Althouse: Sunrise — 5:25, 5:30.

July 7, 2022

Sunrise — 5:25, 5:30.

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21 comments:

tim in vermont said...: Had a hamburger today with mayo, a slice of a local tomato, and lettuce from my garden. Oh la la.; 7/7/22, 8:23 PM
Scott Patton said...: "At what point do you say, now, there are too many foxes?"
Never!; 7/7/22, 8:59 PM
Narr said...: The little outdoor leisure pool on campus (the only one, while the old indoor Olympic-size pool is renovated) has had tepid water for the last few days. A max depth of 4 ft and white bottom, and a few cloudless days with 100* heat (low 80s at night) and I'll just say that I've taken colder baths.; 7/7/22, 9:17 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: I believe it might've been said, whenever Obama was in trouble, 'don't be too hard on him, he's the first black president.'

Can I say, something to the effect, 'don't be too hard on Biden, he's the first semi-senile president.'

I was going to say that earlier today in the Dana Milbank column post and thought it could be misconstrued as racist. the Milbank post was not about race.; 7/7/22, 10:03 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: We’re going to see a lot of change for the good post-Roe.; 7/7/22, 10:18 PM
effinayright said...: Breaking news: the Chinese oil company that "bought" oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is part of Hunter Biden's far-flung economic Empire of Graft and Corruption.

IF THAT ISN'T AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE, NOTHING IS.

EVERY FUCKING ONE OF YOU MORAL AND POLITICAL DEGENERATES WHO VOTED FOR BIDEN---THAT'S INGA, READERING, COOK, MARK, FREDER, HOWARD, LEFT BEHIND AT THE CHARLES, GADFLY AND THE REST----ARE COMPLICIT.

YOU VOTED FOR THE PERSON WHO ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN--INDEED, MADE IT HAPPEN.; 7/7/22, 10:55 PM
StephenFearby said...: Why I'm Giving Up Tenure at UCLA
The ideological takeover of my university has ruined academic life for anyone who still believes in freedom of thought.

Joseph Manson

'I’m a 62-year-old professor—by academic standards, still young. But I am retiring this summer because the woke takeover of higher education has ruined academic life. “Another one?” you ask. “What does this guy have to say that hasn’t already been said by Jordan Peterson, Peter Boghossian, Joshua Katz, or Bo Winegard?

Read on.

Defenestration of a Colleague

I’ve been a professor in the Anthropology Department at UCLA since 1996; I received tenure in 2000. My research has spanned topics ranging from nonhuman primate behavior to human personality variation. For decades, anthropology has been notorious for conflict between the scientific and political activist factions in the field, leading many departments to split in two. But UCLA’s department remained unusually peaceful, cohesive, and intellectually inclusive until the late 2000s.

Gradually, one hire at a time, practitioners of “critical” (i.e. leftist, postmodernist) anthropology, some of them lying about their beliefs during job interviews, came to comprise the department’s most influential clique. These militant faculty members recruited even more militant graduate students to work with them.

I can’t recount here even a representative sample of this faction’s penchant for mendacity and intimidation, because most of it occurred during confidential discussions, usually about hiring and promotion decisions. But I can describe their public torment and humiliation of one of my colleagues, P. Jeffrey Brantingham.

Jeff had developed simulation models of the geographic and temporal patterning of urban crime, and had created predictive software that he marketed to law enforcement agencies. In Spring 2018, the department’s Anthropology Graduate Students Association passed a resolution accusing Jeff’s research of, among other counter-revolutionary sins, “entrench[ing] and naturaliz[ing] the criminalization of Blackness in the United States” and calling for “referring” his research to UCLA’s Vice Chancellor for Research, presumably for some sort of investigation. This document contained no trace of scholarly argument, but instead resembled a religious proclamation of anathema.

As you won’t be surprised to hear, Jeff is not a racist, but a standard-issue liberal Democrat. The “referral” to the Vice-Chancellor never materialized, but the resolution and its aftermath achieved its real goal, which was to turn Jeff, who had been one of the most selfless citizens of the department, into a pariah. He taught—and still teaches—a course called “The Ecology of Crime,” which consistently drew more than 150 students and earned rave reviews. This course had a catalogue number that grouped it with sociocultural anthropology, and it fulfilled a sociocultural anthropology requirement for anthro majors.

In an act of petty spite, ritual moral purification, or both (take your pick), the woke faculty clique, which comprised a majority of the sociocultural anthro faculty, banned him from using—polluting?—any of their course numbers. (Jeff continued to offer the course, just under a different kind of number.)

Even though Jeff stopped attending faculty meetings, and in every other way accepted his punishment of permanent ostracism, his tormentors weren’t finished with him. In early March 2020, the following flyer appeared in the hallways of the anthropology department...'

https://www.commonsense.news/p/why-im-giving-up-tenure-at-ucla; 7/7/22, 11:16 PM
Bender said...: And now a return to assassinations. The world we live in.; 7/7/22, 11:38 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: @Narr:

Be glad you don't live in Arizona. We get near tepid water out of the tap during the summer. You couldn't take a cold shower now if you really wanted to.; 7/7/22, 11:40 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: There’s a danger in everything. Will pro-life legislatures overreach? At a time when few people bother to vote and the integrity of the vote is in question? Interesting times ahead.

