Archive for 2014
April 18, 2014
ROLL CALL: Republican Whacks Harry Reid in New North Carolina Senate Ad. Tying opponents to Harry Reid and national Democrats is good strategy.
INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Emails Show Corruption At Heart Of Administration.
LUCY STEIGERWALD: Cliven Bundy reminds us to keep putting cameras on law enforcement.
If they’re doing nothing wrong, they should have no objection. Plus, First Amendment aside, you have a due process right to record the police.
UPDATE: Link was busted before. Fixed now. Sorry!
RICH LOWRY: The Stupid Hounding of Condi Rice. “If Condoleezza Rice were as self-pitying and politically crass as Attorney General Eric Holder, she would be wondering aloud what it is about her race and gender that accounts for the hostility of her enemies.”
April 17, 2014
POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN OUR TIME: Woman cited for accosting GOP office worker. “A 54-year-old Sheboygan woman has been cited for disorderly conduct after she entered the Republican Party headquarters at 1122 Indiana Ave. on Tuesday and harangued an office worker there, including spitting on him. The woman was upset about an article she had read over the Internet.”
TO BE FAIR, THE GUY WHO SAID THAT WAS PROBABLY DRUNK: Secret Service threatened to shoot Mr. Met if he got close to President Clinton, says book.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Stall Tactics: Getting It On in Restaurant Restrooms Is More Common Than You Think.
Then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have this. Though perhaps alcohol plays a role in bridging the gap. . . .
WARONMEN: Young Dads Are at Risk for Postpartum Depression. “A study published in the journal Pediatrics finds that men who become fathers around age 25 see a 68 percent increase of depression symptoms over the first five years of being dads—if they live at the same home as their children.”
UPDATE: Science provides an explanation.
WELL, NOW IT’S TRANSNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. Tam: How National Geographic Has Changed. “Ah, National Geographic, you always were good at showing us looks into lost civilizations; who knew it’d be one so recent, though?”
I’M RELABELING ALL MY STUFF “EXTRA FATTENING:” What you expect a food to be affects your body’s response.
DOING SPRING CLEANING? Trade Your Stuff In At Amazon. Well, I don’t think they’d take all my old t-shirts, but it’s a good idea in general.
Also, Hot New Releases, updated every hour. Always something new.
FASTER, PLEASE: Nasal Spray Holds Hope in Fighting Flu Epidemic.
Scottish and American scientists have found a new way to prevent flu infections that could, in theory, be used to fight an epidemic long before a vaccine is ready.
The method, successfully tested only in mice thus far, is a nasal spray of engineered proteins that coat the receptors in the nose and throat to which flu viruses attach.
Mice that got the spray as long as a week before being given a lethal dose of viruses from the 2009 pandemic flu were fully protected, according to the team at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland that invented the proteins.
That sounds promising.
FASTER, PLEASE: New drug to protect unvaccinated people from measles. “Like the flu, measles spreads through the air by breathing, coughing or sneezing. There is typically a two-week window between becoming infected with the virus and the onset of symptoms like skin rash, runny nose and fever. The novel drug, termed ERDRP-0519, is specifically designed to work during this two-week window, when vaccination can no longer protect from disease.”
OBAMA’S THIRD TERM? Here’s What Drone Attacks in America Would Look Like.
THE SCIENCE OF PROCRASTINATION.
WELL, YES: Court Declares That, Yes, Bloggers Are Media. “While it seems crazy that this kind of issue is still being debated in 2014, it’s good to see a court make such a clear statement on the fact that blogs will often qualify as media properties.”
AT AMAZON, New Deals In Fine Jewelry.
Plus, New Releases in Music, and deals on bestselling Box Sets.
MY LATEST POPULAR MECHANICS COLUMN: Should We Be Afraid of the 3D Printed Gun?
MAYBE THIS EXPLAINS ALL THE SUPPORT FOR ROMAN POLANSKI: “Hollywood has a problem with the sexual exploitation of children,” Herman said in a statement. “This is the first of many cases I will be filing to give these victims a voice and to expose the issue.”
OR AN ALIEN SPACESHIP UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Cassini may be witnessing the birth (or death) of a moon of Saturn.
It’s all so obvious. Wake up, sheeple! You’ve read Footfall!