CERTAIN ANTIBIOTICS MAY INCREASE RISK OF BIRTH DEFECTS. I don’t have to worry about that, but I took Levaquin once and it made me feel absolutely awful. Any exertion at all caused drastic muscle soreness. It knocked out a nasty sinus infection, but I wouldn’t take it again for anything short of life-threatening.
Archive for 2017
July 23, 2017
LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS AND EDITORS: Count The Errors In This MSNBC Host’s Attack On Trump’s ‘Soviet’ Wives.
Related: Joy Reid Rant About Trump’s ‘Russian’ Wives Is Proof You Can’t Fix Stupid, Jeff Dunetz writes, with numerous examples of how “Twitter basically cleaned her clock.”
THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Syphilis in Babies: Old Disease Makes A Comeback.
IF ONLY WE TOOK BORDER SECURITY MORE SERIOUSLY: Eight illegal immigrants were found dead in a semi parked at a Southwest San Antonio Walmart today.
IOWAHAWK TWEETS: “Everything begins to make sense when you learn CNN HQ was built on an abandoned psychedelic H.R. Pufnstuf theme park.”
RUN, MAXINE, RUN! Michelle Malkin launches ‘conservatives for Maxine Waters for president’ — her reason is absolutely savage:
“There you have it in a nutshell, liberalism in living color,” Malkin said. “Corruption, cronyism and cashing in for friends and family while your constituents and taxpayers get screwed.”
“Three cheers for making Maxine the defining face of the Democratic Party,” she added.
Heh, indeed.™
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Five WWII Movies to See Before ‘Dunkirk.’
I’d add a shout-out to 1948’s Command Decision.
IN THE MAIL: How to Grill: The Complete Illustrated Book of Barbecue Techniques, A Barbecue Bible! Cookbook.
Plus, fresh Gold Box and Lightning Deals.
ASK A PRO: Dutch Inmates to Be Given Cold-Case Calendars in Drive to Solve Crimes.
The Dutch police announced the project last week after a pilot program that rolled out in five prisons in January coincided with a large number of tip-offs.
“We got 160 tip-offs in the first five months of this year and we normally get 160 a year,” Robbert Salome, a spokesman for the Dutch National Police told NBC News. Jeroen Hammer, who helped develop the calendar, told Dutch broadcaster NOS that the tip-offs had allowed police to reopen two cases out of the 52 featured on the calendar.
Salome said that while it was impossible to know how many of the tips had came from prisoners — because the informants have the right to anonymity — research has shown prisoners knew a lot about other crimes.
“We know that people in prison talk about crimes,” he said, adding that a study had shown that in 40 percent of court cases in the Netherlands, the perpetrators had told someone about the crime they had committed.
Officials had better do a perfect job of protecting prisoner anonymity, or the program will descend into payback and blackmail.
MEGAN MCARDLE: ‘Dunkirk’ and the Great Films That Won’t Be Made.
Having recovered, I began to wonder why we can’t have more pictures like “Dunkirk.” The easy answer is, of course, that there is only one Christopher Nolan, and only so many people willing to give him $150 million to spend putting thousands of extras and some World War II-era ordnance onto a French beach. But the easy answer is incomplete.
It is getting rarer for a genius like Nolan to be given substantial sums of money to put their vision on the screen. Instead, the substantial sums go to “franchise films.” The pursuit of blockbuster movies is becoming less of an act of creation, and more an exercise in brand management. Franchises generate box office revenue, merchandising revenue and what economists call option value: “Furious 7” does not simply bring ticket revenue for the studio, but also the ability to make more revenue through Fast and Furious Episodes 8, 9, 10 and onward to “The Fast and the Furious 987.”
Comic book movies, redos, and redos of comic book movies. A vast wasteland.
IT’S A GREAT STORY, BUT HOLLYWOOD WOULD PROBABLY JUST TURN IT INTO A B-MOVIE. How Capitalism Saved the Bees: A decade after colony collapse disorder began, pollination entrepreneurs have staved off the beepocalypse.
SOUNDS LIKE THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA IS A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT FOR MALE STUDENTS: Florida Student Wins Against College that Suspended Him For ‘Correcting’ Girlfriend’s Apology Letter.
B-52 PARTICIPATING IN OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE: A B-52 can stay on station for a long time and deliver precision weapons. We’ve used a lot of precision weapons in operations against ISIS. This bomber’s definitely carrying weapons — check out the ordnance on the hardpoints below the wings.
RELATED: B-1Bs at Andersen AFB, Guam.
YOU’RE SO VAIN, you probably think this thong is about you.
ALT-LEFT INSANITY: TRUMP RUINED BISEXUAL WEDDING … BY WINNING.
You condemn yourself to a life of misery when you make politics your religion.
HOW THE DEMOCRATS FELL INTO TRUMP’S TRAP:
Chris Murphy, the Senator from Connecticut whose name is now increasingly invoked in 2020 conversations, lamented to me that Democratic messaging has become mired in identify politics that “we have made the mistake of thinking constituency groups care only about ‘their issues.’ We talk to women about reproductive rights and African-Americans about police brutality. Those are important issues, but they all care about other things.” The Democratic economic message has “become soft,” Murphy lamented, before noting that the party needs to aggressively promise more jobs, more growth, and more opportunity for the middle class.
So basically Chris Murphy is whitesplaining things to the Dems’ leadership. Good luck with that.
INTERPOL’S LIST: Interpol is circulating a list with the names of 173 suspected ISIS terrorists it believes intend to launch attacks in Europe.
BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR DEMS: Kamala Harris schmoozes with Hamptons elite as Democrats try to bridge gap with working class.
CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: Military option for North Korea is not unimaginable.
Agreed. It’s a real option.
THE GRAY LADY SURE HAS A FUNNY WAY OF TREATING ITS CORE READERS: White Women Are Racist Because of the Way They Walk on Sidewalks.