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Teachers are, in essence, information workers. Like most information workers, they need to be entrepreneurial in order to get ahead. I’d rather have a kid taught by one of these go-getters than by some drone whose second job is as a Union organizer.

A Jayne Hat is a sure-fire puzzler for the uninitiated.

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When was the last time a Republican called for a boycott of a business because they gave money to Democrats?

I can’t think of one.

And don’t let them tell you any different.

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… a psychology handbook produced by the Australian Psychological Society recommends people suffering debilitating distress and helplessness about impending climate doom can recover their ability to function in society by becoming climate activists.

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One of the problem with having a hipster millennial culture at work is that eventually hipster millennial politics intrudes into business decisions. And then (I suspect) you die.

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Reihan Salam is one of National Review’s stable of Washington Generals, and this story illustrates their favorite modus operandi.

1. Proglodytes  come up with some stupid new way for government to give money to its dependent class.
2. Soi-disant ‘conservative’ writers latch onto it as an excuse to construct a ‘coherent alternative’, which is always a variant on ‘We can run this better than you’ instead of ‘No, we don’t need that at all’.
3. Said ‘constructive alternative’ is ignored by the Ruling Class, and Yet Another Government Entitlement is born, people being left with the impression that a Serious Discussion has been had, and ‘conservatives’ pat themselves on the back for having given it the Old College Try.

Nobody has the courage to say ‘It’s a fantasy. Wake up and pay for your own goddamned medical care.’

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In short, support for racial preferences is falling among Asian Americans, and this decline has been driven largely by plummeting support among Chinese Americans,,,,

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A reminder that the U.N. is a hotbed of Political Correctness, not free speech.

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Gotta love Australians.

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The current craze for surgically mutilating troubled high school girls (Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria) can be looked at another way: as a really slick exercise in negative eugenics.  Being nuts is fairly heritable: I have no doubt that many of these girls’ mothers were cutting themselves ( while listening to grunge)  back in the 90s. If you remove their ovaries, these girls aren’t going to have descendants: end of story.

Think of it as evolution in action.

You might think it would be difficult to induce parents to have their daughters spayed, but apparently you can convince bien-pensant liberals of absolutely anything, as long as it’s false.  Gotta keep up with the Jim Joneses.  They even pay for it!

It would be immoral for us to do it to them, but we’re not responsible if they do it to themselves.

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It’s now widely acknowledged that the Inuit subsistence diet is quite balanced. As biochemist and Arctic nutrition expert Harold Draper told Discover magazine, there are no essential foods, only essential nutrients. Vitamin A and D, so easily available from milk, vegetables, and sunlight, can also be obtained from oils within sea mammals (particularly livers) and fish. And fresh meats and fish, prepared raw, contain trace amounts of vitamin C, a fact that Stefansson was the first Westerner to realize. It only takes a little to prevent scurvy.

Something to bear in mind the next time you’re exploring the Arctic, which I’m sure almost all of you intend to do at some point.

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I’m sure that’s a great comfort.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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Let’s hear it for SCIENCE.

Feel the Bern….

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I’m skeptical of anything that comes with ‘officials advise’ attached.

Scott Adams has a theory: If Trump gets pushed out of office, then Hillary will go to jail.

UPDATE: Scott Adams: If Donald Trump Goes Down, Hillary Clinton Goes to Prison

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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As well they might.

The technical term for vegetarians is ‘prey’.

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Manitoba Hydro is a government established agency that controlled all energy production in the Province. Every Canadian Province has similar centralized energy controlling agencies. The one in the climate news currently is Ontario Hydro (now called Hydro One) that saw Maurice Strong become Chairman in 1992. He applied his ideas of a green agenda based on the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and almost bankrupted the Province.

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Actually, the headline could more accurately be phrased as ‘John McCain and [insert name of Republican President here]: No Love Lost’.

McCain and his fellow semi-Republicans Murkowsky, Snow, Collins, and Graham, would have been in the Good Old Days conservative Democrats; they only reason they’re in the Republican party is that they have no political future in the party of Bernie Sanders, Maxine Waters, and Chuck Schumer, whereas the ‘maverick’ schtick gives them a slim path of opportunity. But let’s not pretend that there is any actual principle involved.

