Archive for 2018
December 14, 2018
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Eight Best Christmas Songs You’ve Probably Never Heard.
STEPHANIE GUTMANN: Millennials, banning ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ won’t keep you warm at night. “In the modern, ‘affirmative consent’ version of this classic Christmas song, the man could not care less whether his girlfriend stays or goes. Hot!”
Now with correct link!
THIS WOULD BE SWELL, SO LONG AS YOU NEVER NEED SURGERY: Anti-opioid vaccine shows promise in mice.
AT AMAZON, Holiday Deals in Appliances.
NEARLY 156 PEOPLE LEAVE CHICAGO DAILY: DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS.
Even migration is bigger in Texas. Dallas leads all U.S. cities as the largest net gainer with 246 people arriving daily, according to a Bloomberg analysis of 2017 Census data on migration to the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. In 2014, the crown belonged to Houston with 269 migrants per day.
Two things: First, as Austin said yesterday, to anyone thinking of fleeing to Texas, “please stay away. It’s absolutely terrible down here. We have hurricanes and tornadoes and sweltering summers and gazillions of feral hogs. The worst of it: increasingly terrible traffic thanks to tax migrants fleeing California.”
I’ve been telling people the exact same thing after I left California in 2016! And second, billionaire GOP contributors and libertarian-types like the Koch Brothers really need to get going on Glenn’s Welcome Wagon idea for new arrivals who fail to heed the warnings of us veteran Texans.
HIDE THE DECLINE: As French Protests Grow, Media’s Climate Focus Shrinks.
Putting this all together, as news coverage of the Paris protests has ramped up, discussion of the protests’ origins as a rejection of climate change taxes has rapidly faded. In part this may be due to the evolution of the protests into a broader rejection of the direction of French society and airing of grievances ranging from the economic divide to education reforms. At the same time, the timing of the rapid climate deemphasis as the protests have grown larger and more violent suggests media outlets are also not keen to draw negative scrutiny to environmental efforts. In the end, we are reminded that media outlets strongly shape our understanding of stories through the choices they make in framing them.
Classical reference in headline; as Jim Treacher would say:
I WAS PROMISED A NUCLEAR WINTER: Bad Bad Futures Which Didn’t Happen – I Expected An Earth-Shattering Kaboom!
ROBERT “BETO” O’ROURKE: ‘I DON’T KNOW’ IF I’M A PROGRESSIVE.
I think what he means is that he serves as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views, to coin a phrase spoken by an earlier hard left presidential candidate.
JOHN PODHORETZ: THE ‘MURDER’ OF THE WEEKLY STANDARD WASN’T ABOUT TRUMP.
Narrator voice: There is some evidence that being perpetually never-Trump may have played a factor. QED:
SOMETHING ELSE TO WORRY ABOUT: Could Medical Procedures Transmit Alzheimer’s?
APOLLO 17: On this day in 1972, at 5:55 p.m. EST, the lunar module carrying Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt noiselessly lifted off from the moon. It would later rejoin the Command Module piloted by Ron Evans.
No human being has since returned. Most Americans alive today were not yet born then.
THAT YOU LIKE BEER? Here’s What Ordering Your Favorite Lager Might Say About Your Personality.
AT AMAZON, Van Heusen Men’s Long Sleeve Oxford Dress Shirt, Blue.
Plus, Deal of the Day, Citizen Men’s Eco-Drive Stainless Steel Watch with Day/Date display.
AT AMAZON, Lightning Deal, Imarku Pro Kitchen 8 Inch Chef’s Knife High Carbon Stainless Steel Sharp Gyutou Knives Ergonomic Equipment.
WHAT A COVERUP LOOKS LIKE. Also this.
JUST A REMINDER: It’s Not A Carry Gun If You Don’t Carry It.
TWO INTERESTING POINTS:
“MIGRANTS”: Tijuana Official Provides Update On Spike In Crime. “There have been like 280 arrests. Before it was only for drug possession and being drunk in the streets. Now it’s for breaking and entering into the homes. People have made citizens arrests.”
THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH “UNEXPECTEDLY!”S FOR THIS REPORT: Off-Schedule and Over-Budget, California’s Bullet Train Is Hurtling Towards Disaster.