I was kind of shocked to find myself agreeing with him.
Tell us what you really think, Piers, don't hold back. https://t.co/fiiBEc3pdT
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) November 17, 2016
Category Archives: Media Criticism
The IRS
Top officials admitted that they were targeting conservative groups, years ago. The new Attorney General should look into this, along with all the destruction of evidence.
Science’s Broken Rewards System
A a look into the math and sociology of it.
Trump, And Anti-Semitism
Yes, like Bethany Mandel, I’d take them a little more seriously if they’d ever shown any concern about it when it comes so abundantly from the Left:
The increased focus on anti-Semitism has, of course, only been borne out of the fact that the supposed offender and his supporters have a capital R after their names. Would the media have been so concerned about an outbreak of hatred against a religious group had it originated out of a Democratic campaign? Given the water-carrying the media has been willing to do for Democrats who on one hand breathlessly warned about a “War on Women” in 2012 while still eulogizing Ted Kennedy, a beloved Democrat who killed an actual woman in 1969, it would be a good bet to wager that maniac supporters and a few campaign dog whistles would’ve been hastily ignored from a different party.
Also:
I suppose it's possible that Bannon is a racist, but I'm not going to take the word of the usual "boy who cried racists"' word for it.
— Apostle To Morons (@Rand_Simberg) November 17, 2016
Counting Calories
These may be the stupidest people in the world:
Based on its menu board, Desmond bought a chorizo burrito at the Chipotle restaurant on San Vicente Boulevard in Los Angeles on Nov. 3 believing that it contained 300 calories, the suit states. But after consuming the product, Desmond “felt excessively full and realized that the burrito couldn’t have been just 300 calories,” according to the complaint.
Two days later, Gurevich bought a chorizo burrito at the Chipotle location on Riverside Drive in Toluca Lake and similarly realized after eating it that had more than the 300 calories advertised, the suit says.
You can’t tell how many calories are in food by how “full” you feel after eating it. Nutritional labeling is part of the general public-health disaster that has been nutrition “science” for decades.
And speaking of which, “researchers” are shocked to discover that kids are healthier, with lower body fat and higher vitamin D levels, on whole milk.
No one should be consuming low-fat dairy products, which are a nutritional abomination. Michelle’s school-lunch program literally constitutes physical child abuse.
How Short Our Memories
This is great.
The Electoral Voters
Yes, absolutely. The way to persuade them to vote for your candidate is to dox and harrass them. While complaining that your opponent is a violent threat to the nation.
Brilliant Babs
Sure, Senator Boxer, it will be no problem at all to persuade thirty-eight states to give up their role in electing the president.
Sauce For The Goose
No, Republicans shouldn’t let the Democrats filibuster the Supreme Court picks.
As has often been pointed out, Democrats in power behave as though they’ll never lose power again. Make them pay for it.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Related, sort of: Democrats are starting to realize that Obama led them into a cultural cul de sac.
[Update a couple more minutes later]
This sea of red shows how devastating the electoral losses of the past six years have been for Democrats.
I’m still angry that the media somehow made red the color of the Republicans, instead of the Marxists.
Trump, And Climate
Thoughts from Judith Curry. tl;dr He’s not crazy:
In my post Trumping the elites, I stated that Trump’s election provided an opportunity for a more rational energy and climate policy. Many in the blog comments and the twitosphere found this to be an incomprehensible statement.
Here is what I think needs to be done, and I do see opportunities for these in a Trump administration:
- a review of climate science that includes a faithful and transparent representation of uncertainties in 21st century projections of global and regional climate change
- reopening of the ‘endangerment’ issue, as to whether warming is ‘dangerous’
- a do-over on assessing the social cost of carbon, that accounts for full uncertainty in the climate model simulations, the integrated assessment models and their inputs.
- support funding for Earth observing systems (satellite, surface, ocean) and research on natural climate variability.
Even if politics are to ‘trump’ the conclusions of these analyses, it would be clear that the Trump administration has done its due diligence on this issue in terms of gathering and assessing information. If the Trump administration were to accomplish the first 3 items, they might have a scientifically and economically defensible basis for pulling out of the Paris agreement and canceling Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
I noted the other day on Twitter that if Myron is the new EPA administrator, we’ll finally have one who is not a rabid environmentalist, and will follow the law, doing actual cost/benefit analyses. As a bonus, many EPA employees may quit (though it’s unclear if they have any marketable skills outside of government).