The Other McCain chimes in here: Every Liberal’s Favorite Republican, and the Problem With ‘Bipartisan Reform’

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A Real Lawyer looks at the campaign-finance aspect of the Mueller investigation.

I have an idea for a legally protected class called Registered Antisocial, with an insignia of some sort like an armband or a lapel pin or a T-shirt.

For those who join the class, if anyone speaks to them (except for police or fireman or such like) without having been spoken to first, the class member is entitled to punch them in the face without legal liability.

Yeah, that’s the ticket.

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Two German students originally wrote the Historic Tale Construction Kit, with Flash. Sadly, their work isn’t available anymore, only remembered. This new application is a tribute, but also an attempt to revive the old medieval meme, with code and availability that won’t get lost.

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The dream of a centrally-planned community keeps rising from the dead, no matter how many times it fails.

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She makes a good case.

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The Senate was designed to represent the interests of the States as States, semi-sovereign political entities, from the Federal government. The Civil War decided, by force of arms, that the States had no rights against the Federal government, so the 17th Amendment was really only the last nail in the coffin. It was, of course, touted as a way of ‘correcting’ the ‘undemocratic’ provisions of the original Constitution. Any changes to the election of Senators or to the makeup of the Senate will, of course, be founded on the notion that States having equal representation in the Senate no matter their size or population is a violation of the ‘one man one vote’ rule now in force since the passage of the 14th Amendment.

John Hinderaker at Powerline (a Real Lawyer as most DemLegHump Media chatterers are not) lays it out.

As Paul said, the Manafort charges had nothing to do with Donald Trump, nothing to do with the 2016 election, and nothing to do with Russian participation in the 2016 election. So Bob Mueller could only have brought the case in order to put pressure on Manafort to come up with some “dirt” on Mueller’s target, President Trump. As far as we know, Manafort has no dirt to give.

Meanwhile, and almost simultaneously, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pled guilty to a series of offenses. Mostly, the counts relate to tax evasion. The only politically significant counts, as I understand it, relate to Cohen’s role in paying off Stephanie Clifford (“Stormy Daniels”) to keep quiet about her sexual encounter with Trump.

It is not illegal to pay someone to remain silent. The theory here is that the money paid to Clifford was an illegal campaign contribution. Since Cohen says he made the payment to Clifford at Trump’s direction, Mueller is trying to ensnare Trump in that “crime.” To my knowledge, there is no legal authority on whether paying a woman to keep her mouth shut constitutes a campaign contribution. It strikes me as a foolish interpretation of the law, and forcing Cohen to plead guilty to the “crime” of paying off Ms. Clifford doesn’t transform it into a crime.

That’s the bottom line. Of course, in these degenerate modern times, thin air can be whipped up into a ‘crime’ depending on how the political winds blow. We’ll have to see.

The Other McCain, like me, loves the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

No, that’s her real name. I know it sounds like a made-up name, but it’s her real name.

Ace of Spades picks a side.

But anyway, as to this supposedly-I-support-his-policies-but-I-hate-his-character posture: it is strange indeed that they spend so little time or effort or emotion talking up these conservative policies they allegedly support. I guess you’ll just have to take their perfunctory word about that.

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I’ve been close to despair of late as it appears, to me at least, that the divide on the right has widened considerably, nearly reaching the point of irreconcilable differences where both parties no longer talk to each other but instead face each other while talking mainly to themselves. For those who respect certain minds on both sides of the divide, the feeling is one of dismay at what is fast becoming the political equivalent of being caught between divorced parents who each insist that we take one side over the other notwithstanding the fact that they both screwed up.

The problem with people who describe themselves as ‘conservatives’ is that they can never define what being ‘a conservative’ is that would satisfy somebody else who ‘self-identifies’ as ‘a conservative’. I am confident that it’s because there is no such thing as ‘conservatism’ and hence no such thing as ‘a conservative’. In order to be a Real Ism, an ideology has to have some sort of target state toward which it strives, and soi-disant conservatives do not have a single target state on which they can all agree. The best you can say is that there are a number of aspects of current (or proposed) culture that they are together in being against, and I suppose that such is the best for which one can hope.

