Is a female statutory rape offender the same as a male offender?

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/08/chelsea_area_mom_sentenced_up.html

Posted in Daily Links and Notes | Leave a comment

How Iceland is eliminating Downs Syndrome

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/the-country-where-down-syndrome-children-are-disappearing

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/down-syndrome-iceland/?linkId=40953194

Posted in Daily Links and Notes | Leave a comment

CEOs abandon Trump’s Council faster than pastors

Posted in Daily Links and Notes | Leave a comment

Dreher Interviews Lilla

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/mark-lilla-vs-identity-politics/

Identity politics on the left was at first about large classes of people – African Americans, women – seeking to redress major historical wrongs by mobilizing and then working through our political institutions to secure their rights. It was about enfranchisement, a practical political goal reached by persuading others of the rightness of your cause. But by the 1980s this approach had given way to a pseudo-politics of self-regard and increasingly narrow self-definition. The new identity politics is expressive rather than persuasive. Even the slogans changed, from We shall overcome – a call to action – to I’m here, I’m queer – a call to nothing in particular. Identitarians became self-righteous, hypersensitive, denunciatory, and obsessed with trivial issues that have made them a national laughing stock (drawing up long lists of gender pronouns, condemning spaghetti and meatballs as cultural appropriation,…). This was politically disastrous and just played into the hands of Fox News.

Posted in Daily Links and Notes | Leave a comment

None are pure in the ascending morality

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/how-diversity-is-tearing-america-apart/

The clerical class keeps close watch over the words the dhimmis speak, and if they question the religion in any way, or violate any of its taboos, they will be punished severely. The clerisy polices doctrinal purity by declaring any dissent to be a manifestation of bigotry, which is to say, evil. The clerisy teaches the Chosen that they do not have to monitor their own consciences, because they cannot sin. Rather, their job is to scan relentlessly the lives of the others, the Deplorables, and root out sin when they find it by reporting them to the religious authorities.

Posted in Daily Links and Notes | Leave a comment

We can’t risk white people freedom of assembly anymore because Klan meetings just keep breaking out spontaneously…

http://everydayfeminism.com/2017/08/light-skinned-poc-spaces/

Problem is when white people gather separately we end up with groups like the KKK,

Posted in Daily Links and Notes | Leave a comment

Watch “the Book of the Damned, by Charles Fort (1/2)” on YouTube

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Daryl Davis befriends white supremacists

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kkk-klu-klux-klan-members-leave-black-man-racism-friends-convince-persuade-chicago-daryl-davis-a7489596.html

accidentalcourtesy.com

 

Posted in Daily Links and Notes | Leave a comment

Mindfullness, Buddhism and Business

https://www.wired.com/2017/08/the-science-and-philosophy-of-mindfulness-meditation/

Posted in Daily Links and Notes | Leave a comment

“If you’re not resisting, you’re partaking”: a historian on Trump’s failure to call evil by its name – Vox

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2017/8/14/16141078/charlottesville-unite-the-right-nazi-history-timothy-snyder

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment