College Athletes Aren't What Make College Football Profitable

SECURITY THEATER OF THE ABSURD: TSA Actually Frisks Woman for Doing Texas Tech’s ‘Finger Gun’ at Houston Airport.

WEIRD COINCIDENCE: Kneeling NFL Teams Fail To Make Playoffs.

21ST CENTURY GENDER: Transgender high school wrestler, 18, on testosterone and waiting for reassignment surgery is set to win the girl’s state title for the second time -before he joins a MENS college team.

MARK RIPPETOE: The Olympic Games: Time to Stop. 

JOURNALISM: How NBC Flubbed Its Coverage, Reported The Wrong Gold Medalist, Then Botched The Correction Of One Of The Most Stunning Upsets In Olympic History.

WOW: Former slave and two-time Olympian becomes an airman.  Full story — and it’s an impressive one — at the link.

“How do you get so many highly-cited papers speaking so confidently about every little sub-sub-detail of a phenomenon, if the phenomenon never existed in the first place

Mid-Ocean Seismicity Portends Global Cooling.  Scott Adams tweets: “How many heads would explode if global temperatures head lower during the Trump administration?”

BUT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED, DAMMIT! Climate change is ‘not as bad as we thought’ say scientists.

SCIENCE: “A 2011 analysis of 52 claims made by nutritional epidemiology tested in 12 well controlled trials found that not one of the 52 claims—0%–could be confirmed.”

REMEMBER THIS WHEN THEY TELL YOU THE SCIENCE IS INFALLIBLE: DNA Blunder Creates Phantom Serial Killer. 

TO ERIC HOLDER, A CITIZENSHIP QUESTION ON THE CENSUS IS VOTER INTIMIDATION, BUT TWO JACK-BOOTED THUGS WITH BILLY CLUBS SHOUTING RACIAL EPITHETS IN FRONT OF A POLLING PLACE AREN’T:

DONNA BRAZILE: Democratic Party Told Me ‘Shut up, Donna’ and ‘I Said Hell No.’ “‘They will drive right past you and will come after you in the last 48 hours of the campaign,’ former DNC chief warned African-American voters.”

JUST NBC THE REVERSE RACISM: Things get hot when a white panelist is told not to quote Martin Luther King: I will ‘every single day. And you won’t stop me.’

APPARENTLY, THEY’RE DEMANDING SPACES THAT ARE SEPARATE, BUT EQUAL, TO COIN A PHRASE: Students Demand ‘POC-Only’ Spaces at New York’s The New School.

LET ME SHOW YOU MY SHOCKED FACE: “Watch: Roomful of Rich, White NYC Parents Get Big Mad at Plan to Diversify Neighborhood’s Schools.”

TO ERIC HOLDER, A CITIZENSHIP QUESTION ON THE CENSUS IS VOTER INTIMIDATION, BUT TWO JACK-BOOTED THUGS WITH BILLY CLUBS SHOUTING RACIAL EPITHETS IN FRONT OF A POLLING PLACE AREN’T:

DONNA BRAZILE: Democratic Party Told Me ‘Shut up, Donna’ and ‘I Said Hell No.’ “‘They will drive right past you and will come after you in the last 48 hours of the campaign,’ former DNC chief warned African-American voters.”

JUST NBC THE REVERSE RACISM: Things get hot when a white panelist is told not to quote Martin Luther King: I will ‘every single day. And you won’t stop me.’

APPARENTLY, THEY’RE DEMANDING SPACES THAT ARE SEPARATE, BUT EQUAL, TO COIN A PHRASE: Students Demand ‘POC-Only’ Spaces at New York’s The New School.

HEH: The fix was in. The 2016 election was rigged — and Donald Trump won anyway.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Students Hate Quotes from Trump’s State of the Union, Until Realizing They Are Obama’s.

CHANGE: Number Of Americans Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship Fell In 2017, The First Decline In Five Years.

I DID NOT REALIZE THAT KAMALA HARRIS GOT HER START IN POLITICS by dating Willie Brown.

“THIS MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I WANT TO PUNCH THE NEXT ASIAN PERSON I SEE IN THE FACE”:  That was California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia’s reaction to Asian opposition to the proposed repeal of California’s Proposition 209.  Nasty.

