Many of the arguments offered aptly apply outside the world of art.
September 2014
September 7, 2014
“Pray for Mandy Nagy” [Darleen Click]
William Jacobson writes that Liberty Chick has suffered a stroke: Our beloved Mandy Nagy, also known as Liberty Chick, had a stroke yesterday and brain surgery to relieve the pressure today. I am in touch with Mandy’s mom, who approved me letting people know via Legal Insurrection. Before surgery, Mandy also was able to nod approval with a small smile, her mom tells me. Mandy has been writing for Legal
September 6, 2014
What happens when someone challenges The State and one of its Corporate bedpartners* [Darleen Click]
Expect the bedpartner to destroy you When Dr. Walter Stroup showed that Texas’ standardized testing regime is ?awed, the testing company struck back. [Walter] Stroup, a bookishly handsome associate professor in the University of Texas College of Education, sat patiently until it was his turn to testify. Then Stroup sat down at the witness table and offered the scientific basis behind the widely held suspicion that what the tests measured
September 6, 2014
“Whatever Happened to Global Warming?” [Darleen Click]
From an admitted “lukewarmist” …. The U.N. no longer claims that there will be dangerous or rapid climate change in the next two decades. Last September, between the second and final draft of its fifth assessment report, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change quietly downgraded the warming it expected in the 30 years following 1995, to about 0.5 degrees Celsius from 0.7 (or, in Fahrenheit, to about 0.9 degrees,
September 6, 2014
UC Berkeley’s Friday dump of a ‘steaming pile of ideology’ [Darleen Click] UPDATED
Screenshot from Twitter Let’s see now …the boundaries between protected and unprotected speech, between free speech and political advocacy… If the First Amendment means anything at all, it is the securing of the right of political speech, regardless of any stray adjective like “advocacy” or “partisan”. Chancellor Dirks keeps using the phrase “free speech” in the same way Totalitarian Left regimes use the phrase “People’s Democratic Republic”. From Jeff When
September 5, 2014
Amanda Marcotte on the unbearable unfairness of ideals [Darleen Click]
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United
September 4, 2014
Generations [Darleen Click]
My dad, David, and his great-grandson Zander David, discussing the attributes of the YoYo.
September 4, 2014
The rapes in Rotherham were possible because of The Left [Darleen Click]
When “good” and “evil” become moot, and everything is viewed through the lens of Race, Gender, Class, the question is not “How did this ever happen in a Western City?” but “How many more Rotherhams are waiting to be uncovered?” The enemy is us. Who could read about 15 years of rape and abuse, happening while authorities feared breaking the rules of political correctness by questioning cultural practices? Download the
September 1, 2014
Happy Labor Day — open thread and remember to tip your host [Darleen Click]
First Monday in September — the last holiday of the summer and traditional start of school. My dad’s 86th birthday is tomorrow, today we’ll be gathering at the Click homestead for celebration – swimming, BBQ and general fun is on the agenda (especially with four great-grandchildren in attendance). Since hubby and I are putting on the feasting, I’ll be busy much of the day. I’ve been tied up earlier this