yeah right
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Not the blog, but the extreme anti-NAGPRA arguments it addresses:
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“…the Hebrew tounge”…is that a Jewish chair for laying back in or something?
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Yay, sportsball!
The National Football League has promised it will no longer settle concussion lawsuits using race-based formulas that assume black players have lower cognitive function. Why was it using them to begin with?
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Background: Mike Lindell (the My Pillow guy) has filed a lawsuit against Dominion and Smartmatic in response to the defamation lawsuits the two companies have filed against him.
I will say one good thing about the result: it’s not as riddled with grammar/spelling errors as other Trump supporter filings have been. Which makes sense, since a partner at an actually reputable law firm signed off on it (though he has since left that law firm, and the law firm is saying he did not get any authorization to file this).
Other than that… it’s broken up by book quotes (mostly from 1984), starts off with pages and pages of things headed with “Fact:” that are anything but, tries to say Dominion is a state actor, accuses Dominion of civil rights violations and extortion due to them sending him a cease and desist and suing him, and it tries to use a court in Minnesota to attack a lawsuit that’s ongoing in Washington DC. Oh, and it finds space to claim Hitler coined the term “big lie” and cites that with a link to the entire text of Mein Kampf.
Law twitter is having a field day with it.
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Does Hebrew even have D’s and R’s in it?
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Ah, so the process of transcribing dna into rna is an elegant metaphor for original sin and the fall of man.
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I thought it was vice-versa?
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Not if you’re partial to this bit of medieval pseudoscience.
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I’m sure there are some that are, though.
Also (to be clear, the person quoting it is not actually endorsing it):
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I wish Dr. Naomi Wolf would shut up about things she obviously knows nothing.
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People like her rarely do.
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Even putting aside the 5G/rna/chemtrail conspiracy stuff… if she thinks Belfast in the 70s was calm, peaceful, and restful, then that’s going to be a bit of a wide category.
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Exactly.
I work in finance, and still, to this day, when I hear the term “IRA” I have to remind myself the conversation is probably about retirement accounts.
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Speak for yourself. I for one am stashing my poop.
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To mail it to her C.O.D.?
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FTA:
In 2019, the US publisher of a book by Dr Wolf cancelled its release after accuracy concerns were raised.
During a BBC radio interview, it came to light that the author had misunderstood key 19th Century English legal terms within the book.
OK, I’m going to admit to prejudice, against PhDs in other fields who claim to know something about science. It really pisses me off. This idiot has a PhD in English literature. Just because she can put “Dr.” in front of her name does not make her an expert in other fields, even if she’s put in a lot of time researching something (even in a field she should be able to figure out as in the quote above). But in science, you have to know a LOT just about the basics, not to mention higher level stuff, to form opinions like she’s spouting. Now some people can do this. The sf writer Kim Stanley Robinson has I believe a PhD in English Lit but has done enough studying to write really well-received science fiction. Nancy Kress, another non-scientist sf writer is also good at it, but she did make a blooper once, by writing something like “looking through scanning tunneling microscope,” a device you don’t look through but wait for the computer to assemble an image on the monitor of the non-visual information it collects. But this Wolf person takes the cake with her sewage ideas.
OK, enough ranting. I’m clearing not in the best of moods.
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