I'm surprised an enterprising D-1 women's basketball coach at an underperforming program hasn't gone all in on recruiting trans players. Then they can go from zero to trouncing UConn, Baylor, Notre Dame, and Stanford.

Last year I wrote about the problems caused by allowing male student-athletes who “identify” as females to compete on the girls' team in Connecticut. Well, the problems haven’t gone away. The same students causing controversy last year — Andraya Yearwood, a boy from Cromwell High School, and Terry Miller, a boy from Bloomfield High School — are still very much controversial this year.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/again-transgender-athletes-dominate-at-connecticut-girls-track-state-meet/

Here's the current women's RPI. Just pick a program down at the bottom.

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/basketball-women/d1/ncaa-womens-basketball-rpi

Correlation and causality. This one shows that car deaths correlate very well with gun deaths.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/fun_with_statistics_and_the_gun_control_debate.html

Torture the data until you get the answer you want.

But here’s the problem, idiots: this is the same explanation you gave six years ago for the 0.4 deg C downward adjustment then. What about temperatures in the year 1910, or the equipment in 1910, or the site in 1910, changed between ACORN1 in 2012 and ACORN2 in 2019 to justify further downward adjustments averaging a full deg C? Nothing.

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2019-2-24-the-greatest-scientific-fraud-of-all-time-part-xxi

Duck. This sucker should be able to reach the surface of the earth, since it was designed to penetrate a much denser (and hotter) Venusian atmosphere.

https://www.space.com/failed-soviet-venus-spacecraft-falls-to-earth-soon.html

You can read a bit more on the atmosphere of Venus. I did not know that Venus does not have a magnetic field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus

I'm surprised an enterprising D-1 women's basketball coach at an underperforming program hasn't gone all in on recruiting trans players. ~ I R A Darth Aggie at February 26, 2019 6:50 AM

If one did, I doubt she'd field a dominating team. The top players who are biological women are going to be good.

And the biological men players playing as women are going to fall into two categories:

• men faking it to play in what they think will be a less-competitive game
• men who really do identify as women and who will have a slight physical advantage but may not have the skills to compete with the elite women players

The men with elite-level skills will most likely continue to play in the men's league because the payoff is greater (potential NBA contract).j One can always pull a Bruce Jenner and come out after retirement when the endorsements dry up.

More about trans. Emphasis mine.

The last point is that there's real poetic justice here. Feminists spent decades aggressively invading previously male-only arenas, from the Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel to once exclusively male clubs to boys' athletic teams to men's locker rooms (female sports reporters). Now men — albeit those masquerading as women — are invading women's spaces, and the feminists cry foul. For years, however, they did everything they could to portray men and women as interchangeable parts. What did they think would happen?

They didn't think. They were led by their passions, their emotions, like children, ignoring that ideas have consequences. Just because you're wholly illogical — and even may dismiss logic as a white male phenomenon — that doesn't mean your arguments won't be taken beyond their utility for you and to their logical conclusion.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/feminists_screaming_about_transgenderism_their_own_demon_child.html

"Raising the minimum wage by a substantial amount would price working poor people out of the job market," wisely editorialized The New York Times. "It would increase employers' incentives to evade the law, expanding the underground economy. More important, it would increase unemployment: Raise the legal minimum price of labor above the productivity of the least skilled workers and fewer will be hired."

That's as important an insight now as it was when it was written in 1987. Unfortunately, since then the Gray Lady's editorial board has had its economic savvy surgically removed and replaced by a fuzzy wad of good intentions.

https://reason.com/archives/2019/02/26/minimum-wage-boosts-are-greatfor-robots

On why parents want to be "friends" to their young kids:

http://www.indexjournal.com/lifestyles/columnists/john-rosemond/john-rosemond-parenting-should-not-be-about-instant-gratification/article_ed424258-d3a9-5ae1-bfd7-ab111aec2b86.html

Excerpt:

"...Scott has figured out — on his own but remember he’s been reading my column for more than 20 years now, so I feel entitled to take some credit — that the reason so many parents these days want to be their children’s best friends is because we live in an instant-gratification culture and the attempt to be your child’s friend is very likely to bring instant gratification, as in: (a) the parent puts energy into trying to be a friend, (b) the child likes having an adult friend more than he does or would having an adult who accepted the sometimes onerous responsibilities of being an authentic parent, and so © the parent receives approval from the child — a synonym for approval being, in this case, instant gratification. (The preceding is known, in literary circles, as a run-on sentence. Thomas Jefferson was famous for them.)

