A very nice profile on an up and comer. I’ve met her a couple times (but a decade ago), great person.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
How To Ruin Sex
Apparently it’s a bad thing for men to take pleasure in pleasuring women.
[Screaming orgasm]
“Was that good for you?”
“Stop oppressing me, you brutal tool of the patriarchy!”
The Benefits Of Sperm
I don’t care how many there are, still nope. Also not going to cook with it. But it might be useful news for women (and some men).
No, Weather Is Not Climate
The latest nuttiness, thoroughly debunked.
Persecuting The Heretics
It’s crazy that a bill like this should even be necessary:
Lockman, however, wants to protect all people with opinions on global warming and prevent a Republican attorney general from conducting a similar investigation.
“I don’t want to see a Republican state attorney general issuing subpoenas for the records of progressive or liberal think tanks or public policy groups to chill their free speech,” Lockman told AP.
“It’s about Citizens United and the government abridging speech,” Lockman said. “It’s not about climate science. It’s about climate policy.”
Maine Democrats and environmentalists oppose Lockman’s bill, so it doesn’t have much hope of passing. Some environmentalists apparently want state prosecutors to be able to investigate “climate deniers.”
“Clearly an attempt to provide cover for climate deniers,” Dylan Voorhees, with the Natural Resources Council of Maine, told AP. “I see a trickle down from the Trump administration that has emboldened some folks to make climate denial statements.”
Calling skeptics “deniers” is slanderous, unscientific, and trivializes the Holocaust.
Living In Space
Things you’re not allowed to do.
This video I wrote for @SciShow Space and @hankgreen on what you can't do in space has over a million views! WHAAAAT https://t.co/8jtYNLq1RH
— Leah Crane (@DownHereOnEarth) March 22, 2017
a) I find it difficult to believe that no one in the past several decades, especially with women in the mix since the early 80s, has not joined the 150-mile club. They even flew a married couple in the early 90s. Shuttle had very sensitive accelerometers, and I imagine ISS does too. Mission control knows what’s going on.
b) I also find it difficult to believe that anyplace with engineers and scientists and sugar doesn’t have hooch in short order. The free fall might make the fermentation an interesting process, but I’ll bet it’s been happening.
These are things that are against the rules, but that doesn’t mean they don’t happen.
Confession Of A “Climate-Change Denier”
Yes:
There are two things necessary for a mass movement to succeed: true believers and a well-defined enemy. The enemy of the climate change mass movement is fossil fuels and the Industrial Age, with the “deniers” being the enablers of planetary destruction.
In the past, the term “denier” has been associated with that extreme group who denies the existence of the horrible, tragic historical fact, the Holocaust. Many climate change true believers want the public to put anyone who questions or disagrees with climate change projections in the same category as the Holocaust deniers. But one is a fact, the other a contested projection. Nevertheless, they have been quite successful.
Here is one of the definitions of “denier” found on the Internet: “a person who denies something, especially someone who refuses to admit the truth of a concept or proposition that is supported by the majority of the scientific or historical evidence: a prominent denier of global warming.”
Here is Hoffer’s warning on the role of the true believer: “where mass movements can either persuade or coerce, it usually chooses the latter.”
Something we are seeing in spades.
It’s demagoguery. And it trivializes the Holocaust itself, in the service of a(nother) collectivist political agenda.
The Most Common Grammar Mistakes
Wow. I expected to see more sophisticated errors than this. These border on illiteracy, in my opinion. It shows what a disaster the education system is, from K-12 through overpriced college degrees.
The Southern Poverty Law Center
It’s the fascist lying hate group that caused the fascist violent rioting at Middlebury College. I hadn’t realized until reading this what a piece of work Morris Dees is.
If You Lose Your Health Insurance
Are you really worse off?
The word “insurance” has lost all meaning when it comes to health care, and the continual confusion and conflation of the two lies at the root of much of the problem. Crazy idea: I want a health savings account to deal with normal medical expenses, and insurance for catastrophes. You know, the way insurance used to be until it got screwed up by wage controls during the war and union negotiators.