WELL, I’M CONVINCED. WHERE DO I GO TO GET ONE INSTALLED? Having an extra finger is beneficial, study says.
Archive for 2019
June 8, 2019
HMMMM: Joe Biden is a Trump Republican.
The president’s team is worried that Joe Biden is not Hillary Clinton. They’re right to be: he’s not. In many cases, the younger Joe Biden on the tapes that are resurfacing sounds like the modern Trump Republican. Biden made a career as the consummate white, middle-class warrior, serving a constituency that’s now seen consecutive losing decades and in crucial pockets, flipped to Mr Trump in 2016. Biden’s old rhetoric on abortion, for instance, is from a time when Americans were less imperially divided on the subject.
But it’s changing rapidly — perhaps even daily: Another interview with a Biden advisor about his Hyde Amendment flip-flop doesn’t go so well.
YES, BUT CARS ARE OWNED BY ORDINARY AMERICANS, AI BY EXTRAORDINARY ONES WITH EXTRAORDINARY PRIVILEGES: An AI’s Carbon Footprint Is 5 Times Bigger Than a Car’s: Using brute force neural networks requires a lot of energy.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: AOC: Let’s Cover Rikers Island in Solar Panels and Stuff.
WHEN THE CAT HAS OMAR’S TONGUE:
Omar’s election to the Minnesota legislature made her an intergalactic superstar. It was Time for Ilhan, according to the documentary made about that race. Filmmaker Norah Shapiro was on to something. By the time the film was released, it was time for Ilhan to move on to Congress. She hasn’t shut up since.
When Omar refuses to talk, it’s unlike her. Her silence reflects an insoluble problem. This week she’s not talking. She’s not talking about the unlawful joint tax returns she filed with Hirsi…while married to Elmi.
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WELL, IT IS 2019, YOU KNOW: Sex robots are coming, with a host of concerns.
Especially if you’re notorious robophobe Matthew Yglesias.™
EMBRACE THE HEALING POWER OF ‘AND:’ Is Stacey Abrams Living In An Alternate Universe? Or Is She Just Plain Crazy?
COMING SOON TO HOME BOLSHEVIK OFFICE: Russia to Make Its Own Chernobyl Film Blaming U.S. and CIA for Nuclear Accident.
HEH: Media Urged Not To Release Names Of Any More Presidential Candidates In Effort To Prevent Copycats.
It’s the Onion, so even Snopes is likely to recognize that it’s satire – or is it?
(Via Newsalert.)
STALIN SMILES AT THIS USE OF PSYCHIATRY: Yale psychiatry prof to lead confab which will warn Trump ‘is unfit for office.’
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: SURVEY: Majority of students admit conservatives face at least ‘some’ discrimination.’
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NOW OUT FROM TAYLOR ANDERSON: River of Bones.
FROM MY COLLEAGUE PAULA SCHAEFER: Behavioral Legal Ethics Lessons for Corporate Counsel.
TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO HILLARY STAFFER HAS GONE BEFORE: Prominent Republicans move swiftly to shore up Trump in Wisconsin.
OKAY, NOW PERSUADE YOUR FELLOW DEMOCRATS AND PLANNED PARENTHOOD TO GO ALONG WITH REPUBLICAN EFFORTS TO DO JUST THAT:
But it was killed by Democratic opposition. Why are Democrats waging a War On Women’s Healthcare? “Planned Parenthood alone makes around $1.2 billion each year from contraceptive services.”
Related: Over-the-Counter Contraception Is Immensely Popular. But Democrats Have Doomed It.
UPDATE: Why Does Planned Parenthood Oppose Over-The-Counter Birth Control? Because They’d Make Less Money.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Google discrimination case first brought by James Damore can proceed: Judge denies tech giant’s motions to dismiss lawsuit alleging bias against conservatives, men, white people. “The court denied three different Google motions to dismiss the lawsuit. Now the plaintiffs can request access to internal Google documents to try to support their allegations, which also include some people being ‘denied employment because of their actual and perceived conservative political activities and affiliations, and their status as actual or perceived Asian or Caucasian male job applicants,’ according to the lawsuit.”
HIGH-SPEED RAIL MAY BE (MORE OR LESS) DEAD, BUT CALIFORNIA’S ‘ROAD DIET’ CONTINUES APACE: Californians Are Now Paying Higher Gas Taxes. Cities Are Responding by Reducing Lanes for Cars.
Speaking of high-speed rail: Top California high-speed rail executive under investigation in ethics probe.
PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: VERDICT: Jury awards Gibson’s Bakery $11 million against Oberlin College.
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