Tuesday Links - 11 April

The Post Millennial starts us off today with Anti-Christian student activists destroy Bible, shut down conservative event at state-funded New York college

On Tuesday, Off Limits host Ian Haworth was set to give a speech at the University of Albany in New York after an invitation from Turning Point USA, an organization dedicated to the principles of freedom and free speech, but was interrupted by Anti-Christian, far-left students who drowned out his presentation with shouts and aggressive pseudo-dance in an apoplectic display that found one enraged activist destroying a Bible.

The Other McCain - Magna Carta and Alvin Bragg

“The failure of our education system to teach America’s young people their own history,” I wrote nearly four years ago, “is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that almost no one under 40 today knows anything about Sam Adams except as a popular brand of beer.” And many have suspected that this historical ignorance is not accidental, but rather that the dumbing-down of American education serves a specific political agenda, as those who are conscious of the pedigree of their liberty are apt to be more zealous in defense of their rights.

Professor David Yamane at Gun Culture 2.0 - Further Adventures in Using Artificial Intelligence to Help Me with My Books on American Gun Culture

I was updating a chapter of my book-in-progress recently, writing about how the City of San Francisco eliminated its last gun store, High Bridge Arms, in 2015 but allows alcohol — arguably a bigger public health problem than gun violence — to circulate widely with little regulation. Any person over 21 in San Francisco can walk into most supermarkets, liquor stores, wine stores, beer stores, bars, or restaurants and buy alcohol. There are no laws specifying “prohibited persons,” no permits required, no criminal background checks, no mental health assessments, no registration, no additional fees beyond the cost of the product.

The Other McCain again - Obscure Online ‘Celebrities’ and the Fragmentation of Popular Culture

Once upon a time (he says, as if speaking of a distant and possibly mythical past) there were three major national TV networks, which was where practically all “famous” people were seen. During the 1980s, the proliferation of cable TV channels began to change this equation, and one of the responses to the challenge of cable — which cut into the audience and advertising revenue of the “Big Three” networks — was the rise of “reality TV” series.

Matt Margolis at PJ Media - Non-woke Super Mario Bros. Movie Dominates, Smashing Box Office Records. The key part is "non-woke."

It’s true. There was no lecturing about global warming. There were no gender swaps, race swaps, or token LGBTQ characters. If you were worried that Princess Peach would be changed to a transgender, or Mario and Luigi would be written as a same-sex couple and not brothers, have no fear—the movie knows who it’s trying to please, even if critics don’t get it. In fact, one critic blasted the movie for the crime of catering to the fans of the game franchise. “It’s fan service above all else, regressively so.” The horror!

SiGraybeard - About That Centaur Engine Anomaly

Back on March 31st in one of my small story roundups, I relayed that ULA CEO Tory Bruno had Tweeted that the Vulcan's upper stage suffered "an anomaly" without specifically saying what happened. In the last couple of days, some interesting things have surfaced. Perhaps the most interesting is a photograph tweeted by Eric Berger, the space correspondent for Ars Technica, but this is his personal twitter account. This is said to be the "anomaly" but most of us would call that an explosion. Orange cloud to the left.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Crazy Nietsche – Der Freie Geist

And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him.

And again from The Other McCain - Disaggregating Data on ‘Gun Violence’

Sailer was able to extract this information from the CDC database, and perhaps others (including Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell) could have done the same thing, if they had tried, but of course, they didn’t try. Because they don’t care. They just want to scare people with a number about a trend, without providing the context necessary to understand the trend.