JOHN HAWKINS: 7 Forces Driving America Toward Civil War.

It ain't the NRA but ... THE TOP THREE RECIPIENTS WERE ALL DEMOCRATS: Members of Congress Who Questioned Mark Zuckerberg Had Received $641,685 From Facebook.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: More than 200 George Washington University students have signed a petition calling on the school to adopt a new mascot and nickname, saying the current “Colonials” moniker “has too deep a connection to colonization.”

And since this is breaking ... HERE ARE THREE SCARY FACTORS YOU MUST UNDERSTAND IN FBI SCANDAL: It all makes sense once you understand this trio. Well, everything but those two chatty FBI lovebirds.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED HIS WAS “A REMARKABLY SCANDAL-FREE ADMINISTRATION”: Obama Regs on For-Profit Colleges, Finance, Railroads, and Airlines All Profited His Best Friend.  AND cost me the best job I ever had!

I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Michelle Obama admits her vegetable garden shtick was all a ruse.

IF WE START LISTING ALL THE THINGS OBAMA DIDN’T KNOW, WE’LL BE HERE ALL NIGHT:  Obama didn’t know healthcare could be so complicated.

#METOO!  Obama is ‘relieved’ to no longer be president.

JEFF REYNOLDS: Leftist Double Standards: Bashing Scott Pruitt While Ignoring Obama’s EPA Scandals. “Pruitt’s transgressions pale in comparison.”  Double standards must be twice as good as regular standards, right?

Funny, When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users To Win In 2012, Everyone Cheered. That’s different because shut up.

“FAILURE WAS A FEATURE”: Obama Killed His Own Iran Deal.

DIANE FEINSTEIN: Trump wants to undo everything Obama has done.

Elections have consequences, or hasn’t she heard?

WEIRD, BECAUSE THE WHOLE RATIONALE FOR OBAMACARE WAS THAT COVERAGE IS WHAT MATTERS: Prescription Drugs May Cost More With Insurance Than Without It.

OUCH: Health Insurance Premiums Rising as High as 265% in Virginia This Year.

SCOTT RASMUSSEN: The Ground Is Shifting Under Obamacare.

'Assault Weapons,' Explained: New at Reason

MORE PEOPLE NEED TO SHOOT: Shooting an ‘assault weapon’ helped me understand the gun debate.

Well I'M done buying them!:  Girl Scouts To Meet With Ohio Senators To Push For Gun Control.

THIS WILL ACCELERATE THE K-12 IMPLOSION: Obama’s education secretary Arne Duncan wants parents to keep kids out of school until gun control laws are passed.

“NOW”: Okay, Now I Actually Do Want To Take Your Guns.

HOUSTON POLICE CHIEF: We need people to start using the ballot box to take action on gun control.  People have been doing just that, ever since turning Congress over to the GOP following Bill Clinton’s “assault” weapons ban.

JOSEPH BOTTUM: What explains the sudden mania for toppling statues?

The glory of the Internet is that it allows like-minded people to find one another. And the horror of the Internet is that it allows like-minded people to find one another. Coin collectors, baseball-card enthusiasts, and used-book readers have all benefited from the opportunities offered by online connection. So have neo-Nazis, child-pornographers, and Communist agitators. Where they were once connected only by the sickly sweet smell of the ink from the mimeograph machine clumping away on the kitchen table, the forces of anger now have instantaneous links.

And that instantaneity allows a radicalizing more rapid than the world has ever seen. Back in a 1999 study called “The Law of Group Polarization,” legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein suggested that discussion among people with similar views causes a hardening of opinion. “In a striking empirical regularity,” he wrote, “deliberation tends to move groups, and the individuals who compose them, toward a more extreme point in the direction indicated by their own predeliberation judgments.” It hardly matters whether the groups are pro-gun, pro-abortion, or pro-anarchy. With sufficient group discussion on one side of an issue, everyone involved takes a step toward the extreme: The mildly supportive become strongly supportive, the strongly supportive become wildly supportive, and the wildly supportive become fanatical psychopaths.

These are Heinlein’s Crazy Years — we just live in them.