Came to this realistic possibility watching Netflix ‘Love Death + Robots Vol 3 Ep 9 - Mason’s Rats.; 7/7/22, 11:57 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: The HBO max app for television is better than Netflix in that it lets you watch a trailer. Netflix starts the dam show as soon as you click and hover over the image. That means a queue littered with “shit, I didn’t mean to turn you on” return, exit. Netflix doesn’t give us trailers. As a result I’m probably spending more time browsing HBO.; 7/8/22, 12:14 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: “hide my email” has the potential of one day clearing my inbox. 😏

Maybe I shouldn’t talk about it. 😒; 7/8/22, 12:29 AM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: I’m listening again to the video I linked to earlier today in/on the post about why the 3 Dobbs dissenters did not put up a better defence of Roe.

The video essay presents compelling arguments as to why there may be no plot, or certainly less plots, than the plethora of plots we’ve become accustomed to. The idea that “everything is connected” sounds reassuring. On closer examination, however, “everything is connected” is froutht with uncertainty.; 7/8/22, 1:01 AM
Ann Althouse said...: "The HBO max app for television is better than Netflix in that it lets you watch a trailer."

Yeah, I subscribed to HBO recently, just so I could watch the documentary about George Carlin, but then I've been watching other things, and I find myself going back. There's something nicer about the place. I hadn't analyzed exactly what it is.; 7/8/22, 6:16 AM
Christopher B said...: Re Milbank and making excuses for Biden, Obama, Clinton, Carter, etc ...

If some DNC scribe hasn't penned one already, we're due for a "the US as constituted is basically ungovernable" screed, another go-to explanation for why Democrat plans crash and burn.; 7/8/22, 6:26 AM
wendybar said...: "If America was “built on the backs of slaves”, then Planned Parenthood was built on the backs, lungs, brains, livers, and wanted severed body parts of the unborn. It was built upon the unceasing exploitation of women…wait, pregnant people…wait, menstruating people…wait, birthing people. Ahhhhhhh, non-prostate owners? Anyway, mother and aborted child have made the abortion behemoth a $2.3 billion business, whether Planned Parenthood cares to acknowledge them or not."

https://townhall.com/columnists/ryanbomberger/2022/07/08/abortion-is-slavery-n2609932; 7/8/22, 7:15 AM
wendybar said...: The Bidens are so corrupt and the Intel Agencies are covering for them....ask yourself WHY????What's in it for them?? The Bidens are getting richer, but what do THEY get?? https://dailycaller.com/2022/07/07/james-comer-treasury-rule-hunter-biden/; 7/8/22, 7:57 AM
wendybar said...: Things we've recently learned about Hunter Biden:

- Joe gave him money that he used for a Russian prostitution ring
- Joe spoke to him on a voicemail about his overseas business dealings
- Joe sold America's oil reserves to a Chinese company Hunter has financial ties to.
And meanwhile, Biden's handlers are just straight up refusing to say anything about it as they bring him to events at the White House.

The New York Times, Washington Post, and every other corporate media outlet just doesn't care.

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/07/08/nothing-to-see-here-greg-price-highlights-point-by-point-the-parts-joe-biden-has-played-in-hunter-bidens-sleazy-dealings-and-hooboy/; 7/8/22, 8:27 AM
wendybar said...: Super Gay Cop retired at 51 after a highly publicized career with the DC police. Two years later, Florida police busted him for hooking up with a 16-year-old boy. The bust happened in February. Bezos's paper is only now getting around to reporting on it, in the most sympathetic manner possible.

Change it to a cop with a 16-year-old girl and the cop is treated like a man accused of sex with a minor.

https://www.chron.com/news/article/He-was-one-of-the-nation-s-most-revered-gay-cops-17290525.php; 7/8/22, 8:38 AM
Rusty said...: effinayright said...
"Breaking news: the Chinese oil company that "bought" oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve is part of Hunter Biden's far-flung economic Empire of Graft and Corruption.

IF THAT ISN'T AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE, NOTHING IS.

EVERY FUCKING ONE OF YOU MORAL AND POLITICAL DEGENERATES WHO VOTED FOR BIDEN---THAT'S INGA, READERING, COOK, MARK, FREDER, HOWARD, LEFT BEHIND AT THE CHARLES, GADFLY AND THE REST----ARE COMPLICIT.

YOU VOTED FOR THE PERSON WHO ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN--INDEED, MADE IT HAPPEN."

Take a breathe. Calm down. It doesn't do any good to yell at them. They're proud of the fact they foisted Biden on us. They love the corruption that comes with a democrat administration. Why? At first I believed it was because they were evil. But since they don't directly benefit from the graft generated I concluded they are just stupid and will believe any narrative set before them. Remember we're dealing with the left hand side of the bell curve.; 7/8/22, 9:55 AM
Narr said...: @North says I should be glad I don't live in Arizona.

Always, North! The Southwest has never appealed to me as a place to live. The humid sub-tropical climate here can be brutal at times, but we have a lot of trees and rain too.; 7/8/22, 10:25 AM