John Hinderacker of PowerLine documents a ‘You can’t make this stuff up’ moment.

Many would say that we are a year into the liberal press’s fact-bending, Trump-bashing orgy. But that doesn’t seem to occur to the AP. This is one of those articles where the AP quotes six or eight seemingly random people from across the country. You always wonder how they come up with “truck driver Chris Gromek,” “Democrat Kathy Tibbits of Tahlequah, Oklahoma,” “Victoria Steel, 50, of Cheyenne, Wyoming,” and so on. This article’s cast of characters seems reasonably well-balanced, but the AP’s commentary isn’t.

Labour’s Emily Thornberry brands Donald Trump a ‘racist’ who does not understand trade deals  I’d put my confidence in somebody who does deals for a living over a socialist who pretends to understand ‘trade’ but only understands socialist dogma on trade.

CNN’s King Slams Trump as a ‘Racist’ With a ‘Horrible Dark Reflex’  More reflexive trash-talk. There is no evidence that Trump might be a racist other than the delusional tea-leaf readings on the Left.

Rand Paul Has One Simple Rebuttal For Dems Calling Trump Racist  ‘“You can’t have an immigration compromise if everyone is out there calling the president a racist,” he said. “They’re actually destroying the setting… in which anything meaningful can happen on immigration.”’ Democrats are destroying any chance of getting what they want by spending their time scooping up Proglodyte Pokemon Points.

Maxine Waters: Republicans Will All ‘Pay A Price’ For Not Being Against Trump Scene: Kindergarten Recess Maxine Waters: ‘You’ll be sorry! Just wait!’

Palestinian leader denounces Donald Trump’s diplomacy as ‘slap of the century’  Like being called ugly by a toad.

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Because that’s what socialism gives you: A fat cat upper class and a grindingly poor underclass. Since the LA Times is written by proglodytes, the cannot even see the reality, but wander around scratching their heads about where all the shithole parts of this city came from.

Looks at any grindingly poor area in America and you will see Democrat political fingerprints all over it.

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The Anointed just can’t understand why everybody resists accepting their leadership in everything.

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The proglodyte politicization of every aspect of life proceeds apace.

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An anonymous emailer contacted us about a version of the Koran which has been compiled in reverse chronological order, so that abrogating verses appear before abrogated ones. The abrogated passages are struck through, to make it clear that they no longer apply. There is also a system of color-coding to provide the reader with additional information.

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he City of Seattle probably didn’t expect pushback from Costco, seen by many on the left as retail’s “anti-Walmart,” after its “sugary drink” tax of 1.75 cents per ounce went into effect January 1. But that is exactly what has happened.

In moves the national press, which largely supports such taxes, has thus far ignored, Costco is itemizing the built-in cost of the tax on its Seattle store’s shelf tags, and informing customers that they won’t pay the tax if they shop at one of two other Costco stores outside Seattle’s city limits.

The use of taxation for ‘social engineering’ purposes, rather than for purely raising government revenue, is one of the characteristics of the Progressive era. It is an indulgence in economic ignorance beloved by activist politicians who are sure and certain that they know better how the common people ought to act than the people themselves do.

Of course, they are wrong. And unfortunately, it divides consumers into two classes: those who can afford to shop outside of the jurisdiction imposing the tax, and those who can’t. Hence it is ‘regressive’ in the purest sense, targeting the poor and being merely inconvenient for the not-poor.

It also is the root of ‘black markets’, because criminals are very adept at arbitraging these situations of government-imposed market distortion. I predict that the second effect of this tax (the first being non-poor people doing their shopping outside of the Seattle jurisdiction) will be lawbreakers smuggling untaxed ‘sugar drinks’ into the very areas from which politicians are trying to exclude them, thereby (a) canceling the effect of the tax, (b) avoiding any increase in tax revenue (because people aren’t paying the tax), and (c) encouraging a scofflaw attitude toward government. The whole history of tobacco taxes is rife with examples of this behavior, which politicians make a habit of ignoring, and the ‘war on drugs’ shows what happens at the extremes of such behavior.

This can only end badly for Seattle.

MSNBC’s Johnson: ‘Terrorist Sympathizer’ Trump Is ‘Enemy,’ ‘Danger’ to Minorities  Surely you could froth at the mouth if you try.

