It was always obvious that he was a moron, but I hadn’t realized what a scumbag he is as well.
I’ll never understand Kennedy worship.
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The Latest Outrage From The Left
Yes, heaven forfend that police should be involved in investigating rape.
Orion
Official schedule just slipped to April 2023 for EM2. Like Constellation, it’s slipping more than a year per year. The program began in 2005. That would make it eighteen years.
Breakdown of Orion costs dating to 2005 ish: $5.8b under Constellation program, $4.5b since Constellation canceled, $6.77b through 2023.
— Stephen Clark (@StephenClark1) September 16, 2015
I weep when I contemplate the much more useful ways we could have spent that money. https://t.co/qaL2Tdqrhl
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) September 16, 2015
Public-School Child Abuse
Some morons in Texas arrested a fourteen-year-old kid for building a digital clock.
As far as I’m concerned, though, CAIR isn’t doing him any favors by getting involved.
Defying Darwin
A Colorado park stays closed because too many people are taking selfies with bears.
I think we should just let evolution take its course, myself.
Scott Walker And Unions
He wants a dramatic overhaul of labor laws. It’s long overdue. They’re a relic of the thirties.
I haven’t read the proposal, but it’s worth noting that he could eliminate public-employee unions with the stroke of a pen. That’s how Kennedy created them.
Social Psychology
A new paper on the lack of political diversity in the field, and its consequences.
Bernie’s Proposals
They would add $18T to the national debt. That’s essentially doubling it (again, after Obama already did it once), not even counting the unfunded liabilities of social security et al.
Related: BS from Bernie:
Bernie Sanders, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, spoke at Liberty University today. You can read his speech here. It is useful, in that it exposes the extent of Sanders’s ignorance and radicalism. Any deconstruction of a speech this bad must be selective.
Read the whole fisking. It’s also worth noting, in contrast to when a conservative speaker comes to a leftist college, how politely he was treated.
The War On College Men
A Democrat representative from Colorado steps it up a couple notches:
The main result of adopting Polis’s approach would be to create — since we all know this policy is aimed at male students, and almost exclusively enforced against them by a university “diversity” bureaucracy in which men are wildly underrepresented — a hostile educational environment for male students. As the Pope Center for Higher Education, which conducted a study of gender representation among “gender equity enforcers,” found, “Considering that the overwhelming preponderance of sexual harassment allegations are directed by women at men, the disproportion of women to men in the positions charged with interpreting and enforcing the sexual harassment rules is a legitimate concern. Are male students who are accused of sexual harassment likely to receive fair-minded treatment in these offices?”
If even a false accusation of sexual assault is grounds for expulsion, the result is to burden student sex lives with fear. That’s doubly so when the enforcers are so heavily non-male. Men who fear that they may be so targeted — and remember, you don’t even have to have dated a woman to be falsely accused — cannot possibly enjoy college in a normal fashion.
These people are insane totalitarians. If you wanted to destroy academia, it would be hard to do a better job.
Transhumanists
The Beeb checks them out.
Kind of funny that the reporter thinks that Aubrey de Grey is a woman.
[Update a few minutes later]
@Rand_Simberg oh wow, thanks for flagging. As you'll see from my film, I do know that! Not sure how that happened. Will change now.
— Benjamin Zand (@BenjaminZand) September 15, 2015
Probably an editorial error.