“That’s Gotta Hurt”

Daily Darwin – Crushed Ice

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Darwin says that when one chips ice for one’s Very Dry Martini (James Bond’s receipe–shaken, not stirred) one should be above, not below the fault line.

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Natural selection deems that some individuals serve as a warning to others. Who are we to disagree? The next generation, ever and anon, is descended from the survivors

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No ‘Effing Snowflakes Here

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Compare these 1895 Freshman/Sophomore Class Princeton “Snowball Warriors”  to the poor little ‘Effing Emory Snowflakes that can’t survive a little chalk dust.

Here’s the report from The Washington Post, “Someone wrote ‘Trump 2016’ on Emory’s campus in chalk. Some students said they no longer feel safe“.

Students woke up Monday morning to find messages written in chalk all over campus, in support of Donald Trump. That afternoon, a group of 40 to 50 students protested. According to the student newspaper, the Emory Wheel, Princeton_Snowball_Fightthey shouted in the quad, “You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!” and then students moved into the administration building calling out, “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

Jim Wagner, the president of the university in Atlanta, met with the protesters and later sent an email to the campus community, saying, in part, “During our conversation, they voiced their genuine concern and pain in the face of this perceived intimidation.

The story spread quickly, as media such as Reason mocked, “At Emory University, Writing ‘Trump 2016′ on Sidewalk Is a Racist Microaggression …,” with references to students needing “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” to protect them from presidential candidates’ names and slogans. For many, it was another sign of college students being so overly sensitive that even political campaigning could be seen as hate speech.

 

 

 

Don & Melania & Ted & Heidi

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Or if you were around in 1969, “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice“.

From Vox, “Heidi Cruz and Melania Trump: 6 stories to read about the women at the center of Wifegate“.

This week, the two leading Republican presidential candidates spiraled into a hypermasculine feud over each other’s wives.

Donald Trump responded to an attack ad in support of Ted Cruz that used a nude photo of Trump’s wife, Melania, with a vague threat to “spill the beans” about Cruz’s wife, Heidi.

The Facebook attack ad, targeted at Utah’s conservative Mormon base before Tuesday’s primary, was sponsored by Make America Awesome, a Super PAC supporting Cruz. It used a photo from a GQ spread with the caption, “Meet Melania Trump. Your Next First Lady. Or you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.”