EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: Coming this summer to a theater near you according to the IMDB, The Founder — aka, “McDonald’s: The Motion Picture,” starring Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc?
And proof that everything really is spinning out of control, who’s up for the next Spider-Man movie, co-starring as Aunt May, 51-year old Marisa Tomei?
(Via Moe Lane.)
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 6 Dirty Secrets Your Childcare Provider Won’t Tell You.
WHAT “WOMEN’S ADVOCATES” THINK ABOUT FATHERS:
“What did the father do?” said women’s advocate and co-founder of Families Against Court Travesties Adele Guadalupe. “He contributed his sperm. The mother carried the baby for nine months. The mother had the nausea and threw up, probably had to give up her job. The mother had to give birth, the mother has to breastfeed the child. All of the sudden, the mother counts for nothing and the father has a 50-percent right to this child when it’s young? It goes against nature. It goes against justice. It goes against everything we have been brought up to believe.”
This is what a feminist entitlement looks like.
TO BE FAIR, IT COULD HARDLY GET WORSE: Your In-Flight Wi-Fi Is About to Get Better, Faster, Cheaper.
METAPHOR ALERT:
Shot: Watch: Obama helps fire a marshmallow cannon at the White House.
—The Washington Post, today.
Chaser: Experts say Russia will likely get away with buzzing U.S. destroyer.
—The Washington Examiner, today.
Hangover: The Obama Administration Is Now Apologizing For America Winning World War II.
—The Federalist, yesterday.
UPDATE: An Iowahawk photo juxtaposition sums up today nicely. (Read: All too depressingly.)
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): High school coach accused of inappropriate relationship with student.
Also, teach them not to cover things up: Two IPS employees to face charges over delay in reporting child abuse.
SO, AS HE FLIES THE BLUE HIJAB-CLAD LADY OF THE SKIES INTO THE SUNSET, WE SAY ‘ALOHA,’ AL JAZEERA AMERICA AND RETURN TO OUR DUTIES.
Let me remind you that the Weblog is open 24 hours a day for your dancing and dining pleasure.
Flashback: Al Gore Declares Mission Accomplished.
I hope Al received sufficient royalty payments for Current TV from Big Oil-fueled Qatar to offset his putting the final nail in the credibility of the global warming left.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Feds May Forgive Loans of Up to 387,000 Disabled Borrowers.
SWEET LORETTA MARTIN THOUGHT SHE WAS A WOMAN, BUT SHE WAS ANOTHER MAN: Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr latest celebrity drafted into left’s war on North Carolina bathrooms.
Related: “Ringo Starr has said that The Beatles considered playing their final gig at the Pyramids outside Cairo, Egypt.”
Bryan Adams, who similarly cancelled his Mississippi concert in the fight for transgendered bathrooms, played Egypt just last month.
A FEDERAL COURT MAY SOON RULE THE CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BOARD UNCONSTITUTIONAL: Don’t recognize the name? Despite being President Obama’s biggest gift to Elizabeth Warren, the CFPB has mostly flown under the radar since its creation in 2010. That could change soon because of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which is hearing a constitutional challenge to CFPB’s legitimacy.
“Critics of CFPB have noted it is the only agency not accountable to congressional oversight and therefore violates the separation of powers set down by the Constitution. That principle provides that Congress have checks over the executive branch agencies like CFPB. Those checks do not apply to the agency,” reports Richard Pollock of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.
Created by a Democratic Congress, CFPB was purposely put under the Federal Reserve to get it out of the reach of congressional oversight. Congress doesn’t even have the power to set the bureau’s budget because it is funded entirely via the Fed. Pollock has been putting an investigative spotlight on the bureau for several years, as seen here, here and here.
If the three-judge appeals court panel rules against CFPB, the bureau will appeal to the full Appeals Court, which has a majority of judges appointed by Presidents Obama and Clinton. Next stop will then the U.S. Supreme Court, so stay tuned.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Taxing $1,000 per Gun Became a Reality in One U.S. Territory — and Some Worry It Could Spread.
