Category Archives: Social Commentary

Education, Mathematics, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

I Checked My Privilege

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“…and it’s doing just fine.”

Call: “Check your privilege!”

Response: “What you call ‘privilege’ is just me being better than you.”

They won’t like it. It will make them angry. Good. Because tactics like “Check your privilege” are designed to make us angry, to put us off-balance, to baffle us and suck us down into a rabbit hole of leftist jargon and progressive stupidity.

Don’t follow them. Mock them. Accuse them of adhering to a transphobic cisnormative paradigm and start shrieking “Hate crime!”

Don’t worry about not making sense. They’re college students. They are used to not understanding what people smarter than they are tell them.

It’s just the latest stupid thing to come from the campus loons.

[Update a few minutes later]

Link is fixed now. Sorry!

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

Sympathy For The Devil

There’s something about Harry:

The Editors would like to extend our condolences to Senator Harry Reid and his family as they go through this difficult time. While we can only guess at the exact nature of the psychiatric or neurological trauma the Senate majority leader has suffered, we assume that it is severe, judging by his symptoms, the most prominent of which is his new habit of taking to the Senate floor to deliver speeches that sound like they ought to be coming from a man wearing a bathrobe in front of a liquor store in Cleveland.

Seriously, I do wonder if the blows he took to the head as a boxer have finally caught up with him. If I were a Democrat, I’d be mortified to have this creature running the senate.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary

The Age Of Obama

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Time to start thinking about its passing, and what comes after.

It’s not passing fast enough for me.

53 percent in the 2014 poll say it is more important to have Republican congressional majorities to check Obama’s policies, compared to 39 percent who believe it is more important to have Democratic congressional majorities to support those policies.

I continue to think it not outside the realm of possibility that the Republicans could run and win on a ticket of repealing and replacing the Democrats in the White House. Particularly as new revelations come to light about the IRS. At some point the scandals will metastasize into one big one.

[Update a few minutes later]

Related: The Benghazi deniers continue to panic.

As I tweeted a while ago, it’s pretty amusing to watch all the concern trolling from Democrats about the new investigation.

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The cavalry that never came.

Chris Stevens was one of them, a Team Obama loyalist. But they abandoned him and dishonored him in death because the President’s political needs outweighed his life. The heartlessness of all these caring, compassionate Democrats would impress Putin – if it was ever applied to America’s enemies.

Indeed.

[Update a while later]

Building the case for Obama’s impeachment. Should be a very timely book.

Business, Economics, Mathematics, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Social Commentary

The National Climate “Assessment”

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Judith Curry has the goods on this latest bout of junk science:

My main conclusion from reading the report is this: the phrase ‘climate change’ is now officially meaningless. The report effectively implies that there is no climate change other than what is caused by humans, and that extreme weather events are equivalent to climate change. Any increase in adverse impacts from extreme weather events or sea level rise is caused by humans. Possible scenarios of future climate change depend only on emissions scenarios that are translated into warming by climate models that produce far more warming than has recently been observed.

Roger Pielke approves.