Jimmy Kimmel: Trump’s ‘S***hole’ Comment Shows He Is Racist  Well, no, it just triggers your confirmation bias.

Deranged MSNBC: GOPers Are ‘North Korean Soldiers’ Led by ‘Sniveling’ Carson, ‘Pathetic’ Ryan

African Union demands Donald Trump apologise for ‘sh**hole’ comments  Fine, if they apologize for being shitholes in the first place.

CNN’s Don Lemon Calls Fox News ‘The Trump Channel’  I was wondering when someone from the Clinton News Network would get around to that.

ROYAL WEDDING: Trump ‘to be snubbed’ by Harry and Meghan – but OBAMA could be invited  *sigh* Trump has absolutely no reason to be invited to the ‘Royal Wedding’, nor any reason to go if he were. Harry and Obama did an interview, and if they want to invite him it will be purely personal.

‘AM Joy’ Couldn’t Handle This Black Pro-Trump Pastor’s Arguments  Minorities who refuse to toe the Party Line are creatures with whom the DemLegHump Media are unable to cope.

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And why not? A state that will send an imbecile like Joe Biden to the Senate for thirty-six years will not shrink from electing a convicted felon pervert.

Good luck for it getting a seat on any Senate committee that needs a security clearance.

Roger Kimball at American Greatness pulls back the curtain.

And here we come to a second curiosity in the preening and ecstatic outrage over the president’s comment. Everyone, near enough, knows that he was telling a home truth. It was outrageous not because he said something crude that was untrue. Quite the contrary: it was outrageous precisely because it was true but intolerable to progressive sensitivities.

In other words, the potency of taboo is still strong in our superficially rational culture. There are some things—quite a few, actually, and the list keeps growing—about which one cannot speak the truth or, in many cases, even raise as a subject for discussion without violating the unspoken pact of liberal sanctimoniousness.

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Another opportunity for blacks to do a bit of comfort looting with politics as cover.

This happens all the time in the U.S., and are called Race Riots because only one race is rioting. You will not see the KKK or the Aryan Nation conduct this sort of smash-and-grab fest, because they’re actually interested in politics as opposed to politics-as-an-excuse-for-theft. The Usual Suspects will wring their hands about these poor oppressed people attempting to gain empowerment in the only way available to them, while we cynics note that political empowerment appears to grow from the screen of a 65″ TV.

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Apparently, being a fat ugly black woman will not only get you a seat in Congress, it will also get you on TV. Who knew?

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I am not making this up.

Logan O’Laughlin, a gender studies graduate student at the University of Washington, conducted a lecture titled “Queer Toxic Ecologies: Analyses and Implications of the Pelicans of the BP Oil Spill” at the University of British Columbia.

The workshop description explains that oil-stained pelicans represented the massive impact of the BP spill.

“But what do these pelican images tell us about gender, race, and sexuality in ecological contexts?” O’Laughlin asked in the description. “Utilizing feminist discourse analysis of pelicans in post-spill popular media and historical analysis of pelicans as the state mascot of Louisiana, this presentation articulates how this bird is symbolically and materially implicated in a history of racialized, sexual violence.”

Something tells me this guy is ‘gender fluid’.

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From what I’ve seen of it, I wouldn’t mind living at The Continental. Don’t have a lot of gold coins to spare, unfortunately.

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So all that money will be coming here rather than Switzerland or Luxembourg or the Caymans? I’m good with that.

Steve Sailer brings the news that you probably won’t see in your local paper.

Asians, who are as numerous as blacks in Seattle public schools, have no color, apparently. They’re invisible-colored.

‘People of Color’ ™, of course, means black people (and not just any black people, but American black people; actual black people from, say, Africa don’t count).

It’s too bad Seattle doesn’t have any philanthropic billionaires to solve this problem.

Yup, it sure is. Perhaps they could import some from Texas.

Paul Mirengoff of PowerLine blog finds that his bullshit alarm has gone off.

don’t know whether President Trump called any countries “s***holes” yesterday. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if he disparaged certain countries, as is his wont, and he may well have done so profanely.

If he did, and if doing so hurt America, then Sen. Durbin and others in the room should have kept Trump’s statement to themselves. No patriotic American would hurt this country’s international standing just to embarrass the president or in the hope of gaining a little leverage in negotiations (which, I’m pretty sure, Durbin has failed to do).

