Archive for 2019
December 31, 2019
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: A Retrospective on The Past Four Years of Fake News Trump Hysteria.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: The experimental demonstration of a spin quantum heat engine.
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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Three things that will be important over the next decade.
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Ex-Trans Man Reverses ‘Non-Binary’ Sex Designation in Blow to LGBT Movement.
WHEN YOU GAZE INTO THE WINE CAVE, THE WINE CAVE GAZES INTO YOU: Eugene Volokh Spots The Meanest Pun of the Year.
SCIENCE MARCHES ON: That ‘CRISPR Babies’ Scientist Was Just Sentenced to Jail in China.
GOOD RIDDANCE TO THE NEWSEUM: “The Newseum is officially closing its doors today after 11 years of operation in the nation’s capital and you won’t find me shedding a tear.”
I doubt most people outside of the Democratic Party operatives with bylines class will be. But it’s quite a metaphor for the industry it celebrates when “The News Mausoleum” itself is dead.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: An American pogrom.
2019: THE YEAR OF PEAK GREEN BULLSHIT. “Green bullshit is the lifeblood of our remote, intransigent and useless political elites.”
IS THERE NOTHING IT COULDN’T DO?! Fireworks: Nearly Half Of Americans Had Best Sex Of Their Lives In 2019, Survey Finds.
SPOILER ALERT: WE WON’T BE GETTING ONE. We deserve a better media in 2020.
THE DEMAND FOR HATE IN 21ST CENTURY AMERICA EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY: Officer Admits He Faked Claim About McDonald’s Coffee Cup Insult: The Kansas police officer resigned after video footage showed that restaurant employees had not written “pig” on his cup.
RIP, SENTINEL: Syd Mead, Visionary Conceptual Artist Behind Blade Runner and Tron, Dies at 86.
Like Rutger Hauer, Mead died in 2019, the same year that Blade Runner was set.
Astonishingly, my 2000 interview with Mead is still online.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Three things from the 2010s that will be more important over the next decade.
OUT ON A LIMB: 2019 Was the Year That Democrats Went Off the Rails.
WEIRD HOW THEY CAN’T SEEM TO SELL GUN CONTROL WITHOUT LIES: Gun Control Activist Promotes False Data To Uphold Anti-Gun Propaganda.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LOAD SIXTEEN TONS EDITION: Meet the two professors leading the way in ‘fat studies.’