http://broadside.navytimes.com/2018/04/08/workfarce-week-of-april-2-2018/

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Here’s hoping.

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Numerous women have been tweeting with the aforementioned hashtag, fantasising about the traits that they hope their future husbands will embody.

Obviously not feminists.

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Whether it is learned the easy way or the hard way, the truth remains that your safety is yours. It is not the responsibility of the police, the government, industry, the apartment building manager, or the security company. Too often, we take the lazy route and invest our confidence without ever evaluating if it is earned. As we send our children off each morning, we assume the school will keep them safe, but as you’ll see in chapter 12, it might not be so. We trust security guards–you know, the employment pool that gave us the Son of Sam killer, the assassin of John Lennon, the Hillside Strangler, and more arsonists and rapists than you have time to read about. Has the security industry earned your confidence? Has government earned it? We have a Department of Justice but it would be more appropriate to have a department of violence prevention, because that’s what we need and that’s what we care about. Justice is swell, but safety is survival.

Highly recommended.

Government really has only two jobs: (1) Keep people safe, and (2) Keep people honest. Almost all governments do a very shitty job at both, and ALL governments waste time and money sticking their fingers into other areas that are really none of their damned business. This country is full of, and far too often run by, simple-minded fools who think that the predators in our midst are impressed by protests, demonstrations, candlelight vigils, and social media hashtags. “The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated!” Sorry, but history says pretty clearly that the people are wrong.

You are responsible for the safety of yourself, your kin, and your kith. Nobody else. You.

Take whatever action you deem appropriate. I hope I won’t be seeing you at your funeral.

Hillary Clinton to Ivanka Trump in Colbert Cartoon: ‘You Can Eat My A**’  Imagine if Hannity had said that about Chelsea Clinton. (Presumably Colbert was funny once upon a time. Now he’s just being a dick.)

Trump on track to lose Republicans’ control over Senate and Congress, says leading pollster  Frank Luntz also predicted a landslide for Hillary, so I doubt The Donald is very worried.

Scarborough Predicts Republicans ‘Will Bleed Support’ In November If Trump Doesn’t Fire ‘Corrupt’ Scott Pruitt  And of course Scarborough has been right so many times before.

Joe Scarborough Calls Trump’s Handling Of The Middle East ‘Schizophrenic’ And Compares Him To Barack Obama  Oooh, that’s gotta smart.

CNN’s Cuomo: There’s ‘Obvious Chaos’ in the White House, Refers to Trey Gowdy as ‘Captain Benghazi’  Probably not a smart idea to remind people of Hillary’s Libyan fiasco.

SURPRISE! David Axelrod And Eric Holder Team Up To Oppose Trump’s Impeachment  They know that ‘impeachment’ is the stupid talking.

Tin-Foil Fantasy: Reid Dreams Up Trump Refusing to Be Arrested, Barricading Himself in WH  She does have a rich fantasy life.

Holocaust survivor says Trump’s America ‘feels like 1929 or 1930 Berlin’  Whenever you hear ‘Trump’s America’ you know you’re listening to a fantasy. If America feels like 1929 Berlin, I suggest that the AntiFa thugs wandering the streets are the cause.

Wallace Hosts Full Commercial-Free Hour of Trump/Russia Hysteria

Steve Sailer points and laughs.

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The Chicken Littles are very good at that sort of thing.

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I use ApplePay, so I can’t remember the last time I had to do a signature for a charge.

For nearly a decade, Doug Taylor, a sales manager who travels often for work, has signed credit card receipts with a doodle of a dog wagging its tail.

No cashier has ever rejected his “signature” as invalid.

“It gets a laugh, most of the time,” said Mr. Taylor, 44, who lives in Mobile, Ala. “Or they just glance at it and don’t really notice.”

Credit card networks are finally ready to concede what has been obvious to shoppers and merchants for years: Signatures are not a useful way to prove someone’s identity. Later this month, four of the largest networks — American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa — will stop requiring them to complete card transactions.

