BREAKING NEWS FROM GENESIS 1:9: Earth may have been a waterworld covered by global ocean 3.2 billion years ago, study suggests.
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March 5, 2020
CONFRONTING THE PERILS OF TOXIC FEMALE COMPETITIVENESS: The dangerous diets young women are doing to get skinny for Spring Break.
BECAUSE ANYMORE WE PRAISE GIRLS FOR EVERYTHING, INCLUDING BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS THEY HAVE NO CONTROL OVER. SURE, THAT MAKES THEM COMPETITIVE AS WORKERS AND CREATORS. AND TOTALLY FUNCTIONAL ADULTS: More mothers are planning to throw their daughters a ‘period party’.
OH DEAR LORD. MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR SMOD? Coronavirus-themed porn is going viral on streaming sites.
CHROMOSOMAL PRIVILEGE! Scientist may have figured out why women live longer than men.
LOOK, GUYS, I’M SORRY. IF IT HELPS, SHE PROBABLY WASN’T DULY ELECTED. OUR AMOUNT OF FRAUD IS UNBELIEVABLE: No apologies from Denver city council member who endorsed spreading coronavirus at Trump rallies.
BEWARE TOTALITARIAN REGIMES IN DEATH PERIL. THEY OFTEN CHOOSE TO MAKE WAR AS THEY DIE: North Korea’s Ballistic Bluster May Mask Major Epidemic.
LOOK, WE’RE NOT UNDERESTIMATING HIM. NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS ARE SCARED OF ZOMBIES: Tucker Carlson warns Joe Biden is ‘more threatening than he looks’ after Super Tuesday domination.
ANY BANK LIMITING AMERICAN OIL & GAS PRODUCTION MIGHT AS WELL BE DOING PUTIN’S BIDDING: Wells Fargo third major bank to end Arctic oil investment.
IF THEY TEXT YOU, LIE LIKE A RUG: How 2020 text campaigns learn from voters’ replies.
WAIT! AOC HAS ADVISERS? YOU KNOW, LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS…. LAYERS AND LAYERS OF ADVISERS, AND HER MOUTH IS ON WHILE HER BRAIN IS OFF? AOC top adviser Corbin Trent exits campaign.
March 4, 2020
AT AMAZON, save on Men’s Running Shoes.
THROW BACK THE LITTLE ONES: So much for billions: Why Bloomberg’s White House bid failed so completely.
BERNIE SANDERS, ECONOMIC PATHOGEN.
CORONAVIRUS: Cayman Government Suspends Non-Essential Official Travel. “We know that the coronavirus has significant presence in places abroad. We have reduced and eliminated non-essential travel of the civil service, both for our core civil service and our wider public service. As our business requirements we are stepping down the need for people to travel for work unless it is absolutely essential, again as a precautionary measure.”
Plus: “This action follows Cayman’s activation Tuesday of its National Emergency Operations Centre in response to the coronavirus threat.”
Related: Fred Hutch activates mandatory remote work policy for its Seattle employees.
HMM: Exclusive: Army Special Forces command disbands elite units. “In a historic decision for the Special Forces community, the Crisis Response Force (CRF) companies are going to be disbanded and their operators and equipment redistributed to the force. . . . The decision, however, aligns with the ongoing pivot from Counterterrorism (CT) and Direct Action (DA) operations to Unconventional Warfare (UW) and Foreign Internal Defense (FID) as the Department of Defense (DoD) is edging away from counterinsurgencies and gearing toward a near-peer conflict with adversaries such as Russia and China.”
OPEN THREAD: Discuss the happenings of the day. If Disqus will let you. Something’s not working right at the moment.
MEH. THE DEMOCRATS THOUGHT THAT TOO, BUT THEY JUST WOUND UP WITH A COUPLE OF OLD WHITE GUYS. Physicists Think We Might Have a New, Exciting Dark Matter Candidate.
LESLIE EASTMAN: North Korea’s Ballistic Bluster May Mask Major Epidemic.
HARSH, BUT FAIR:
I’ve also noticed a change in the way he looks. Just a few months ago I was thinking he looked pretty good for a guy his age. Lately I’ve noticed his head is developing that skull-like look you see in the old and the sick.
BIG ABORTION’S UGLY THREAT: “If a party is willing to allow accidentally-born human beings die on the operating table rather than restrict abortion in any way, then [Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer] threatening two Supreme Court justices because they might not vote on abortion in a Democratic-approved way is nothing.”