My piece at PJMedia is up now, as promised.
And note, I wrote this before the media war on the pizza place.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Should businesses that quietly oppose same-sex marriage be destroyed?
This doesn’t seem like a very effective way to change peoples’ minds on the subject.
[Bumped]
The results of a controlled metabolic study:
Even short-term consumption of a Paleolithic-type diet improved glucose control and lipid profiles in people with type 2 diabetes compared with a conventional diet containing moderate salt intake, low-fat dairy, whole grains and legumes.
Color me unsurprised.
Matt Welch, on the lynch mob against the pizzeria. Also, Scott Ott.
I’ll have my own thoughts on the anti-Christian fascists in Indiana later, at PJMedia.
[Update a while later]
[Update later morning]
Tim Cook’s hypocrisy on Indiana.
[Update early afternoon]
Ace takes on Bill Quick in an epic rant.
[Mid-afternoon update]
Libertarians must stand up for religious liberty.
Absolutely.
An interesting story on the state of the art. It’s still terrible.
I think he’s too pessimistic, though, and ignores the technology that will probably create the breakthrough: 3-D printing.
For the record, I do think this is a real problem. As I’ve noted in the past, I’ve often wondered if the teen birth rate is down simply because boys who learn about sex from porn are too dumb to ejaculate into the woman’s vagina.
Some thoughts on taking back SFF from the SJWs, from Brad Thorgersen, and Sarah Hoyt:
I lived in fear, unable to associate normally or make friends with anyone. It was like being spied on all the time and knowing the worst construction would be put on my actions and words, even if the actions and words were not political, even if I just forgot what the week’s hate and the week’s cause was.
I got tired. I got really tired. I know authors who walked away after one or two books because they simply couldn’t take it anymore. I know others – gentle souls – who didn’t realize they’d been blacklisted on suspicion of being – dropped voice – conservative. This was particularly true of Libertarians (and libertarians) who never thought of themselves (I still don’t) as “conservatives” and couldn’t understand it when I tried to explain it.
All this was justified, you see, because in the minds of the establishment and establishment hangers on, conservatives are creatures shown as “right wing” on movies and tv (none of whose writers would know a true conservative, much less a libertarian if one bit them in the fleshy part of the *ss [and libertarians might.] They give conservatives (which again is everyone to the right of Lenin) informed attributes never found in the real creature: conservatives, in their crazy little heads, are people who are racist, sexist, homophobic, ultra-religious in a medieval fashion or a crazy-evangelical (there are some, but not many) one.
This kind of thing isn’t the only reason I haven’t been reading much in the past few years, but it doesn’t help.
[Afternoon update]
Michael Z. Williamson: “I am not a ‘real fan’.“
Here’s the original piece, on why the propaganda effort is (fortunately) failing.
Let them defend themselves. As Glenn notes, the proper response of the Jews in the thirties, rather than handing in their guns, would have been no-limit open hunting season on Nazis.
Meanwhile, the Senate is trying to rein in all of the anti-Second-Amendment actions of the administration (and some states). They should just abolish the ATF.
[Update a couple minutes later]
As always, easing restrictions on guns didn’t increase bloodshed in Illinois, either. These gun grabbers are always wrong, but they never learn.
I had a lot of fun trolling the social justice warriors on Twitter yesterday, as a result of this.
Not sure what prompted it, but perhaps it was Linda Billings’ latest anti-capitalist space drivel.
How many thousands of people has his junk science killed?