Gov. Ralph Torres signed the gun tax and regulation bill into law Monday and stressed that his first priority is the safety of law enforcement and the community.
“It’s something that none of us want, and we want to make it as strict as possible,” Torres said in a statement.
Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, blasted these as examples of the left targeting guns and noted that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has backed taxes on guns in the past.
“The left is now seeking to tax guns out of existence,” Norquist said in a statement Monady. “The Second Amendment makes it difficult to legally ban guns, but Hillary has led the way to explaining you can achieve the same thing with high taxes.”
There must be a solid case to be made that a $1,000 tax on a $500 pistol is an unconstitutional infringement on a court-recognized individual right.
BREAKING NEWS: ACTUAL GROWNUPS DISCOVERED INSIDE UNIVERSITY FRONT OFFICE. Ohio State Shuts Down Student Occupation after Arrests, Expulsion Threatened: “‘If you refuse to leave, then you will be charged with a student code of conduct violation,’ [Ohio State Vice President Jay Kasey] said. ‘If you are here at 5:00 a.m. we will clear the building and you will be arrested.’ He added, ‘We will give you the opportunity to go to jail for your beliefs.’”
Faster, please.™
21ST CENTURY MEDICINE: The cheap, simple way to prevent blisters.
All it takes is some paper tape applied to the foot in blister-prone areas before running, the researchers said.
To test this blister-prevention method, the researchers recruited 128 runners who were participating in a 155-mile (250 kilometers) ultramarathon in 2014.
The researchers applied paper tape to just part of each runner’s foot, so that the untaped areas would serve as a control. At the end of the race, which took seven days, only 30 runners (24 percent) had any blisters in the taped areas, whereas 81 runners (63 percent) developed blisters in the untaped areas.
I’m not a runner, but I’ve found that a good pair of hiking boots is usually all it takes to avoid blisters on mountain camping trips. For longer hikes, try wearing a pair of thin dress socks under your athletic socks.
21ST CENTURY QUESTIONS: Can You Trust Your Robot?
A TALE OF TWO REUTERS:
So which is it?
CONGRATULATIONS TO JERRY POURNELLE, winner of the 2016 Robert Heinlein Award.
The National Space Society takes great pleasure in announcing that its 2016 Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award has been won by acclaimed science fiction author Dr. Jerry Pournelle. This prestigious award selected by an international vote of NSS members will be presented to Dr. Jerry Pournelle at the 2016 International Space Development Conference (ISDC). The public is welcome to attend the conference and see the award presentation at the Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel and Casino in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The ISDC will run from May 18-22, 2016. . . .
This award is presented once every two years for lifetime achievement in promoting the goal of a free, spacefaring civilization. The winner is decided by the vote of the entire NSS membership, not by the awards committee. The award consists of a miniature signal cannon, on a mahogany base with a black granite inlay and a brass plaque as shown. The award concept came from Robert Heinlein’s classic book The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Some of the early award winners include Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan, Neil Armstrong and Elon Musk.
It’s richly deserved. In particular, Jerry carried the torch during the dark post-Apollo/Jimmy Carter days. Much of what’s happening in commercial space owes its existence, in part, to Jerry’s writing in that era.
NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Five ionized atoms provide scalable implementation of quantum computation algorithm.
I BLAME THE PATRIARCHY: Why Is Arthritis More Common in Women Than Men?
NEW FROM AMAZON: The Kindle Oasis. Nine months of battery life is pretty impressive.
TIP NUMBER SIX: HAVE A GUN, SHOOT THE ATTACKER. (OPTIONAL): THEN, AS HE LIES DYING, MOCK HIM FOR BRINGING A KNIFE TO A GUNFIGHT. Five Tips That Might Save Your Life In a Knife Attack.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How many times a week should you really be having sex? ‘Sexpert’ Tracey Cox reveals the perfect number for a happy relationship.
Didn’t Annie and Alvy settle this issue four decades ago?
A PODCAST TO REMEMBER. James Lileks: Praise the Titanic.
Plus a cameo by Commodore Matt Decker!
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