A righteous Twitter rant from Phil Metzger:
Follow the thread. He lambastes the Alabama delegation, and how this actually harmed Alabama. He’s right. It’s tragic.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
The College Admissions Mess
Bottom line: our admissions process is badly flawed. I blame it partly on the decline in the predominance in academic values coinciding with the bureaucratization of the university. Administrators are crowding out faculty not only numerically but in terms of power. I blame it partly on our academic obsession with evaluating people on the basis of group characteristics, not individual merit. What would Alexis de Tocqueville say visiting 21st century America, learning that students bribe their way into a ticket for economic success by lying about their ability to hit tennis balls? Is that the new American exceptionalism?
Apparently.
[Update a few minutes later]
Yes. The college-admissions scandal should make everyone furious.
Academia has been infuriating me for years. It’s a generational disaster, not just for the kids, but the Republic itself.
Robert Bork
Don’t read the Constitution the way he did. A long but interesting disquisition on the founding documents.
CBD
Is it a miracle cure, or hype?
All I know is that I get a lot of spam in email about it.
EM-1
More reporting on Bridenstine’s announcement from last week, from Ken Chang at the NYT, and from Jonathan Callaghan at Forbes, the latter of which contains several quotes from Your’s Truly.
Maduro And Cuba
He used their doctors to manipulate the population with scarcity of medical supplies.
It’s what socialists always end up doing.
[Via Instapundit, who notes: “This totally won’t happen here if we give the Democrats the power they want.”]
Climate Change
No, The New Republic, it’s not this generation’s Vietnam War.
College Children
What a societal disaster.
[Monday-morning update]
Are parents robbing children of their adulthood?
Yes. This is one of the things that drove the “keep your ‘child’ on your health insurance until he’s 26.”
Meanwhile, what happens when all of childhood becomes college prep. In this formulation, the kids are being robbed of their childhood. In some sense, both things are happening.
[Bumped]
Beta O’Dork
He’s the candidate for vapid morons.
That seems a little harsh. It’s true of pretty much the entire field, if not the party itself.
Meanwhile, Zogby says Trump will be hard to beat in 2020.
Yup. Can’t beat something with nothing.
[Update a few minutes later]
Beta’s gafftastic day.
The Shooter In New Zealand
An analysis.
The media wasted no time in blaming Trump, but I blame them, for at least two reasons:
First, while the shooter didn’t think that Trump was a great leader, he did admire him “a symbol of renewed white identity.” Why would he do that? Because that is how the media repeatedly portrays him, reality aside.
Second, in their continual calls for gun control, they encouraged him to think that his act would be the straw that finally broke the back, and allow them to finally implement it, resulting in the new American civil war that he claims to seek.
Free tip to Fox News, and conservatives. Start pushing the narrative that it’s the media’s fault, not Trump’s. Put them on the defensive for once.
And of course, this was big news, because one of their favorite victim groups, Muslims, were the target. Let’s see how much play they give the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria, or the shooting in Utrecht. By Muslims.
[Update a few minutes later]
This seems related: America’s race problems are mostly caused by the soft bigotry of guilty white virtue-signaling leftists (who falsely call themselves “liberals”).
[Update a while later]
Thoughts on the “elites” in the last link from Ann Althouse.