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Sunday/Monday links

Published July 23, 2017 6:14 pm by Claire

~~Nero~~ Cuomo fiddles while ~~Rome~~ New York burns

Creative outlawry (whether you like it or not): Seattle skateboarders construct an illicit skateboard bowl on a lake island. They win a national prize. Unfortunately the bowl will be torn out and the prize was rescinded.

I don’t agree with the premise, but this article is still a fascinating look back: How the 1967 Summer of Love sparked today’s religious movements.

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Midweek links

Published July 19, 2017 11:33 am by Claire

An armed teenaged girl runs an intruder out of her family home. (H/T PT)

Another scientific detective story, this one involving a volcano and an ancient European famine.

Could it be that some of those very expensive pharmaceutical drugs that get tossed out every year aren’t really expired — and might still be good for decades?

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Monday links

Published July 17, 2017 1:03 am by Claire

A sign of hope? A jury not only awards a huge judgment to the family of a man recklessly killed by SWAT cops; it appears individual officers are being held responsible.

The mind of a social-justice pecksniff or how your free speech is her life-threatening violence.

J.D. Tuccille: When colleges become ideological indoctrination centers expect fewer customers.

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Bastille Day links

Published July 14, 2017 9:04 am by Claire

“Turn left and go over the top.”

She’s still a shallowish kid, but personal experience turned her away from being a Bernie blue SJW.

Losing gun rights: not with a bang, but a whimper.

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Thursday links

Published July 13, 2017 6:00 am by Claire

Four links on the mess in academia. Enrollment plummets at Mizzou in wake of the infamous Melissa Click thug demonstrations. In Chicago, a prof at the Art Institute is hounded into quitting (H/T jc2k). A snooty Seattlite finds it ridiculous that “the right” is concluding that college is no longer a good thing. But college bashing might be a winning strategy for a populist candidate.

Scott Greenfield gives it to clueless elitist David Brooks (and whiners everywhere) with “How lunch meat ruined America.”

Russell Redenbaugh: A life lived against the odds. (Here’s an Amazon link to his awesome story and views.)

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Tuesday links

Published July 11, 2017 6:41 am by Claire

Whatever your view of their politics, this is a clever bit of resistance. Four things to spend your money on if you want to buy happiness. “Not everybody gets a cookie”. But every social-justice pecksniff can turn a gesture of kindness into an occasion for a display of vicious narcissism. The left. It had a miserable week. Bastiat’s goofy story and real-life folly in the solar-panel industry as solar power begins to become cheap enough for the masses. No wonder Comey decided to let Hillary skate on all those sloppy security violations. Creative lifesaving. Will this be the well-deserved ruination…

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Weekend links

Published July 9, 2017 7:03 am by Claire

Did a drone help a prisoner escape?

Commander Zero takes an unusual opportunity for networking.

In Britain Google’s AI arm may get genetic data on NHS patients.

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Thursday links

Published July 6, 2017 2:32 am by Claire

NPR tweeted the Declaration of Independence. Ignorami and snowflakes were offended.

Finding the spiritual meaning in Harry Potter. Um. Okay. I can see Rowling put it in there (return from the dead, guardian figures from the beyond, immortal evil, perseverence against overwhelming darkness, etc.), but … um.

Utah. Strange place. But at least the “Zion curtain” between restaurant patrons and bartenders is finally falling.

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Monday links

Published July 3, 2017 5:18 am by Claire

A primer: F*c*b**k’s logic on who is protected against “hate speech.”

Anatomy of an outbreak of hysteria (and shoddy journalism).

If you’ve been around the libertarian world for a while, you already know the broad outline of how health insurance came to be delivered by employers. Here are the details.

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Links for winding down the week

Published June 29, 2017 11:04 am by Claire

Janet Yellen brings us shades of Neville Chamberlain.

There’s hope yet for the Luddites. Thin hope, perhaps. But hope.

I heard that interview with John McEnroe. Never even occurred to me that his praise of Serena Williams could be controversial. Observing and stating reality is a dangerous business these days.

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