Tuesday Links - 10 December

Miguel Gonzalez is up first with a story of insanity from Nashville. You know it is a sh**ty neighborhood.

So how bad does a neighborhood has to be to have a store close down? The article gives you some hints, probably unintended.

The Other McCain - Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Daniel Escalera and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because Escalera was shot dead by police last Sunday when he went crazy and attacked an Illinois nursing home:

Seth Segal at The Gateway Pundit - Brown University Increases DEI Efforts

Brown University clearly could care less that most people would prefer a merit-based, not DEI-based, society.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 7 December 2024: Oops All AI Edition

The DC Circuit Court has declared the communists can go suck a lemon, handing a win to... The other communists. (CNN)

TikTok filed a suit against the law requiring it to either sell or shut down. It lost.

TikTok is based in China and also banned in China, providing sufficient reason to wonder why any country should permit it to operate within its territory, without even pausing to consider the innumerable other scandals TikTok has been caught up in over the past week.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Finally, It’s Draft Day

Top linkers for the week ending November 29:

1.  EBL (11)
2.  (tied) 357 Magnum & A View From The Beach (10)

Washington school district cancels meeting to prepare families for 'immigration raids' under Trump presidency

Glenn Harlan Reynolds - The Clock Strikes Thirteen

What happened? It’s like a spell broke. Since November’s election (re-election?) of President Donald Trump, the woke is going away, and all sorts of problems are resolving themselves. But why?

There are several reasons, but basically, it’s a preference cascade.

Clayton Cramer - Gun Banner Logic Is No Better When Translated From Hebrew

As you might expect Israeli gun banners have all the same objections to self-defense as American gun-banners: