They really do have a problem.
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When you criticize Israel for what’s happening in Gaza, and don’t mention Hamas (who is wholly responsible for the suffering there), you are objectively pro-Hamas.
They really do have a problem.
[Update a few minutes later]
When you criticize Israel for what’s happening in Gaza, and don’t mention Hamas (who is wholly responsible for the suffering there), you are objectively pro-Hamas.
Jeff Foust reviews what looks to be an interesting new book on NASA’s safety culture.
Why Zoomers won’t show their feet.
To be fair, the Internet and porn have created a lot of social dysfunction, including terrible sex (at least for women, but probably men as well).
This is the end of it as we know it.
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Meet the new boss, same as the old.
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Biden passes the torch. On a speakerphone.
Why women are the new campus radicals.
Well, it’s because women are now dominating academia.
An analysis by Jim Meigs.
For years, I’d been wondering what that little phrase was that you hear women sing at the end of commercials for Salonpas pain reliever. I did eventually manage to track it down. It sounds like “Sammy too,” but it’s actually the manufacturer with the name of the title of this post (obviously Japanese). I would have thought it was pronounced HIsaMITsu, but apparently it’s HiSAMItsu .
Anyway, they must have finally gotten the message from viewers that it was a head scratcher, so for the first time this morning, I saw an ad in which they actually showed the word at the end. It’s funny that they’d been singing it for all these years with complete ineffectiveness at conveying what it was.
[Update later afternoon]
Apparently I misspelled it: It’s Hisamitsu.
It’s not too late to do a ceremony to commemorate the first landing on another world. Download here.
Is there any hope?
Jim Meigs reviews his book:
Anthony Fauci, whose early career did so much to improve human health, leaves behind a tainted legacy. He and his colleagues abused their authority, overreached on lockdowns and vaccine policies, and dissembled about dangerous research that his agency funded. The populist backlash to these excesses is still building. The public’s growing distrust of medical experts—and new skepticism toward all vaccines—is a public-health timebomb.
It is tempting to attribute Fauci’s late-career lapses to some personal moral deficiency. I think that’s the wrong tack. Fauci’s ethical shortcomings weren’t personal so much as institutional; he had been given enormous authority while being almost completely insulated from political oversight. Even the president could not easily fire him. And his centralized control over massive research budgets meant that few scientists were willing to challenge his claims or policies.
Over the decades, Fauci came to see himself as infallible. He represented “science.” Instead of welcoming contrary views, as he did during the AIDS years, the older, more thin-skinned (and more institutionally entrenched) Fauci resented criticism and tried to silence dissent. If not for the persistent pushback from a few bold scientists, journalists, and lawmakers, he might have succeeded in shutting down crucial debates entirely. No federal official should have so much power, with so little accountability, for so long.
Few people have the probity to withstand the temptations of that kind of power.