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Monopoly Launches New Electronic Cashless Edition
by Shifra on June 25, 2019Nooooooo ! First, they dumped the iconic thimble, boot and wheelbarrow. Now, they’re getting rid of the pink, blue and orange bank notes. What’s next, ditching the board? Via CBS News. Monopoly, the beloved board game known for teaching players basic money principles, has a new lesson to teach: Cash is so yesteryear. Toy company Hasbro, which makes the game, recently announced a digital version that does away with the classic paper money and adds a voice assistant to manage all the buying and selling. Instead of handling the familiar pink, blue and orange bank notes, players can press a button atop a top hat at the center of the board to access a digital “Mr. Monopoly,” a nod to...
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Comic Kicked Off Columbia U. Stage After Students Felt Their ‘Safe Space’ Was ‘Violated’
by Shifra on December 6, 2018We are raising a generation of miserable, humorless toddlers. Next year, maybe for entertainment at their event, they could have Barney & Friends perform. Via Daily Caller. Former Saturday Night Live writer Nimesh Patel was booted from a Columbia University stage on Friday night after attendees were offended by some of the jokes in his set. Patel, a former Emmy-nominated writer whose career accomplishments include becoming SNL’s first Indian-American writer and an appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” was performing at cultureSHOCK: Reclaim, a Columbia Asian American Alliance event, according to the Columbia Spectator. The Spectator reported: During the event, Patel’s performance featured commentary on his experience living in a diverse area of New York City—including a joke about...
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Twitter Removes Pistol Emoji… For Green Water Gun
by Shifra on April 16, 2018Warning to fans of the board game Clue: Next, they’ll be gunning for the knife, rope, and candlestick. Via TechCrunch. Twitter has now followed Apple’s lead in changing its pistol emoji to a harmless, bright green water gun. And in doing so, the company that has struggled to handle the abuse, hate speech and harassment taking place across its platform, has removed one of the means for online abusers to troll their victims. The change is one of several rolling out now in Twitter’s emoji update, Twemoji 2.6, which impacts Twitter users on the web, mobile web and on Tweetdeck. The decision to replace an emoji of a weapon to a child’s toy was seen as a political statement when...
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Prof Causes Uproar for Telling Students to Work Hard and Avoid Drinking
by dennisl59 on November 10, 2017*Bumped Up From TAM Wire. Posted by dennisl* The outrage of suggesting that refraining from getting wasted and having proper study habits will help pass the course~! Via Fox News. UK’s Cambridge University physical sciences professor came under fire this week from mental health campaigners and students after he suggested undergraduates will have to work hard and abstain from drinking to pass the course. Eugene Terentjev draw the fury of students and mental health activists after sending out an email last week to first-year natural sciences undergraduates at Cambridge, telling them the course will be difficult and thus they should refrain from drinking and other social activities if they wish to succeed, according to an email leaked to student-run publication...
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Harvard Ends Late Fees for Overdue Library Books Because It’s Too Stressful
by Shifra on May 5, 2017Why would anyone want to hire a college graduate who was unable to cope with the stress of an overdue library book? Great job, Harvard, further coddling your precious snowflakes. Via Fox News. This week, Harvard University announced that its libraries will be doing away with their traditional 50 cent-per-day late fee on overdue books. Some might assume Harvard is terminating the fees because the school simply no longer needs the money. After all, the “private” university does receive billions in tax breaks every year. No, finances had nothing to do with this policy change, which was first noticed by the vigilant folks over at The Harvard Crimson. The sole reason that this (once?) prestigious university is waiving the charge...
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Feds Grant $30K For Idiotic Performance, Er, Conceptual Art ‘Doggie Hamlet’
by Shifra on December 21, 2016$30,000 of our tax dollars for actors to run around a field with some sheep and a dog. The NYT says “Ann Carlson is a conceptual artist who uses gesture, text, and humor to break your heart.” Well, it is heartbreaking, when you think what $30K could have done to help our veterans. Via Free Beacon. “Doggie Hamlet is a full-length outdoor performance spectacle that weaves dance, music, visual and theatrical elements with aspects from competitive sheep herding trials,” writes Elsie Management, a firm that promotes the performing arts. “The work is performed by four dancers, one boy, one American Sign Language interpreter, two herding dogs and a flock of sheep in a 30 x 50 foot fenced field.” “Doggie...
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Feds Spend $839,291 for Kids to Play ‘Me Games’
by Shifra on September 26, 2016Over $800,000 so teenagers can “experience possible selves” ? Ok, call me old-fashioned, but here’s a suggestion: How about teaching good reading skills and encouraging kids to read, so that they can “experience alternate realities” through books. Via Free Beacon. The National Institutes of Health is spending over $800,000 on a “virtual learning world” for poor teenagers so they can “experience possible selves.” A four-year study was awarded to Research, Evaluation, and Social Solutions, Inc. to create an afterschool program for kids to play “Me Games” that use virtual reality. “The word adolescence derives from the Latin word ‘adolescere,’ meaning, ‘to grow up,’” the grantfor the project begins. “Adolescence is a crucial period of transition between childhood and legal adulthood,...
