- Call yourself a “classical liberal”? You authoritarian racist, you. So sez the HuffPo.
- Clearly, the UK now has an urgent need to ban hammers.
- The Warren solution: Nationalize every big company in the U.S.
- No, the boxoffice success of Crazy Rich Asians doesn’t “prove the power of diversity.” It just shows that audiences appreciate well-made, well-reviewed mass-market movies — about people of any race or culture. (Want to see how much boxoffice power “diversity” has on its own? Make a crappy movie. About any ethnic group.)
- Given a choice, would you really want to do business with banks or retailers who tracked your identity by watching your movements while you visited their websites?
- More cannabis, fewer opiods, says the DEA.
- F*c*b**k won’t explain why it’s censoring PragerU.
- Back to basics; a firearms instructor takes a defensive handgun course at Gunsite.
- Not sure whether this is true or just another alarmist/vaporware boast, so take it FWIW. But this says that common wifi can be used to detect weapons, bombs, and dangerous chemicals in backpacks and luggage. (H/T BD)
- No prison time for doctor who raped a deeply sedated patient. I kind of agree he shouldn’t be in prison — but not because I think he deserves to be walking around free.
- Just in case you haven’t had your quota of creepiness today, meet the neuropolitics consultants who hack v*ters’ brains.
- The cookie wars heat up. (H/T MJ)
The Huff Post article reminds me of how much I hate snark. My natural impulse is to untangle the web of sneers and half-truths…then I remember that I have a life.
Yeah, that wasn’t the most coherent article I ever read.
“Classic Rock” = oldies. Yeah, Jimmie Page probably never suggested forming a classic rock band. What that has to do with classical liberalism remains a mystery. Also the Goldwater campaign wasn’t (just) about racism. I’m pretty sure supporters would have mildly suggested it wasn’t about racism at all. But of course when you’re Huffpo everything to the right of Trotsky is racist if they say it is.
[…] Claire Wolfe’s Monday Links is a collection of insanity. […]
As per normal some interesting links, nice.
The hammer attacker is an example of what I’ve been saying for a while. Where there is a will to do violence along with opposing thumbs that let an individual grasp tools, violence will be done.
The Wi-Fi search story seems… interesting. One thing I noted was a lack of detection for polymers. One could, for example, still hide a “CIA Letter Opener” on their person. Then there is the ability to print a liberator and modify it to use black powder ignited with a percussion cap set off with a nail firing pin. The projectile could be a simple lead ball. The Wi-Fi would not detect a bullet, it would detect the led ball, a primer cap and the small nail so no alarm.
Regarding the “neuropolitics” consultants who hack voters’ brains… I’m really wondering why those in power even bother with the charade of fair elections.
The Huffpost article bears little resemblance to what I remember happening. Nor are the music analogies valid (what Joel said). And libertarians aren’t hard-right conservatives.
OTOH there’s the statement:
Friedman insisted that the Civil Rights Act and other federal maneuvers to end segregation would backfire.
Well, Friedman was obviously wrong about that. The Civil Rights Act, Brown v. Board of Education, et al have obviously resulted in a society free of any racism and racial animosity, without any racial issues remaining. Right?
Now, tell me about all the successful businesses Warren has run.
I saw Crazy Rich Asians, and I’m not one. Out of all the movies in our 10-plex, it looked like it had a story. And it was pretty good. The other movie I went to lately, for the same reason, was Alpha.
Note that neither came from a graphic novel or was a sequel/part of a series or a remake of a classic.
And I keep wondering when widespread weapon detection will clash with the story I just sent in.
If I’m white and denigrate and belittle my own race is this acceptable? Oh, I see.
Houston Doc proves once again that rape isn’t about sex it’s about power and control. So it’s like government minus the money motive.
It is good that Warren now says what she is really all about just as Karl Marx once said;
“The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
Watch out London! Maxwell is back! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ksTftYIvo
The wifi thing? A crock of the purest crapola. Way beyond just vaporware. More like vacuumware, in my humble opinion.
I agree with James. This is Fed.Gov agencies trying to drum up more budget for next year.
“quintuple the amount of cannabis that can legally be grown in the U.S. for research purposes—from roughly 1,000 pounds in 2018 to more than 5,400 pounds next year.
Hell, I’ve got neighbors who are going to harvest that from the grow-tanks in their basements.”