Even as this is a minor tweak at Barry, the rather deferential tone is more like a kid trying joking with a favorite uncle rather than any kind of Truth to Power dissent. The sheeple still maintain.
November 22, 2014
Is essential beauty meaningful? [bh]
Is beauty worth commenting on? (Hat tip sdferr in a test of my thoughts on putting comments into posts.) Update! From our friend, Lee: “When I was a youngster, my dad took an interest in botany. All well and good, except he wasn’t over his previous ( and perennial as it turns out) passion for photography, with predictable results. I gotta tell ya, after looking at eighteen thousand pictures of
November 22, 2014
This is what a Feminist looks like — The university system as The Village of the Damned [Darleen Click]
Brendan O’Neill on the death of Free Speech in the UK. Have you met the Stepford students? They’re everywhere. On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students, smell like students. But their student brains have been replaced by brains bereft of critical faculties and programmed to conform. To the untrained eye, they
November 22, 2014
You’ve been forced to pick your ObamaCare plan, now good luck in keeping even that [Darleen Click]
Because PR is much more important than your silly liberty … Here’s a Friday Obamacare news-dump for you: In a 300-page regulatory proposal released late this afternoon, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is considering changing Obamacare’s auto-renewal rules so that, within the health law’s exchanges, instead of being automatically renewed into your current health plan, you’d be moved into the lowest cost plan from the
November 22, 2014
Obama’s amnesty is like Lincoln’s freeing of the slaves … or something … [Darleen Click]
The spin ramps up … Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation provides the foundational precedent for President Obama’s executive order on immigrants in the country illegally. […] Particulars in Obama’s proclamation may well be changed by Americans over time. But like Lincoln’s, its provisional and limited character will have a democracy-forcing effect — spurring officials and citizens to more actively engage in a constitutional dialogue. Rather than refusing to follow the Constitution
November 21, 2014
University of California — sick, sick, sick [Darleen Click]
Not only is someone with an ISIS flag condemning America met with indifference – but the anti-Israel (and anti-Semitic) comments that start almost immediately when the Israeli flag is displayed are alarming. Also, it appears that smoking a cigarette is more threatening than the ISIS flag. Also — the UC system enforcing ideological “purity” on whim and allegations as if it were run by Iranian Imams. The Microaggression Farce In
November 21, 2014
Call for aid
Hi, everyone. Just a note to let you know that my mother’s funeral was yesterday and that today we’ll be paying up her storage locker, which my brother left in arrears. The funeral and burial costs were a bit over $11k, the storage unit is $700, and we spent an additional $4500 on travel and the lawyer. My brother cashed out my mother’s life insurance account which named us all
November 19, 2014
Obamnesty — fundamentally transforming America into a neo-feudal state [Darleen Click]
Barry to give American citizens the middle-finger tomorrow .. President Obama will announce Thursday that he will use his executive authority to expand temporary protections to millions of undocumented immigrants, according to several individuals who have been briefed on the decision. Obama will travel to Las Vegas on the heels of that announcement to rally support for his initiative on Friday. […] The president is preparing to use his executive
November 18, 2014
Requiescat in pace …. [Darleen Click]
Whatever else is going on in the world, I want to pause here to lend my thoughts and prayers to Jeff and his family upon the death of his mother.