Theodore Dalrymple peeks behind the curtain.

The son of a friend of mine applied for a place at medical school and was turned down on the grounds that his personal statement was inadequate. I don’t know what was wrong with it; perhaps he employed incorrect old clichés rather than the correct new ones. Having the means to do so, my friend sent his son to a tutor who specialized in personal statements (every bureaucratic requirement is an economic opportunity for an ex-bureaucrat wanting to strike out for himself). No doubt the tutor in personal statements advised him to put in more about his passion for social justice and equality. At any rate, it worked and he was accepted.

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Light is made up of photons—speedy, tiny packets of energy. Typically, photons do not interact with each other at all, which is why when using flashlights “you don’t see the light beams bounce off each other, you see them go through each other,” explains Sergio Cantu, a Ph.D. candidate in atomic physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In new experiments, however, the physicists coaxed individual photons to cozy up to each other and link, similar to the way individual atoms stick together in molecules.

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But you knew that.

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Correction: We’re only talking about this shooting because the SHOOTER was white.

This many young blacks get gunned down every week in Chicago and other Democrat-run cities … but it’s by other young blacks, so nobody dares mention it lest they be charged with the ThoughtCrime of Noticing.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Huh. Perhaps cruise liners aren’t as boring as I had always thought.

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Gee, I wonder why.

Maybe it’s all the lies?

Naw, that can’t be it.

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Who knew that Kimmel was a licenses psychiatrist? Oh, wait, he isn’t.

Well, then, he must have studied psychology. Oh, wait, he didn’t.

Must be another instance of what Scott Adams calls the ‘psychic psychiatrist illusion.’

He’s supposedly a comedian, but I have yet to see it reported that he’s said something funny.

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That would certainly explain why so many cops belong to the NRA, and why ‘conservatives’ are so eager to defend cops against slander by, say, Black Lives Matter.

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Must have really hit a nerve with that one.

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Actually, no, they don’t. They’re still preaching from the same old proglodyte playbook.

What is being celebrated here is the passing of the ideological baton to a younger generation of brain-laundry graduates. The article is for the purpose of reassuring the Chattering Class that they’re on the ‘right side of history’.

The ‘adults’ being ‘called to account’ aren’t the people pushing gun control — in what region of The Press is that message not dominant? — but rather the ‘adults’ opposing ‘gun control’ … although the pro-gun-control people never seem to get around to telling us why somebody might possibly think it reasonable to oppose ‘gun control’; they’re just Heretics and Sinners who must be burned at the stake.

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As the price of housing continues to rise in many cities, one popular progressive policy idea to address it is inclusionary zoning. Inclusionary zoning requires that a certain percentage of units in a building be priced at below market, targeted at people who earn some fraction of the area median income. Often this set aside is required in exchange for density bonuses or other things the developer might want.

Portland passed one of these, and according to a report in the Portland Mercury, construction fell off a cliff.

Markets work the way markets work even when you don’t want them to.

Whenever government interferes with the action of a market, participants in that market take action that seems best in their own self-interest: either working around the government restrictions (a ‘black market’) if they can do so profitably, or deserting the market if they can’t work around the constraints. (Organized crime depends on such market constraints for their profits; their business model is working around government constraints on markets, and they are pretty good at it.)

Politicians never seem to learn that they can’t just pass a law and have everyone do what the politicians want them to do in the way that politicians want them to do it.

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California left-wingers who want to densify cities to make them affordable are getting some push-back from other left-wingers who think density will push low-income people out of neighborhoods. A proposed bill to eliminate zoning in transit-rich areas in order to allow developers to build high-density housing would, say opponents, displace low-income families from neighborhoods with high rental rates in favor of high-income whites who can afford to pay for high-rise housing.

The opponents aren’t wrong. On one hand, increasing housing supply would seem to make housing more affordable. But affordable for whom? With housing prices in some California cities averaging more than $1,000 per square foot, building high-density housing that costs $400 to $500 a square foot would allow people who can afford that to find a place to live. But hardly anyone can afford that.

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Zackary Walls and Colton Haab, two Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps members, saved countless lives with quick thinking and a little bit of kevlar during Wednesday’s horrific attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the obvious questions.