"Brilliant! Remember, this was Scott’s idea, but he wants to remain anonymous. Indeed, when done properly by properly thinking people, parenting is not likely to bring instant gratification. Raising a child out of narcissistic incivility into responsible, compassionate adulthood is, after all, a slog that requires of parents that they sometimes do what they would rather not do, like administer punitive discipline..."

(snip)

I would add that too many parents want to believe that ANYTHING that takes time is too much wooorrrkk for the parent, like teaching kids to wash dishes without breaking them, insisting that little kids entertain themselves without screens, or teaching teens that peer pressure is no excuse for

Got kicked off. I meant to write "or teaching teens that peer pressure is no excuse for breaking the law or any other horrible behavior."

After all, does any sensible adult believe that when one teaches a five-year-old not to steal or vandalize, that's the last time any parent will have to talk about those subjects? Of course not. The fear of unpopularity, for a teen, is often twice as strong as the fear of disappointing one's parents. Deal with it. Same goes for bullying - and all sorts of serious crimes.

Another:

https://www.arcamax.com/homeandleisure/parents/johnrosemond/s-2179745

(this is one of the few places I can ever find comments from readers)

First paragraphs:

A journalist recently asked me for the single biggest mistake being made by today’s parents. I was tempted to say, “Having children,” but stopped myself because even if I’d followed up with “Just kidding!” my bon mot would have gone into print. Oh my gosh! It just did!

I do, by the way, believe that some people are simply not well-suited to the responsibilities of parenthood. Nonetheless, I do not believe that people who want children should have to go through whatever process to obtain a “parenting license.” That would represent government intrusion of the most egregious sort, and I’m not a fan of government intrusion in much of anything.

But on with the show: I don’t know how one would determine “biggest” in a list of common parenting mistakes, but the one that causes the most problems for all concerned is the present proclivity for two parents to occupy the roles of mom and dad such that the roles of husband and wife become akin to the Cheshire Cat in “Alice in Wonderland”: that is, mostly invisible. It is an unarguable fact that in a two-parent family, nothing puts a more solid foundation of security and well-being under the feet of a child than the knowledge that mom and dad are in an enduring relationship...

Last paragraphs:

...Let’s see…I have room for two, maybe three more. Ah, yes! How about the habit today’s parents have of assuming a servile squat when they talk to young children? You know, that absolutely absurd “getting down to their level” thing as if they are bowing to royalty. And then, to add the ludicrous to the absurd, finishing what they believe to be an instruction with “Okay?” So what if it isn’t okay?

Last one: Trying to discipline a child who has misbehaved without causing the child emotional discomfort (guilt and remorse) and inconvenience. That attempt annuls the attempt to discipline, which goes a long way toward explaining why so many of today’s parents complain that nothing they do by way of “discipline” works.

That’s because they are doing nothing.

(end)

"They were led by their passions, their emotions, like children, ignoring that ideas have consequences. "

That, and they assumed that they could always fall back on traditional deference to women. Feminism has always had problems with have-it-both-ways feminists, but it's pretty much a foundational principle with the postmoderns.

This is all great stuff

Harvard, man. No one is immune.

Eyes on Bernie.

Lenona, just curious, how did you come across that Arcamax website?

Running motivation number one.

And number two.

Well, aside from advice columns, I already knew Arcamax existed - for comic strips.

Re Rosemond, I'm not too sure, but it's possible I stumbled across it when Googling on one of the key phrases in one of his columns.

Or maybe I found it when I searched on "Ask Amy" (that's Amy Dickinson). Arcamax is high on the first page. That doesn't happen when you search on Rosemond's name - you have to go to the second page.

It's also sometimes helpful to search for key phrases under "news" not just "all."