This tweet made me laugh.

@asymmetricinfo
Hillary Clinton has three main public speaking modes:

1) Angry landlady
2) Disappointed high school principle
3) Mom got into the sherry

Islamists waging "Soft Jihad" in our healthcare system:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/creeping_sharia_in_health_care_.html

It's a useful paradigm for Islamist infiltration of other institutions and systems.

"Linky red riding crop."

You're British????????????

Jackie Coakley, the girl at the center of the Rolling Stone rape-story scandal? Looney tunes.

Professional athletes, pay attention:

http://hypeline.org/nfl-star-richard-sherman-all-lives-matter/

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/07/28/gay-nyc-hotel-sold-a-year-after-being-boycotted-for-hosting-ted-cruz-fundraiser/

And what have we learned from this? Well, for starters, turning down a cake for a lesbian wedding is bad for business, and so is letting Republicans hire your place for a venue.

Heh

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/758814956305252352

When doing science, experimental design matters. Otherwise you end up measuring something else, and not necessarily what you think you are:

https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2016/07/28/once-again-terrible-exercise-science-gets-praised-by-mainstream-media/?singlepage=true

Shocking news via the WaPo about Seattle's shiny new minimum wage. Leave it to economists to have two hands (or more) to talk with:

Accounting for these factors, the average increase in total earnings due to the minimum wage was small, the researchers concluded. Using their preferred method, they calculated that workers' earnings increased by $5.54 a week on average because of the minimum wage. Using other methods, the researchers found that the minimum wage hike actually caused total weekly earnings to drop -- by as much as $5.22 a week.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/29/study-raising-the-minimum-wage-did-little-for-workers-earnings-in-seattle/

@IRA,

The generational conflict can be described in a Star Wars way:

The Boomers are pretty much Jedis like Anakin Skywalker: Full of promise, lots of idealism, but eventually their selfishness drove them to the dark side.

The Gen-Xers are the the clones: Overworked, disposable, their voices always fall silent.

The Millennials are the Gungans: Weird-talking, even weirder-looking, prone to break things; everyone wants to punch them.

@ IRA,

The comments in that WP article were eye-opening. Are we the next Venezuela?

Bienvenidos al Gulag Latino.

https://news.vice.com/article/venezuela-has-a-new-forced-labor-law-that-can-require-people-work-in-fields

This time it's not about a wedding cake:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/news/doughnut-shop-slammed-for-refusing-to-hire-vegans/

I'm old. Not very old. Just old. Not older than dirt old. Just old.

In college using a slide rule (Google is your friend.) I had a hard enough time trying to understand thermodynamics (fluid mechanics was easier for me), basic electronics (transistors were just being explained), microwave communications, lasers/masers, and gaming the non-engineering-tech type courses so I could graduate and get a job somewhere/anywhere.

I had escaped the Vietnam draft (see old) and simply wanted to pass the required courses, pay for my tuition/books, and stay married (which was diversity challenging enough).

Life was simple. You studied, worked, stayed away from the Navy docks, did not upset the working wife, stayed out of the neighborhoods that required 2 cop cars/1 canine for traffic stops, did not get the wife pregnant (yet) and looked for part-time work (full time in the summer).

Studying "diversity" ("Students talk about Trayvon Martin in the same breath as slavery and the convict lease system. ") would have pushed me over the edge. (What does a thug have to do w/the convict lease system?)

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/07/the-complicated-process-of-adding-diversity-to-the-college-syllabus/493643/?utm_source=nl-atlantic-daily-072916

Terrorizing and humiliating the child at the center of the Rolling Stone story seems pointlessly personal. There will always be simpleminded young women (and men) who bring great suffering to others because of their sexual and social clumsiness. Trashing her name serves no purpose: Stupidity is always mundane, and there'll be a new champion in town tomorrow.

It was the adults, at Rolling Stone and perhaps elsewhere, who let everyone down (including the idiot child), and they deserve our undiminished opprobrium.

I mean, I met some assholes as an underclassman, fuckwads fresh of the farm. So what?

@Crid,

This happened recently:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/29/mother-of-son-who-hanged-himself--after-being-falsely-accused-of/

I don't know about you, but a mother an her son are dead because of a lie. I want the world to know who the liar is so that person will always be reminded of the damage she has caused.

> I don't know about you,
> but a mother an her son
> are dead because of a lie.

I'm not a mother, I am a son, but I'm not dead.

Right: Being so eager to personalize this describes your presumption that only a few nasty girls have been permitted to be such meanies, and that if we high-school mock them real hard, no one will ever again be so stoo-pit.

Because "liars."

Oh, this nightmare planet, where some people don't tell the truth.

A false rape accusation is not a little while lie like, uh, blaming Timmy for eating the last piece of the pie.

Oh, stupid people will always do stupid things. I want accountability. Hiding the liars from the limelight only gives the message that you can get away with ruining someone's life, that there are no consequences for your actions to you.

But there will be no change unless this happens to the son/daughter of a high-ranking politician/judge; so no one's going to move a finger; or if it does, it's only going to be done in slow-motion during election years.