From the Associated Press:

Kept out: How banks block people of color from homeownership
AARON GLANTZ

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Fifty years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts.

By the way, if blacks and browns are People of Color, but whites and Asians are not, then what color are Asians?

Invisible color?

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Putting it all together in one place.

1. There Have Already Been 18 Mass Shootings in 2018

2. Trump Signed a Bill That Makes It Easier for Mentally Ill People to Get Guns

3. More Guns Means More Crime

4. It’s Easy to Buy a Gun

5. Gun Control Works in Other Countries

6. The Second Amendment Is Obsolete and Doesn’t Apply Today

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Pretty bad when even  a major Voice of the Crust thinks you got it wrong.

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Nothing could be more pedestrian than a gay person, Olympian or otherwise, ‘slamming’ the Trump administration. This is not being a ‘pioneer’, but being a tag-along. Proglodytes have gone from ‘speaking truth to power’ to ‘speaking clichés to the whipping boy’. The witch-hunt for Heretics and Sinners must ever be stoked by moral preening and posing.

You will notice that the focus is on Mike Pence, and the reason for that is that they know as well as we do that Trump doesn’t give a shit whether a person is gay or not. Every attempt to portray Trump as ‘anti-gay’ falls to the ground in the face of the total lack of any evidence; you might as well say that Santa Claus is anti-broccholi.

Mueller Investigation Is Pressuring Trump Toward ‘Pushing The Nuclear Button,’ Mental Health Expert Says  Another case of psychic psychiatry, in which a person who has never met or talked to Trump feels free to engage in medical diagnosis.

Florida shooting: Parkland school student calls Donald Trump a ‘piece of s***’ over tweet of condolence  There’s no pleasing some people.

CNN Trashes Trump Response to Shooting: ‘That’s a Dumb Thing He Just Put Out’

Pot, Meet Kettle: NPR Talks Up ‘Epidemic’ of Team Trump Sexual Assault  Trying to distract attention from Harvey Weinstein and his Democrat running mates.

Media Push Discredited Myth That Trump Urged Execution of Innocent Teens  Of course! He MUST have! Because Trump!

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And about time, too.

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Yup, we still have ’em. The Great Forest of Electrons.

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Doesn’t surprise me a bit.

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You still have to deal with the same yuppie hipster SWPL attitudes, but at least the state isn’t trying to confiscate all your money.

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It’s For the Children — but only after they’re actually born.

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As Trey Goudy said, ‘Show me the law that will be guaranteed to stop this sort of thing, and I’ll push it.’ But there is no such law.

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How many such tragedies will it take to bring about sensible immigrant-control laws?

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Perhaps there ought to be a qualifying test for public office.

Maybe an IQ test as well, although that would bar most members of the Congressional Racist Caucus.

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If they’re looking for ‘domestic terrorism enablers’, how about the people who want to import huge numbers of Muslims and other inhabitants of ‘shit-hole’ countries? I suspect Joe and Mika are among their number.

When it comes to ‘useful idiots’, you can’t include Joe and Mika, who are unuseful idiots.

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How, you may ask, do energy taxes ‘fight’ ‘climate chante’? Why, by discouraging the use of ‘energy’ and thus the ThoughtCrime actions that bring on ‘climate change’.

Oddly enough, it also provides parasitic government bureaucrats with extra money to waste. Purely a coincidence, of course, Win-win!

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One nut job, and somehow it’s all the fault of ‘the country’. No, lady, it’s not the country’s fault. It’s the fault of one guy. If you’re worried about it, homeschool your kids.

MSNBC Analyst: America Has Never Had Someone So ‘Intellectually, Morally, Temperamentally’ Unfit As President  Oh, I think Obama and Carter would serve as counter-examples.

CNN Runs Entire Segment On How Trump Says The Word ‘Stupid’  Evidently he has a lot of stupid to deal with, including CNN.

