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People are going to have to think less about themselves and think more about me, Fareed Zakaria…

Fareed Zakaria was born into an elite Indian Muslim family and made his way into the global elite via Harvard and Yale. He’s edited Foreign Affairs, Newsweek and Newsweek International; now he’s a host on CNN. As you can imagine, this expertise and background have given him unique insight into the inexplicable horror of the Boston Marathon bombing by two young MuslimContinue reading “People are going to have to think less about themselves and think more about me, Fareed Zakaria…”

Resourceful Satirical Magazine Finds Americans Not Stereotyping, Ridicules Them For Their Ignorance

Via Steve Sailer, here’s The Onion engaging in accidental self-parody: Majority of Americans Not Informed Enough To Stereotype Chechens The peoples’ calm tolerance goes into the media’s Narrate-o-Matic and voila, out it comes as popular “ignorance.” The average American just can’t win–must be why the elites think he’s such a loser.  Of course the realContinue reading “Resourceful Satirical Magazine Finds Americans Not Stereotyping, Ridicules Them For Their Ignorance”

Strife Begins at Conception

In joking about the newest front in the war on the racial achievement gap–earlier and earlier pre-school intervention–Steve Sailersuggested the disparity in children’s nurturing between lower and upper income homes, which all decent people know is the only possible explanation for inequality, begins as early as eight months, twenty nine days before birth–but not a day earlier!Cue the New York Times’ Opinionator blog,Continue reading “Strife Begins at Conception”

Tyranny, Hard and Soft

I doubt severe torture could bring me to genuinely care about whatever merit there is behind Femen’s protest of Vladimir Putin, and there must be some merit, him being a Russian tyrant and all, prompting the hysterics. But I appreciate the girls giving me the opportunity to use the word in both its original and later meaning: from Latin hystericus “of the womb,” from GreekContinue reading “Tyranny, Hard and Soft”

The Varieties of Religious Expression

…manifest fabrications [of biblical scripture] should not be regarded as deliberate fraud, done with intent to deceive…they spring from a concept of the nature of documentary proof which is alien to us. Thus, an earnest scribe, believing wholeheartedly that the doctrine of the Trinity was true, thought it merely an accident or oversight that itContinue reading “The Varieties of Religious Expression”

We Didn’t Start the Fire…

NBC is facing a defamation suit for deliberately altering the recording of George Zimmerman’s 911 call to make him look “racist”. To recap, the actual recording:  Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about. 911 Dispatcher: OK, and thisContinue reading “We Didn’t Start the Fire…”

Sequester Reveals Government Hiring Bias Favoring Women, Blacks

…is not the title of this article at The Hill about the disparite impact the sequester will have on that massive, perpetually besieged cohort know as Women and Minorities (which covers by my quick estimation something like eighty percent of us, albeit with some confusing overlap), due to their prevalence in government work. I keepContinue reading “Sequester Reveals Government Hiring Bias Favoring Women, Blacks”