Friday Links - 28 March

Tam at View From The Porch starts us off with a bit of sports history. Fastballs and Fast Lenses

Yesterday was the twenty-fourth anniversary of an unfortunate dove's encounter with a Randy Johnson fastball.

Science Is Not The Answer - Why Does Science Say Everything Will Kill You?

We learned part of the cause is that scientists have to research their specialty to get paid, even if their work is useless, or would have been better left undone. Too many scientists, too much money in science, doing too much is one big reason.

Not The Bee is up next with another politician advocating violence. Jasmine Crockett says Ted Cruz "has to be knocked over the head, like hard"

Let's play a game called What if a Republican Said That?

If Democrats were in power and a Republican said something like what Jasmine Crockett is about to say, but it was about a Democrat, how long would we be talking about it in the mainstream media, including your local news?

The Federalist - Senate Dems Claim Censorship Industrial Complex Never Happened — And If It Did It Was A Good Thing

At a Senate Judiciary hearing, Democrats can’t help but admit they support government censorship of free speech.

Moonbattery - Democrat Base Falls Back on Violence

To learn what happens when people like AOC, Sanders, and Crockett consolidate power, read up on China under Mao or Russia under Lenin and Stalin. The innocent are murdered by the tens of millions so as to impose the end goal of leftism: slavery to the state.

Adaptive Curmudgeon has some observations on tech. Small Detour On A New Adventure

Right around ’95, slow crappy bulletin boards gave way to neat forums like Usenet, but it wasn’t long before everything turned to shit. It seems like only a few hours of “golden age” passed before Grandma was spamming you on Facebook and things were never quite as cool again.

Victoria Taft at PJ Media - Rich Karen Is Caught Keying Tesla in Seattle, yet Cops Seem Oddly Confused Over Motive

Caught on video yelling at someone in a Tesla and keying the car was “millionaire fitness coach” Kamelia Enzler, according to the Daily Mail. She's now facing third-degree malicious mischief, which is good that she was charged with anything, but the rub comes in that Issaquah cops appear to be confused about the Tesla vandalism all around them.

Consent Factory - The War on Whatever

The War on Whatever is not meant to be won.

It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empire against its own subjects, but not only to keep the structure of society intact, also, in our case, to transform society into a neo-totalitarian global-capitalist dystopia.