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Joggers are nuts.

Ok I’ll amend that a little – joggers can be ridiculously entitled, to the point of aggression. Joggers somehow think they have the right of way over everyone else, I guess because their hearts will explode if they slow down or stop for anyone.

A man who sued a young girl and her grandparents after he was injured when he jogged into the back wheel of her bike has lost his case in B.C. Supreme Court.

Like that. He jogged into her but he tried to sue her and her grandparents.

According to the judgment, the girl was cycling alongside two friends on Robson Street when the accident occurred.

Her friends were on the sidewalk and

Also…

In recent weeks, we’ve learned that global carbon emissions rose last year, defying (optimistic) expectations that they had reached a peak. We also learned that no country on Earth is on track to fulfill its emissions-cutting commitments under the Paris climate treaty; that even if all of them somehow fulfill those commitments, nonetheless, their actions would still be insufficient to avert a two-degree increase in global temperatures; and that, in a two-degree warmer world, 150 million more people will die as a result of air pollution, than would in a 1.5-degree warmer one.

And as this flood of climate research revealed that humanity was (and is) hurtling toward an ecological holocaust of unprecedented proportions — one that

From the “no low too low” file: Fox News personality taunts Parkland survivor with college rejection slips.

Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg is calling for advertisers to boycott Laura Ingraham’s show after the Fox News host taunted the high school senior over his college rejections.

“David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it,” Ingraham tweeted Wednesday morning. She linked to a story from a conservative news site that described Hogg as a “Gun Rights Provocateur” who had not gained acceptance to four University of California schools.

David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY

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This is disturbing.

https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/978704115789451265

The editor

of the Atlantic

hired a writer

who argued

that women should be hanged

for having abortions.

https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/978705326936641536

Oh yes, controversial. Provocative. Edgy. Brave. Forthright. Outspoken. Fearless. Contrarian.

https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/978706649572610048

https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/978707302256644097… Read the rest

On the scarcity of women in the Trump administration:

The White House has named twice as many men as women to administration positions. This gender skew is both broad and deep: In no department do female appointees outnumber male appointees, and in some cases men outnumber women four or five to one. Moreover, men significantly outnumber women in low-level positions as well as in high-level ones, with Trump’s Cabinet currently composed of 19 men and five women. Overall, 33 percent of Trump’s appointees are women, compared to 47 percent of the national workforce and 43 percent of the 2 million workers across the executive branch.

Well let’s not be all cowardly and politically correct, here – let’s face facts. … Read the rest

Sigh.

Sanders says a citizenship question has been on every census since 1965.

Citizenship hasn’t been questioned on a decennial census since 1950: https://t.co/xwx10yrUeH pic.twitter.com/siAIF8lCIk

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 27, 2018

That’s an enormous lie on a very important subject. (Also why cite 1965 when the census is every ten years on the tenth year? There was no census in 1965, they were 1960 and 1970. As Kyle Griffin says: the census is decennial.)

Maybe it’s not a lie but an Honest Mistake, but it’s her job not to make howlers like that. But it was probably a lie, probably by whatever quisling briefed her.

Ari Berman adds:

She also said the question was “necessary for the Department

Another xenophobic action from the Trump administration:

The 2020 census will ask respondents whether they are United States citizens, the Commerce Department announced Monday night, agreeing to a Trump administration request with highly charged political and social implications that many officials feared would result in a substantial undercount.

In a statement released Monday, the Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau, said Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had “determined that reinstatement of a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census questionnaire is necessary to provide complete and accurate census block level data,” allowing the department to accurately measure the portion of the population eligible to vote.

But his decision immediately invited a legal challenge: Xavier Becerra, California’s attorney general,

The Post also reports on BoJo’s casual everyday sexism along with his everyday everythingelseism besides.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has a habit of putting his foot in his mouth.

He once described Hillary Clinton as “a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital” with “dyed blond hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare.” He said Barack Obama is “part-Kenyan” with an “ancestral dislike” of Britain. He joked about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “having relations” with a goat.

Check check check – sexism, racism, xenophobia.

And in Parliament on Tuesday, he referred to Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary for the opposition Labour Party, as Lady Nugee. Nugee is the last name of Thornberry’s husband, Christopher.

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Goodness, even the Speaker of the House of Commons is a Social Justice Warrior – that is to say he recognizes that a man referring to a woman as “Lady Husbandname” when she goes by her own name is (brace yourselves) sexist.

H/t Maureen Brian… Read the rest