AS USUAL, HE HAS A POINT: How America should answer the Brexit vote.
Archive for 2016
June 30, 2016
BURN MORE COAL. IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN: Why the sun going blank means a ‘Game of Thrones’-like winter is coming.
CONDITIONING YOUR KIDS TO FEAR GUNS: School safety drills are terrorizing our kids.
DATA IS FOR THOSE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE: Michael Mann, scientist: Data ‘increasingly unnecessary’ because ‘we can see climate change’.
THE VETERINARIAN WILL SEE YOU NOW: Keeping Patient Alive Can be “Non-Beneficial Treatment”.
COLLECT THE WHOLE SET: The untold horrifying tales of Hillary’s time in the White House.
FACTS ARE FOR THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE A NARRATIVE: Reality doesn’t matter when you’re crusading for ‘social justice’.
THE DIFFERENCE THAT, AT THIS POINT, IT DOES MAKE: Democrats have never stopped politicizing Benghazi.
THE BIG PROBLEM OF OUR AGE: Shrinkage.
GROWING UP IS HARD TO DO: Spoiled College Grad Demands New Dress Code at Job, Gets the Boot.
June 29, 2016
SO I MENTIONED A WHILE BACK THAT I WAS WORKING ON A PAPER ON MILITARY COUPS AND THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION: I now have a draft online. Any comments welcome!
WHEN NARRATIVE CONTROL OVERRIDES THE LAW: FBI asks agencies who responded to Orlando Pulse shooting to deny records requests.
A June 20 letter from the FBI, attached to the City or Orlando’s lawsuit over withholding 911 calls and other records from 25 media outlets including the Orlando Sentinel, was also sent to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office with instructions pertaining to how they should respond to records requests.
The letter requests that agencies deny inquiries and directs departments to “immediately notify the FBI of any requests your agency received” so “the FBI can seek to prevent disclosure through appropriate channels, as necessary.”
Why are they so eager to cover this up?
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Amidst 57% Enrollment Decline At Valparaiso Law School, 10 Tenured Faculty Accept Buyouts And 3 Junior Faculty Will Be Terminated.
ONE OF THE MOST RICHLY-ENDOWED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD, BUT THEN THEY DISCOVERED SOCIALISM: Venezuelans are storming supermarkets and attacking trucks as food supplies dwindle.
Related: Venezuela’s Oil Output Decline Accelerates as Drillers Go Unpaid. Gigantic oil reserves and they can’t even manage to pay to extract them. But, hey, Hugo Chavez and his cronies all became super-rich. Because equality!
AS THE MAN BILL GATES SUPPORTS WOULD SAY, PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Woman Sues Microsoft for Windows 10 Upgrade, Wins $10 Grand.
If you’d like to avoid accidentally updating to Windows 10, these steps worked for me.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE: Cops: Woman, 26, Wielded Hatchet After Her Demands For Sex Were Repeatedly Rebuffed. Note that she’s free on $5500 bond, which I doubt would be the case if she were a man.
RISE OF THE MACHINES: Goodbye accountants! Startup builds AI to automate all your accounting.
LIBERALS SAY ISIS IS TO ISLAM WHAT THE KKK IS TO CHRISTIANITY.
Klan-admirer Woodrow Wilson (D-NJ) could not be reached for comment.
RISE OF THE MACHINES: World’s first ‘robot lawyer’ overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York.
All is proceeding as Ben Barton has foreseen.
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT? America is atop the list of 15 “The Top 15 Countries Whose Women Have The Largest Natural Breasts In The World, According To Science.”
The science is settled. And real and spectacular.
GRUESOME AND EFFECTIVE! Finally, the Los Angeles Metro makes safety videos into dark grizzly schadenfreudalicious fun.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAWPROF JOHN BANZHAF has filed a bar complaint against Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby over the Freddie Gray prosecutions.
Paul Simon says he is ready to give up making and playing music, 61 years after he started as a 13-year-old. “You’re coming towards the end,” he said in an interview this week, discussing the mysterious epiphanies that delivered some of his greatest songs, the toxic qualities of fame, and his yearning to explore questions of spirituality and neuroscience.
“Showbiz doesn’t hold any interest for me,” Mr. Simon said. “None.”
Here is why you might consider believing him.
As someone who saw The Who at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia in 1982, during the first of their many, many “farewell tours,” I’ll take Simon’s claim he’s retiring from showbiz with a healthy smidgen of sodium chloride.
21ST CENTURY SHOPPING: Walmart Is Offering a Free Trial for Its Amazon Prime ‘Killer’
The world’s largest retailer, looking to rev up online sales growth that has sagged in recent quarters, said on Tuesday it was as of Friday offering a free 30-day trial of ShippingPass. That annual subscription service, like Prime, offers members unlimited free two-day shipping (that was three days until recently for Walmart) and no order minimums. The program’s cost is $49 a year, compared to $99 for Amazon Prime.
It would take a lot to wean me off of Amazon Prime.
However, the VodkaWife recently switched from King Sooper’s $10 grocery delivery service to Walmart’s free grocery pickup service. She said that the selection was good-if-not-great, but that the food prices were generally lower — and on some items much lower.