This is just nuts. I hope he’ll come back to Twitter.
[Update a few minutes later]
More PC stupidity: The sins of the father shall be visited on the child.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Flipping Witnesses
Ken White: Yes, it does corrupt justice, but not (just, or even) because they’re “rats.”
Yes. Trump is wrong about why flipping is bad, but he's not wrong about flipping is bad. Prosecutors have far too much power, with too little accountability. It's a travesty of the justice system. https://t.co/2p0anto9d5
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) August 24, 2018
Mike Pence’s Space Gospel
Marina Koren has a nice history of religious allusions in space speeches.
To Raise Healthy Boys
…you have to like men.
It might be enough to just not hate them.
Tolkien And The Left
Yes, it was in fact an allegory against all they love.
[Update a couple minutes later]
As Gail Heriot (from whom I got this link) notes, they would never have destroyed that ring; they’d have used it. For our collective good, of course.
Socialism
Well, it certainly resulted in the brutal premature deaths of many tens of millions of people in the last century. But maybe they weren’t doing it quite right. We’ll just have to keep trying until they get it right. For the children.
A Former NPR CEO
…visits the half of the country that the media hates:
For an entire year, I embedded myself with the other side, standing in pit row at a NASCAR race, hanging out at Tea Party meetings and sitting in on Steve Bannon’s radio show. I found an America far different from the one depicted in the press and imagined by presidents (“cling to guns or religion”) and presidential candidates (“basket of deplorables”) alike.
I spent many Sundays in evangelical churches and hung out with 15,000 evangelical youth at the Urbana conference. I wasn’t sure what to expect among thousands of college-age evangelicals, but I certainly didn’t expect the intense discussion of racial equity and refugee issues — how to help them, not how to keep them out — but that is what I got.
Two issues with the piece: My usual complaint that there is nothing “liberal” about these fascists, and he’s not hard enough on his former colleagues. But it’s a nice start.
Liking Men
I’d put it a different way; if you don’t like men, you’re going to be a terrible mother to a boy.
The First Amendment
…and the lesson of Robespierre:
Once we stop treating the Internet as just a medium like newsprint and start treating Internet hosting companies as publishers, we make them vulnerable to oppressors and we can be sure that some of them will not have what we see as the “public good” in mind.
This is the lesson of Robespierre: once you establish that something may be done for you, you establish that it can be done to you.
Similarly, as Barry Goldwater and others have said, a government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it all away.
The Kids Aren’t All Right
So the left has wrecked the educational system, both sides fed us crap dietary advice for decades, and proliferated laws to the point that now seventy percent of young people are ineligible to serve in the military. Thanks, government.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, link is fixed.