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So, apparently there was a woman's golf tournament and it actually caused some controversy as golf coach Hank Haney was accused of racist, sexist comments over his prediction: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/sports/hank-haney-racist-sexist.html The prediction turned out to be at least...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cuba-widespread-rationing-staple-foods-due-to-shortages-economic-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR3lchaT_hbNqDHEVfgA3Y-w8xGAZ2jOg_vA7Ghsq7u-8QVixtbal_5khsw Cuba, for some reason, just does not seem to be able to make it without some sort of economic sugar daddy. The soviets...

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/punched-priest-believes-cross-around-his-neck-enraged-suspect/941141765 Seems like the best part about Nazi-punching is the power we give to every day people to decide who is and isn't a Nazi. If you watch the video, you can see punching Nazis makes...

I bring this up largely as a public service because we have some people who seem to get giddy about punching nazis here. And if you can't punch nazis at Berkeley, it could be even worse somewhere else. https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/04/politics/charges-possible-conservative-activist-attack/index.html

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/ex-transgender-man-now-wants-14071689 I notice they don't call it by its preferred pronoun. I assume this means they're xenophobic astrophobes?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/07/dutch-man-69-identifies-20-years-younger-launches-legal-battle/ He raises some good points. Although he should really just go with "I feel deep within my being that I am 49 years old", since that ought to be enough. Another plus: once people get...

http://www.france24.com/en/20180731-venezuelas-president-admits-economy-has-failed Well, comrade, I've given it some thought and here's the solution that seems to work for what ails you: Don't nationalize various industry sectors, don't appropriate hundreds of businesses, don't send troops...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-looks-to-ban-free-lunch-at-tech-companies/ One of the first rules of economics is: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL). But it turns out sometimes there is, and it's super bad! Fortunately, we can use government force to stamp out...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774 So, it's not so much that the DNC skewed the primary elections to help the Clinton Campaign, it's that the DNC was the Clinton Campaign. Also it seems Donna Brazile is a Russian hacker...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/cam-newton-loses-dannon-endorsement-162219689.html Let's hope this touches off another round of kneeling.

So, take that people who claim that Universities are bubbles of leftist identity politics. The school insta-fired these faculty for their efforts to promote diversity...

We have a new thing to become outraged about. The eclipse is racist: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/american-totality-eclipse-race/537318/ I, for one, plan to avoid looking directly at it in protest.

In another thread in which some appeared to be arguing Muslims (which are 2-3% of the population in North American and Western Europe) were not any more likely to commit terrorist acts then others, I offered the following proposition...

ISIS claims responsibility. Obviously this is blowback for their meddling in the Middle East. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/world/middleeast/iran-parliament-attack-khomeini-mausoleum.html?_r=0

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-09/jakartas-outgoing-governor-ahok-found-guilty-in-blasphemy-trial/8509936 On the surface, this seems pretty bad for those who believe in secular liberal ideals like free speech, minority rights, freedom of religion, non-criminalization of political...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/denmark-man-burned-quran-koran-video-blasphemy-facebook-islam-prosecuted-charged-46-years-a7594796.html Though, I guess it says "religion" not "religious beliefs" so maybe atheists religious views are the only ones that can be mocked. Indeed...

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-coming-to-a-clipboard-near-you-1485483444-htmlstory.html They can go as long as they pay us back for the military bases right?

http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-gas-protest-20170109-story.html On the one hand, there are protesters who are poor people. On the other hand, cheap gasoline will kill the planet Then on the other hand, it's the big powerful government's job to set prices and...

Or, election in microcosm Part II. http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2016/12/she-is-more-educated.html I think they almost won him over. With the superior education.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/scotch-whisky-makers-to-appeal-ruling-on-minimum-alcohol-prices-1479467661 What are these Scotch Whisky makers thinking? We know from discussions here this minimum price law will a) place more money into the hands of scotch whisky makers than selling it at lower...