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The idea behind giving professors lifetime tenure is that this will enable them to speak out freely. But it would be hard to name any other occupation with a more cowardly record than academics, who have been giving in to politically correct campus bullies ever since the 1960s. --Sowell


Brian has some job offers to weigh.
Nice Pa Women Work dinner last night at Casbah. A lot of Docs.
One of Liz' co-workers tried to pull her in to a plot to embarrass her boss; a real Iago.

The City of Toronto police department has confirmed that a woman was shot in Nathan Phillips Square during the rally celebrating the Toronto Raptors' NBA championship win.

The Dodgers, looking to bolster a bullpen that has had its share of slip-ups this season, are interested in acquiring Pirates closer Felipe Vazquez, Jon Morosi of MLB.com reports. There is no indication the Pirates would be amenable to trading Vazquez, however. Vazquez wouldn’t be the closer with the Dodgers; he’d instead team with game-ending righty Kenley Jansen to form a duo that would be one of the envies of the league.
He couldn't be their closer, he'd be their setup man!

Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Congress he was often blindsided by Jared Kushner’s foreign-policy efforts as Trump’s son-in-law worked independently, according to a transcript of testimony.(wsj)

 A 2016 paper by economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman attempts to measure wealth concentration at the very top of the distribution. Saez and Zucman’s study points to an extreme and rapid inequality spike. They claim that the wealth share of the top 1 percent skyrocketed from 24 percent of the total share in 1980 to 42 percent today — almost doubling in a little over three decades. A new statistical measure prepared by the Federal Reserve appears to tell a very different story. It shows that wealth inequality is increasing in recent decades, but at a much more modest pace that’s less than half of the Saez-Zucman spike. The Fed’s new DFA measure shows a recent rise in wealth concentration from a trough in the 1980s. But that rise only brings the 1 percent to parity with what Saez and Zucman’s own series depicts for the 1950s — an era that political commentators often champion as a “golden age” of greater equality in the United States.

A new Project Veritas investigation reveals some suspicious search manipulation skullduggery at Google to promote a political and social justice agenda. The guy who runs Veritas is really objectionable, but not as objectionable as Google's acts, if true.

According to the most recent data available from the National Science Foundation, women actually earned slightly more bachelor’s degrees in “Science and Engineering” (3,111,529) between 2006 and 2016 than men (3,091,614).

On this day in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August.


                             Some Charts

Why is it that the Asian-white achievement gap gets no attention compared to the extensive and widespread attention the white-black achievement gap gets, even though the gap for Math SAT scores has been growing for Asians vs. whites since 1996 while it’s been stable for whites vs. blacks for the last 20 years? (This chart compares Asian-White, not Asian-Black, scores.)




Can you believe this if it's a census question?



This is something:



This graph  of inflation pops up every so often but there is an interesting translation: Blue lines = prices subject to free market forces. Red lines = prices subject to regulatory capture by government. Food and drink is debatable either way.