APPARENTLY HE WASN’T POISONED! Richard the Lionheart’s mummified heart analyzed.
Archive for 2017
May 16, 2017
SJWS EITHER DON’T BUY MUCH OR ARE LOUD BUT TINY MINORITY: Marvel Cancels Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Lives Matter Comic Due to Poor Sales.
STARTLING SIMILARITIES: Kim Jong-il and Jim Jones .
YES, IT IS WORRISOME, MAYBE, BUT THE LEFT’S HABIT OF BEING THE LITTLE BOY WHO SCREAMED “TRUMPOCALLYSE” APROPOS NOTHING MEANS i HAVE SCANDAL FATIGUE:Preliminary thoughts on Trump revealing classified info to Russia.
FUNNY WAY YOU HAVE OF SPELLING EVIL: It’s Official: On Trump’s Travel Order, the Left Is Bonkers.
ALWAYS WAS: Social Justice is Word Salad.
IMPOSSIBLE! THEY NEVER LIED TO US BEFORE: The left’s sick lies about health reform.
THERE ARE PEOPLE STILL USING XP? Microsoft issues ‘highly unusual’ Windows XP patch to prevent massive ransomware attack.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY LOVE OF THE LETTER Y: Too many parents are naming their kids after a Star Wars villain.
DARCY — ALAS — NOT INCLUDED:Legendary ‘Pride and Prejudice’ estate is for sale.
May 15, 2017
STANDING UP AGAINST TERROR AND HATE: Vigil for Victims of Rasmea Odeh outside her appearance at Northwestern U.
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THE IDEA OF “GENDER” IS ITSELF A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT: Why We Should Stop Using the Term ‘Gender.’
STRATEGIES FOR NAVIGATING THE EMERGENCY ROOM. When my dad was sick, my youngest brother was surprised by my ability to give a complete but concise medical history and to suggest what might be wrong in the space of 60 seconds. Well, lawyers are good at that sort of thing. Doctors like it too, and also respond better to people who seem to have their act together, because they see so many who don’t. But it’s hard on people who don’t have someone like that. The healthcare system is hard enough to navigate when you’re healthy and thinking clearly.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: My Delta Flight Wasn’t Newsworthy, And That’s News.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Has Tom Brokaw Reached Peak Stupid?
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF MISOGYNY AND DISCRIMINATION? Denver Law School Faces Federal Equal Pay Lawsuit From Eight Female Professors.
CHARLIE MARTIN: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ebola.
VITAMIN D UPDATE: Researchers find lactose intolerance related to low vitamin D levels. “The researchers found those who had a gene associated with lactose intolerance (called LCT) consumed lower amounts of dairy products than those without that variation. The lactose intolerant also had lower levels of vitamin D in their blood – unsurprisingly, since dairy products are fortified with vitamin D, and most people don’t get enough of this vitamin from the sun or from other foods.” So if you’re lactose-intolerant, you need to make extra efforts to get enough vitamin D.
A nation of men, not laws, in other words.
FEMINISTS WHO HATED BEING MOTHERS, but throw themselves into the role of grandmothers. “As a workaholic reporter in Washington covering the White House, I would push her on a swing and read a research paper at the same time. Today I love taking my granddaughters to the park, playing tea party, sitting on the floor with them coloring. My attention is all theirs. Most of the grandparents I know are like me: We’ll do anything to hold those babies.”
Plus, from the comments: “If you eliminate the category of ‘rich white woman gazes at navel,’ how much of contemporary media remains?”
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THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: Eating salt could help you to LOSE weight, study reveals.
Maybe this is why you never see diet pretzels — they’re all diet.
STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT: Assad using crematorium to hide atrocities.