If someone was arrested for punching this woman out and I found myself on the jury I would vote for acquittal.

http://gothamist.com/2014/06/12/water_fountain_or_dog_bidet.php

Geoffrey Miller talk from recent conference on virtue signaling & effective altruism. It's all pictures -- from a Powerpoint -- and very readable.

https://twitter.com/amyalkon/status/768049076533207041

JPF, truly unbelievable. Sadly, her face is missing from that photo.

*facepalm*

http://www.boredpanda.com/cunt-mug-university-of-north-texas/

Laws are for little people:

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general, the Obama Administration has failed to live up to its legal obligation to study the environmental impact of blending ethanol with gasoline.

Those findings, the result of an inspector general audit, confirm what the Associated Press reported back in late 2013, prompting the audit.

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2016/08/inspector-general-confirms-epa-broke-law-failed-study-environmental-impact-ethanol/

WHEN ORDINARY PEOPLE DO THIS TO AVOID SCRUTINY, THE GOVERNMENT CALLS IT “STRUCTURING” AND PROSECUTES THEM AS FELONS: Claudia Rosett: Riddle of $1.3 Billion for Iran Might Relate to 13 Outlays Of Exactly $99,999,999.99.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/242010/

Meanwhile, in Baltimore, panties being bunched:

So what is it that has everyone up in arms this time? As the Baltimore Sun reports, the officers who were found to be innocent but had been suspended without pay during the trials have gotten their back pay restored to them.

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/08/23/liberals-enraged-over-latest-news-of-officers-in-freddie-gray-case/

Panties bunched, no assembly required. Apparently Yale's campus is comparable to Detroit when it comes to violent crime:

The most recent Spangler Report, just published, says 20 Yale undergraduates were accused of sexual assault in the first six months of 2016. Twenty-six undergraduates filed sexual assault complaints. Assuming all were female (the source of around 99 percent of campus complaints), it would mean an annual violent crime rate for Yale undergraduate women of 1.9 percent, without taking into account any attempted murder or felony assault claims. That would be just under the annual violent crime rate for the city FBI stats deem the most dangerous in the country, Detroit.

Yet Spangler, it seems, believes her campus is actually far more dangerous for undergraduate females than Detroit. “We know,” she writes, “from both national statistics and our own participation in the 2015 AAU Sexual Climate Survey that this number represents only a fraction of the instances of sexual misconduct at Yale.” Actually, we “know” no such thing—as my colleague Stuart Taylor has pointed out, the AAU survey appears to have dramatically oversampled female students who reported a sexual assault to their school.

http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2016/08/more-on-the-sex-panic-at-yale/

Why pay the roughly $60K to go to Yale when you can buy property in Detroit on the cheap?

Re: The University of North Texas mugs

Just the use of UNT as the university's initials was stupid. Any thinking person could have foreseen the letters that would be put in front of those and used to mock the university: PUNT, RUNT, C**T, etc.

I can just see the rival university's t-shirt: "You can't spell C**T without UNT."

Their radio station is KNTU. The school has been well aware of the issue. Probably somebody's cousin needed a job.

Today, Joanne Jacobs linked to this Washington Post article on what new students really need to know going into college. Mostly it boils down to:

1. Don't act like a dick in class, and

2. Don't act like a big baby.

This is one of those columns that's really helped out by the comments, which range from reasonable to hilariously pissy, so be sure to read them

It's almost as if that once you get to know someone, you might actually like them?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3749966/How-Cupid-s-arrow-strikes-fourth-sight-attractive-say-researchers.html

Former Gitmo Detainee Arrested as Top ISIS Recruiter

A politician with a backbone:

German Politician Supports Arming Citizens to Defend Against Wave of Muslim Refugees!

Liberal, meet reality:

Petition Wants CNN's Kohn to Travel to Sharia Compliant Countries

Now, you know that when the regulation is 1690 pages long and has 700,000 words, that it spells nothing but doom for us.

1,690-Page ‘Climate Change’ Reg Increases Cost of Tractor-Trailer Up to $15,119