But patriotism has never been Dick Durbin’s long suit. During the Bush administration, he compared American soldiers to Nazis, Soviets, and Pol Pot. (See video below).

John Derbyshire says what everybody knows.

Since the earthquake in 2010, international groups have spent millions of dollars on a plan to build eight open-air sewage treatment plants across Haiti. Seven years on, only one of the eight is operational.

Way to go, international groups. Keep practicing, and someday you might be as inefficient as a government.

A rainstorm on Good Friday last year filled the streets and alleys of one Port-au-Prince neighborhood with 3 feet of raw sewage. Seven people drowned in it. A guy interviewed for the NPR report got an infection that still hasn’t gone away

Sounds like a shithole country to me.

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The arrested adolescents at tReason magazine are some of the worst Blame America Firsters around, and Shikha Dalmia is one of the worst.

NYT Columnist Bret Stephens Likens Trump to Venezuelan Strongman Hugo Chavez on Morning Joe  Except for the confiscation of business property and the people starving and the ruling by decree, I totally see the resemblance.

‘The View’ Whines ‘Dictator’ Trump ‘At War’ With Media, ‘Actively Trying to Kill Press Off!’  Yeah, look at all those dead ‘journalists’ lying around.

Whoopi Goldberg Thinks Trump Is ‘Actively Trying To Kill The Press Off’  Well, she’d be one of the first to go.

CNN’s Chief White House Correspondent Calls Trump A ‘Racist’ Live On-Air  Hey, ‘everybody knows’ that.

Dem Congressman: ‘We Are Traumatized As A Nation’ By President Trump  I think he meant to say ‘entertained’.

CBC Chair: Trump Comments ‘Further Proof’ His Agenda Is ‘Make America White Again’  Yeah, that’s why he keeps pushing for legislation to send black people back to Africa. Oh, wait….

Bernie Sanders On Trump Comments: ‘We Will Not Tolerate That Type Of Moral Inadequacy’  Where does a senile socialist get any room to speak of ‘moral inadequacy’?

CNN host Don Lemon calls Donald Trump ‘racist’ for calling Haiti and African states ‘s***hole countries’  I guess ‘speaking truth to power’ is only a thing when Democrats do it.

African Union calls Trump ‘s***hole’ comments unacceptable ‘given how many Africans arrived in US as slaves’  Sold by other Africans. They never mention that part.

North Korea says Fire and Fury book signals Donald Trump’s ‘political demise’  Uh, no.

Donald Trump’s ‘s***hole countries’ remark is only the latest example of his racist rhetoric  Uh, no. His ‘rhetoric’ is racist only in the eyes of people who can’t see anything else. Remember, if you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re he dog.

CNN’s Symone Sanders: Trump Comment ‘Just Straight-Up Racist’  Uh, no, but yours are.

Trump’s ‘Shith**e’ Comment Really Hurt Anderson Cooper’s Feelings  Poor snowflake. It’s Hell being a rich gay guy.

CNN Analyst Goes On Racial Slur Filled-Rant Against Trump’s ‘S***hole’ Comment  Trump triggers the deplorable.

John Legend Makes Racist Claims Against Trump Following Leaked ‘S***hole’ Comment  All they need is an excuse, any excuse, and what they ‘always knew was true’ comes out like a sewer pipe.

Dem Rep Says Trump Presidency Is A ‘Threat To Entire World’  Certainly a threat to THEIR world.

Dick Durbin Says Trump Totally Said ‘Sh**hole’  And Democrat Senators are FAMOUS for telling the truth.

Morning Joe: ‘Evil’ Nazi-Lover Trump Wants ‘Aryan’ Immigration Policy  Only in your dreams, Joe. Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, you’re the dog.

Colbert Jokes America Is the Real ‘S***hole’ Country Since Trump Is President  Certainly since Colbert was given a TV show.

Brinkley: ‘Heart of Stone’ Trump Most Racist Since Woodrow Wilson  Oh? More racist than Franklin ‘Lock up all the yellow people American citizen or not’ Roosevelt? More racist than Lyndon ‘Those niggers will vote for us for a hundred years’ Johnson? The Memory Hole claims another victim. (Oh, and remember that Wilson was a Democrat. Just sayin’.)

