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For Nigeria, increased crime, especially kidnapping, is largely the result of the worldwide covid19 economic slowdown and recession. This was made worse by the sharp global decline in oil sales, which hit the Nigerian economy hard. At the end of 2020 unemployment was nearly 30 percent and inflation nearly 15 percent. Currently the unemployment rate is still over 20 percent and the inflation rate is 16 percent.

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In January 2019, I wrote about an emerging trend in higher education: The requirement that applicants for faculty positions submit, along with statements about teaching and research, “diversity statements.” In such statements, applicants demonstrate their commitment to drawing in students, staff, and faculty from under-represented groups, meaning oppressed groups. They prove their commitment to helping members of those groups feel welcome on campus and to removing arbitrary barriers to their success in class or at work. What was emerging then is more established now.

Later in 2019, Abigail Thompson, a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Davis, asserted that several campuses on the vast University of California campus were using diversity statements as a screening tool. “Hiring committees,” she wrote, “are being urged to start the review process by using officially provided rubrics to score the required diversity statements and to eliminate applicants who don’t achieve a scoring cut-off.”

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A new optical switch is, at 1 trillion operations per second, between 100 and 1,000 times faster than today’s leading commercial electronic transistors, research that may one day help lead to a new generation of computers based on light instead of electricity, say scientists in Russia and at IBM.

Bill Gates’ daughter Jennifer required all 300 wedding guests to be vaccinated and take COVID tests  So young, and already a statist.

Kentucky’s backroad churches may be key to saving hospitals overwhelmed by COVID (NPR)

Dennis Prager has COVID-19, says he deliberately sought infection to gain natural immunity

Meanwhile, here’s the nonsense Ron Johnson and Maria Bartiromo are saying about the pandemic (Washington Post)

Parents Protest Vaccine Mandate for School-age Kids at California Capitol

Minnesota Hospital Shuts Down ER And Urgent Care Amid Nurse Strike

NBA Commissioner Hopes Irving Changes His Mind Over COVID Vaccine

Washington State Fires Football Coach for Not Being Vaccinated

Doctors Can Prescribe Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine Off-Label For COVID-19: Nebraska AG

DeSantis Critics Quiet as Florida’s COVID-19 Cases Drop

Chicago Begins Placing Police Officers On “No-Pay Leave” Status Amid Vaccine Showdown

Washington State Loses Hundreds of Public Employees Over Vaccine Mandate  I guess every cloud has a silver lining.

1000s Of California Parents Join In Statewide Walkout Against Vaccine Mandate For Students

A Simple Plan for Biden to Lower Gas Prices and End Fossil Fuel Hegemony (New Republic)

Money For Green Energy Creates More Jobs Than Fossil Fuel Investment, New Study Finds (Huffington Post)

An Experimental Fusion Energy Plant May Be Coming to a Town Near You

Britain to Downgrade Renewables, Embrace Nuclear Power

We Trust Meteorology To Save Lives. Is The Same Possible For Climate Science?

Not Breaking: Manchin Rejects Centerpiece Of Biden’s Climate Agenda… Which Progressive Dems Insist On

More than 99.9% of studies agree: Humans caused climate change

Maxine Waters paid daughter $74,000 in campaign cash this year alone What’s the use of having power if you can’t abuse it?

Meghan Markle’s Royal Racism Allegations Used in School’s White Privilege Lessons

If Thomas Jefferson Is Canceled, Will Anybody Remember Sally Hemings?

Exactly As Trump Predicted: “Racist” Jefferson Statue To Be Removed At NYC Council

US Judge Clears U. of North Carolina for Race-Based Admissions

NYC Union Boss Compared Black Police Officer to Klansman

SI Cover Story: Nike’s Jordan Brand Exec ‘Beloved’ Despite Murder Conviction

Biden playing a deadly game using secret flights to move migrants

‘This Story Is Not Over’: Nets Ignored Americans Finally Leaving Afghanistan

Biden Secretly Flying In Underage Migrants To NY, Spreading Border Crisis Across US

Biden’s secret flights

Nets Trashed Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy as Cruel, Silent as Biden Restarts

Biden’s Inept Economic Policies Indirectly Causing Strikes, Unionizing Efforts

Biden Admin Flies Migrant Kids to NY in Dead of Night

Biden Admin Has Released Over 16,000 COVID-Positive Migrants Into US: Whistleblower

“Look at Me”: The Latest From Our Confused Old Man in the White House

Joy Behar’s Mad at Fox’s ‘Mask Police’ Calling Out Biden’s Mask Hypocrisy

Bari Weiss tells Brian Stelter how ‘the world has gone mad,’ lists ‘people who work at’ CNN as a cause

Popular singer, TikTok star is robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco: ‘Peeing my pants’ Time to leave.

