A Final Test for Gonzaga

The moment you've all been waiting for, 6:00pm tonight (Pacific time), on CBS.

Despite a small-conference pedigree, Gonzaga has proven it belongs on NCAA's biggest stage, @marcatracy writes https://t.co/ITleDr7bRY pic.twitter.com/4rWhw6JHn9

— NYT Sports (@NYTSports) April 3, 2017

George Ciccariello-Maher on Tucker Carlson's Show (VIDEO)

Following-up, "Tucker Carlson, Fox News' Unlikely Star."

The Tuck's been hammering leftists on the show, which is one of the reasons for its popularity.

And George Ciccariello-Maher is a literal caricature of the America-hating leftist. He's an idiot, lol.



PREVIOUSLY: "George Ciccariello-Maher."

Tucker Carlson, Fox News' Unlikely Star

I've never cared that much for the guy, but this is a good read. Very sympathetic profile. I like the Tuck a little more now, actually.

At the New Yorker:

Tucker Carlson’s Fighting Words: #TheTuck https://t.co/OO74o7j3mj pic.twitter.com/xqArObuvCe

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 3, 2017

Ned Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land

I've got a lot on my list, but this book crops up a lot in all my reading, blogging, and research.

At Amazon, Ned Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West.

Hey Republicans, Would You Hump This Woman?

Well, as a married man I'd have to respond in the negative, but if I was single, hmm?

It's Karley Sciortino, via the Other McCain, and on Twitter:

The more important question is, "Would a Republican f--k her?" https://t.co/jBXsS8vqKu pic.twitter.com/KrroVgaYtt

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) April 2, 2017

So proud to have @Slutever's Karley Sciortino as a #MaisonClose Muse ! https://t.co/yI65cPA6bA pic.twitter.com/Ga4PUI60CW

— Maison Close (@Maison_Close_) March 9, 2017

Suspect in Atlanta Freeway Collapse Was Smoking Crack as Fire Broke Out (VIDEO)

At the Other McCain, "Police Say Crackhead Started Fire That Destroyed I-85 Overpass in Atlanta."

And from Dana Loesch on Twitter, as well as ABC News below:

Oh my: "Homeless man was 'smoking crack under overpass when he started blaze' that destroyed Atlanta interstate” https://t.co/mmgpu7SbME

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 3, 2017

Giles Milton, Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Hey, one more for the road!

At Amazon, Giles Milton, Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat.

Tom Clavin, Dodge City

I'm just seeing this one right now!

This is great!

At Amazon, Tom Clavin, Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West.

Frank McDonough, The Gestapo

Historian Dagmar Herzog reviews Norman Ohler's, Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, at today's New York Times book review. (She's highly critical, arguing that the focus on drug abuse throughout the regime serves as an excuse and distraction for the Nazis' larger crimes).

Also, at Thomas Anthony DiMaggio's letter to the book review editor, is the citation for Frank McDonough's, The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police, which I didn't know of.

That reminds me of the classic book, from Heinz Höhne, The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS.

Man Dives in the Water to Retrieve His Hat at Ocean Beach Pier in San Diego, Drowns (VIDEO)

Oh man.

That's not what you want.

At the San Diego Union-Tribune, "Man drowns after jumping off San Diego pier to retrieve items thrown into ocean."

Well, the report indicates that search and rescue efforts were hampered by "8-foot-high waves and thick seaweed," so what can you do?

The Cultural Roots of Campus Rage

The Wall Street Journal has pretty much eliminated access through Google search, which is why I don't link them much any more. They've really "built the wall," the subscription paywall, heh.

But Instapundit's block-quoted most of Jonathan Haidt's op-ed, so this is worth posting.

See, "JONATHAN HAIDT ON THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF CAMPUS RAGE":

At the very moment where higher education is in trouble, it is dominated by a mindset that sets it in opposition to the mainstream culture. This will end well:

“People are sick and tired of being called racist for innocent things they’ve said or done,” Mr. Haidt observes. “The response to being called a racist unfairly is never to say, ‘Gee, what did I do that led to me being called this? I should be more careful.’ The response is almost always, ‘[Expletive] you!’ ”

He offers this real-world example: “I think that the ‘deplorables’ comment could well have changed the course of human history.”

I certainly hope so.

RTWT.

What's Next for Women?

More endless identity politics, for one thing.

From far-left Tina Brown, CEO of "Women in the World," a far-left feminist production of the New York Times, "After a Historic March, What’s Next for Women?":

What's next for the women's movement after a historic march in January? A return to some of its broader issues: https://t.co/saIYyyqD1g

— Tina Brown (@TinaBrownLM) March 31, 2017

Hillary Clinton's loss was a "wake up call for feminism," says @WomenintheWorld founder, Tina Brown https://t.co/P1aK4nCe3b pic.twitter.com/YBN319q8Ul

— CNN (@CNN) April 2, 2017

Last week, we were treated to a news photo that will live in infamy: two dozen white male Republican congressmen (and zero women) around a White House conference table talking about dumping maternity and newborn care as part of their replacement for the Obama health care law.