Terry McAuliffe Fantasized On Air About Dealing A Blow To Trump  I’d love to see him try it. Seeing a Secret Service agent put two in his head would go viral.

CNN Contributor Shouts ‘Are You A Racist?’ At Trump After Signing Proclamation Honoring MLK  The term ‘clueless’ is sometimes totally inadequate.

Donald Trump ‘repeatedly’ referred to ‘s***hole countries’ in White House meeting says Democrat Senator Dick Durbin  I think he was referring to Missouri, Senator.

A year on, there is no indication that Donald Trump has the capacity to grow  ‘Grow’ being newspaper-speak for ‘become more progressive’.

Hillary Clinton Blasts Trump’s ‘Ignorant, Racist Views’ About Haiti  Somebody must have pulled her string again.

Maxine Waters: Trump Is A ‘Hopeless And Ignorant Bigot’  Although not as much of one as Maxine Waters. When didn’t you ever see her hug a white person?

Steven Spielberg: Trump Administration ‘Distorts The Truth’, Offers ‘Alternative Facts’ This from the producer of the Democrat fairy tale THE POST.

John Lewis Claims Trump’s ‘DNA’ Makes Him Racist  Gee, that sounds pretty racist to me.

[Michael Wolff] looks as if he were raised among the Mole People. — Jonah Goldberg, The GloP Culture podcast

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Yeah, that’s totally racist.

In related news, Democrat Party designated National Historic Honey Wagon.

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Science is racist! I knew it!

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Carbon fiber is the Superman of materials. Five times stronger than steel and a fraction of the weight, it is used in everything from tennis racketsto golf clubs to bicycles to wind turbine blades to passenger airplanes to Formula One race cars. There’s just one catch: Carbon fiber is made from oil and other costly ingredients, making the end product exceptionally expensive. That’s why carbon fiber shows up in race cars but rarely makes it into minivans.

That could change. Scientists say it may soon be possible to make carbon fiber from plants instead of petroleum, driving down costs, making the material more widely available for use in cars, planes and other vehicles.

Carbon fiber is made from a chemical called acrylonitrile. Currently, producers make acrylonitrile from oil, ammonia, oxygen and an expensive catalyst. The process produces a lot of heat and yields a toxic byproduct. And, because acrylonitrile is made from petroleum, the cost of carbon fiber tends to rise and fall with the price of oil

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

They may have been founded in 1098, but the Cistercian order in France still managed to anticipate one of the most exciting discoveries of modern science. Known as the “white monks” because of their habits of undyed sheep’s wool, the Cistercians envisaged religious life as a process of cultivation. Pioneers of hydraulic engineering and large-scale agriculture, the white monks described their spiritual transformation in just the same way, creating fertile fields in the garden of their souls, plucking out vices like weeds and watering their flowering virtues with tears of grace.

Less of a pest than a medieval friar, who spent his time wandering around getting in people’s faces.

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Good riddance, I’d say.

No worries, mate, the government will just import more Pakistanis and Somalis to make up the difference. (Hey, it worked for Tony Blair….)

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Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes … well….

He’s going to look pretty badass once those heal up, though.

Jonah Goldberg cuts to the heart of the matter.

The most recent Golden Globes ceremony has already been excoriated for being a veritable geyser of hypocritical effluvia, as the same crowd that not long ago bowed and scraped to serial harasser and accused rapist Harvey Weinstein, admitted child rapist Roman Polanski and that modern Caligula, Bill Clinton, congratulated itself for its own moral superiority.

The interesting question is: Why have movie stars and other celebrities become an aristocracy of secular demigods? It seems to me an objective fact that virtually any other group of professionals plucked at random from the Statistical Abstract of the United States — nuclear engineers, plumbers, grocers, etc. — are more likely to model decent moral behavior in their everyday lives. Indeed, it is a bizarre inconsistency in the cartoonishly liberal ideology of Hollywood that the only super-rich people in America reflexively assumed to be morally superior are people who pretend to be other people for a living.

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“An awful lot of immigrants come from this country from other places that aren’t very nice,” Carlson continued. “Those places are dangerous, they’re dirty, they’re corrupt and they’re poor, and that’s the main reason those immigrants are trying to come here and you would too if you lived there.”

But hey, truth is foreign to both our political class and our chattering class.

