Yep Its Stupid

Aug. 21, a New York tabloid might have said it best in its opening paragraph: “A police union [Sergeants Benevolent Association] wants to turn random bystanders into vigilantes-for-hire by offering $500 to any civilian who helps cops wrestle down suspects who are resisting arrest.” Aug. 23, the Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights leader and president of the National Action Network did not mince his words in reacting to the SBA proposal: “We at National Action Network are disgusted but not at all surprised by Ed Mullins [president of the SBA], State Senator Marty Golden [D-Bklyn] and the entire Sergeants Benevolent Association’s most recent reminder to Black and Brown New Yorkers that not only do they not care about our lives, but they are actively seeking to take our lives. This attempt to exacerbate vigilante violence against Black and Brown people and now monetarily incentivize that violence is unconscionable. “State Senator Golden’s attempt to codify ...

It’s adorable when people talk about the rule of law. OK, let’s assume that Donald Trump broke the law under some bizarrely convoluted interpretation of the hateful and unconstitutional (in a world where our Constitution was properly understood) thicket of campaign finance statutes that somehow makes the guy who is being extorted a criminal for paying off the aging bimbos shaking him down. Why should we care? Because we don’t care. MSNBC can howl “impeachment” 300 times an hour and we still won’t care. Even if this was an actual crime and Donald Trump was guilty of it, we don’t care. Did he illegally pay off weather-beaten pole-clinger Stormy and also the one from Playboy who was actually hot? Don’t care. The climate scam is derailed, ISIS is dead, and then we got Gorsuch, Grennell, and a great economy. Those things we care about. Trump 2020, jerks. “Buh buh but, the rule of law!” howl the feckless Fredocon swabbies on the de...

I t was “coded” or “not so coded” language about race, according to Vox . It was another sign, added a Think Progress editor, that the candidate is “not a sane man.” And it was, the Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Terrie Rizzo summarized, “disgusting.” Those politicos and publications are referring, of course, to Rep. Ron DeSantis, the Republican nominee for Florida governor, saying that voters should not “monkey this up” by electing Democratic nominee and Mayor of Tallahassee Andrew Gillum. The problem? Gillum is a black man. Here"s the clip: Read the quote: Florida elections are always competitive, and this is a guy who, although he’s much too liberal for Florida, I think he’s got huge problems with how he’s governed Tallahassee, he is an articulate spokesman for those far-left views, and he’s a charismatic candidate. I watched those Democrat debates, and none of that is my cup of te...

I was recently out at a bar on a Sunday afternoon. The couple next to me (who I’m not sure were actually a couple – the woman kept saying to the man, “You’re my best friend”) were having a heated discussion over a bottle of wine. Maybe they were a bit drunk. All I know is it was so awkward sitting next to them that my friends and I, and a number of others, swiftly moved from the table , despite the bar being packed. We resorted to sitting on a wall next to them but, unfortunately, still in earshot. They were argu ing about feminism and clearly the guy didn’t agree with her. I found it hard to listen to – he was completely disrespecting her. He kept calling her ideas stupid, and would say, “Can you understand how stupid you sound?” He denied her version of the world. When she talked about feeling held back as a woman he ridiculed her, asking who was holding her back and how, saying maybe it was just her own fault. It’s not that ...

BANGKOK (ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - It"s not a trade war, stupid! In today"s world when everything hinges on technology, competition and conflict between states is really about who gets to Industry 4.0 faster than the others. Hence, trade disputes are only one of many channels to disrupt your competitor before they become stronger and more competitive in technology capability. Goodbye to equality between states. We live not in a digital age, but a knowledge revolution using the digitisation of knowledge and technology. Competition in the age before digitisation was all about land, labour and capital. In the agricultural age, those who had more land and labour had the upper hand. But after the Industrial Revolution, those who had science and technology gained hegemony over land-based powers, because steam-driven gunboats and later aircraft gave Western powers command over land, sea and air. After World War II, the US gained decisive technological advantage also over space and tod...

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There’s the Stupid Media and the Smart Media. Part of the job of the Smart Media (yours truly, among others), though it does get tiresome, is to debunk the stupidity of the Stupid Media. And such two-brain-cell reportage was on full display Wednesday with a Sky News article titled “Women are better drivers than men, study finds.” No, I won’t link to it and give the Stupid Media more traffic, but its theme is simple: “Male drivers seem to have more accidents than their female counterparts — costing insurers more money in claims pay-outs” (duh), as the subtitle explains it. This isn’t exactly a revelation. But I suppose with newbie news readers coming online all the time, it’s always news to someone. And bashing men is a fashionable way to grab headlines. But like so much disgorged by the Stupid Media — intersex wage-gap propaganda, for instance — the notion that this means women are better drivers is bunk. Yes, men get...