February 24, 2015 – 7:04 pm
Buuut, now we expect it so we can respond appropriately. You’ve heard it said that the science is settled. And it’s true. It is settled–settled beyond the possibility of any dispute. A fundamental, inescapable, indubitable bedrock scientific principle is that lousy theories make lousy predictions. Climate forecasts are lousy, therefore it is settled science that [...]
February 9, 2015 – 12:09 pm
From the “mugged liberal” files: It seems like something one would be hard pressed to disagree with: the word “coexist,” written on a wall using a Muslim crescent as the letter “C,” a Star of David as the letter “X,” and a Christian cross as a “T.” But in Paris, this particular iteration of the [...]
January 23, 2015 – 9:08 am
I’m out of ideas this morning, so … Exposed nipples? Naked bottoms? Bare breasts? The insouciant editors who sit in the front row of fashion shows have seen the lot at womenswear shows – and will barely raise an eyebrow. But the flesh on show at Rick Owens’ menswear show in Paris on Thursday surprised [...]
January 19, 2015 – 5:51 pm
Evidently, feminism, itself, is sexist now. (Man, I gotta get on distro for The Memo™.) Students at all-female Mass. college cancel annual ‘Vagina Monologues’ performance, saying play isn’t trans-friendly. … One college theater group is tempting playwright Eve Ensler to think outside the box. [ISWYDT] … “At its core, the show offers an extremely narrow [...]
January 17, 2015 – 5:09 pm
(What? Oh, like there was the slightest chance that they’d behead me last, anyway.)
January 17, 2015 – 10:57 am
… by claiming to act in his name? Evidently not as much as cartoons do. Also: Well, that surrender didn’t take long. Here’s a good read on, for want of a better term, the Freedom of Blasphemy as part and parcel of freedom of religion. It helps answer the question, “Why do Muslims get so [...]
January 15, 2015 – 3:14 pm
This, from the guy who inherited what was once one of the most brutal, mass-murdering, crooked, despicable totalitarian theocratic empires in the World, right up there with Islam, until the Reformation kicked the legs out and forced it into civilized, rational behavior … or what passed for that in the Europe of the time. Pope [...]
January 14, 2015 – 8:55 pm
~ vid ~ Want to know what cowardice looks like on live television? The Washington Post notes: “On Sky News, former Charlie Hebdo journalist Caroline Fourest was trying to explain how “crazy” it is that certain journalism mills in the United Kingdom won’t show the cover of the latest edition of the magazine. Well, Sky [...]
January 14, 2015 – 11:34 am
Well alrighty, then. I talked to cross section of mainly French Algerian young men who said to me it was pretty much they felt the attacks were actually a conspiracy by the Jews to make Muslims look bad. One person told me that in fact they weren’t just regular Jews that were doing this, in [...]
January 14, 2015 – 9:33 am
Somebody (besides me) has been watchin’ too many old movies. ~ vid ~ An Alabama middle school principal wants to stockpile cans of corn and peas in classrooms for students to hurl at possible intruders as a last resort defense. … “We realize at first this may seem odd; however, it is a practice that [...]
