Who is stupider? It’s pretty tough to choose. But this is a point I hadn’t considered:
…as smarter people abandon public schools, the dumber ones who remain have more impact. They should be subjected to public humiliation, in the hopes that they’ll learn, or at least serve as an example to the others.
I wonder if we aren’t already in a death spiral in that regard.
I had never realized how catty composers were, as a class.
If you want to provide input to the committee on human spaceflight, you can tweet it to them tomorrow.
Not sure that you can have a useful policy discussion in 140 characters…
Now the cruel patriarchy (if by “patriarchy,” you mean Emily Yoffe and Ruth Marcus) is suggesting that maybe getting plastered at college parties isn’t the greatest idea:
If two people rush into a lion’s den and one decided to wear a dress made out of thinly sliced prime rib, she’s probably the one who is going to get eaten. This isn’t blaming the girl… it’s teaching her not to be the one wearing the Lady Gaga meat dress. But apparently offering any sort of parental advice on risk avoidance and minimization is crossing a line for some people. Maybe it’s a tacit admission there are parents who fail to do a good enough job preparing their children for the world. Perhaps it’s viewed as depriving their young freshmen offspring their “rights” to go out for the “fun” of “having a few too many” which is a “right of passage.” (I actually saw that one in one of the comments. I couldn’t make that up if I tried.)
This is obviously even more outrageous than not forcing Catholic law schools to give their students free contraceptives.
…and bamboo spears. Bill Whittle, on the need for a change in strategy.
This is one of the reasons that I don’t call myself a conservative. The other is that I’m not a conservative.
In which Emily Yoffe offers common-sense advice, is accordingly attacked by “feminists,” and defended by Ruth Marcus.
Yes. Next question?
When you’ve lost the LA Times…
[Update a few minutes later]
“When saturated fat got mixed up with the high sugar added to processed food in the second half of the 20th century, it got a bad name,” noted UC San Francisco pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig. On the question of which is worse — saturated fat or added sugar, Lustig added, “The American Heart Assn. has weighed in — the sugar many times over.”
Yes. Also, eating fat doesn’t make you fat. Two of the most damaging nutrition myths are that you get cholesterol build up from eating cholesterol, and you get fat from eating fat. Both are based on the primitive “you are what you eat” theory. Stop counting calories, eat things that are good for you (which include saturated fat) and avoid things that are bad (grains and sugar).
Dissecting the anti-Keystone nonsense:
So what is going on here? Rich liberals hire kids–recent college graduates, or maybe college or high school students–to produce idiotic “research reports” that can be dismantled by anyone familiar with arithmetic, let alone the oil and gas industry, of which these kids obviously know nothing at all. The claims these reports make are completely divorced from reality, but liberals don’t seem to care. The Huffington Post headlines: “Keystone XL Pipeline Could Yield $100 Billion For Koch Brothers.” PolicyMic: “Actually, You Probably WILL Guess Who Stands to Make $100 Billion Off the Keystone XL Pipeline.” TruthDig: “Koch Brothers Stand to Make $100 Billion From Keystone Pipeline.” And, of course, the Kos Kidz are all over it.
Imbecility.
That’s the subject of a lot of spam email I’ve been getting lately. The spammers must think it’s a popular topic. 😉
It isn’t happening:
Questioner: What was the Holocaust?
American College Student: Um…I’m on the spot.Questioner: Which country was Adolf Hitler the leader of?
American College Student: I think it’s Amsterdam?Questioner: What was Auschwitz?
American College Student: I don’t know.Questioner: What were the Nuremburg Trials?
American College Student: I don’t know.Questioner: How many Jews were killed?
American College Student: Hundreds of thousands.
We’re doomed.