On the signature line of the card, I write PLEASE CHECK ID. I am rarely asked.

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Tell the truth, we’ve all wanted to do that.

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Tech titan Jack Dorsey of San Francisco-based social media platform Twitter applauded an article in something called Medium in which some other hipster CEO described how liberals intend to crush Normal Americans into serfdom in a bloodless “civil war.”

Here it is.

Ready?

It will just sort of happen. Why? Because. Americans will simply decide to be like California because of reasons and phew, no more troublesome conservatives and Gaia is saved!

So basically, wishing.

I like Dorsey’s Classic Hipster Look: hair piled high on top and swept back, short back and sides, full but neatly trimmed 19th-century beard — all he lacks is a man-bun.

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America today is riven with racial, social, and political divisions. Why? Is there a way out?

It’s hard to know where to begin. So, rather arbitrarily, I begin with race. David Reich‘s hot new book, Who We Are and How We Got Here, is causing a stir in genetic-research circles. Reich, who takes great pains to assure everyone that he isn’t a racist, and who deplores racism, is nevertheless candid about race….

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Reich engages in a lot of non-scientific wishful thinking about racial difference and how they should be treated by “society” — none of which is in his purview as a scientist. Reich’s forays into psychobabble have been addressed at length by Steve Sailer (here and here) and Gregory Cochran (here, here, here, here, and here). Suffice it to say that Reich is trying in vain to minimize the scientific fact of racial differences that show up crucially in intelligence and rates of violent crime.

Those ineradicable differences mean that there is something like a permanent — and mostly black — underclass in America. But there is an American “overclass” (to which I will come) which insists that all can be made well by pushing the underclass into contact with people who (wisely) resist the push, and shoveling money and privileges at it. This, alone, would be cause enough for a chasm between the overclass and those who resist its misguided social agenda. But there is more.

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The POLITICS & PROSPERITY blog, from which this is taken, will repay your attention, as it does mine.

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I am not making this up.

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Pro-Trump social media personalities “Diamond and Silk” said they were censored by Facebook for their conservatives beliefs, on “Fox & Friends” Monday and believe it has something to do with the upcoming midterm elections.

What a surprise.

The duo, Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, claimed their videos were deemed “unsafe to the community” by Facebook and said they were told the decision to censor them is final and irreversible.

Welcome to our world, ladies.

“I don’t know where Facebook is coming from,” Diamond and Silk said. “This is clearly discrimination. And this is a violation of our civil rights.”

Actually, of course, its not — but black people have been calling any inconvenience a ‘violation of our civil rights’ so long that it’s worn a groove in their brains.

“How is it that somebody can go on to Facebook, post derogatory pictures of our president with his head being cut off and so forth, they let that stand,” they concluded. “But then you have you two black chicks who’s down with politics, standing there just propping up our president. The American people. Being behind everything and his agenda and they want to shut us down. That’s not going to work with Diamond and Silk.”

Let us know how that works for you.

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When YouTube, Facebook or Twitter cracks down on some form of expression—conspiracy theories, radical rants, terrorist propaganda—some of the targets inevitably complain that their freedom of speech is under attack. (This feeling of victimhood may be what sent Nasim Aghdam to YouTube headquarters, gun in hand.) There is a strong retort to this: These are private platforms with a right to decide what they publish. It is no more a violation of the First Amendment for YouTube to muzzle a channel it finds offensive than it is for this newspaper to refuse to run a column calling for Minnesota to invade Wisconsin.

But what if a private platform suppresses speech because it’s afraid the government might otherwise step in?

Just as one effective end-run around the Fourth Amendment is to ask private companies for data they slurped up on their own, the First Amendment can be sidestepped when officials pressure the private sector into self-censorship. The end result can be rules more restrictive than the companies would impose on their own—and more intrusive than the government could get away with if it tried to impose them directly.

