Study results: unsurprising. Higher Cognitive Ability, Less Concern for Political Correctness – Study Finds As you can see, there was a moderate positive correlation between cognitive ability and support for freedom of speech, and a moderate negative correlation between cognitive ability and concern for political correctness. (The asterisks tell us these results are statistically significant.)…
An “Automat” was a style of restaurant that was basically a great big vending machine. A wall, or part of one, was covered in little cubbyholes with locked doors; behind each door was a piece of food that the customer could see and pay for. Feed in your coins, the door would pop open and…
Researchers horrified, decry rise of ‘fascism’ as students send mocking responses to woke survey Academic researchers condemned students’ irreverent and offensive responses to an LGBTQ survey, claiming the pushback indicates “fascist ideologues” are “living ‘inside the house’ of engineering and computer science.” In an article for the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, academics from Oregon…
To be released on December 5, the full series (21 disks, nearly 79 hours) will cost about $100 to $135. The filmed scenes were scanned at 4K and color corrected and such, then brought down to Blu Ray rez; the CGI scenes were upscaled with AI. I do wonder if there might be thinking that…
Photos have emerged from the next Disney live action remake of one of their classic animated films, “Snow White.” You know, the one about the Germanic princess with skin so white it looked like snow, who ended up running around with seven dwarves? Well… about all that, Disney has decided to continue the unprofitable trend…
I have no idea if it has been apparent or not based on recent blog/Twitter postings that the last few days have been frazzling for me. But the short form is that Buttons has been quite sick… and terribly miserable. Several days of vet visits finally culminated today in the conclusion that he *probably* is…
On some level, “red flag laws” make some sense. On a perhaps more important level, they are a slippery slope that slides down into totalitarianism. Take, for example, a law proposed for the state of Tennessee: Additional Red Flag proposal seeks to target individuals on specific prescriptions Another “Red Flag” category of legislation has surfaced…
The pendulum *may* be beginning to swing the other way on some issues. For a number of years the bulk of the populace has been cowed into obedience over LGBTQ/Pride stuff with threats ranging from being called names to losing their jobs… but more and more people are ceasing to care. Some of this is…
Will Turkey Become a Member of the E.U. Now? Here’s What to Know. If Turkey becomes an EU member, it will immediately be the most populace EU member, with about 85 million compared to second-place Germany with about 83 million (some sizable number of which are actually Turks). Those Turks would have the right to…
The “weak man creating hard times” in France speaks out: After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogeyman: video games Uh-huh. Which video games? “European Invasion and Conquest: 2022?” “Border Dash 3?” “Street Fighter Marseilles?” “Boko Haram Book Burning Simulator 2023?” “Final Jihad Fantasy XVI?”
