confiscated by the government and wasted. But that has never been the Democrat agenda.

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Eight-year-old Jordan Bennett was suspended from school in Florida after being accused of an “act of violence” for using his finger to make an imaginary gun during a game of cops and robbers.

According to Fox News, administrators at Harmony Community School in Harmony, FL, suspended  Bennett for a day; school district officials said their code of conduct “prohibits students from playing with invisible guns.”

‘You did a bad thing! Your punishment is that you get to go home and read comic books the rest of the day.’ Cool — sign me up.

Send your kid to a government school,
And he will turn out a fool —
That’s the way
Things work today;
Your tax bucks at work and play!

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According to the airport’s chief of operations, Melissa Osborn, out-of-town drivers have driven onto airport property twice in the past several weeks, crossing the runway and driving directly to the airport ramp side of the passenger terminal. “These folks drove past several signs. They even drove past a gate. None of that cued them that they did something inappropriate,” she said.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Consumer advocates and parents who accidentally backed over their children plan to sue the federal government, forcing it to issue a long-anticipated rule requiring automakers to help drivers see behind their vehicles.

“If it takes this kind of action, that is what we’re going to have to do,” said Greg Gulbransen, a New York pediatrician who accidentally backed over and killed his son, Cameron, in 2002, and is a plaintiff in the lawsuit expected to be filed Wednesday. “We’ve tried so hard for so long, and now we’re stuck.”

I’m curious as to why this guy isn’t in jail for negligent homicide.

Gulbransen marked what would have been Cameron’s 13th birthday this week. “Can’t we just get this thing passed, get this thing through?” he said. “There are so many children running around that are about to be backed over and killed by the parents because they can’t see them.”

There are times when the term ‘clueless’ is just totally inadequate.

Steve Sailer examines some inconvenient truth.

Well, since status in the ‘black community’ accrues to those who can pass the ‘brown bag and ruler test’, a lot of them are indistinguishable from, well, white people.

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Packing school lunches seems like one of the more mundane tasks we face as the school year rolls around. But it doesn’t have to be. In taking our position at the kitchen counter bright and early each morning, we can make a political statement, save the planet, and mark our progeny as the cool green kids, all with one simple container.

And GOD FORBID that our Politically Correct tool child should go to school without making a Statement….

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A group of Minnesota teachers say that discrimination is the reason their schools don’t have air conditioning.

Perhaps they didn’t understand the progressive memo on such units, deemed evil because they contribute to global warming.

Or perhaps they were themselves the product of government schools, with their well-known tendency to falter when inducing literacy in their victims.

There are many possibilities.

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New York’s attorney general sued Donald Trump for $40 million Saturday, saying the real estate mogul helped run a phony “Trump University” that promised to make students rich but instead steered them into expensive and mostly useless seminars, and even failed to deliver promised apprenticeships.

So how does that differ from, say, Harvard?

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Our ice router Victor has been very clear in what lies ahead. He writes, “Just to give you the danger of ice situation at the eastern Arctic, Eef Willems of “Tooluka” (NED) pulled out of the game and returning to Greenland. At many Eastern places of NWP locals have not seen this type ice conditions. Residents of Resolute say 20 years have not seen anything like. It’s, ice, ice and more ice. Larsen, Peel, Bellot, Regent and Barrow Strait are all choked. That is the only route to East. Already West Lancaster received -2C temperature expecting -7C on Tuesday with the snow.”

But there’s still a consensus!!

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And why not?

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Coming soon: Breaking Bad, Salon Edition.

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You might look at my Caucasian features and wonder why I am claiming to be an African American.  I may not be a natural descendent of African American lineage, but I feel black and have thus decided to identify as African American. Since I identify as African American, I am African American, and you must accept me as such. Because I claim my identity as an African American, I demand that the law recognize me as such and afford me all the rights and obligations of that ethnicity.

