Hillary Clinton's campaign has lots of excuses for losing. There's the electoral college, James Comey, the media's alleged over-exuberance in digging into Clinton's email server, etc. But Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Thursday that one particular group is especially to blame: millennials.
Yes, you can blame millennials for Hillary Clinton’s loss - The Washington Post
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Cringeworthy. But before you judge, have we not had similar reactions—if only silently? I’m not going to accept your entry-level position—I went to college! It’s millennials balking at unpaid internships just as it is laid off Boomers refused to learn new skills or downsize their lifestyles. It’s refusing to listen to feedback from someone who isn’t your boss; it’s saying, “No, sorry that isn’t part ...
The Difference Between NBA Stars & Flame-Outs Is The Secret To Success | Observer
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...of “Hottest Year Evah” stories from the usual suspects. As I patiently explained at the time – here, here, and here – this wasn’t science but propaganda. If you’re a reader of Breitbart or one of the sceptical websites this will hardly have come as news to you. But, of course, across much of the mainstream media – and, of course, on all the left-leaning websites – these “Hottest Year Evah” stories were rel...
Global Temperatures Plunge. Icy Silence from Climate Alarmists
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...he players are unwilling to make that sacrifice. But the second is equally important: There’s a very real worry on the part of the players association that the fans won’t make that sacrifice, either — that in the event of a work stoppage the fans will side with the owners. Is that true? I fear it is, and it breaks my heart. One of the responsibilities of being a sports fan, I think, is to align your interest with the athletes. I know all the reasons people don’t like to do that: The athletes are...
Simmons vs. Gladwell: The Future of Football
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Did you know NFL games have ballooned to three hours and 12 minutes on average this season? That give us 60 minutes of actual football and 132 minutes of commercials, challenge flags, instant replays, timeouts, injury timeouts, two-minute warnings, injury cart pickups, penalty announcements, awkward closeups of The Guys In The Booth, first-down measurements, icing-the-kickers, highlight breaks, streakers whom they never show running across the field, and promos for CBS comedies featuring white dudes in their 40s and 50s.
Simmons vs. Gladwell: The Future of Football
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...ask penalties?), make helmet-to-helmet hits reviewable (isn’t that the natural evolution of pretending to care about head injuries?), put microchips in footballs (for all the reasons you’d think) and dump celebration penalties and taking-your-helmet-off penalties (because the league clearly enforces anonymity so that it can keep control of its pay structure and balance of power, which is actually a little creepy when you think about it). But here’s a bigger idea that would easily shave 12 minutes off every game (and work for every sport, by the way) …
Simmons vs. Gladwell: The Future of Football
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Now consider how Angus Johnston, a City University of New York history professor, responded to Drum’s plea to “be careful with the label ‘white supremacy.’” His mix of substance and stigma unfolded over a number of Tweets:
"The Scourge of the Left": Too Much Stigma, Not Enough Persuasion - The Atlantic
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