The Dangerous Unconscious

Migrants Don't Get Breakfast, Destroy Exhibition Hall

Afghan migrants sided with Iranian security staff against the Arab residents of a Düsseldorf conference center.  As a chapter of an ongoing dispute, the Iranians are accused of deliberately not waking up the Arabs in time for their Ramadan breakfast.  In response, citizens of Morocco, Algeria, Syria and Iraq tried to burn the hall to the ground to get away from the Iranians. 

About 30 migrants have been treated for smoke inhalation, and one of the 70 firefighters called to the arson was hospitalised.  There are reports that as many as 280 migrants were evacuated, although there were only 160 residents officially housed there.

Don't Aggravate the Agitators

San Jose police showed admirable restraint by not intervening when those protesting a Trump rally became violent--throwing punches, eggs, drawing blood by swinging a bag of rocks, and stealing and burning hats.  It was good of them to do nothing, because it could have incited more violence.  It could have, but it didn't, when they eventually started making arrests after ninety minutes of violent protest had tuckered out the terrorists.  Donald Trump must take responsibility for this violence, because law enforcement sure won't!

Sweden Baffled By Too Many Men

In the natural course of things, there are usually slightly more women than men in a given population.  This standard has been established over millions of years of evolution to be about right for the needs of the species.  The country of Sweden has a curious case on their hands, where the natural order of things has been upended, and for some mysterious reason there are more men than women now.  No one knows why.

Cooperation Intensifies to Combat Hate Speech

Leading technology companies, including Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, have signed a collective pledge to the European Union to scrub any hate speech from their walls within twenty-four hours.  Some kind of definition or understanding of what qualifies as hate speech is presently lacking, but such details will surely be worked out cogently and transparently very soon.

Research Reliably Unreplicable

"Reproducibility is like brushing your teeth"--and 90% of scientists surveyed think there is a slight to significant crisis of oral hygiene in the published scientific literature.  No word on how concerned social scientists and arts professors are about brushing their teeth.

Dalai Lama Defends The West

Tenzin Gyatso, the present incarnation of Avalokiteśvara, Bodhisattva of Compassion, the 14th Dalai Lama, and one of the most popular personages in the world, thinks there are too many refugees in Germany.  He thinks "Germany is Germany," it "cannot become an Arab country," and the moral thing to do would be to admit refugees temporarily, with the ultimate goal of sending them back to rebuild.  This perspective is not in line with the pronouncements of Western political and religious leaders.