You may think that my decision to claim an African American identity is ridiculous. You would be right. Ethnicity is determined by ancestry and genetic lineage, not by someone’s identified perceptions and “feelings.” But it’s no more ridiculous than the latest craze from the left concerning something they call “gender identity.”

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 Practitioners of parkour, a daring pastime born in the streets, have long seen public spaces as their playground, and parkour as the ultimate rebel’s game, one with no rules, league, equipment or winners. It started in France (the name is derived from the French word for “course”) and has spread around the world: Gaza, Tokyo, Rome and Miami are parkour towns.

One thread binds them all: parkour takes place outdoors. Bringing it inside, purists argue, would be like asking swimmers to perfect the breaststroke on grass.

But now, parkour has grown up, traded the pavement for padding and turned into a big business.

Parkour gyms have opened across the country, from Los Angeles to Rochester, featuring juice bars, private classes and children’s birthday parties that cost $450 (cake not included). Specialized apparel companies sell tailored gloves for $34.50 and shoes for $60. An international organization offers special parkour insurance policies and charges $295 for teacher certification courses.

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A student at Logan College of Chiropractic/University Programs recently learned that her emergency Cesarean section didn’t qualify as a valid excuse for missing class.

But I’ll bet that pain in her lower back is much better.

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GSU is 38 percent white, 35 percent black, 12 percent Asian and 7 percent Latino.

Sharp hails from Birmingham, Alabama, and says that the White Student Union is happy to work with the Black Student Alliance on issues of common importance. “If we are already minorities on campus and are soon to be minorities in this country why wouldn’t we have the right to advocate for ourselves and have a club just like every other minority?” asked Sharp. “Why is it when a white person says he is proud to be white he’s shunned as a racist?

Because that’s the Narrative. Go against the Narrative and they’ll crush you like a bug.

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The obvious answer to that question is no.

The issue: Student loan debt.

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Although America’s arguably most liberal Protestant denomination and consequently likely fastest declining, the United Church of Christ is not very concerned about evangelism. Instead, the UCC, or at least its elites, is always searching for a new leftist cause to animate the true believers in progressive religion. At their recent General Synod, the distant descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers targeted the Devil’s great tool for subverting the planet: fossil fuels.

Oh, no! Fossil fuels!

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Some brief background is probably in order. See, apparently there’s something of a trend in Thailand for taking well-known cultural icons and changing their images just enough to represent history’s most dasterdly megalomaniac. As a result, you’ll get teletubbies with Hitler’s face on them, or a cute little panda with a toothbrush mustache and a glare that says, “Those bamboo stalks better not be Jewish.” And the latest victim of this Hitler-ization is of the KFC spokesman.

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With Hollywood involved, how could it be otherwise?

Matt Yglesias wonders why Superman is wasting his time by saving peoples lives instead of submitting to being used as a giant solar power cell, or something….

Yeah, I wonder that, too.

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Bill Ayers, the former University of Illinois professor and former member of the Weather Underground, has said that Obama should be put on trial for war crimes. However, Ayers insists that he still likes Obama on a personal level.

‘Ze Fuehrer was a better dancer than Churchill, he told funnier jokes….’

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What a great idea!

Hey, I ‘identify’ as a Congressman! Does that mean I can use their gym and barber shop?

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A new blog analyzing the first Star Wars movie (Episode IV) minute by agonizing minute.

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Chunks of prawn cracker are flying through the air, next comes an ominous crash. It’s not the best start, but this, I am told, is the latest innovation in food delivery – service by drone.

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… a Florida man named Scott Simon just happened to butt dial 911 at the very moment he was discussing plans to kill someone — plans he followed through on moments later. It did not take long for the police to put two and two together and arrest Simon — though, they’re still looking for others who were with him.

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Brussels-funded boffins say they have hit upon a brilliant method of creating “enriched” ice-cream, fortified with “disused” animal products which are normally thrown away by the meat industry as being unfit for human consumption.

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I am not making this up.

If you want to boycott rich liberals, however, that’s not an option — they own the government, and you can’t boycott the government.