It’s happened before.

Paul Mirengoff takes a look at this fake problem.

The Washington Post asked twelve “experts” what to do about our nation’s “staggering economic inequality.” The Post’s Jeff Stein sets up his article by noting that the 400 richest Americans control more wealth than the poorest 80 million households, and “the richest citizens continue to capture the lion’s share of new wealth.” Indeed, “the top 5 percent has captured 74 percent of the wealth created in this country since 1982.”

I’m not sure “captured” is the right word. It’s likely that the top 5 percent played a key role in creating that wealth.

This is what comes from people reading Rawls in college. They get the idea that there are vast herds of ‘wealth’ wandering around out there just waiting for somebody with a cage to ‘capture’ it, without the prospect that somebody had a hand in creating that wealth even crossing their minds. Somehow wealth just happens, and the problem is sharing it around ‘fairly’.

The Nation Compares Trump and Pence to Bull Connor, George Wallace After Praising MLK  Forgetting, conveniently, that Bull Connor was a Democrat who worked for a Democrat Governor in a Democrat single-party State enforcing the Democrat Jim Crow laws.

‘SNL’ Returns To Its Bread And Butter, Mocks Trump In Trade War Segment  They were funny … once. But I suppose it’s good that Alec Baldwin is managing to find work that is within the scope of his talents.

Joy Reid Fantasizes About Trump Barricading Himself In The White House, Refusing To Testify  She obviously has a very rich fantasy life.

CNN’s Stelter: Trump’s ‘Impulsive Actions’ On Border Caused By His ‘Addiction’ To Fox News  Uh, it’s not ‘impulsive’ when he ran for President on it.

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Get your order in quick.

West Hunter turns over a rock.

The Genomics of Race and Identity

Reich starts out strong, telling the story of his work on identifying African-origin alleles that drive increased prostate cancer risk in African-Americans – and the dumbshit responses he got from his colleagues. He mentions an anthropologist that questioned his mention of “African” and ” European” DNA segments: he was flirting with racism. What a fool. By the way, there’s something odd and interesting in that early result: why would most of the risk variants all land in one small segment of the genome? But back to the fools: Reich talks about the anthropologists [ Montagu] , geneticists [Lewontin] , and sociologists that have argued that ‘race’ has no biological reality, that there are not really any significant biological differences between races, that research into such differences should be banned ( why is this necessary if differences don’t exist?), etc. All liars, of course. Although I can think of a few people saying similar things that are not liars: they’re just not very bright.

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He says that geneticists have tended to ‘obfuscate’ on this topic, mentioning Richard Lewontin. I’d put it a bit differently: they lie.

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Infusing foods with smoke can impart delicious nuanced flavors, but could also come with an unwelcome side of carcinogens. To reduce the carcinogen content of smoked foods, researchers took a lesson from the automobile industry, running the smoke through a zeolite filter to remove harmful compounds. It worked, and with a happy bonus: superior smoke flavor.

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Eventually we’ll work our way down to Legos and everyone will be perfectly safe.

Except from the criminals, who will all be laughing to hard to do anything.

Note that they aren’t banning cars, which is what Muslims are using these days for their mass-murder attacks.

By some odd coincidence, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is a Muslim. What are the odds?

ZMan points out some inconvenient truth.

Imagine you are asked to have some sort of contest with another person. Let’s say it is a manly contest like boxing or martial arts. The person arranging it talks about the fight in a conventional way, allowing you to assume the match will abide by the conventional rules for the sport. Let’s say it is agreed that on a given day, you will show up and box the champion from the other team. You show up on that day to learn that the guy is twice your size and he will be allowed to use a sword or a club with spikes on it in the ring.