I prefer to describe myself as an anti-progressive, the way some people back in the Good Old Days described themselves as anti-Communists, because proglodytes do have an ideology and a target state towards which they are working, and I’m here to get in the way of that process as best I can.

The next time you’re trapped in a social situation with someone who ‘identifies’ as ‘a conservative’, just ask: ‘Okay, what do you want to conserve?’ and watch the reaction. It can be entertaining, but also rather sad.

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Agricultural policy for the last fifty years might be characterized as ‘trying to turn the farm into a factory and not succeeding very well’. Review the performance of any of ConAgra’s or ADM’s factory-farms and this is pretty obvious.

The whole ‘urban indoor farm’ is just another such attempt to change the field into a factory floor. The problem is that organic processes (such as those that create food) aren’t really susceptible to the simplistic order of the assembly line. Any attempt to do so can only work by simplifying inherently complex natural biological systems so that they can be ‘managed’ for artifacture, which works about as well as a ‘managed’ economy — the latter gives you Soviet ‘goods’; the former gives you the equivalent of Soviet food. Nutrition gurus like Michael Pollan complain about the result, with good reason, and often about the artifactural production, but never get to the root of the problem.

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Trump is not nice. Republicans tried “nice” with Mitt Romney in 2012. They tried “experienced and professional” with John McCain in 2008. Both lost. One of the reasons? No matter who is the Republican candidate, the Democrat politicians, and the heavily-Democrat media are not going to be nice nor professional. They’re going to say and do whatever it takes.

I’ve been saying that for decades.

The author correctly points out that Trump doesn’t take a shot at you unless and until you take a shot at him.

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The Trump-hating mainstream media claims that President Trump has an enemies list. It’s possible that he has one, but the list of people whose security clearance is under review isn’t it. An enemies list would be longer and would include, for example, Jim Acosta. The list in question is simply a group of people who may not deserve the privilege of having a security clearance now that they are not in government.

Calling the list an “enemies lists” has its uses, though. It enable aging liberals to gloat about being on Nixon’s enemies list — the real thing. And it enables the Trump-hating mainstream media to push the Trump-as-Nixon theme.

I have an Enemies List. I’ll bet it’s longer than Trump’s.

Here is the reality about presidents and their enemies: (1) every president has them, whether on a list on not; (2) only a stupid president doesn’t know who they are; (3) people who get themselves elected president aren’t that kind of stupid.

The media are experts at spinning stuff that makes perfect sense into something that they can white and bitch about.

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When a company hires predominantly from a demographic that has been indoctrinated with the idea that ‘whistleblowers’ are Heroes of the Revolution and whose heroes are Aaron Schwarz, Julian Assange, BradleyWhatever Manning, and Edward Snowdon, this is to be expected.

John Derbyshire does a little mind-picking.

So there was Cuomo doing the soft-shoe shuffle. Our Governor is a sort of grandee of the Democratic Party: son of a former three-term Governor, ex-husband of a Kennedy gal.

But I should say that the phrase “Democratic Party” in my last sentence refers to the oldDemocratic Party, the party of FDR, JFK, Bill Clinton, and John Kerry. Andrew Cuomo, like those other names, is a white guy of European ancestry. Like other white guys in his party, Cuomo has the uncomfortable feeling that the ground is moving under his feet—that the Democratic Party is turning into something different from what it has been though his, and my, lifetime.

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The Progressive vision is narrow, provincial, and present-centric. The past, according to them, was bad; the present is just tolerable; the future will be radiant.

And that’s about the best summary of the proglodyte vision I’ve ever seen.

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And there it is.

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Tip #1: Stay away from bears.

If you’re camping or hiking in the woodlands of North America – particularly Canada, Alaska, Washington, Idaho, the Dakotas or Montana – or in parts of northern Europe and Asia, it’s perfectly possibly you could encounter a large bear.

So, obviously, don’t do that.

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Or their parents, too, obviously.