The Progressive celebration of free speech continues. As our late-night-owl readers know, after Twitter reinstated conservative activist Chris Loesch’s account in the wee hours of Sunday night/Monday morning, the progressive flag-spam lynch mob — a vicious group of free speech-squelching Twitter users who trigger automatic suspensions by falsely “mass reporting” conservatives as “spammers” — took… Read More Twitter: Where Dissent is Punished.
At least, I think that’s the stealth argument he’s making: (h/t: Memeorandum) That data starkly backs up Ghilarducci’s contention. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, for instance, only 22 percent of workers 55 or older have more than $250,000 put away for retirement. Stunningly, 60 percent of workers in that same age bracket have… Read More Joe Nocera: You’re Too Stupid to Handle Your Money
Hilarity ensues. I base my theism on the following dictum: One of two things is true — either life is eternal, or death is eternal. If life is eternal, death does not matter. If death is eternal, life does not matter.
Don Surber pulls the plug. He will be missed.
I don’t normally comment on clearly not-long-for-this-world aesthetic fads, because that would require me to care about them, and I have very little room for Caring About Things after I’m done damning the Proggies and congratulating my own cleverness. But the Internet’s reigning King of Nostalgia is able to marshal sound and solid arguments against… Read More Lileks on the Horror of Instagram
Dana Loesch is funny. Via Other McCain.
It turns out, that’s what’s happening (h/t Instapundit): The Labor Department defines full-time as 35 hours a week or more, and the “or more” is far more likely to refer to male workers than to female ones. According to the department, almost 55% of workers logging more than 35 hours a week are men. In… Read More Equal Pay for Equal Work
My cliche choice: THE SECOND COMING Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are… Read More Poem in a Pocket Day
If there’s another reason to vote for Romney, I haven’t heard it.
George Zimmermann may or may not be guilty of murder. I suspect not, as the evidence indicates that Trayvon attacked him and was beating him senseless when Zimmerman fired. But that’s what you have trials for. Man Beaten By Mob, In Critical Condition What Parker says happened next could make the fallout from the brutal… Read More Justice for Trayvon
Content Blues 