NASA images capture worst Siberian wildfires in 10,000 years.
June 30, 2017
California lawmakers have tried for 50 years to fix the state’s housing crisis. Here’s why they’ve failed. NIMBYs to the left of me, hedge funds to the right — here I am, stuck in a hovel with you.
June 29, 2017
Typecasting: The Use (and Misuse) of Period Typography in Movies. This bothers me more than it should.
June 28, 2017
June 27, 2017
Why didn’t great painters of the past reach the level of realism achieved today by many artists? Realism isn’t as real as you think.
The U.N. Sent 3 Foreign Women To The U.S. To Assess Gender Equality. They Were Horrified. I’m horrified and I live here.
June 26, 2017
The tyranny of Twitter: How mob censure is changing the intellectual landscape. Twitter is the place for leftist virtue signaling.
Public library use in U.S. highest among Millennials. And now that Boomers don’t visit them anymore, they want them gone. Pull that ladder up, weld shut the access port.
Democrats are still obsessed with Jill Stein. They should start obsessing over nonvoters instead. “In Michigan, the 2016 undervote was sizably larger than the Stein vote, and dwarfed Trump’s margin of victory.”
Dislike of candidates or campaign issues was most common reason for not voting in 2016. Those wily Russians, making bad candidates look bad. What will they do next!
June 25, 2017
Examples of Cool Capitalism. Much if not all of the supposed-left policing of behavior is neoliberlism at work destroying labor rights (the world is better off if even unpleasant people/”deplorables” have jobs).
June 24, 2017
June 23, 2017
Facial Recognition Is Coming To US Airports. That “implausible” dystopia so many sf authors wrote about? Yeah, it’s happening.
June 22, 2017
Without cultural appropriation I contend that we would have little culture of any sort worthwhile at all. Indeed, we’d all be sitting in caves still, banging two rocks together.
New CAA study says diverse casting increases box office potential across all budgets. Something that has been obvious to everyone except Hollywood execs for 20+ years.
June 21, 2017
Obesity now kills more people worldwide than car crashes, terror attacks, and Alzheimer’s combined. “Fat but fit” is a comforting fiction.
It’s not the government’s job to say if ‘Slants’ is too offensive. Or ‘Redskins.’ The problem is — contra social justice warriors who for some reason trust the gov’t if it appears to be on their side — when they decide “social justice” is a slur. Or your preferred word or term.