NEWS YOU CAN USE: This Is Why You Hate the Sound of Your Own Voice on Recordings. Maybe. In my case, it’s because some prankster adds an accent to my recorded speech every dang time. You’d think the joke would get old, but inexplicably it just goes on.
Archive for 2015
October 31, 2015
INDIE AUTHORS HALLOWEEN SALE: Fenrir Reborn.
PEOPLE ARE WEALTH: That’s the truth, the idea they’re drains is a fairytale of bitter Marxists. China’s Demographic Catastrophe.
THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A WHILE: The Commerce Department’s GDP numbers don’t make any sense.
HAPPY HOYTLOWEEN: My family has a bunch of free short stories out this week. RatsKiller from older son, Neighborhood Bark-b-Q from husband, and The Blood Like Wine and Something Worse Hereafter from yours truly. You know what they say: the family that writes together… mostly says to each other “What are you doing in my office? Don’t you have a book to write?”
I’M FOR LEGALIZATION AS THE LEAST OF TWO EVILS: But I thought everyone knew “medical marijuana” was a scam?
BEATS NAMING THEM AFTER POLITICIANS: A new class of ships honors American heroes of Afghanistan & Iraq.
October 30, 2015
JOHN HINDERAKER: Happy PC Halloween!
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Russian calls for Cold War civil defense training to be revived.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Desperate Law Schools Are Admitting Way Too Many Poorly Qualified Students. “As their application numbers collapsed in recent years, a good number of law schools were forced to choose between their academic standards and their finances. With fewer qualified candidates to go around, some decided to shrink their enrollment numbers and forgo a bit of revenue rather than drastically relax their admission criteria. But many others took the path of least resistance, opening their doors to poorly qualified students willing to pay tuition. As a result, a depressing number of law schools are now filled with students who may simply not belong there.”
Who could have seen this coming?
SO I HAVE A HARMAN KARDON RECEIVER THAT I LIKE PRETTY WELL, but it’s several years old and doesn’t have any form of wireless connectivity. But for $24.95 I got this add-on bluetooth receiver that pairs easily with my phone or computer, letting me play music from iTunes, Amazon, or any streaming service. It set up easily, paired with the push of a button, and seems to work flawlessly. My only complaint is that it will only pair with one device; when paired with my computer, it forgets my phone. But for under 25 bucks, not bad.
FINANCIAL FRAUD IN OBAMACARE CO-OP? New York insurance regulators speed up “winding down” of Health Republic, the largest of the Obamacare co-ops, after finding its financial condition “substantially worse” than previously reported. Ten of the 23 Obamacare co-ops established at a cost of $2.4 billion in 2011, have shut down in recent weeks. And more failures are coming even if the feds are being secretive about it.
FLY THE CENSORING SKIES: Mark Steyn tweets, “Hey, United. I’m on your plane right now using your WiFi, which bans my website: http://www.steynonline.com Why?”
And note this response from American Airlines, responding to Steyn’s Twitter thread, which contained a fan who notes he’s currently flying on American and Gogo* opens Steyn Online just fine:
* Which sadly far too slow-slow these days, alas.
AT AMAZON, Gifts For The Family Chef.
DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY: Black Lives Matter protesters interrupt Hillary rally.
I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW PUMPKIN OVERLORDS:
25-foot-tall inflatable pumpkin rolls through Arizona traffic https://t.co/iHFJDj1f6H pic.twitter.com/iVx5YsrNKj
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) October 30, 2015
I’d like to remind them that as a trusted Internet personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground Pumpkin Spice Soy Milk caves.
Related: “Rover’s got a new look on the Prisoner Halloween special,” Jesse Walker of Reason tweets.
Heh.™
ISIS RELEASES LATEST SNUFF FILM: ‘Obama, You Have Learned a Lesson’: ISIS Beheads Four Peshmerga in Revenge for U.S. Raid.
ALAN FINKEL: Maybe We Really Are Alone In the Universe. “In every race, somebody has to be first. In this evolutionary race, it’s us.” In a lot of classic science fiction, there are ancient races of aliens: Forerunners, Old Ones, etc. Maybe we’re them.
EVEN FEMINISTS ARE NOTICING: FOR MANY FATHERS IN PRISON, CHILD SUPPORT BECOMES A CRUSHING DEBT.
WELL, THAT’S GOOD, BECAUSE I TAUGHT THE INSTA-DAUGHTER TO DRIVE A MANUAL ON THE RX-8, BUT SHE HASN’T DRIVEN ONE SINCE AS FAR AS I KNOW: Once You Learn to Drive A Manual You’ll Never Forget: Your Subconscious Takes Over.
BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE NARRATIVE NEEDS A LITTLE HELP: Black Man Arrested For Setting Fires To Six Black Churches In St. Louis:
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks white supremacist groups, suggested in an article last week that the arsons were carried out by white supremacists.
The group quoted a journalist who covers African-American issues who said that the fires were “both alarming and not surprising.”
“This is alarming because domestic terrorism is alive and well,” David A. Love told the SPLC. “It is such a problem that the U.S. Department of Justice recently predicted increases in violent acts by white extremists who are responding to a new reality in which people of color will become a majority in America.”
The SPLC also quoted Love blaming “a vicious cycle created by rightwing politicians, the NRA and hate groups who stir up anger, fear and resentment over changing demographics and want their country back.”
Related: Michelle Malkin has had a running category on fake “hate crimes” for years; in 2010 she explored “How the Left fakes the hate: A primer.”
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
● Is democratic socialism the right path for America?
— Headline Wednesday at CNN, a division of Time-Warner-CNN-HBO.
● “American democracy looks like a four-year-old’s birthday party.”
— Quote from Time-Warner-CNN-HBO spokesman John Oliver today when asked about American politics on CBS This Morning.
Presumably, Oliver and CNN would prefer something much more orderly, perhaps along these lines.
SHHH, NOBODY TELL CHARLIE ROSE: Debunking the Media Lies About Hillary’s Benghazi Video Lie.