Nets Blackout Parents Protesting DOJ for ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Smear

Higher Urban Densities Associated with the Worst Housing Affordability

Oberlin Student Feels ‘Angry, Scared, Confused’ About ‘Cisgender’ Workmen

Local Gov’t Employees Took Hundreds of Hours of Paid Time Off To Elect Warnock, Docs Show

Texas Civil Rights Groups Sue Over Redrawn House Maps  As the night follows the day.

CNN Democrat Budget Freakout: ‘Implosion of Mother Earth, Last Act for Democracy’

Axios Blames American Consumers, Not Bad Policy for Labor Shortages

District Attorneys Refusing to Prosecute Some GOP-Led Laws

Top Berkeley Scientist Resigns, Says School Excludes Scientists Based on Political Views

Video Transcript: The Mountain of Data Showing How Authoritarian Democrats Have Become  Glenn Greenwald.

Maryland Dems Keep Redistricting Process Hidden From Public

7 Ways Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Tax-and-Spend Bill Would Take Over Your Health Care

Democrats Are Trying to Sneak Gender Dogma Into a Bill on Family Violence

Jordan Klepper Exposes MAGA Morons Who Still Think ‘Trump Won’ (Daily Beast)

‘Don’t Need Your Lectures, Thanks Mate’: Australia Leader Beclowns Ted Cruz Over Vax Mandate Opinions (Daily Beast) The Daily Beast’s entire business model seems to be just calling Republicans names. Well, I suppose there’s money in that….

Gaetz ally Joel Greenberg is giving investigators new information, prosecutors say (CNN) Still flogging that dead horse.

Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan and the Proud Boys: How the fragility of the male ego fuels the far-right (Salon)

DOJ: ‘Lionizing’ Jan. 6 Rioters Encourages More Political Violence  Except, of course, for BLM and Antifa, who don’t need any enouragement.

Celebs Make PSA to Support Netflix Employee Walkout Over Chappelle Special

Witch hunt

Fired Teacher Sues School Board, Claims He Was Terminated for Conservative Political Activism

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Cruz introduced the Stop the SURGE Act to demand President Joe Biden and Democrats address the crisis at the southern border, which has been flooded by migrants seeking entrance into the U.S.

The legislation would establish new ports of entry in 13 communities across the country and mandate all migrants encountered at Border Patrol Sectors in Texas be transferred to these new ports for processing. That would help alleviate the workload for overwhelmed Border Patrol and local law enforcement.

The new ports would be located in places such as Napa Valley, California; Greenwich, Connecticut; Rehoboth Beach, Delaware; and North Hero, Vermont.

Blue-State legislatures and agencies are very fond of putting (or trying to put) ‘affordable housing’ (i.e. poor black people) in what they consider to be overly-white and overly-affluent areas.  Sauce for the goose….

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The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror organization is often in the business of “jihad now, not later,” an approach that has led to multiple deadly escalations between it and Israel in the Gaza Strip – even when this did not suit the immediate interests of Gaza’s Islamist rulers, Hamas.

However, PIJ has recently been making a concerted effort not to undermine Hamas’s rule, and has cooperated with Hamas’s decision to seek a tactical, unofficial period of calm. What remains unclear is just how long PIJ will continue to play along before reverting back to its traditional role of arsonist.

ZMan pulls back the curtain.

One of the unexamined parts of the current crisis in the West is that much of it is related to an opposition to nationalism. It is an axiom of the ruling ideology that nationalism is the worst thing ever and that stamping it out is a primary concern. In Europe, there are laws against the concept. People are jailed for promoting it. In the United States, nationalism is linked to the deadly sin of racism. The term white nationalism has become a synonym for racism and antisemitism.

Without much evidence, it is asserted that nationalism is the cause of the great horrors of the modern age. For generations now children have been taught that nationalism was the cause of the two great industrial wars of the 20th century. Paradoxically, they also are taught that nationalism is to blame for colonialism. Today it is claimed that white people being themselves as a people, currently called whiteness, is the cause of everything that ails nonwhites in the West.

Akex Tabarrok, a Real Economist, lays it out.

One of the silver linings of the pandemic was the ability to see a doctor and be prescribed medicine online. I used telemedicine multiple times during the pandemic and it was great–telemedicine saved me at least an hour each visit and I think my medical care was as good as if I had been in person. I already knew I had poison ivy! No need for the doctor to get it also.