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Here’s the test: If you were forced to live in another country, would you choose Norway or Haiti? Any sensible person — and perhaps even a leftist — would choose Norway.

That’s it, in a nutshell. Even Dick Durbin would pick Norway, and he knows it as well as you do.

The historical fact that Democrats are trying to hide under the rug is that all of the immigrants that made American great were from Asia and Europe, not Africa, not South America, certainly not from Mexico. Democrats depend on the fact that nobody is learning Real History in their government schools in order to do this short of shuck-and-jive.

The Other McCain lets loose.

What was being discussed, of course, was a matter of government policy. The president’s characterization of which countries are favored by current policy was crude, but essentially accurate.

And that’s the key. Democrats want more immigration from countries where they are used to corrupt, oppressive government, because that’s the sort of government Democrats want to install in America, and these sorts of immigrants are seen as the kind that won’t push back against it, as (for example) Tea Party Republicans would.

We need to save American citizenship from becoming the Participation Trophy for the Third World. It’s that simple.

Freeberg gets down to the nitty-gritty.

The interesting question is: Why have movie stars and other celebrities become an aristocracy of secular demigods? It seems to me an objective fact that virtually any other group of professionals plucked at random from the Statistical Abstract of the United States — nuclear engineers, plumbers, grocers, etc. — are more likely to model decent moral behavior in their everyday lives. Indeed, it is a bizarre inconsistency in the cartoonishly liberal ideology of Hollywood that the only super-rich people in America reflexively assumed to be morally superior are people who pretend to be other people for a living.      — Jonah Goldberg

Exactly. We’d be better off throwing a pair of dice to figure out what’s right vs. what’s wrong, than we are turning to the acting profession for moral guidance. This is a profession — never forget this — that relies on pretending false things are true.

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The problem is, as Goldberg points out above, we’ve overshot the mark. We’ve passed the point where we see entertainers as a lodestar for where our society is going, for where it ought to go. And it’s not lost on me that we’ve pivoted, in many cases, from figuring out what’s right & true, to figuring out what’s inevitable…as in, right or wrong, this is where it’s going, better get on board or get left behind…

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Hey, if you had no access to modern toilet paper, you’d walk differently too.

Recorded in Germany’s History Park Bärnau, an open-air museum that explores life between the 9th and 13th centuries, this video by Roland Warzecha illustrates the mechanics of movement in Western Europe prior to 1500. (Warzecha runs a martial arts school devoted to historical European swordsmanship in Hamburg.)

Think Jar-Jar Binks.

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I’m always suspicious of such things, since I think they do more to reveal the prejudices of the creator of the test than actual reality.

I would of course be a Herald, standing off to one side with the other side’s Heralds totting up points, waiting until things were over so I could help identify bodies and decide what to call it. Oh, and making snarky remarks during the fighting, that’s also key.

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University of Rochester’s president announced his resignation Thursday under pressure from activists who faulted him for not firing a professor accused of sexual misconduct, even though three separate investigations found no cause to do so.

A former Obama administration official enlisted to probe the charges for a third time concluded that “the complaints’ narrative—framed through the language of sexual predation and retaliatory animus towards women—is largely without factual basis” and that there was “no evidence… of a hostile work or academic environment for any female graduate students.”

Instead, the final report from former Securities and Exchange Commision chair Mary Jo White’s law firm says a federal complaint against professor Florian Jaeger contained misrepresentations, and faulted his accusers for behavior including “engaging in ‘vigilantism’” and “breaching confidentiality.”

Incredible.

Steven Hayward connects the dots.

Further to my post earlier today about how the corporate tax cut is extending benefits immediately to workers and consumers, Yahoo finance has put together a rundown of the 81 companies that have announced bonuses or new employee benefits because of the tax change.

Michael Wolff and the Death Rattle of Trumpophobia  Lord Black of Coldharbour understands the dialectic.

MSNBC Guest Compares Trump To Mao And Stalin

‘Fire And Fury’ Author Michael Wolff Finds Unlikely Ally In North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un

Scarborough: Media Is ‘Reflexively Anti-Trump’  Not really news, but at least they’re waking up to it.

Joe And Mika: Impeach Trump

Tom Hanks: ‘Tyrants’ Like Trump ‘Denigrating’ the Media Is ‘A Threat to Us All’  All of the Hollywood plastic people, perhaps. That ‘all’ doesn’t include you, Ordinary Citizen.