That’s a ridiculous scenario, but the point is the only way there can be a fair competition is when both sides abide by the same set of rules. Otherwise you find yourself in the ring with a giant, trying to dodge the club with the spikes on it. This is something most men learn on the playground as kids. The exception seems to be conservatives, who have been allowing themselves to be clubbed by the Left for as long as anyone reading this has been alive. Even at this late date, they still cannot grasp this basic concept.

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It’s tempting to write-off the Buckleyites as sellouts and grifters. There’s certainly some of that. Being a good punching bag has put Jonah Goldberg into a million dollar home in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods on earth. Being wrong a lot pays really well, if you’re willing to be the Left’s footstool. There’s also the dunce factor. Being a pundit does not require a high IQ. That’s why you don’t find too many math majors in the chattering classes. It is entirely possible that many conservatives think they are right.

To continue to play by a set of rules that guarantees failure and failure guarantees a non-conservative outcome is pretty much the antithesis of conservatism. Fundamental to conservatism is the belief in a transcendent moral order. No matter what political mechanisms it may utilize or the rules it relies upon to operate its political machinery, a society of people morally adrift, living at odds with the natural order, is an immoral and unjust society. Ordered depravity is still depravity. Principles are a means to an end.

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Here’s the answer: If you’re not willing to follow the law, then you should not have a role in making the law for everyone else, which is what you do when you vote — either directly (in the case of a referendum or ballot initiative) or indirectly (by choosing lawmakers and law enforcers).

This is the same reason why we lock criminals up: If you can’t be trusted to move in society without breaking the law, we will remove you from that society so that innocent people, the people that the government exists to protect, are not inconvenience by being robbed, assaulted, or killed.

This ought to be a no-brainer,  but apparently some people are slower than others.

Or they have an ulterior motive — Quick: Is a career criminal more likely to vote Republican or Democrat? The question almost answers itself. If you have doubts, look at the people pushing for ‘convict rights’.

Viscount Ridley notices some changes.

Like other cities, London is increasingly home to exotic wildlife and is as biodiverse as some wildernesses. Mumbai has leopards, Boston turkeys, Chicago coyotes and Newcastle kittiwakes. Suburbs are already richer in wildlife than most arable fields in the so-called green belt, making environmental objections to housing development perverse. Gardens, ledges, drains, walls, trees and roofs are full of niches for everything from foxes to flowers and moths.

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Since most animals have shorter lifespans than us and no welfare state, they are genetically adapting faster to the concrete world than we are. A fascinating book by a Dutch biologist, Menno Schilthuizen, called Darwin Comes to Town, documents just how wide and deep this urban wildlife evolutionary pulse is. We have unleashed an unprecedented burst of natural selection.

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The U.S. Air Force has lost its way. Outside observers may seem surprised at this but since 2001 the exit interviews of pilots, especially combat pilots, show more frequent references to aimless leadership, a lack of purpose and not enough emphasis on flying skills as key reasons why experienced pilots want to leave. Pay, promotions and time spent away from family (usually overseas) are less frequently mentioned. Pilots, especially combat pilots, still had a sense of mission but the leadership acted more like a corporate bureaucracy than the leaders of a combat organization. This was nothing new but the shift in attitude accelerated in the 1990s as smart bombs replaced the traditional unguided (”dumb”) ones and the last generation of senior leaders with intense combat experience (the fighter-bomber pilots of the Vietnam War) disappeared into retirement.

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Race advocates and the media are greeting a new General Accounting Office report on racial disparities in school discipline as a vindication of Obama administration policies. The GAO found that black students get suspended at nearly three times the rate of white students nationally, a finding consistent with previous analyses. The Obama Education and Justice Departments viewed that disproportion as proof of teacher and principal bias. Administration officials used litigation and the threatened loss of federal funding to force schools to reduce suspensions and expulsions radically in order to eliminate racial disparities in discipline. The GAO report, which implicitly rubberstamps the Obama approach, comes just as Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos is evaluating whether to rescind Obama’s school discipline directives. DeVos should go forward with that rescission: the administration’s policies were fatally flawed, as is the GAO report that attempts to justify them.