Telemedicine has been possible for a long time. What allowed it to take off during the pandemic wasn’t new technology but deregulation. HIPAA rules, for example, were waived for good faith use of standard communication technologies such as Zoom and Facetime even though these would ordinarily have been prohibited.

Once again, government is the problem, not the solution.

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An examination of hundreds of health departments around the country shows that the nation may be less prepared for the next pandemic than it was for the current one.

The problem is not with ‘the nation’ but with ‘health departments’ that act like the Gestapo at its worst.

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Leptin is a hormone produced by fat cells that carries out a range of functions in the body, chief among them being the regulation of appetite. It does by communicating with the brain region called the hypothalamus to let the person know they’ve had enough to eat, but this relationship can break down in people with obesity.

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California company Radiant has secured funding to develop a compact, portable, “low-cost” one-megawatt nuclear micro-reactor that fits in a shipping container, powers about 1,000 homes and uses a helium coolant instead of water.

Cue Eco-Nazi lawsuits.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Across the country, parents and concerned citizens are rising up against unresponsive left-wing school boards, most of which have been put in place without much public oversight by far-left teachers’ unions. The movement for reform has now reached as far as San Francisco.

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

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In previous years it was Lampedusa, the Italian island not far from the coast of North Africa, that was the preferred destination for “refugees” who wanted access to the European Union, especially Germany. In 2021, however, the focus has been on Belarus, which has been encouraging migrants to come to Minsk and cross the border into Poland or Lithuania as a geopolitical move against the EU.

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It seems that just about every more-or-less secular Afghani has stood up, raised his hand, and said, “I, too, was an interpreter for the Bundeswehr!”

At least that’s the way it looks as the Afghan “refugees” pour into Germany, aided and encouraged by various factions of the German government.

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A Senegalese culture-enricher has killed an Italian street artist during an aborted mugging in Lecce, a city in the southern Italian province of Apulia. He says he didn’t mean to.

A Sunny Outlook for Solar: New Research Demonstrates Great Promise for Improving Solar Cell Efficiency

The case for ‘hope punk’ when talking about climate change: ‘To be hopeless is to be uninformed’

Dozens Of Climate Activists Arrested After Storming Interior Department, Police Sustain “Multiple Injuries”  But don’t you care call it an ‘insurrection’.

No, CNN, Wildfires Will Not Be Destroying Times Square, New York City

Biden EPA sued for illegally stacking science advisory panels

NASA Shifts Focus From Space to Earth’s Climate Problems  Yeah, since they’re not doing anything in space any more, they’ve got to justify their budget somehow.

New court filings illuminate academia’s deep role in climate industry  Follow the money.

California faces ‘existential’ dilemma in tackling climate change, housing crisis (NBC News)

Why neither party has a sustainable political majority (CNN)

Ex-intel official who created controversial Trump Russia dossier speaks out (CNN)

Reliably Partisan: Brian Stelter Offers Softballs to Steele-Dossier Slime Merchant

Illinois Democrats agonize over how much to gerrymander (Politico) And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Walgreens is abandoning San Francisco because leftist policies created a shoplifting crisis

Texas Temporarily Forced to Recognize Women as Humans (The New Yorker)

Greenwald: Civil Liberties Are Being Trampled By Exploiting “Insurrection” Fears

Felony Subway Crime in NY Spiked 25% Last Month

Mollie Hemingway on Fox: No One Trusts the Liberal Media on Elections Anymore

10 Absurdly Wasteful Items Tucked Into Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Tax-and-Spend Monstrosity

Journalists: Fairness Is Overrated

DC Comics Announces Superman Will No Longer Protect “The American Way”  I guess the “S” stands for Socialism.

‘Just Unconscionable’: Parents Protest Outside Justice Department Against ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Label

Facebook VP Brags About Censorship, Claims ‘Hate Speech’ Dropped 50% on Platform

Support For Climate Change Skyrockets After Computer Models Show It Will Flood California

Fauci: J&J Vaccine Should Have Been 2 Doses

40% Of California State Workers Are Unvaccinated Despite Newsom’s Order

Mad Vax Disease

Vaccine Roulette

Southwest Asks Court to Keep Vaccine Mandate in Place

‘Coffee Cup Gestapo’: The Latest Covid Crackdown Viral Video Out Of Australia

Washington State Trooper Gives ‘Final Sign Off’ After Refusing To Take Vaccine; Tells Governor To Kiss His A**

This Doctor Opposes COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate. Now His State Won’t Let Him Practice Medicine.

