I just read William Deresiewicz's piece, " On Political Correctness: Power, class, and the new campus religion " in The American Scholar . He highlights the code of self-censorship that has infested academia. Twenty years ago it was worth discussing the ideas that are now ascendant. Back ...

Recently these has been a giant academic scandal about Jason Reza Jorjani, a Ph.D. philosophy graduate and lecturer, who has turned out to be a paranormal-loving member of this new political grab-bag we call the "Alt-Right." Jorjani took his dissertation and turned it into a book, Promethe...

Posts taken from the old board: Insane chapels They won't tell you this, but Christian religious education in America heavily rips off Catholic models, even in the Fundamentalist Christian schools. I went to both secular and religious private schools (the ragtag collection of private schools in my ...

Formerly W6NUT , formerly KE6RRI , now K6MWT , this is the amateur (ham) 2 meter repeater* up on Santiago Peak (5,600 feet or 1707 meters) that covers Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, and the Inland Empire probably on less than 45 watts. The ".435 machine" has been on the air since 1...

Some more headlines: 'We're Going Broke': West Palm Beach Business Owners Want Trump to Spend Weekends Somewhere Else David Edwards, Raw Story synopsis: The presidential security is making it hard for a helicopter tours business and a aircraft rental outfit because there is a "no flying zone&qu...

Eric Schlosser wrote Command and Control , a book and later documentary on the history of US nuclear weapons and the endless accidents that happened during the Cold War. I recently read this--highly recommended. The USAF did something incredibly stupid, they fielded the Titan II as an "interdi...

It's been widely reported that the original source for Trump's wiretapping lie was a piece in Louise Mensch's website HeatStreet , itself quoting two anonymous sources in US counter-terrorism (ironic given Trump's complaint about anonymous sources). It's curious therefore that Mensch's Wikipedia BL...

This has been a problem with intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) from the start, the fear of false positives that the US was under Soviet "first strike" missile attack, either from technical malfunction or human error. I have made this thread a subthread of the Trump thread because...

The counter-view to that New Yorker piece is The Politics behind 'Russia-gate' by Robert Parry of Consortium News . Some quotes: ....But there is a grave danger in playing partisan “gotcha” over U.S. relations with the world’s other major nuclear superpower. If, for instance, President Trump finds h...

ericbarbour wrote:Hah. The newspaper business has got itself far worse problems than badly-made comic strips.....

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/201 ... _1950.html

http://newspaperdeathwatch.com/

The sad, shitty shape of newspapers is both inside and outside the bounds of this thread, because if the papers were doing well, the comics wouldn't suck as bad.