Archive for 2016
April 23, 2016
BAD DESIGN: FCA recalls 1.1 million vehicles worldwide due to confusing shifter.
Generally speaking, I don’t think the ergonomics of automobile controls have improved over the past decade. I had some thoughts about that in this Popular Mechanics piece. And this applies to more than cars: “I’d like to buy products that work as if they were designed by people who actually use them in the real world.”
THIS IS WHAT ALL LEFTY MOVEMENTS DO: The environmental campaign that punishes free speech.
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Winter’s over. What with all the Zika news, I’m guessing that the mosquito control stuff will be a big item this year.
ANGRY BRIT: CORRECTING GRAMMAR IS RACIST, CLASSIST, AND CENSORIOUS.
Not surprisingly, she writes for the Grauniad.
SWEDEN: ‘Green Party may have been infiltrated by Islamists.’ “Making reference to the recent controversies involving Green Party politicians, Mehmet Kaplan and Yasri Khan, Nicander, speaking to Swedish television channel, TV4, drew parallels with the way the Soviet Union tried to infiltrate political parties and organizations during the Cold War.”
MOM BRAGS ON FACEBOOK ABOUT DUMPING KIDS’ ICE CREAM. WAS SHE WRONG? “With over 35,000 shares and the incident becoming the topic of conversation on FoxNews, her parenting method needs to be examined.”
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WELL, THAT BLOWS HILLARY’S WHOLE CAMPAIGN RATIONALE: Jodie Foster tired of ‘the woman thing’: There’s no ‘big plot to keep women down.’
CHELSEA CLINTON ON THURSDAY: MOM WILL CHANGE THE SUPREME COURT TO ALLOW MORE GUN CONTROL.
Hillary today: “I know how important gun ownership & particularly hunting is here in Northeastern Pennsylvania.”
I know which Clinton I believe.
In late October of 2004, attempting to perform triage on his sputtering campaign, John Kerry walked into an Ohio grocery store with his campaign entourage and reporters and infamously inquired in a pandering tone, “Can I get me a hunting license here?”
In 2008, Obama filmed a campaign video in which he told voters in “I believe in the Second Amendment. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away… But I am not going to take your guns away. So if you want to find an excuse not to vote for me, don’t use that one because it just ain’t true. It ain’t true.”
Sort of a dry run for the 36 times or more he told Americans, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan,” I guess.
I don’t believe many sentences that emerge from the family who completed their stay in the White House in the 1990s by debating what the meaning of “is” is, but I’m certainly willing to take Chelsea at her word that mom wants to ban guns.
JOE WALSH SLAMS GOP AS ‘FEAR MONGERING’ PARTY.
Reminder: the edgy, transgressive Eagles broke up in 1980 because guitarist Don Felder was insufficiently obsequious towards Democrat Senator Alan Cranston and his wife at an Eagle-hosted fundraiser.
HOW THE REAL-LIFE HORRORS OF 9/11 IMPACTED THE TONE OF A HORROR-THEMED RPG: Moe Lane has “Some Thoughts on the Thematic Difference between the First And Second Editions of Delta Green.”
INHOFE: CLIMATE CHANGE A ‘HOLLYWOOD PROBLEM:’ Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, “also told PJM that China is ‘celebrating’ U.S. efforts to reduce its carbon emissions because ‘they will end up inheriting’ much of America’s manufacturing base.”
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I’VE STEPPED UP MY ANTI-MOSQUITO PRECAUTIONS AT HOME: Employers Urged to Prevent Zika Infections at Work.
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THE GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCE IS NOT SETTLED: Scientists just discovered a 1,000-km-long coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon. “The reef was able to remain hidden so well because the mouth of the Amazon is, to be frank, a little bit of a mess. Out of all the water that flows from Earth’s rivers into Earth’s oceans every day, roughly one-fifth of that water pours out here, at the mouth of the Amazon. With that, come nutrients, waste, and organic matter collected along the river’s 6,992 km (4,344 mile) winding journey through the rainforests and farmlands of South America. And by the time it reaches the water, it brings a whole lot of mud and triggers plenty of algae blooms, both of which cloud the water of the flume.”
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WHY SHOULD THEY FOLLOW THE LAW? THEY’RE JUDGES! Charges For judiciary’s PACER System “clearly outside what the law allows.”
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NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Filtering Drinking Water With Nanofibers.
SOCIALISM ISN’T ABOUT ECONOMICS…IT’S RELIGION, NOT MATH,” Jonah Goldberg writes in his latest G-File. “Sanders isn’t motivated by racism or anything like it. He’s motivated by nostalgia and bad metaphors. And so are his mostly lily-white, affluent, fans. ‘We’ll always have Sweden’ is no less a fantasy than Rousseau’s ‘We’ll always have Sparta.’”
Though of course, as Glenn writes in his latest USA Today column, “The socialist utopias of Sanders’ dreams bear little resemblance to reality across the Atlantic… And if the Republicans really want to mess with Democrats’ minds, perhaps they should launch a new campaign to make America more like Europe.”
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STEVEN CROWDER Interviews Curt Schilling.
HONESTLY, NOT LIKING THIS POPE MUCH: Pope Francis reneges on offer to take in Christian refugees. “A Christian brother and sister from Syria felt blessed to have been among the dozen refugees selected to start a new life in Italy. . . . Their dreams were shattered, though, when they were informed the following day that they would not be traveling to Rome. Instead, three Muslim families were taken.”
TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1080.