Category Archives: Social Commentary
The Latest Adventures Of The Mann
Joanne Nova has the story.
Hope For My Old Age
That’s what I had, until I found out this story wasn’t really true:
Pearson admitted during her arraignment that when she found the 88-year-old Venn trying to turn tricks she and her friends decided it would be funny to sleep ‘with an old guy.’ Word spread and lots of girls paid Venn for sex. Pearson said he only charged five dollars and gave them lollipops afterward.
Nice while it lasted, though.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Just making s**t up?
The point is that it’s not hard at all to prove that politicians, as a class, are some of the dimmest, dullest, and least inspiring group of people you could possibly imagine. It takes a special brand of lazy hack to feel compelled to manufacture evidence to that effect.
Not unusual for him. Also, while many people confuse median and average, Tyson has no excuse.
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
Tyson repeats the “space pen” myth.
Has anyone actually read his PhD thesis? I’m starting to wonder about the quality of it now.
[Bumped]
Don’t Go To Mars
David Attenborough takes a novel and courageous stand. Let’s “sort out life on earth, first.” [Paywall]
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone make that argument before, except a lot of people, for decades.
“America? Let’s sort out life in Europe first.”
“Europe and Asia? Let’s sort out life in Africa, first.”
It’s obviously a mindless prescription for never settling new territory.
Body Fat And Age
Thoughts from Mark Rippetoe on personal health and appearance.
Multi-Culturalism And Rape
Rotherham is a part of England that will be forever Pakistan:
Pakistanis first came in significant numbers to Rotherham in the late 1950s and early ’60s, in the wave of immigration that brought men from the Indian subcontinent to Britain, largely to do work that the indigenous white working class no longer wanted. My father was part of this first wave. He worked on the production line of the Vauxhall car factory in Luton, an unlovely town north of London. In Rotherham, many Pakistani men ended up doing dirty, dusty work in the steel foundry.
The new immigrants were from rural villages, typically in Kashmir, the northern province bordering India; they were socially conservative and hard-working. When I was growing up in the ’80s, the stereotype of Pakistanis was that we were industrious and docile.
The Pakistani community in Rotherham, and elsewhere in Britain, has not followed the usual immigrant narrative arc of intermarriage and integration. The custom of first-cousin marriages to spouses from back home in Pakistan meant that the patriarchal village mentality was continually refreshed.
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Continue reading the main storyBritain’s Pakistani community often seems frozen in time; it has progressed little and remains strikingly impoverished. The unemployment rate for the least educated young Muslims is close to 40 percent, and more than two-thirds of Pakistani households are below the poverty line.
If you allow unrestricted immigration with no assimilation, you are basically welcoming your future conquerors.
Libertarians
Thoughts on idiotic and ignorant things people say about them.
Criminalizing Dissent
Why the Left wants to repeal the First Amendment.
Free speech for me, not for thee.
Free Speech At Berkeley
Eugene Volokh rewrites Chancellor Dirks’s email for him.
[Via Ken White, who notes that Dirks has clarified his position, no doubt in response to the justifiable criticism]