The GAO report ignores the critical question regarding disciplinary disparities: do black students in fact misbehave more than white students? The report simply assumes, without argument, that black students and white students act identically in class and proceeds to document their different rates of discipline. This assumption of equivalent school behavior is patently unjustified. According to federal data, black male teenagers between the ages of 14 and 17 commit homicide at nearly 10 times the rate of white male teenagers of the same age (the category “white” in this homicide data includes most Hispanics; if Hispanics were removed from the white category, the homicide disparity between blacks and whites would be much higher). That higher black homicide rate indicates a failure of socialization; teen murderers of any race lack impulse control and anger-management skills. Lesser types of juvenile crime also show large racial disparities. It is fanciful to think that the lack of socialization that produces such elevated rates of criminal violence would not also affect classroom behavior. While the number of black teens committing murder is relatively small compared with their numbers at large, a very high percentage of black children—71 percent—come from the stressed-out, single-parent homes that result in elevated rates of crime.

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Instead of filling in the hole, this monster equipment precision-cuts out the pothole and an area around it, as if it were extracting a cancerous tumor. The machine vacuums up excess materials, leaving a clean hole of exact size. Next, its robotic arm grabs a pre-made concrete “plug” from onboard, and inserts the plug with the accuracy of a surgeon. The plug materials expand once in place, to create a form-fitting bond, as if the pothole never existed.

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Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez denounced immigration authorities for arresting an illegal immigrant inside a New York City courthouse on Friday, saying the controversial tactic “has no place” in the city.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents nabbed Panamanian national Diogenes Pinzon as he walked out of an eighth-floor courtroom in Brooklyn Criminal Court Friday morning, reported the New York Daily News, citing court officials.

Pinzon, an illegal immigrant with a long criminal history, was in court fighting domestic violence charges in connection with allegations that he robbed and threatened his girlfriend in May 2017. The 38-year-old Pinzon has been arrested 15 times since 2005, authorities say.

Velazquez joined a chorus of immigration activists who cried foul because ICE agents had quietly entered the courthouse to carry out the arrest.

Sounds like a righteous bust. I say put them both on the same bus South.

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Victims! Get your nice fresh victims here!

I have a question: Whom or what are they protesting? The stabbers? Any evidence that the stabbers give a shit?

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How about that great Welfare State in Britain? Don’t you wish we had one like that over here?

When one is dependent on the government for one’s living, any petty bureaucrat can jerk the rug out from under you.

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

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Women and minorities hardest hit, I’m sure.

Victor Davis Hanson notices some parallels.

Progressives such as Elizabeth Warren resurrect the race-based thinking of the antebellum South: ‘One drop’ and you’re a bona fide minority.

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In her past incarnations, she probably used that yarn in hopes of helping her win a law professorship at Harvard, which touted her as the law school’s first indigenous-American professor (and others apparently referenced her as Harvard Law’s “first woman of color”). She has refused to back down (and also refused to take a DNA test), even after Native American genealogists disputed her claim.

Diversity! It’s not just for breakfast any more.

In the racist South, some minorities sought to pass to claim white status; in racialist 21st-century America, some whites seek to pass to claim minority status. The common denominator in both cases is the contemporary society’s racial fixations — and the absurdity of needing to claim a particular racial status to gain advantages.

Taki takes the gloves off.

In an editorial, the Big Bagel Timesthundered: “We live at a time when a porn star displays more credibility and class than a president.” Well, that’s because the Bagel Times prefers someone who has sex in front of a camera for money over The Donald, who I admit has never been accused of having class, except he has a bit more than The New York Times. The paper can no longer be taken seriously, its animus against anyone white, heterosexual, and Christian so pronounced, it makes some of us who are still all three of the above feel like Jews in Germany circa 1936.

