Archive for 2017

WHY MORE MEN are getting Botox. “They’re simply having more procedures done because they want to maintain the competitiveness in an increasingly ageist workplace.”

IT’S COME TO THIS: “Sure, the Pulitzers were just handed out, but there’s always next year, and the fine folks at RedState would like history to remember that they not only had the scoop on Lahren’s butt warmer, but published the details before the judge ruled.”

CHANGE? Trump administration to defend contraception mandate required under Affordable Care Act.

President Donald Trump promised religious groups he would reverse the Obama administration’s requirement that employers provide birth control to their employees under the Affordable Care Act.

But his Justice Department indicated Monday that it’s continuing to fight religious groups who are suing over the contraception mandate.

The Justice Department has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for an additional 60 days to negotiate with East Texas Baptist University and several other religious schools and nonprofit groups objecting to a requirement to which they are morally opposed.

Bureaucratic inertia or a genuine flip-flop?

PRIVACY: Of Course Unroll.Me Sold Your Data to Uber.

It didn’t surprise me one bit that the company was selling my data. Unroll.Me is a “free” service, and people should be savvy enough by now to know that there is no such thing as free. The engineers, marketers, executives and other employees of Slice Intelligence need their paychecks, and I need a less cluttered inbox. I’d expect a service I grant permission to go through my emails to get something in return. In fact, it says as much in Unroll.Me’s privacy policy, if users take a minute to look through it.

For a few bucks a month you can buy your own domain with its own email addresses, and set up dummy accounts for anything requiring email registration.

I’ve found that cuts down on spam significantly.

TRUMP WON’T SELL AS MANY AS BARACK DID, OR HILLARY WOULD HAVE: New AR-15 Rifles for 2017.