CDC: Zombie Preparedness

Actually pretty cool.

A way to get people thinking about preparedness with respect to real emergencies.

(via Reddit maybe?)

M. Bachman: If You Criticize The Koch Brothers You Should Be Prosecuted Under RICO

via LGF

Haven't heard from her in a while...

Still crazy.

"Microaggression" Mania!

"Microaggressions"--yet another stupid terminological fad on the lefty-left. Have accusations of "microaggressions" gotten out of hand? Well, in certain quarters of the web, yes. Not that anybody cares about those quarters--e.g. Tumbler--except insofar as crazy lefty web crap tends to leak into academia, and thereby infect young minds.

Sadly, liberals are loathe to call bullshit on anything like this.

Of course people do throw little verbal elbows at each other with some frequency. And, of course, some of these verbal elbows are aimed at sensitive areas. And, of course, some of those have to do with people's sexuality and related matters. So it's not that the concept "microaggression" is hopelessly stupid. It makes a certain amount of sense...  Annoying: yes. Nonsensical: no. 

But if it's genuinely difficult to discern Smith's sex, and Jones guesses wrong and uses the wrong pronoun to refer to Smith, that is not an aggression of any kind. It's a mistake. And if, say, Smith goes out of his way to seem androgynous, or to dress and act in the way that the other sex has traditionally dressed and acted, then the responsibility for the error is Smith's not Jones's. As is typical of the lefty-left, there's a kind of overreach involved in this concept and its typical application. If it were simply used to describe small acts genuinely intended to annoy, I don't see how anyone could complain about it. But the far-ish left can't seem to resist the urge to try to categorize honest error as moral crime. Asking a middle-aged, straight-looking person whether he has a family is not an "aggression." Saying "I'm not being homophobic, you're just being too sensitive" (one of the little signs under discussion) is not inherently aggressive nor wrong. It may be true, it may be false. If the former it's fine, if the latter it's not. (In fact, accusing someone of homophobia simply because you're being too sensitive is wrong.) As always, truth matters.

Though not as dangerous as the right, the left always manages to be, well, nuttier. Right-wing stuff half this transparently silly would be slapped down by liberals without hesitation. But, of course, liberals don't like to criticize anything done by certain "communities"...  Just as the right allows itself to be dragged farther into the fever swamps by its own fringe, liberalism is dragged farther into barking moonbat-dom by its own fringe. If there's a direction on the political spectrum you refuse to criticize, it's not surprising that you are dragged in that direction...

Crowdsourcing The Search For MH370

link

(via Reddit)

Carolina 81-Duke 93

Congratulations to Duke. Jabari Parker is a beast.

One of those nights on which not much went right for the Heels...but Duke did lots of things well, including killing us on the boards. That was huge.

We're so much better this year than anybody thought we would be without PJ that it's tough to complain... But it would have been nice to have played better and at least been in a position to steal this one...

But such is hoops...

Go Tar Heels, Beat Duke

A far-less-hateable-than-usual Duke team this year...but it's still important to whup 'em...

Go get 'em, boys!

Snowdon Claims to Have Raised Concerns Internally 10 Times Before Going Rogue

At the Washington Post.

Heart of Dukeness

The Leadership of Mike Krzyzewski At Duke

At Grantland

(via IC)

Some Sophomoric, Pseudo-Scienfic Crap About the Self

Jesus, why do I even read this crap?

Streaky

Ol' Roy has some serious streaks in ACC play.

Mass of Humans, Pets and Livestock vs. Mass of Wild Animals

At XKCD

But overpopulation isn't a thing of course...

(I didn't check the accuracy of the chart) 

(Via Reddit)

New Marijuana Study Confirms Everyone Knows You're High

The Onion, still a national treasure.

(via Reddit)

Has Putin Lost Touch With Reality?

At TNR

Trigger Happy: "Trigger Warnings" Are, Basically, Bullshit

Are you such a special snowflake/shrinking violet that you need to be warned if, say, spiders or fatty foods are mentioned in something you're about to read? Then perhaps "trigger warnings" are for you...

Some Ocean Fish Getting Smaller--A LOT Smaller

Here's the progression of the Florida Keys in the last 50 years.

The biggest fish used to be monsters...now they're the size of large bass.

Poland Says Russian Aggression Must Be Stopped

Reuters