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Meet Jack Mauch, the newest member of our growing family of “Craftsmanship’s Young Turks.” At age 32, Mauch is already creating breathtaking examples of craftsmanship in everything from furniture-making to ceramics and metalwork.

‘Astonishing’ is totally inadequate.

The Other McCain points out some inconvenient truth.

We may summarize the Hart family story in a single sentence: Two white lesbians adopt six black children, abuse them for a decade, parade them around as mascots, and then kill them in a murder-suicide.

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If you just look hard enough, everything bad can be blamed on a Dead White Guy.

To be fair, this is by a Matthew A. Sears, an Associate Professor of ‘Classics and Ancient History an an obscure Canadian university. We’re not talking Paul Rahe or Victor Davis Hanson, here; this is a guy trapped in a field that is disappearing like the snows of yesteryear. Any chance this dude has of getting any kind of job security is to be a reliable Voice of the Crust and hope for a gig as a pet academic of the ruling class — like, say, Krugman.

And who knows? He may actually believe this stuff.

John Derbyshire points out some inconvenient truth.

The drill is, you get yourself to Mexico or Canada, go to the US border, present yourself to a border agent, and ask for asylum. The law says that your asylum application must then be formally recorded and considered. The considering of course takes for ever.

Ideally, you’d be detained in custody while it goes on. In practice, there are nothing like enough detention facilities because Congress won’t appropriate the funds. So most applicants are just given an appearance date, then released. They disappear into the U.S. interior and hook up with relatives, friends, or their gang boss from back home.

That’s a rough sketch of what happens, although a fair one, as can be seen from the number of asylum applications outstanding—300,000 currently, up from 16,000 five and a half years ago.

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Cue Leftist outrage.

Gee, when Obama did it, it was ‘Presidential’.

CNN Critiques Trump’s Wide Suit Pants

CNN’s Gergen Laments Trump Bringing About ‘the Death of Democracy’

CNN Forced To Agree With Trump About Rape Among Migrants: ‘That’s A Real Problem’ [VIDEO]  And you can tell that they didn’t like having to do it.

‘Morning Joe’ Accuses Trump Of Lying To Create ‘White Nationalist Backlash’ Against Illegal Immigrants  Wonder where Joe has been these last fifty years.

Michelle Obama compares Donald Trump to neglectful parent who lets children ‘eat candy all day’  Thank you, Nanny.

Jay-Z Says He’s ‘Beginning To Lose Confidence In The Trump Administration’  I’m sure the Trump administration is just devastated.

Court Puts Politics Above Law in State’s Lawsuit Against Trump  This is what makes Trump’s achievement with judicial appointments so important.

MSNBC’s Ruhle Straight Up Calls Trump’s Remarks ‘Racist’  Of course. If it’s Trump, it’s racist, by definition. Duh.

Letterman Interview with Jay-Z: ‘Dumb*ss’ Trump Brings Out ‘Ugly Side of America’  Although hardly as ugly as the ‘side of America’ brought out by most rap music.

Any sentence that starts ‘In the age of Trump…’ is going to be an imaginary thing stated as if it were fact.

That ought to save you some time.

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This story is a predictable continuation of the left’s ownership not just of media but indeed of all institutions. It is depressing. It is predictable. And it is where we are as a country now. It is not confined to the realm of ideas. Eich, Damore, Williamson and others are subject to blacklists and HR reports and firing in every arena of industry and culture. If you have wrongthink, you will not be allowed for long to make your living within any space the left has determined they own – first the academy, then the media, then corporate America, and now the public square. You will bake the cake, you will use the proper pronoun, and you will never say that what Planned Parenthood does is murder for hire, and should be punished as such under the law.