Fully Vaccinated Former SecState Colin Powell Dies From COVID Complications  Guess that vaccination really worked out for him, huh.

Fraudci-lent ‘Science’

Several Children Shot In Weekend Violence As Chicago Cancels All Time Off Requests, Bracing For Vax Non-Compliance

RECKLESS: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Shuns Mask Mandate at Surprisingly Crowded WNBA Game  BRAAAAAAAINS!

Public Health System Less Equipped to Handle Pandemic: NY Times

Dr. Gottlieb Warns New “Super Variant” Is Behind Latest COVID Comeback In UK

CDC Warns Unvaccinated 11 Times More Likely to Die of COVID-19  They fail to mention the obvious condition: IF they catch the disease, which many of us have managed to avoid doing. As Albert Einstein once said, “A clever person solves a problem. A wise one avoids it.”

Chicago Mayor Accuses Police Union Of Trying To ‘Induce An Insurrection’ Over Vaccine Mandate

Murder trial for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery set to begin with jury selection in Georgia (CNN) If you don’t remember, he’s the latest George Floyd.

What you need to know about the trial set to begin in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery (NPR) If, of course, you’re the sort of person who listens to NPR.

Trial of three white men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery set to begin (The Guardian) It is, of course, ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to identify them as ‘white men’, otherwise you won’t know who the victim is supposed to be.

Virginia GOP candidate Glenn Youngkin forced to boot white nationalist supporter from campaign event (CNN) Don’t want any of them White Nationaist Cooties around here.

Jussie Smollett Forced To Face Trial After Judge Denies Dismissal Request

Word “Spooky” Banned By National Theatre Over Absurd Claim It’s Racist

‘House Slave’: Left Treated Colin Powell Back Then The Same Way They Treat Elder, Scott Today

NYC Mayoral Contender Eric Adams Vows to Keep Schools’ Gifted Program, Let Noncitizens Vote

CNN Hosts Decry Media Obsession With Missing White Girls (Fact Check: CNN Obsessed With Missing White Girls)

‘Social Justice’ as Fashion Accessory

Bidens caught violating DC mask mandate at posh Georgetown restaurant Rules are for thee but not for me.

Jill Biden boosts group that helps illegal immigrants avoid arrest amid border crisis My, what a surprise.

Biden Admin Threatens To Make Unvaxx’d Navy SEALs Repay Their Training Costs

Activists Walk Out On Meeting With Biden Admin Over Remain-In-Mexico Program

Anti-Biden Rap Song Soars to #2 on iTunes

Biden Banking Nominee, a ‘Lenin Scholar,’ Is Fellow at Pro-China Think Tank

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Our soundproof office phone booths, pods and private spaces solve noise and privacy issues in open offices, making employees happier and more productive in dozens of the world’s leading companies, including Microsoft, Puma and Tesla. In fact, 40% of all Forbes 100 companies use Framery.

For those who miss cubicle life — bring it home!

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Several years ago, while perusing material for my favorite department of “The American Spectator,” the Current Wisdom, I came across an obvious lie perpetrated by Terry McAuliffe, this season’s Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia. It was a pretty bold lie, too, and he was quite proud of it as you will see.

The Current Wisdom is a department of “The American Spectator” that includes quotations that are obviously foolish but rarely out-and-out lies. This time the quote in question was an out-and-out lie. It was also quite foolish, but more to the point it was a lie, and it was perpetrated by the future governor of the great state of Virginia who now hopes to serve yet again. His opponent is Glenn Youngkin, and he better be on his toes with this Democratic opponent who seems to be getting desperate in his race with Youngkin.

On page 58 of his 2007 memoir, “What A Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals,” McAuliffe wrote that in past issues, “The American Spectator” published articles “alleging” that Bill Clinton “ordered the murder of political opponents.” I very politely asked him during a chance encounter in the green room of MSNBC where I might find the errant quote or quotes. Which issue was it in? I then followed up with a letter to Terry. (And I think I might call him Terry. After all, he ended our correspondence calling me Bob.) Remember, I edit “The American Spectator,” and if any of our aggressive young editors are pulling a fast one on me, I would want to know. Moreover, murder is a crime even in Arkansas.

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A top California union boss with ties to prominent Democrats may still wage considerable influence in the state even after she was arrested on charges of embezzlement and tax fraud.

