What is the administration hiding?
Whatever it is, they sure didn’t want us to find out before the election. Or even now. And Congress shouldn’t allow itself to be distracted with a sex scandal, as the media has.
Politicians’ “War On Science”
Who said it, Rubio or Obama? It’s useful to point this kind of thing out, of course, and I’ve always thought that Chris Mooney’s theses
But I disagree with this:
So Obama believes in evolution, and presumably he’d like to teach it in the nation’s public schools, while Rubio suggests that “multiple theories” should be given equal time. But even so, both men present the science as a matter of personal opinion. Obama doesn’t say, Evolution is a fact; he says, I believe in it.
Well, he shouldn’t say that, because evolution is in fact not a “fact.” It, like gravity, is a scientific theory. And it is perfectly philosophically legitimate to say that alternate theories should be taught in school, but it should be done not in a science class but in one on comparative religions (of which science is one). That there is an objective reality about which we can discover things through scientific methods is not a fact, or “truth,” but an axiomatic assumption. Science is a form of faith, but in terms of understanding the natural world, and forging new artificial creations from it, it is a very successful and powerful one.
The Phrase The Media Won’t Use
Hamas is engaging in war crimes (as have the “Palestinians,” for decades). Yet it is Israel being ridiculously and harshly criticized, despite the fact that it works harder, spends more money, and risks more of its own lives than any other nation (with the possible exception of us) to minimize collateral damage that is entirely the fault of the war criminals.
Disgusting.
The Twinkie Curtain
…descends.
Heh.
Hillary’s “Farewell Tour”
Ann Althouse asks the obvious. What has this woman ever actually accomplished?
Hey, there were the brilliant trades in cattle futures. And she managed to get away with fraud and larceny. Give her some credit. Of course, in the latter, she had a lot of accomplices in the press.
Safe Is Not An Option
I’ve belatedly launched my Kickstarter project to publish my book on our irrational attitudes toward safety on the high frontier. I’ve put a short fuse on it — just fifteen days to raise four grand. I’d like to raise a lot more, to really publicize the thing, but that’s the minimum I need to have a quality product, I think.
Everyone who contributes at least five bucks will get some form of the book. Please consider donating generously, if you want to see this get more attention in the new year.
Nuts And Seeds
Are they really a healthy part of a paleo diet?
The good news, sort of, for me, is that I’m allergic to most of them, except macadamias, which are apparently very good. The bad news is that they’re expensive, but perhaps increased demand will spur more production and ultimately bring down prices.
A Media-Caused War
CNN, among others, has childrens’ blood on its hands:
By participating in this pas de deux, the media are complicit with Hamas in that killing and maiming because it is done for them. It happens so the media can report it. They might be shocked to hear it, but if they stopped to think for a second, the media would realize that the war, on Hamas’ part anyway, would not exist if no one publicized it. Without publicity, Hamas couldn’t be less interested. And the Israelis, unprovoked, would never send a single missile into Gaza. Everyone knows that.
So Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the others fight for the benefit of the media. That’s it. That’s their sole motive — to show Israel as brutal with the help of the press. They live for the Israelis to make a mistake — and if the Israelis don’t, they invent one.
By participating in this charade, the media are effectively racist, treating the Palestinians like “ignorant wogs” from the days of British imperialism, incapable of taking care of themselves or of making a decent society for themselves. The media portray the Palestinians as victims, therefore encouraging Palestinian victimhood.
They are also “objectively pro-fascist” in Orwell’s term, because Hamas is an Islamofascist organization and they are doing Hamas’ will.
CNN et. al. rarely report the obvious — that if Hamas devoted a tenth of the time and money to hospitals, schools, and other civic institutions that they do to amassing an arsenal of 12,000 missiles and whatever else, the Gaza Strip would flourish like a paradise.
Because that would be the wrong narrative.
That Fiftieth Employee
Why companies are going to avoid hiring him or her.
Do We Really Need More Teachers?
Particularly teachers who have kids mark the faces of slow readers with permanent markers?
As Nick suggests, I think that the teacher should have “Moron” tattooed on her forehead.