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Vermont College Starts School Year By Handing Out Gender Pronoun Pins To Students
by Shifra on August 31, 2016Annual tuition at Champlain College: $33,000 So they should also offer the following pin: “Hello my parents are morons for going into debt to send me to such a liberal bastion of lunacy.” Via Daily Caller. A small college in Vermont is kicking off the new school year by encouraging students to wear special pins declaring their pronouns, so nobody accidentally uses the wrong one. The pins on offer at Champlain College in Burlington are quite numerous, and go well beyond the widely-used “he” and “she.” “Hello, my pronouns are Xe/Xem/Xyrs,” one button declares. Another expresses a preference for “They/Them/Theirs,” even when referring to a singular person. There’s even a pin declaring “Hello, my pronouns are fluid. Please ask me!”...
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Gadsden Flag May Be Officially Deemed Racist
by Pat_S on August 5, 2016An African-American employee of a federal agency complained about being harassed by a co-worker wearing a cap with a Gadsden flag depicted on it. The complainant found the cap racially offensive citing that Christopher Gadsden was a slave owner. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating the matter. The flag is connected with the American Revolution. Benjamin Franklin suggested the coiled rattlesnake to be the symbol for the new country. Benjamin Franklin on the Rattlesnake as a Symbol of America I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She...
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Leftist Icon Angela Davis: From FBI’s Most-Wanted List to Feminist Award
by Shifra on June 15, 2016Gloria Steinem, Angela Davis and Elizabeth Sackler If you want to understand the Left’s cravenness, look no further than Angela Davis. In 1970, she was put on the FBI’s “Ten Most-Wanted” List for accessory to murder for purchasing the guns smuggled into a courtroom that killed a judge (who had his head blown off), two defendants, and paralyzed a hostage. She was exonerated, claiming she was being “persecuted” for being a Communist and for being black. Now, she is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at UCLA. And, on June 2, she was honored at the Brooklyn Museum, receiving the 2016 Sackler Award. One of the highlights of the evening: Gloria Steinem yukking it up about President Reagan being dead. Stay classy,...
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Dalai Lama: ‘Too Many’ Refugees in Germany, Nation ‘Cannot Become an Arab Country’
by Tammy on June 1, 2016Even the Dalai Lama gets it. Via Washington Times. The Dali Lama told a German newspaper this week that “too many” refugees are heading into Europe. The Tibetan spiritual leader told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that accepting huge number of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa was not a tenable position from a cultural perspective. “Europe, for example Germany, cannot become an Arab country,” the Dali Lama said, Agence France Press reported Tuesday. “Germany is Germany. There are so many that in practice it becomes difficult. … From a moral point of view, too, I think that the refugees should only be admitted temporarily.” […] Skyrocketing crime and terrorism across Europe linked to the Islamic State group caused German...
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(Video) TV Anchor Says He Was Fired Over Prince-Themed Sports Report
by Tammy on May 1, 2016Don’t let the elevator take… him… down… Oh no, let’s go, crazy! Via Hollywood Reporter. A Nashville reporter attempted to work in his love of Prince with his sports rundown and the result was his termination, he claims. Dan Phillips, who worked at WZTV Fox-17, announced on Friday via social media that he had been fired from the station because some viewers and management found his April 21 report “insensitive.” Phillips mixed Prince lyrics into his sports segment that day — the same day the legendary musician was found dead in his Minnesota home. Prince was 57. “First of all, I want to thank everyone for the kind words, comments and positive feedback on this tribute I did to Prince...
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[Video] ABC’s ‘The Middle’ Brilliantly Mocks College PC Outrage Culture
by Tammy on April 15, 2016Patricia Heaton in “The Middle” There are some good things on TV and “The Middle” is one of them. Bravo to the show, Patricia Heaton and ABC. By the way, I encourage you to follow Ms. Heaton on Twitter at @PatriciaHeaton! Via Newsbusters. In the midst of a 2016 campaign in which students claimed to be “frightened” and “in pain” because they saw pro-Trump messages scrawled in chalk around campus, Indiana University was plunged into a panic at the presence of a Dominican Friar, a Dartmouth sorority canceled its annual Kentucky Derby party after protesters cried “racism,” and the University of Southern California student government attempted to impeach school senator Jacob Ellenhorn for inviting a conservative speaker to campus, last...
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GAP Kids Apologizes For ‘Racially Insensitive’ Ad
by Shifra on April 6, 2016As it turns out, the girls are sisters. But, still: Raaacism! ‘Offending’ pic, above. Outrage ensued: @GapKids proving girls can do anything… unless she's Black. Then all she can do is bear the weight of White girls. #EpicFail — Fatima La'Juan Muse (@TheTherapyDiva) April 2, 2016 Really @GapKids !? So are you proving that Black girls can be arm rests? #FAIL https://t.co/OhFGFTWhGY — Fatima La'Juan Muse (@TheTherapyDiva) April 2, 2016 Via UPI: Apparel company Gap apologized for the photo in a new children’s clothing ad that some have decried as racially insensitive. In the photo, four young girls are posed together, with a white girl standing with her arm resting on a younger African-American girl’s head. The Gap said it...
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Slaying of British Tourist in San Francisco Brings Shock, Outrage
by Tammy on March 28, 2016Horrible. Pray for that man and his family. What our great cities are becoming and the increase in violence is an embarassment and an indictment of all the liberal policies we’ve allowed to to fester. If we don’t act it will become irreverisble. Via Los Angeles Times. A police search for two suspects, residents in a bustling San Francisco neighborhood expressed shock over the slaying of a British tourist that was caught on surveillance video. Paul Tam, 44, was stabbed in the head Feb. 18 on Post Street. The video shows a robber chasing and then attacking the 44-year-old tourist in the middle of the street. Tam died Thursday, officials said. According to the Daily Mirror newspaper, Tam was from...