Alma Hernández stepped down as executive director of SEIU California last week after she and her husband were charged with multiple counts of fraud. But Hernández, under whose direction the union donated to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) and then-senator Kamala Harris, is still listed on the board for three state governing bodies, including the executive council for the California Labor Convention.

Look for … the Union label….

Tyler Cowen, a Real Economist.

Again, I will repeat the perennial question: do our public health agencies wish to maximize their own status and control and feeling of “having done everything properly as they were trained,” or do they wish to maximize the expected value of actual outcomes for the citizenry? If it is not the latter, and too often it is not, I say they are oppressive frauds.

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I have now looked through all of the latest IPCC report. I say “looked through” because the report, including the Summary for Policymakers, is huge, just under four thousand pages. I looked over all of it, read only bits of particular interest to me.

One complication in writing about it is that the main report has, across every page in large light grey letters, “ACCEPTED VERSION SUBJECT TO FINAL EDITING,” and at the bottom of every page, “Do Not Cite, Quote or Distribute.” I will limit myself to describing what is in it and where but not actually quoting. The restriction is not present in the Summary for Policymakers, however.

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A new book titled “Antikythera Mechanism: The Story Behind the Genius of the Greek Computer and Its Demise” by Greek historian and ecopolitical theorist Evaggelos Vallianatos seeks to unravel the mystery of the world’s first computer.

I’m not sure I’m willing to waste money on a book by an ‘ecopolitical theorist’. I’ll wait for an actual scientist.

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Black, Latino and Asian City Council members who find the sculpture oppressive and racist may finally win a two-decade fight to remove it from their chamber.

Hey, it’s THEIR chamber.

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Among the injured, one is hospitalized in critical condition and six suffered non-life-threatening wounds, Louisiana State Police Master Trooper Michael Reichardt said.

According to Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings, the large number of wounded and lack of fatalities suggests that the perp(s) were POCs.

In connection with the first shooting, Louisiana State Police have charged Jatavious Carroll, 18, with one count of second degree murder, one count of attempted second degree murder, and possessing a firearm on school property, according to NBC affiliate KTVE.

Introducing Jatavious Carroll:

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Damascus has accused Israel of killing a former member of Syria’s parliament with a sniper firing from across the border in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Medhat al-Saleh was gunned down in Ain al-Tinah, a Syrian village that overlooks Majdal Shams, a town on the Israeli side of the Golan. Al-Saleh was a Syrian Druze who was born on the Israeli side of the border.

After being jailed multiple times by Israeli authorities, including a 12-year sentence, al-Saleh moved to Syria and was elected to parliament in 1998.

I suppose they think the Israelis ought to have used a car bomb in the middle of a busy street, the way the Arabs do it. Really, there’s no pleasing some people.

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Just a brief jumping-off point here. A Politico article begins with the following sentence-graph: “Republicans have been feuding for months in Nevada’s largest county after a pro-Donald Trump insurgency with ties to far-right activists threw the party into chaos.” Well, I haven’t conducted a study of the thing, but informally, I cannot recall the last time I saw the supporters of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, ACORN, Organizing for Action, or any of the rest of that stuff referred to as “far-left activists” in an ostensibly balanced news outlet, especially when casually name-dropped as “tied to” a prominent figure on the left, such as a former president. Perhaps you can educate me, but I figured that likelihood of juice isn’t worth the squeeze, so I certainly did not bestir myself.

There is no ‘right’, there is only the ‘far-right’.

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A mob last week rampaged through downtown Portland, Ore. Police were unable to control the crowd, however, because of restrictive measures passed this year by the Democratic state legislature.

A crowd of 100 people on Oct. 12 smashed windows and graffitied buildings, causing more than $500,000 in damage, police said. The violence followed a memorial to a Portland anarchist who in 2019 was hit by a car and killed.

Police made no arrests at the protest and did not directly intervene. Officers said their hands were tied by a state bill, passed in June, that in most situations restricts police from using crowd-control devices such as pepper spray and rubber bullets.

Did you hear anything about this in the “news”? I didn’t.

Time to leave.

Scott Johnson at PowerLine.

Yale Law School authorities threatened Colbert and pressured him to send out a self-abasing written apology that it drafted for him. When Colbert declined, they sent out a statement to the YLS community themselves condemning the offending party invitation (“We condemn this in the strongest possible terms”). In his interview with Smerconsih, Colbert observes that the administrators sent out this statement while they were on the phone with him misrepresenting what it said.