Robert De Niro: ‘The World Is Suffering From The Real Donald Trump’  Yeah, somebody who makes his living pretending to be somebody else really knows the Real Donald Trump. Sure, I believe that.

Forgot to Laugh: Anderson Cooper Compares Trump to Wile E. Coyote and Mr. Ed

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Put ’em right next to the hula hoops and pet rocks.

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Damn that reality! It keeps interfering with our agenda!

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Eminent domain abuse has reared its ugly head in East Harlem. As Ginger Adams Otis reports in the New York Daily News, city officials plan to seize a family-owned dry cleaning business and then hand the forcibly vacated land to a wealthy private developer.

Democrats talk a good fight when it comes the the poor and downtrodden, but it’s all hot air.

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Drainin’ the swamp, drainin’ the swamp….

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A new undercover video from Project Veritas shows Twitter employees discussing new ways for the social media site to censor political speech that they dislike.

The video shows eight current or former Twitter employees explaining how they will employ “shadow banning” and algorithms to prevent political opponents from spreading their ideas on the platform.

Severian continues our National Conversation.

Sometime in the Sixties, we noticed that many successful people have college degrees.  Because “correlation isn’t causation” is a truth we seem hardwired to ignore, we went on to infer that because successful people tend to have college degrees, a college degree causes success.  And since college degrees can be bought, we decided to buy them for our kids.  After all, what parent doesn’t want his kids to succeed?

The consequences were predictable to anyone who has ever seen a consumer fad.  Furbies, Cabbage Patch Kids, Tamagotchis, pet rocks, mood rings, coonskin caps, whatever (I dare you not to spend the next two hours on that site).  First everyone wants one, then the prices jack into the stratosphere, then everyone has one, then nobody cares anymore, because when it comes right down to it you’re carrying a fucking rock around in a box.

That’s what college is these days.

And now we have everybody and his sister pushed into going to college, even if they haven’t got the smarts or the discipline to get a degree, and the taxpayers are picking up the bill, either at the time in the form of financial aid or on down the line when they default on their humongous student loans.

Universities were never intended to be jobs training programs.  Nor were they intended to be research centers.  Both of those are parasitic on the bad “college causes success” inference from the Sixties.  With all those kids flooding onto campuses — and paying a pretty penny to do it! — military contractors like Dow Chemical realized they had a huge supply of trained labor sitting around, in the form of all those new-minted science PhDs churned out to meet the consequent demand for professors.  Why give some egghead a GS rating, a lifetime pension, and a security clearance, when Football U. will foot the bill for you?

Colleges are conduits for Elite values.  That’s it.  That’s all they’ve ever been.

And the Elite values they inculcate these days aren’t calculated to get somebody a job, but rather to become part of the permanent Underclass that, willy nilly, votes for Democrats because they’re dependent on Free Stuff at taxpayer expense.

Joe Bob Briggs tries to sort things out.

Every day somebody howls for the shutdown of a website, the squelching of a Twitter account, the nuking of a Facebook page, the removal of a video or a screed or a manifesto, all in the name of…uh…well, it depends, but mostly in the name of saving the world.

We’ve become a nation of scolds and censors and digital night-riders, trying to get people removed from the internet.

Many of these modern-day bowdlerizers are the same people crowing about “net neutrality,” whatever that is (and believe me, I’ve tried to figure it out), and demanding that Disney give up the copyright to Mickey Mouse because, after all, everything should be free and available and easy to find.

Well, everything except hate speech. Whatever that is.

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California state senator Scott Wiener, who represents San Francisco, has introduced Senate Bill 827, which would effectively void all local zoning rules in “transit-rich” areas, meaning areas within a half mile of a rail station or a quarter mile of a stop on a frequent bus route. Wiener’s goal is to allow the construction of high-density housing in those transit-rich areas, thus simultaneously providing more affordable housing and encouraging more people to ride transit.

Unfortunately for Scot Wiener, one of the distinguishing characteristics of SWPL proglodytes is hard-core NIMBYism, and so turning San Fran into some sort of Left Coast Houston has absolutely no chance of going anywhere.

Good thing, too, since we’ve already got a Houston here in Texas and it’s got its arms wide open for anybody priced out of their California dreamin’.