It instantly went viral: “A rare look inside the GOP’s women’s health caucus,” tweeted Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington State.

Seven days later, the infamy was compounded when Vice President Mike Pence broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate that would allow states to defund Planned Parenthood.

Since the heyday of the women’s movement of the 1960s and ’70s, American women have assumed they were on a rocket to a future of assured gender equality. But even as individual women continued to break records and barriers in recent years, the engine began to stall.

Pay inequity festers. The rolling scandals at Uber remind us that the frat clubs of Silicon Valley are often rife with sexual harassment.

Women in the military are beleaguered by so-called revenge porn and sexual assault.

The United States still ranks with Swaziland, Lesotho and Papua New Guinea as the last countries on earth, “advanced” or not, that don’t mandate paid maternity leave.

In corporations, it’s turned out that the trouble isn’t the glass ceiling; it’s the sticky floor.

Male chief executives of Fortune 500 companies brag at Davos, Switzerland, about their healthy pipeline of women headed for the C-suite. (But the boast is undermined by statistics that show a paltry 4 percent of Fortune 500 companies have women in the top job.)

And a woman who commanded nearly three million more votes than her opponent did not become president...

Oh boy, where to begin?

Well, start with "pay inequity," which is a myth.

And of course the rampant "sexual harassment" we're seeing is found almost exclusively at far-left business concerns such as Uber. Why won't progressives clean up their own messes before foisting off all this bullshit on the rest of the public? And so no one wonders why "a woman who commanded nearly three million votes" failed to win the presidency. People see through the leftist cant.

In any case, more at that top link, if you can stomach it.

Newlyweds Hold Wedding Reception at In-N-Out

That is the best!

At ABC 15 News Phoenix:

Newlywed couple holds wedding reception at In-n-Out in California.https://t.co/MXpyp7xZlE #abc15 pic.twitter.com/6xyvZM0ZbM

— ABC15 Arizona (@abc15) April 2, 2017

Kathryn Gin Lum, Damned Nation

Well, I think we've all feared going to hell at one point or another.

This looks interesting.

At Amazon, Kathryn Gin Lum, Damned Nation: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction.

'Few families, of course, are as wealthy as the Rockefellers...'

Well, that's for sure.

An interesting piece, at NYT, "Giving Like a Rockefeller, Even if You're Not Super-Rich."

What we can learn about the power of philanthropy from the Rockefeller family https://t.co/eKUjEKUSor

— NYT Business (@nytimesbusiness) March 31, 2017

The story talks about David Rockefeller's grandson, Michael Quattrone (pictured), who manages the David Rockefeller Fund. The senior Rockeffer is said to have given away at least $2 billion to charity in his lifetime, and philanthropy's become the raison d'être of the entire family. The younger members of the family convinced some of the family's biggest charitable funds (they are numerous, apparently) to divest from fossil fuels, the irony of which just kills me.

In any cast, it's a good read.

Alex Tizon Has Died: Seattle Times Reporter Won Pulitzer for Investigation Into Federally-Sponsored Housing Programs for American Indians

I saw this at the New York Times, "Alex Tizon wrote about Native Americans and won a Pulitzer. Then he wrote about himself."

Then I checked Google, and I'm glad I did.

At the Seattle Times, "Alex Tizon, former Seattle Times reporter who won Pulitzer Prize, dies at 57":

Alex Tizon, former Seattle Times reporter who won Pulitzer Prize, dies at 57 https://t.co/4LItq8rXRl

— Times Watchdog (@STWatchdog) March 26, 2017

Alex Tizon, a journalist and professor who won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting while at The Seattle Times and spent decades exposing untold stories of marginalized communities, has died at age 57.

Mr. Tizon died unexpectedly Thursday, of natural causes, at his home in Eugene, Oregon, according to his family and the University of Oregon, where he was working as an assistant professor of journalism.

Mr. Tizon was one of three Seattle Times reporters to win the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, for stories that exposed widespread corruption and inequalities in the federally sponsored housing program for Native Americans. The series, which documented how billions of dollars in taxpayer funds were helping wealthy people across the country live in mansions while tribes were housed in decrepit shacks, inspired reforms to the program.

Friends, colleagues and family members said Mr. Tizon was known as a deep listener who preferred to dive headfirst into complicated, long-form stories that are becoming rarer in today’s fast-paced media cycle. An introvert who spent hours alone brooding over deep issues like the meaning of his life, he would often take on seemingly simple stories and come back with complicated tales about humanity.