Once exposed in the Free Beacon story, the authorities issued a statement that is so disingenuous as to warrant professional discipline if made by a lawyer as a statement of fact to a court: “Yale University and Yale Law School have strong free speech protections, and no student is investigated or sanctioned for protected speech. When the Law School receives complaints about offensive communications, the Dean of Students routinely tries to help students talk to one another and resolve their disagreements within the community. At no time was any disciplinary investigation launched or disciplinary action taken in this matter.”

UPDATE: Getting minds right at Yale: In their own words

I’d rather be the hammer than the nail….

Yale demands law student apologize to peers for ‘triggering’ them (CNN)

Rigged review: shameless – and dangerous – catnip for Trump’s base (The Guardian)

Sen. Whitehouse blasts Alito speech: ‘You have fouled your nest, not us’ (The Hill)

Katie Couric’s RGB Coverup Shows How We Ended Up With Trump (Daily Beast)

Giant ‘Trump Lost. No More ‘Audits” Billboard Appears in Times Square

On MNSBC, Boston Globe Columnist Rips ‘Dirty-Coal Joe’ Manchin

Woman who won €1m literary prize turns out to be three men

Canadian pastor defiant as judge orders him to parrot ‘medical experts’ from pulpit: ‘I will not obey’

Williams Worries ‘The Texas Brand’ Will Spread Like Jim Crow  Oh, no!

“Foreign Is Dangerous” – China’s Censors Are Banning Hollywood Films From Domestic Market

ABC Tries to Exploit Kidnapped Americans in Haiti to Push for Open Borders

Oregon Law Handcuffs Police Ability to Control Lawlessness

Ex-NYPD Commish Bratton: NY Dems Made State ‘a Mess’ on Crime

The Pope Wants More Censorship Online  Of course he does.

CNN Touts Abortion as Vital for Underage Girls, No Reason to Regret

Immigration hawks say Biden’s CBP pick has ‘downright dangerous’ record opposing enforcement moves

US Commission on Civil Rights members blast AG Garland for memo on parents protesting school boards

‘Let’s Go Brandon!’ goes from social media meme to the top of the iTunes charts

“We’re done”: Immigration advocates stage walk-out on Biden administration (Politico)

Texas Farmer Says Biden Ignores Worsening Toll of Migrant Surge

Sorry Dr. Fauci! Fears of Super-Spreader College Football Games Are Dashed

Judge Temporarily Blocks Vaccine Mandate Requirement For California Prison Workers

Fauci Warns Unvaccinated Might Bring a Fifth COVID Wave  PUSH THAT PANIC! PUSH THAT PANIC!

Allison Williams Leaving ESPN After Her Vaccine Exemption Denied

Fauci Tees Up Unvaccinated Blame Campaign Over Potential ‘Fifth Wave’

Large Football Crowds Have Not Resulted In COVID-19 Spikes; Doomsayers Proven Wrong

Pentagon Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Vaccine Mandates On Military, Federal Employees And Contractors

Climate activists target Manchin

Abandoned wells are a huge climate problem (Washington Post)

US Coal “Roars Back” Under Biden Unlike Trump

‘Containergeddon’: California Emissions Law Caused the Supply Chain Crisis

When 2 Parents Tried To Make Their Young Daughter Practice What Greta Preaches…All Hell Broke Loose!

Researchers find few adverse health effects in wildlife exposed to low levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident  Life is more robust than most people are willing to believe.

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I’m going to pick on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg since his “parental leave” during a period of tremendous challenges to the United States transportation systems has recently brought up his claim to being a parent.

We know virtually nothing about the two babies Pete Buttigieg and Chasten Glezman “brought home” in August. Where did they come from? How were they created? Did Mr. Buttigieg and Mr. Glezman procure one or two women with wombs in which to grow babies for their own pleasure? If you think I’m a conspiracy theorist, then please point me to specific information that the actions of Mr. Buttigieg Mr. Glezman are something other than selfish actions by privileged men.

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A video conversation between economist Tyler Cowan and historian Niall Ferguson.

Two of my favorite people.

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Standardization makes life easier, but it is often impossible to introduce it to systems that have a messy evolutionary history. Electricity supply is a case in point.

And electricians have to know all this stuff.

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Like us, chefs only have so much energy and working memory at their disposal. Chefs use mise-en-place – a philosophy and mindset embodied in a set of practical techniques – as an “external brain.” It gives them a way to externalize their thinking into their environment and automate the repetitive parts of cooking so they can focus completely on the creative parts.

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In this article, I’ll summarize what I believe to be the most important lessons we can immediately put to use in knowledge-intensive work today.