The Predictable Disasters That Unfold from the White House’s Hiring Decisions  Predictable, that is, if you hate Trump. Funny how, of all the ‘predictable disasters’, very few are happening (although the few that happen  are endlessly touted in The Press.) I don’t recall these ‘predictable disaster’ articles during Obama’s tenure, even from National Review, although his ‘hiring decisions’ were far worse.

Donald Trump’s richest campaign donors lose $12bn as stock market falls  Apparently the only thing that makes news interesting is whether or not it hurts Trump.

MSNBC: Trump ‘Doesn’t Give A Damn’ About The Poor  Common proglodyte trope, automatically applied to Republicans and other Heretics/Sinners, not really specific to Trump.

Bizarre: ABC Links Florida Shooting to Trump in ‘Turmoil’ Over Rob Porter Scandal

Compare MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Accuses Trump Of Exploiting Florida High School Shooting with Democrats Blame Republicans, Demand Gun Control After Florida School Shooting

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Why does Hollywood think that a lefty hate group deserves donations on Valentine’s Day?

The leap of logic was promoted by actress Alyssa Milano, who partnered with the organization Love is Louder to fundraise for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Milano tweeted an encouragement to her followers, “Let’s inspire young people to embrace diversity and practice tolerance, respect, and acceptance,” and linked to the SPLC website. CNN’s Van Jones also tweeted his support for the project.

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Waiting for The Press to figure out some way to claim that this is Trump’s fault.

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Brown has long been the pinkest of the Ivies, and traditionally the place where Eurotrash go to experience an American upper-class education.

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When Attorney General Jeff Sessions advised people in pain to “take some aspirin” and “tough it out” during a speech in Tampa last week, the federal prosecutors in his audience laughed. Mitzie Katzen, who has suffered from complex regional pain syndrome since she was a teenager, had a different reaction.

“I was just floored,” Katzen says. “I could not believe what I was reading, and I thought that has to be somebody who has never experienced really severe pain for any length of time.” Katzen’s perspective on Sessions’ remarks illuminates the depravity of a policy that sacrifices the interests of patients like her in the name of fighting the “opioid epidemic.”

The people at tReason magazine are poster children for the sort of Progressives In A Clever Plastic Disguise of which ZMan so often complains. Apparently there is in the Constitution some invisible provision (probably in the same Zeroth Amendment that contains the Right to Smoke Weed and the Right For People Everywhere Outside Of America To Come Here) that gives an indefeasible right to any measure that might prevent somebody from experiencing anything unpleasant in life. The whiners aren’t all on the Left. (Hm. Is epigram.)

Yeah, pain sucks. I’ve been there. But getting hooked on a pharmaceutical and then spending your life ensuring that you can always have more sucks just as much.

Jeff Sessions’ job is to enforce the law. Consequently, he has an interest in any situation that might encourage people to break said law. This is a natural result of his job. Just because he isn’t willing to Whine Along With Mitzie doesn’t make him cruel, any more than Noticing the black people commit a lot more crimes per capital than white people makes one a racist.

Libertarianism in modern America has degenerated into the same arrested-adolescent pity party as progressivism, and its pretense of being the principled opposition to the Left is wearing very thin indeed.

Steve Sailer lets reality intrude on proglodyte fantasy.

In our disillusioning modern world, where it’s too easy to look up what life is actually like in the remote real places that used to serve our desire for utopias, Americans now apparently feel the need to believe in CGI movie fictions, such as Wakanda, a technologically advanced isolationist kingdom in northeastern Africa featured in the upcoming Marvel comic-book blockbuster Black Panther.

Wakanda, as you may have heard, is vibrant due to its massive deposits of vibranium, a literal Magic Dirt, which proves Trump is racist. Or something.

Paul Mirengoff at Powerline is delightfully dyspeptic today.

I had hoped that the idiotic left-wing outrage at Attorney General Sessions’ use of the term “Anglo-American law enforcement” would dissipate without making it into mainstream discussion. The fact that former President Obama has referred to the Anglo-American nature of our justice system seemed to support my hope.

No such luck. This morning, I heard NPR pretend there is a legitimate racism story here. So did ABC Newsand the New York Daily News. (To its credit, the Washington Post countered by trying in two stories to set the record straight).

