1937. Ennis Texas, the Nu Deel Sandwich Shoppe
Ennis is a town of 18,500 in east-central
Texas. Places like these were the forerunner of the 'miracle mile' seen
in every town of any size.
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Give me that old time precision
“At one time, my office was asked to do a study
regarding upgrading the Iowa-class battleship fire control systems from
analog to digital computers. We found that digitizing the computer would
improve neither the reliability nor the accuracy of the system and
recommended, ‘Don't bother.’” How did this
box of gears and cams
out-calculate digital systems for so long?, says Sean Gallagher in this
article, When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves - In some
ways, the Navy's latest computers fall short of the power of 1930s tech, at Ars Technica.
Race card payday - New York City is set to pay up to $98 million in back pay and benefits to settle a Bloomberg-era lawsuit alleging the FDNY's
entrance exams for firefighters discriminated against minority
applicants. The proposed settlement would make about 1,500 black
firefighters who took [meaning: failed] the exams in 1999 and 2002 eligible for compensation. It would create an FDNY
chief diversity officer and require the city to try its best to ensure
that the proportion of minority test-takers exceeds the city's
job-eligible racial makeup to address past discrimination.
Matthew Chayes at newsday.com
End of science
The science settlers have responded to the
serious questions that have been raised about their unscientific
advocacy has been to demand a more closed system, to hide more data, to
urge newspapers to stop printing letters from anyone who questions
Global Warming and to even propose the imprisonment of Warming critics.
This isn't the confident attitude of a field that believes it has the
facts on its side, says Daniel Greenfield in this article, The End of Science, at Sultan Knish.
Also see
Aliens Cause Global Warming: A Caltech Lecture by Michael Crichton, at
Watts Up With That?
"Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do
with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the
contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which
means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the
real world" -
Anthony Watts.
Scare them young, make examples of the clearly
innocent, and all will see and fall into line out of fear of the state
and those who will imprison you over imaginary threats. Where such
psychosis leads is now on display in Connecticut, which has adopted an
Obama'esque “red line” by implementing a gun registration law that most
have refused to obey. Connecticut's budding fascists must either go
Full Brownshirt in their determined assault on the Constitution, thereby
fomenting open revolt by those peacefully doing what the Constitution
protects, or they will have to back down, says Jeffrey Brown in this
article, Zero Tolerance, Evil Objects, and the Psychosis of the Left, at American Thinker.
Drugging bored kids
He's bored to tears with teachers who know less
than he does and can't manage to give him something challenging to do
because the school stuck a bunch of kids with sub-90 IQs in the class in
the name of political correctness—and you cannot both challenge the 110
IQ kid and meet the needs of the 90 IQ one at the same time in the same
room. When the 110 (or 120+!) IQ kid gets bored he might first try to
get more attention, but that's considered "acting out" and is punished.
What's next? Drugs, says Karl Denninger in this article, No, Really? (ADHD), at Market Ticker.
I am woman, watch me swoon
The trigger-warning vogue began a few years ago
on feminist websites, and then spread to other "social justice" blogs.
The idea behind them is that for people who have post-traumatic stress
disorder, something that reminds them of the trauma can trigger painful
flashbacks and panic attacks. Trigger warnings have now arrived on
college campuses, now student sensitivities must be coddled and
protected—even letting students skip uncomfortable material, says Cathy Young in this article, Trigger Warnings—A Ludicrous Step Toward Censorship, at Minding The Campus.
Remus says - Stuff like this is why American education is the world's laughing stock.
Ask the experts - I
can think of two groups with whom I have some sympathy—the Tea Party
and climate skeptics—who share one problem in common: the media does
not come to them to ask them what their positions are. The media
instead goes to their opposition to ask what their positions are. In
other words, the media asks global warming strong believers what the
skeptic position is, without ever even talking to skeptics. It should
be no surprise then that these groups get painted with straw men
positions that frequently bear no resemblance to their actual beliefs.
Warren Meyer at coyoteblog.com
