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Archive for 2018
August 21, 2018
STEPHANIE HAMILL: The #MeToo Movement Is On Its Last Legs.
SO TODAY’S A GOOD DAY TO DUMP ANY NEWS YOU WANT IGNORED: Cohen Says He Violated Campaign Finance Law At Trump Direction. Of course, that’s the word of an admitted felon. . . .
HEALTH: FDA Stirs Contraception Debate With OK For ‘Natural’ Birth Control App. 75% of the time, it works every time!
On the other hand, I remember this: “Basic sex education teaches us that the so-called ‘pull-out’ method is an unreliable and risky method of contraception. But a new study suggests that, in terms of pregnancy prevention, withdrawal works just as well as condoms.”
Related thoughts here.
TRUMP’S RALLY TONIGHT IS GONNA BE LIT: Illegal immigrant charged with Mollie Tibbetts’ murder.
THEIR APPRAISAL IS SPOT-ON: ‘Stupid Bullsh*t’: Austin, Texas Residents and Tourists Oppose Renaming City.
VERDICT: Paul Manafort found guilty on 8 counts, judge declares mistrial on 10 others. “Manafort was found guilty of all five tax fraud charges, each carrying a maximum of three years in prison. The jury found he filed false income tax returns in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Manafort, 69, was also found guilty of one count of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts in 2012, which carries a maximum of five years in prison.”
All of this, of course, predates Trump’s campaign.
I DON’T THINK PEOPLE SHOULD GO TO JAIL FOR SMOKING POT, BUT THIS ISN’T GOOD: More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead.
DAVID SOLWAY: The Luciferian Left. “Not John Milton’s fallen angel, but a risen devil.”
SEGREGATION TODAY, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! The Secret to Keeping Black Men Healthy? Maybe Black Doctors.
SAD: Ben Carson’s ‘Fall From Grace’ Amongst Black Americans. “While it’s easy to say this is a reaction to Trump, it’s clear the real issue is his conservative politics.”
AYN RAND DIDN’T WRITE THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE AS A HOW-TO GUIDE: “’Just 66 percent of millennials firmly believe that the Earth is round,’ read the summary from the pollster YouGov.”
IT’S THE TRAINING, STUPID: Algorithms: The Ultimate Excuse.
Related: Perceptions of Newsworthiness are Contaminated by a Political Usefulness Bias. Second author is Gail Heriot, a fellow Instaposter.
VITAMIN D UPDATE: Many Roman Children Suffered From Vitamin D Deficiency.
TERRY TEACHOUT: About Last Night. “For those of you who’ve been wondering, Mrs. T is in the intensive-care unit of a New Jersey hospital, and I’m at her side.”
Such misadventures, I regret to say, are part of everyday life for those who require organ transplants in a city that has, as the New York Times recently explained in an important and disheartening feature story, “the lowest rate of organ donor registration in the country.” You wait your turn as patiently as you possibly can, and the longer you wait, the more likely it is that something will go wrong. That’s what happened to us.
To be perfectly frank, I nearly lost Mrs. T last week. But she hung on, that being her way, and as of today she appears to be recovering, slowly but surely. I don’t know when she’ll be getting out of the hospital, but once she does, our lives will return to what we’ve learned in the past few years to think of as “normal.” In fact, we’ll be heading back to Cape May as soon as her health permits. That’s what you do when you suffer from a chronic illness. You wait, hope—and live.
Meanwhile, what I said in this space last November is as true now as it was then: “If you haven’t signed up to be an organ donor, please do so now, and encourage your friends to do likewise. The life you save could be that of the woman I love.”
My father died far too young, waiting for an organ transplant that never came. Unless you have a health condition preventing you from donating your organs, please do consider signing up.
EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATICAL: Chef Jamie Oliver accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ for his Jamaican ‘Punchy Jerk Rice.’
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE: Two Men Accused Of Rape Exonerated 26 Years Later After The Victim Recanted.
Related: She Claimed A Phone Call Proved She Was Too Drunk To Consent. That Phone Call Never Happened.
HEALTH: Want to Live Longer? Don’t Cut Out That Bread and Pasta. “A recent study found that low-carb diets decrease life expectancy.”
I’ve never tried low-carb, keto, or paleo myself, but I’ve seen them work miracles for others.