Megalomaniac narcissist’s norm-flouting finally catches up to him. Political career over. But enough about https://t.co/GHAbfWSNgl
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I was blocked by Dowd when he was in Steel Mill. https://t.co/6FPcOkM3Dg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 25, 2019
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More evidence of asymmetry in blocking (i.e. cocooning) here, though milder than expected. 44% of strong liberals block, vs. 31 % of strong conservatives. This was on Facebook. Suspect Twitter is worse. https://t.co/o46hNgC0k1 https://t.co/wPBbgsMmVB
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 25, 2019
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Only 55? https://t.co/Ipay3jnDKf
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 25, 2019
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I sense asymmetry in blocking … https://t.co/aT8G2e1cCq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 25, 2019
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Interesting that Epstein’s victims’ lawyer Brad Edwards seemed to take Wexner OFF the hook on the underage sex issue. (“We have not seen where he is in the company of Jeffrey Epstein at the time when he was engaging in these things,”). So what was it, then? https://t.co/gWWkdHTp78
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 25, 2019
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THANKS, ALAN! Dershowitz:”Les Wexner will be a major witness” in his defense of libel case brought by Epstein victim.
With friends like Dershowitz, Wexner doesn’t need …https://t.co/lEfxk5M5Lp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 25, 2019
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There but for the grace of God … https://t.co/JowJWvyRfc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 24, 2019
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Is the federal government unable to keep prisoners safe from being murdered? Relevant to whether someone like, say, Ghislaine Maxwell, would ever be willing to tell all in exchange for a finite prison sentence. …. https://t.co/7aLLg1aixQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 24, 2019
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“The list of those signing ranges from” [loose borders moneybags] Mike Fernandez to [veteran Bushie K-Streeter] Al Cardenas. Illustrates a Kinsley law—anytime a journalist says “ranges from A to Z” it actually shows the narrowness of the range, not the breadth. https://t.co/YAwLsufUXV
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 23, 2019
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A lot else that is right in this essay. https://t.co/Mvqjx2FvFj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 23, 2019
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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 23, 2019
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But if Roe is overturned, legalizing abortion becomes live legislative issue in every campaign. Dems will make big political gains, because voters are vaguely pro choice, no? That used to be near-CW. Has it changed? https://t.co/k2PX764Gby
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 22, 2019
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No tiers for me, Iowa https://t.co/TNE24hqWPO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 22, 2019
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Useful thread, in response to suggestion that the "China Shock" to manufacturing circa 2000 seems a logical cause of "Deaths of Despair"… https://t.co/ccHKCZXzpg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 21, 2019
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Revisiting this: Why don't Deaths of Despair track almost perfectly with the China Shock, which began in the 1990s and really took off after 2000 (just like DoD)? Lines up pretty well geographically too I suspect. https://t.co/KGUaCzcJwy https://t.co/cjOXwj0FWs
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 20, 2019
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Seems also to suggest that welfare reform had big labor supply effects–i.e. getting people into work force. "[E]mployment effects align closely with exposure to welfare reform and the business cycle. Single mothers who were unaffected by welfare reform … did not respond." https://t.co/L565f3F2Nm
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 20, 2019
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People complain that @Twitter is polarized and cocooned. These seemed good small-scale examples of the Forces of Cocooning at work. Of course I'm bothered by it. https://t.co/LsABl2yZ7I
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 20, 2019
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also may
— prolong Biden's inevitable defeat, insuring that Dem primary is as acrimonious and damaging as possible.
(not a prediction. Just noting that 'helping Biden' at this stage is not necessarily 'helping defeat Trump.' Looked different when Biden seemed stronger, no?) https://t.co/h35MW157ps
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 20, 2019
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MIT Media Lab now the focus of evil in the modern world https://t.co/JcwKjtEtUn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 20, 2019
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Is he "Anonymous"? Obvious question. https://t.co/M1SMnIfuLx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 20, 2019
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I think we like people who are comfortable in their own skins-I like 'em too. Probably result of evolutionary psychology. But our evolved psych. may be misdirecting us. It's less of a virtue than we think. (Evolution also gave us lousy madonna/whore complex-see @robertwrighter) https://t.co/rkbZDd2OWz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 20, 2019
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"It’s also true that over the course of his presidency, inequality grew, and Obama did little to stop it." Would be great if, in a longish review, @fmanjoo named one policy that would stop rising money inequality. Don't think antitrust is going to. https://t.co/cBHiweRXqx
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 20, 2019
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NB: Taylor's a respected ex-@NYT reporter (apparently a Trump critic). Nadine Strossen, ex-ACLU-head, blurbed it too. Could've questioned Barr about blurb at his confirmation. Didn't. Connection to factual issue of whether Kavanaugh exposed himself 35 years ago seems v-strained. https://t.co/MUrpTmZiTM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 20, 2019
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Pretty silly 'comes-at-a-time' frame: Barr blurbed KC Johnson & Stuart Taylor's 2017 book on campus rape "frenzy." "[T]he emergence [in an NBC story] of Barr’s praise of the book comes the same week" as new Kavanaugh fight. Duh-that's why NBC did its story https://t.co/KXKnWshDWg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) September 20, 2019
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