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Archive for 2019
July 22, 2019
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: You can’t copyright a cocktail, so what’s a creative bartender to do?
BACON: IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Stonehenge construction may have been aided by lots of pig fat.
NONSENSE: FELIX LEITER HAS SIMPLY GONE DEEP UNDERCOVER: David Hedison Dies: Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Live and Let Die Actor Was 92.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY IN THE WOKE CITY OF BALTIMORE: Baltimore’s new deputy police commissioner gets mugged at gunpoint.
OUR GERMANS WERE BETTER THAN THEIR GERMANS: Why Didn’t the Soviets Ever Make It to the Moon?
HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Ricky Gervais Called ‘Transphobe’ For Defending Women Refusing To Wax Trans Woman’s Penis.
IT’S PRETTY: The Mid-Engined 2020 Chevy Corvette Is Here. At least, I think it’s better-looking than the current model.
AT AMAZON, save big on Wheels and Tires.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: At the scene of a fatal car crash, I saw Americans reveal their fundamental decency.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Is Erica Thomas a Hate-Crime Hoaxer? “In other words, she’s not another Jussie Smollett. Although she is an admirer…”
Exit quote: “If a politician is backtracking on a previous backtrack, it must be Monday.”
SHOCK! JOE BIDEN ACCUSED OF PLAGIARISM: Amy Klobuchar Suggests Joe Biden Copied Her Plan To Expand Obamacare.
I was about to make a cheap “Neil Kinnock could not be reached for comment” joke, but he has been! Three decades after Biden stole his speech, Neil Kinnock endorses his 2020 bid.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for July 22, 2019. “The second debate field is set, Bernie Bernies Bernie, Beto plunders staff from even less successful campaigns.”
Yes, there are less successful campaigns, starring candidates you may even have heard of.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? More women using pot before, during early pregnancy.
AUTOMATION: Soldiers will run a platoon attack of robot vehicles from a Bradley in a test.
The month-long operation test at Fort Carson, Colorado, is aimed at getting data and feedback for the Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center.
Army researchers are using upgraded Bradleys, dubbed Mission Enabler Technologies-Demonstraters, or MET-Ds. Those upgrades include a remote turret for the 25mm main gun, 360-degree awareness cameras and enhanced crew stations with touchscreens, according to an Army release.
They’ll test with two MET-Ds and four robotic combat vehicles initially. Each of the MET-Ds will have a driver, gunner and four soldiers running platoon-level maneuvers with the vehicles armed with 7.62mm machine guns.
“We’re asking them to utilize the vehicles in a way that’s never been done before,” said David Centeno Jr., chief of the center’s Emerging Capabilities Office.
“You’re exposing forces to enemy fire, whether that be artillery, direct fire,” he said. “So, we have to find ways to penetrate that bubble, attrit their systems and allow for freedom of air and ground maneuver. These platforms buy us some of that, by giving us standoff.”
Let’s just not ever fully automate the killchain, or SkyNet really will smile.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Biden: ‘I Got 150,000 Troops Out of Iraq.’ WaPo Factchecker: ‘Um, no.’ “Biden has been all over the place on Iraq, mostly blowing with the shifting winds. Biden was for the Iraq War when it was popular, against it when it wasn’t, boasted about doing what Obama wanted (while conveniently forgetting his own misgivings), leaves out the embarrassing bits about ISIS, and now claims he was both Bush’s dupe and Obama’s right hand.”
Read the whole thing, if you don’t mind me saying so myself.
DISPATCHES FROM THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: Trans English is the new common tongue — Refinery29 and GLAAD have torn up the dictionary.
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE: Thousands in Brooklyn still in dark as New York City deals with another power outage.
De Blasio’s been mayor for only five years and already the place is starting to look like the last chapter of Atlas Shrugged.
COLLUSION HAS ITS COSTS: Trump Is Cracking Down On China, And UC Campuses Are Paying A Price.
HIS HEART’S IN THE RIGHT PLACE, AND I ENJOY HIS SENSE OF HUMOR: Boris Johnson will soon be the most popular leader in the world.