Accordingly, I must reluctantly agree with Charles Cooke’s take on this pseudo-controversy: “We’re screwed.”

We’re screwed as a polity if we must pretend that our system of law isn’t what it actually is — Anglo-American — lest we be accused of racism.

The Other McCain is on the case.

Does everyone remember “TrigglyPuff,” the obnoxious feminist who repeatedly disrupted a 2016 event at the University of Massachusetts? While claiming to be a victim of oppression, Cora Segal was attending elite private Hampshire College ($63,512 a year, including room and board) and is, in fact, the daughter of a Harvard professor. Her sole claim to victimhood is her evident inability to say “no” to second helpings.

The phenomenon of privileged young people claiming to be oppressed by social injustice is a product of what Robert Hughes called the Culture of Complaint, “in which seemingly everyone claims victim status.” Since the election of President Trump, liberals have ludicrously compared Trump to Hitler, claiming that America is now a “fascist regime.” The absurdity of these claims is apparent to anyone with two eyes and a brain, so why do liberals keep playing this make-believe game?

CNN’s Hossain — Republican Women Are ‘Trapped’ With ‘Abuser’ Trump  Of course, there is no evidence that Trump is an ‘abuser’ — the overwhelming majority of ‘abusers’ outed so far are Democrats.

Former Clinton Advisor Attacks Sarah Sanders — ‘She Lies Every Day’  No actual lies cited, of course, just vague allegations.

‘This Narrative Has Sunk In’: MSNBC Panel Betray The Political Agenda Behind Trump Coverage

MSNBC Analyst: Trump’s the ‘Commander-in-Chief of American Rape Culture’  Now they’re just making stuff up.

Mike Pence ‘thinks Jesus tells him to say things’, says former Trump aide Omarosa  And of course it has to be true because a black woman said it.

CNN Contributor: ‘Trump Should Be Charged With Manslaughter!’  No doubt for strangling the Proglodyte Dream.

Ed Asner Jokes About Trump’s Sons Being Mauled By Lion  Yet he would be the first to scream of somebody made a similar joke about one of Obama’s daughters.

Former Obama Campaign Aide Compares Trump to Child Murdering Haitian Dictator  Since that child-murdering Haitan dictator was black, I don’t see the resemblance.

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Obviously Trump is in Putin’s pocket. Throw the bum out!

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Police have not confirmed whether the vehicle was a planned target. Officers have appealed for witnesses, describing one of the suspects as a black male wearing an orange hoodie. They offered no descriptions for the two remaining suspects.

Thank God it wasn’t a Trump supporter or we’d never hear the end of it.

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Why can’t we all just get along? Why do Democrats have to be such haters?

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Yeah, only twelve of his seventeen players are black.

Obviously they’re under-represented and being Held Down By The Man.

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Harvard made the list, which is no surprise, but Yale did not, which is. C’mon, Elis! Get with the program!

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Political Correctness these days is worth serious money.

IBM is suing the latest big name hire for Microsoft, one of its top competitors, for allegedly leaving the company with proprietary department secrets — potentially showing how serious some tech companies are in addressing complaints over a lack of workplace heterogeneity.

Filed Monday, the lawsuit claims that if allowed to start too quickly, Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, who joined IBM in 2006, will inherently take confidential data about diversity and certain initiatives to Microsoft, according to The Seattle Times.

Perphaps IBM has a secret cache of transgendered black Latino Ivy League graduates somewhere that they don’t want Microsoft to poach.

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The witch-hunt for Heretics and Sinners proceeds apace.

(Remember: If you hear the ‘dog whistle’, then you’re the dog….)

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The intersection of trial lawyer opportunism, climate orthodoxy, and political expediency has become a busy and increasingly perilous place.

Over the summer, Richmond, Marin County, Oakland, San Francisco, San Mateo County, Imperial Beach, Santa Cruz, and Santa Cruz County in California filed suit against ExxonMobil and other energy companies for damages to coastal property and infrastructure caused from climate change-related increases in sea levels. The legal foundation for holding individual companies responsible for a planetary climate phenomenon is far from solidified so the companies are sure to fight long and hard to avoid losing a war of financial attrition.