ANXIETY: Trouble Falling Asleep Linked to Increased Risk of Dementia. This is why I question claims of a causal relationship between Benadryl and various sleep/tranquilizer meds and dementia. I suspect that they’re more of a marker for the underlying anxiety/insomnia, as people take those meds to calm themselves.
Archive for 2023
March 9, 2023
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot: MSNBC’s Hayes Smears The Daily Caller, Claims NYT ‘Not a Liberal Paper.’
—NewsBusters, yesterday.
Chaser: Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.
—Daniel Okrent, the New York Times,
IT’S ONLY A PAUSE: Visa, Mastercard Pause Work on Code Aimed at Tracking Gun Purchases.
28 GIRLS HOSPITALIZED WITH ‘ANXIETY’ AFTER PLAYING WITH OUIJA BOARD:
They’re not in good spirits.
Nearly 30 schoolgirls have been hospitalized with anxiety attacks after allegedly playing with Ouija boards at their school in Colombia.
“There were 28 possible cases of anxiety in school students,” said Hugo Torres, head of the Galeras Educational Institution in Galeras, where the incident took place, per Jam Press.
According to the outlet, alarm bells went off after the girls reportedly suffered signs of fainting, anxiety and other symptoms at school. They were subsequently admitted to a municipal hospital accompanied by parents and school faculty.
Info on the students’ diagnoses has yet to be released, however many parents blame the in-school use of Ouija boards, a Jumanji-esque pursuit that uses a sliding pointer to spell out messages in a mysterious way. Created in the US in 1886, Ouija boards have become a fixture in occult lore due to their alleged ability to communicate with the dead.
While Ouija boards may be causing difficulties in Colombia, they’re certainly approved in some areas of the District of Columbia: Sally Quinn, Georgetown’s Madame Blavatsky.
I DIDN’T KNOW THAT CONCEPT EXISTED IN AUSTRALIA. Popular Australian beer recalled due to ‘excess alcohol.’
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY YOU DO HERE? J6 committee co-chair: None of us watched the surveillance video, actually. “[Bennie] Thompson’s [D-MS] aside strongly suggests that the panel spent most of its time preening for the cameras while outsourcing its duties entirely. That would certainly explain its output, especially the panel’s insistence on prime-time hearings to push narratives rather than any in-depth review of the myriad issues surrounding the riot. And it also explains why the committee members and their supporters are so anxious to make sure no one else gets a chance to look at the raw evidence — and reach their own conclusions not just about January 6 but also the January 6 committee.”
ROBERT SPENCER: It’s Time for Mitch McConnell to Retire. “Mitch McConnell is exactly nine months older than Old Joe Biden. He has been a member of the United States Senate since the waning days of Ronald Reagan’s first term, when Madonna’s ‘Like A Virgin’ was at the top of the pop charts.”
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Too-hot tap water can cause scalding injuries in seconds. “A water heater set to 120 degrees Fahrenheit can release water from the tap hot enough to cause a second-degree burn in about 9 minutes. Turned up to 130 degrees, that injury happens in just 25 seconds. At 140 degrees, it only takes three seconds, according to a new study that tallied the personal and financial costs of scalding injuries in the United States.”
CHANGE: Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college. “Americans who came of age during the pandemic are skipping college in big numbers. Many have shunned traditional college paths, turning instead to hourly jobs or careers that don’t require a degree. Still others feel locked out, deterred by high tuition and the prospect of student debt.”
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Cori Bush’s Bodyguard Says He Can’t Be Anti-Semitic Because He’s a Jewish High Priest.
Davis, who claims he is a 109 trillion-year-old spiritual guru named Aha Sen Piankhy, demanded the Free Beacon retract a report on his relationship with Bush and history of advancing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Davis, a former member of the vehemently anti-Semitic New Black Panther Party, said it’s impossible for him to be anti-Semitic because he himself is a member of the Tribe of Issachar, one of the lost tribes of Israel.
“That makes me Hebrew. How can I be anti-Semitic?” Davis asked the Free Beacon, adding “You’re literally dealing with the priesthood, literally.”
Literally.
NAH, LET’S SEE THE REST OF THE VIDEO FIRST: Did Tucker Hit a Nerve? Axios Wants to Move On From January 6.
RIP: Chaim Topol, Tevye in Film and Stage Versions of Fiddler on the Roof, Dies at 87. “Chaim Topol, who became professionally known solely by his last name in a career that included starring in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ on stage and screen and co-starring in the James Bond movie ‘For Your Eyes Only’ and the sci-fi film ‘Flash Gordon,’ died Thursday in Tel Aviv after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease.”
BAILOUT MOTORS: GM Gutting Half Its US Workforce. “GM, the leading US automaker by volume, will gut its US workforce ‘voluntarily’ according to a confidential internal memo from Chairman and CEO Mary Barra that leaked on Thursday.”
DEAL OF THE DAY: Timex Men’s Expedition Grid Shock 50mm Watch. #CommissionEarned
HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): ‘Sex positive’ fat activist says men with rape ‘kink’ should be able to pay to drug consenting women.
If the wokies are so clearly right, why do they always have to lie about their opponents?
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: New Tests Promise to Reveal Your Real Age — but Do You Really Want to Know? “Assuming Tally and its competitors can correctly estimate my real age via methylation testing, the first question I’d have to ask myself is: Do I really want to know?”
HIGHLY PLAUSIBLE, CONSIDERING ALL WE’VE SEEN: Historic decline in IQ could stem from poor education, study shows.
LIGHTNING DEAL: 5 Pack Blue Light Blocking Reading Glasses. #CommissionEarned
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Jon Stewart Meets the Divisive Country He Helped Create. “Does it matter if the new wave of hateful late-night hosts doubled down on his strategy? They learned it from watching him, and a corrupt media amplified their rage along the way.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: GOP House Hearings Reveal Some Uncomfortable Truths for Dems. “Even though we’ve been proven right, all that we had to go through to get to this point because the Democrats have been lying about, well, everything, is maddening.”
JOEL KOTKIN: The ghost of Ancient Rome haunts America: Its great cities are on the path to decay.
Most of America is not decadent. But one suspects that in late Rome, the peasants and merchants were about the same as they had always been. It was the ruling class that had gone crazy and corrupt.