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September 6, 2024
I BLAME OBAMA: First Test: Why Didn’t America Dream Up This 1,180-HP, Floating Super-SUV?! “Engineered and built in China, the Yangwang U8 EREV might be among the most American SUVs we’ve ever tested.”
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Urine for a Real Treat This Week. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have Florida’s weirdest doctor, the Mystery Surfer, and a Kentucky family just discovered something scarier than murder hornets.”
YET ANOTHER FORMER HITLER RELEASED FROM THE BUNKER, REHABILITATED, GIVEN NEW SUIT: Dick Cheney is voting for Kamala Harris, Liz Cheney says.
ABSOLUTELY NOT: QOTD: Do You Want to See Ads in Your Car? This isn’t Venusberg, I’m not Podkayne of Mars, and even she didn’t want ads in her car.
HMM: The surprising reason city dwellers are becoming infertile – and it’s not stress. “New data show that dirty air is linked to lower fertility in men, while noisy traffic may harm the fertility of women.”
Cities are certainly cleaner than they were a century ago and I’m not sure they’re much louder than they used to be, so I suspect there’s a deeper root cause.
I’M SO OLD I REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATIC VP NOMINEES WOULD NEVER EVEN CONSIDER PRAISING PRO-TERRORIST, ANTI-AMERICAN FAR LEFTISTS AND ISLAMISTS: Tim Walz: Anti-Israel protesters ‘speaking out for all the right reasons’.
I’M NOT AT ALL SURPRISED: Growing Body of Evidence That Phone Bans in Class Can Make a Big Difference in Student Performance.
TAKE WAY THEIR FEDERAL FUNDING: Harvard University Not Cooperating With DA’s Investigation Into Students Charged With Assault of Jewish Classmate. Note, the assault in question occurred on campus, by Harvard students.
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UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Scientists use food dye found in Doritos to make see-through mice.
Scientists have discovered a surprisingly simple way to potentially peer inside the body, using a common yellow food dye found in Doritos to create see-through mice.
In a series of experiments that could have been plucked from the pages of science fiction, researchers at Stanford University massaged a solution containing tartrazine, the chemical found in the food dye known as “yellow No. 5,” onto the stomachs, scalps and hind legs of mice. About five minutes later, the opaque skin of the mice transformed temporarily into a living window, revealing branching blood vessels, muscle fibers and contractions of the gut, they reported Thursday in the journal Science.
These results may sound like magic, but they are grounded in the basic science of optics — and are a major step forward in the long quest to see what’s beneath the surface of bodies without using a scalpel.
“You could see through the mouse. I’ve been working in optics for 30 years, and I thought that result was jaw-dropping,” said Adam Wax, a program officer who specializes in biophotonics at the National Science Foundation, one of the funders of the research.
Who had “Mad Scientist with Army of Invisible Mice” on their 2024 Bingo card?
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: “I’m just trying to find the bridge. Has anybody seen the bridge?”
—Robert Plant, singing on Led Zeppelin’s “The Crunge” in 1973.
Now we know why he can’t: TikTok has destroyed pop’s best asset – the bridge.
VIA THE INVENTION OF BEER: How farming helped humans evolve to get more energy from carbs.
SOMETIMES THEY WANT YOU TO BE ANGRY, SOMETIMES THEY WANT YOU TO FORGET, AND YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL WHICH: “The mainstream media has already done a deep dive into the bizarre details of the perpetrator of yesterday’s school shooting, and we have gotten more media availabilities from law enforcement on the events than we have yet gotten from July 13th’s attack on Donald Trump and the three other victims from that shooting.”
THERE ARE SEEMINGLY TOO MANY OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS TO KEEP TRACK OF, WHICH IS EXACTLY THE POINT:
Just about EVERY Chinese organization in the US with focus on “protecting Chinese American’s rights” is a CCP puppet. @apa_justice is one of those. Here is their Sept meeting agenda. As you can see, their focus is #CCPChina , not America. They need to register as a foreign agent. pic.twitter.com/rqZ2V6aOYT
— Bin Xie__The Great Translation Movement (@bxieus) September 6, 2024
YEAH, SHE WANTS TO WIN: There’s a Method to Kamala Harris’s Flip-Flop Madness.
Related (From Ed): Ruy Teixeira on The Rise of Vince Lombardi Democrats:
As legendary football coach Vince Lombardi famously said: “Winning isn’t everything—it’s the only thing.” That might well serve as the slogan of today’s Democrats as they enthusiastically line up behind the newly-minted presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris. Doubts about Harris’s political history and positions, what she really stands for, what she might actually do if she is elected—all have been completely submerged to the sacred goal of beating Donald Trump.
I’m not sure about the analogy — Lombardi was a brilliant coach, and Kamala is a less than brilliant politician — but she could still very much collect the Super Bowl ring in November.
TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY? A new book argues that an elite class of influential Americans took control of the ship of state.
America has had oligarchs before, and knocked them down. To be fair, they were better oligarchs. But the entire world seems to be ruled by third-raters nowadays.
SHE’LL DO AS SHE’S TOLD: Mark Cuban warns taxing unrealized gains will ‘kill the stock market,’ insists Harris won’t actually do it.
“Don’t worry, she’s lying,” is a helluva sales pitch.
I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Small asteroid creates ‘spectacular fireball’ while burning up over Philippines.
Along with:
● New York Times Twists Heritage Report to Smear J. D. Vance as Right-Wing Bogeyman.
● The London Telegraph: School shootings are just a fact of life, says JD Vance.
● And the popular in the States London Daily Mail: JD Vance calls school shootings a ‘fact of life’ in wake of Georgia massacre: ‘psychos are going to go after our kids.’
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME SOCIALISM?! The Nation Aims for Worst Take of the Year Complaining About Democrats Embracing ‘Dark Side’ of Football. “This is certainly a take, and definitely in the running for the worst take of 2024:”
It may seem like the Democrats are playing offense. That certainly fits a sports cliché, but it gets the underlying political dynamic backward. Football—and the reclamation of patriotic symbology—is pulling the Democratic Party to the right. While the left never had a coordinated plan to sink pro football, the last decade’s exposure of the sport’s corrosive nature is a good thing. People have the right to know the negative physical and psychological effects that can arise from playing the most popular sport in the country. Football and medical whistleblowers have exposed a right wing willing to look away from public health if it means pats on the back and campaign dollars from the reactionary billionaires that run the NFL.
“While the left never had a coordinated plan to sink pro football,” we all know of one fella who really gave it the ol’ college try, speaking of sports cliches. Good luck with that, though:
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: The August Jobs Report Is Bad, July’s Decline Far Worse Than Reported.