Archive for 2014
January 4, 2014
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Polyamory: 3 Fascinating & True Stories.
DETROIT POLICE CHIEF: Want crime to drop? Start carrying.
NICK GILLESPIE: Bill de Blasio’s first priority as New York City’s leader is to ban horse-drawn carriages in Central Park. Are you kidding? “If historians debate whether Caligula’s apocryphal attempt to make his horse a consul of Rome signified serious mental illness or was just the emperor’s idea of a joke, contemporary New Yorkers should have no doubt that their new mayor, Bill de Blasio, is nuttier than a squirrel’s turd.”
“NO ONE KNOWS IF THEY ARE COVERED:” How The ObamaCare Rollout Is Really Being Experienced.
ED MORRISSEY CONFESSES HIS KEURIG ADDICTION.
The Insta-Wife has become pretty enamored of the Jamaica Blue Mountain K-Cups, which I think we first found out about via Stephen Green.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: My Daughter Is In Love With My Son’s Boyfriend.
Related: “Torn Apart by an iPad.”
NORTH CAROLINA COUNCILMAN SENDS RESIGNATION LETTER in Klingon.
Related: Who Knew? Wu Knew, That’s Who!
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EXCERPT OF MY BOOK is the most popular item on the WSJ site.
You can buy the book here, in Kindle or hardback!
THE DIPLOMAD: “The overall trend line for the West is not positive.” Do not take counsel of your fears.
A KNOXVILLE BOY: R.I.P. Phil Everly.
JOURNALISM: Frozen Out: 98% of Stories Ignore That Ice-bound Ship Was On Global Warming Mission. Can’t harsh the narrative.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I Went To School To Learn How To Orgasm Better.
WHY CAMERAS WON’T READ some new memory cards. “The larger cards fall under the SDXC standard, while cards between 4 and 32 GB follow the older SDHC standard. You can use SDHC cards in a device that reads the new SDXC cards, but the newer cards aren’t backward-compatible.”
SCIENCE: Telecommunications expert suggests Earth may have dark matter disc. “Ben Harris, a telecommunications and GPS satellite expert with the University of Texas has made a surprising announcement during his presentation at this year’s gathering for the American Geophysical Union. He reported that using GPS data to calculate the mass of the Earth, gives a slightly bigger number than is accepted by the International Astronomical Union. The difference, he suggests, may be due to a disc of dark matter that exists over the equator.”
ELON MUSK: Here’s How We Can Fix Mars And Colonize It.
AN IDEA SO CRAZY, IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Nuns Unionized, Seek ObamaCare Contraception Exemption. “By incorporating as the International Sisterhood of Mercy Workers (Local 316), they hope to join the dozens of other organized labor groups that the Obama administration has shielded from the devastating impact of ObamaCare.”
IN THE MAIL: From Mercedes Lackey, Revolution: The Secret World Chronicle III.
TAXPROF: The IRS Scandal, Day 240.
IN TODAY’S WALL STREET JOURNAL, an excerpt from my new book, The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself. It’s not behind the paywall.