“He was very curious about other people — and learning about other people helped him learn about himself,” said his wife, Melissa Tizon. “That’s what journalism did for him. His whole life quest was about trying to understand who he was, as an immigrant growing up in a largely white community.”

Born in the Philippines, Mr. Tizon immigrated to Seattle with his family when he was 5 years old and bounced around the country before he settled back here.

He spent 17 years at The Seattle Times before becoming the Seattle bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times from 2003 to 2008. He also contributed to publications like Newsweek and programs such as “60 Minutes.”

He then spent two years in Manila, where he helped track efforts by the government to eliminate poverty in poor communities, and taught workshops in far-flung locales like Romania. And he wrote a memoir, “Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self,” about the challenges of being an Asian-American man in the United States.

He turned to teaching in 2011, but his passion for writing still burned.

A year ago, he revived a story he began working on at the Los Angeles Times a decade before, about an Alaskan family whose son had disappeared. People go missing there all the time — about 3,000 a year at one point — but in the remote corner of the world, it garners little attention or news coverage.

The family had learned that authorities had found remains that might provide closure to their grief. Mr. Tizon flew to the tiny town to write a lengthy magazine piece for The Atlantic on the family’s struggles and the broader phenomenon of why so many people vanish in that state.

Those who worked with Mr. Tizon said the story was emblematic of his career — the way he spent so much time deeply reporting the piece, and the fact that he chose a topic that others in the media likely would have ignored.

“He had a real interest in marginal characters and people who had not been in the spotlight,” said his editor on The Atlantic piece, Denise Wills. “He almost became a member of the extended family for these people.”

In an interview last year, Mr. Tizon told the Harvard journalism program: “The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.”

Jacqui Banaszynski, a University of Missouri journalism professor who was Mr. Tizon’s editor for two years at The Seattle Times, echoed others who said his death was a loss to the journalism community. She recalled Mr. Tizon as “an almost philosopher essayist” in his approach, and that the paper would send him on stories that were complex and needed to be told at a deeper level than the standard news story...

Still more.

Bill O'Reilly Thrives at Fox News (VIDEO)

I've watched O'Reilly now for years. When I first started watching him regularly, at least ten years ago, I was mindful of the stereotypes, from critics both right and left: You know, how he's a blowhard, and not really conservative, and all that.

That's all true, of course, But he's a patriot who works hard. He loves the country and he models our values, especially individualism and fairness. I suspect he actually has sexually harassed women at some point. He's an old school kind of a guy, and some of the old school brusque "locker room" kind of banter and being is bound to slip out once in a while. He's wealthy, though, so million dollar payouts here and there, without conceding allegations, just make problems go away.

 In any case, at the New York Times, "Bill O'Reilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up." (At Memeorandum.)

About $13 million has been paid out over the years to address complaints from women about Mr. O’Reilly’s behavior. He denies the claims have merit.

For nearly two decades, Bill O’Reilly has been Fox News’s top asset, building the No. 1 program in cable news for a network that has pulled in billions of dollars in revenues for its parent company, 21st Century Fox.

Behind the scenes, the company has repeatedly stood by Mr. O’Reilly as he faced a series of allegations of sexual harassment or other inappropriate behavior.

An investigation by The New York Times has found a total of five women who have received payouts from either Mr. O’Reilly or the company in exchange for agreeing to not pursue litigation or speak about their accusations against him. The agreements totaled about $13 million.

Two settlements came after the network’s former chairman, Roger Ailes, was dismissed last summer in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal, when the company said it did not tolerate behavior that “disrespects women or contributes to an uncomfortable work environment.”

The women who made allegations against Mr. O’Reilly either worked for him or appeared on his show. They have complained about a wide range of behavior, including verbal abuse, lewd comments, unwanted advances and phone calls in which it sounded as if Mr. O’Reilly was masturbating, according to documents and interviews.

The reporting suggests a pattern: As an influential figure in the newsroom, Mr. O’Reilly would create a bond with some women by offering advice and promising to help them professionally. He then would pursue sexual relationships with them, causing some to fear that if they rebuffed him, their careers would stall.

Of the five settlements, two were previously known — one for about $9 million in 2004 with a producer, and another struck last year with a former on-air personality, which The Times reported on in January. The Times has learned new details related to those cases...

That "on-air personality" is Juliet Huddy, who's no longer with the network.

But keep reading.

David Roberts, Once They Moved Like the Wind

I love the title of this book.

At Amazon, David Roberts, Once They Moved Like the Wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars.

David M. Wrobel, Global West, American Frontier

Another excellent-looking book.

At Amazon, David M. Wrobel, Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression.

Pat Condell Slams Patronizing Idiot Leftist Elites, Losers of the Brexit Vote (VIDEO)

So good.

So bloody good, as always.