On Competence And Other Sins

From the clown quarter of academia:

According to Dr Donna Riley, academic rigour and the expectation of competence are “exclusionary” and tools of “privilege,” and are unfair to women and minorities, for whom rigour and competence are presumably impossible.

As Dr Riley complains that expectations of rigour generate both inequality and “white male heterosexual privilege,” presumably she would rather we erased distinctions more broadly, between ability and mediocrity, and between diligence and half-arsedness. Though her own so-called scholarship, and indeed her employment, suggest that these wishes may already be coming true.

One of these.

In The Mail

Reader Eddie McTier kindly sent copies of two books a few weeks ago as a “thank you”, and I’ve been remiss in not posting this sooner.

(Hidden Lair link fixed, sorry!)

But it’s not too late for summer reading material. Check them out by clicking on the images.

Thanks, Eddie!

Twitter From Beyond the Grave

You can just imagine how every reporter in the room would be scared silly to push back on what this “chief” is asserting:

Energy Thought Experiment

Earlier this week, I made the two day drive from Maryland to Tennessee. Throughout much of West Virginia and East Kentucky, I saw a lot of signs of coal production, past & present. This prompted me to do some research:

So, my question to SDA’s resident energy expert, Brian Zinchuk, and everyone else, is this: Why is there so much hand wringing from the usual suspects over oil running out, when this coal will extend liquid fuel usage for many years to come?

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