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Overwhelming evidence from archaeology, anthropology, and kindred disciplines is beginning to give us a fairly clear idea of what the last 40,000 years of human history really looked like, and in almost no way does it resemble the conventional narrative. Our species did not, in fact, spend most of its history in tiny bands; agriculture did not mark an irreversible threshold in social evolution; the first cities were often robustly egalitarian. Still, even as researchers have gradually come to a consensus on such questions, they remain strangely reluctant to announce their findings to the public­ – or even scholars in other disciplines – let alone reflect on the larger political implications. As a result, those writers who are reflecting on the ‘big questions’ of human history – Jared Diamond, Francis Fukuyama, Ian Morris, and others – still take Rousseau’s question (‘what is the origin of social inequality?’) as their starting point, and assume the larger story will begin with some kind of fall from primordial innocence.

Simply framing the question this way means making a series of assumptions, that 1. there is a thing called ‘inequality,’ 2. that it is a problem, and 3. that there was a time it did not exist. Since the financial crash of 2008, of course, and the upheavals that followed, the ‘problem of social inequality’ has been at the centre of political debate. There seems to be a consensus, among the intellectual and political classes, that levels of social inequality have spiralled out of control, and that most of the world’s problems result from this, in one way or another. Pointing this out is seen as a challenge to global power structures, but compare this to the way similar issues might have been discussed a generation earlier. Unlike terms such as ‘capital’ or ‘class power’, the word ‘equality’ is practically designed to lead to half-measures and compromise. One can imagine overthrowing capitalism or breaking the power of the state, but it’s very difficult to imagine eliminating ‘inequality’. In fact, it’s not obvious what doing so would even mean, since people are not all the same and nobody would particularly want them to be.

The problem appears to be not so much what we know, as what we know that ain’t so.

I’m not sure I understand all I know about this piece but it was delightful to read, rather like a Monty Python skit.

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A number of the reigning oligarchs—among them Mark Zuckerberg (net worth $64.1 billion), Elon Musk (net worth $20.8 billion), Richard Branson (net worth $5.1 billion) and Stewart Butterfield (net worth $1.6 billion)—are calling for a guaranteed basic income. It looks progressive. They couch their proposals in the moral language of caring for the destitute and the less fortunate. But behind this is the stark awareness, especially in Silicon Valley, that the world these oligarchs have helped create is so lopsided that future consumers, plagued by job insecurity, substandard wages, automation and crippling debt peonage, will be unable to pay for the products and services offered by the big corporations.

The oligarchs do not propose structural change. They do not want businesses and the marketplace regulated. They do not support labor unions. They will not pay a living wage to their bonded labor in the developing world or the American workers in their warehouses and shipping centers or driving their delivery vehicles. They have no intention of establishing free college education, universal government health or adequate pensions. They seek, rather, a mechanism to continue to exploit desperate workers earning subsistence wages and whom they can hire and fire at will. The hellish factories and sweatshops in China and the developing world where workers earn less than a dollar an hour will continue to churn out the oligarchs’ products and swell their obscene wealth. America will continue to be transformed into a deindustrialized wasteland. The architects of our neofeudalism call on the government to pay a guaranteed basic income so they can continue to feed upon us like swarms of longnose lancetfish, which devour others in their own species.

It’s not often you see a criticism of the Welfare State from the Left, nor do I know how such a clear insight into the Crustian program can be reconciled in the brain with obvious adherence to other planks of the proglodyte program, but it’s rather refreshing to encounter such a chaemera.

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Tom Lehrer was the Scott Adams of his day, a liberal who didn’t check his brain at the door on the way in.

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You also have to live the yoga life, eat vegan, and use only organic GMO-free oil from the Honduran Burberry plant.

I’m a big fan of hard-anodized nonstick, myself. Hot water + paper towel = I can go back to bed.

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Sometimes it is good to be the king.

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Washington State University is currently offering a class on how Western science is impacted by “socially constructed” categories such as gender, sexuality, and nationality.

“Women’s Studies 220: Gender, Culture, and Science,” is a sophomore-level class taught this semester by Jenifer Barclay, an assistant professor in the school’s Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies