Archive for 2022
April 24, 2022
YOU GET MORE OF WHAT YOU PERMIT AND ENCOURAGE: Band of Thieves Ransack Louis Vuitton Store in Ohio.
I WAS UNAVOIDABLY ABSENT LAST NIGHT, SO I MISSED POSTING THIS: Happy National Compost Your Girlfriend Day.
OPEN THREAD: Let me introduce to you a brand new dance. I know you’re gonna love it if you give it a chance. Did you know that I can go to Japan and back?
DESANTIS HAS AN IMPACT: Exxon bans LGBTQ, Black Lives Matter flags from being displayed at company flagpole.
WELL, NOW THE FOOD SHORTAGES LOOM: Why gardening shouldn’t just be a pandemic-time trend.
THEY CHOSE . . . POORLY: Disney has lost $50 billion in value since war with Florida began.
Fortunately, and not by coincidence, under “stakeholder capitalism” they’re not really responsible to shareholders anymore.
Well, it just got cheaper.
BIG DEAL, STAR TREK HAS HAD THAT FOREVER: NASA Beamed a Doctor to The ISS in a World-First ‘Holoportation’ Achievement.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Signs warning of highway deaths may cause more crashes.
US SECRETARIES OF STATE, DEFENSE HEAD TO UKRAINE FOR SUNDAY TALKS, ZELENSKY SAYS:
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will travel to Kyiv Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, for his first face-to-face meeting with members of President Biden’s cabinet since the Russian invasion began.
“Tomorrow, the American officials are coming to visit us,” Zelensky said in a Saturday press conference.
“We will be expecting, when the security will allow, the President of the United States to come and to talk to us,” Zelensky added.
Or perhaps not — unless they toss the Easter Bunny into Air Force One as well, it’s difficult to picture Biden in his current state doing this:
UNDERPAID TEACHER? GO TO WORK FOR THE NEA: You won’t believe how generous America’s largest union is to its leadership and staff.
RASMUSSEN POLL: Most Democrats Still Believe Russia Stole 2016 Election From Hillary.
They’re also Biden’s last redoubt of supporters: “Those who believe that Russian social media posts threw the election are highest among President Joe Biden’s supporters. ‘President Joe Biden’s strongest supporters are most certain that Russian interference changed the 2016 election, and to fear future interference,’ the analysis said. ‘Among voters who strongly approve of Biden’s job performance as president, 86% believe it’s at least somewhat likely Russian interference changed the outcome of the 2016 presidential election and 75% think it is very likely that Russia will try to interfere in this year’s congressional midterm elections. By contrast, among voters who strongly disapprove of Biden’s performance, only 18% think the 2016 election was changed by Russian interference, and just 20% say Russian interference in this year’s midterms is very likely.’”
WHERE’S HUNTER, FAT? Joe Biden met with Hunter Biden business partner at the White House.
WELL, YES. Congress to Biden: It’s the Crime, Stupid.
PROTECT YOUR EYES: Polarized Sunglasses for Men. #CommissionEarned
TWITTER MOCKERY OF THE DOWNFALL OF CNN+ IS COMEDY GOLD: “As we noted yesterday, CNN’s new streaming service CNN+ is shutting down after launching barely a month ago. Why CNN thought that people would pay extra for programming no one watches on their TV channel defies logic. Given CNN’s business model of embracing Trump Derangement Syndrome and demonizing all things conservative, lots of people on Twitter are having a good time with this news.”
Including this classic reply from South Dakota’s Kristi Noem:
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: NTSB to Cirrus: Address Fuel Boost Pump Issues with SR22T.
5G IS A JOKE AND THE IPHONE IS THE WELL-TIMED PUNCHLINE: Apple may have been late to the 5G party but the party was lame anyway. “None of this is to say that 5G isn’t a vague improvement. It’s definitely a vague improvement. Technology plods ever forward, lumbering toward the future like a rough-hewn golem fashioned of so many half-baked dreams. The point is that Apple ‘missed’ absolutely nothing. In fact, it probably gained by not forcing battery-hungry modems on users before they could even make use of them. Even if 5G had turned out to be the game-changing real deal those who eat up carrier marketing materials like monkeys eat up monkey chow believed, there was no cost to not shipping a 5G phone in 2018 or even 2019. Apple’s definitely been behind the curve before (see: DVD-RAM drives and CD burners) and it’ll probably happen again. But it wasn’t 5G.”