LAWS AND ACCOUNTABILITY ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Report: 80% of Chicago cops purposefully destroyed or hid dashcam mics. Why are Democrat-run cities such cesspits of official lawlessness?
Archive for 2016
January 31, 2016
OVERTRAINING IS INSIDIOUS: Ryan Hall’s Overtraining: A Cautionary Tale. “Researchers have known since the late 1980s that chronic and extreme endurance training has a tendency to lower testosterone levels, causing depression, fatigue, and lack of motivation. More recently, however, exercise-induced low testosterone has been recognized as one of many common biomarkers for a more systemic breakdown: training that is so hard, frequent, and long, and with such inadequate rest along the way, that fitness, performance, energy levels, and mood all fall off a cliff.”
This can happen with weight training, too. One thing I do — like the old bodybuilders who, like me, didn’t use any steroids — is to take a clean week off every 8-10 weeks, when I don’t do more than walk for 30 minutes now and then.
VIDEO: Jefferson Airplane Plays on a New York Rooftop; Jean-Luc Godard Captures It (1968). A blast from the past. As a friend commented on Facebook: “Pearl Harbor Day. 1968 was closer to 12/7/41 than to today. 27 years versus 47+ years. For that matter, they were closer to Pearl Harbor than to the 9/11 attacks. (32 years, 9 months, 4 days excluding the end date.)”
AT AMAZON, $5 off the Fire TV Stick. I like mine.
WELL, THAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT: Danish Journalist: Europe’s tragedy: Too much Angela Merkel, too little masculinity.
BLUE-ON-BLUE #BERNIEBRO FIGHT SHOWS HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE.
Hey, that DNC-MSM narrative doesn’t advance itself, you know.
NEW POLL: Franklin Pierce-Herald Poll: Rivals need Iowa win to catch Trump, Sanders in N.H. If Hillary loses in both Iowa and New Hampshire, is she finished?
IN IOWA, ROGER SIMON INTERVIEWS CARLY FIORINA: Fiorina Running for Prez to Highlight Hillary’s Corruption.
TIME FOR SMOD TO UP HIS GAME: Andromeda smash-up: distant galaxy is rushing towards Earth at one million mph — with no hope of deviation.
(Andromeda Smash-Up would have been an excellent name for a late-’70s Gary Numan-style synth band, by the way.)
WELL, THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK: Equation shows that large-scale conspiracies would quickly reveal themselves.
PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS: Study Finds Growing Reason to Be Wary of Some Reflux Drugs. “Older people should probably pay special heed. They are more likely to experience reflux, Dr. Semla explained, in part because the muscle that prevents stomach acid from rising into the esophagus weakens with age. Older adults are therefore more likely to take these drugs, and also more vulnerable to the diseases and disorders associated with them, especially with long-term use.”
WHICH IS AN ACCOMPLISHMENT OF SORTS: The New York Times Is Dumber Than I Thought.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Legal Issues Relating to (Former) Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Candidacy.
MORE ON QUERCETIN: So I mentioned a while back that I’ve been taking it and it helped with my sinuses. I went off of it for a couple of weeks, found I was waking up congested and having to take an occasional Sudafed, went back on it and that’s no longer the case. Now the Insta-Wife is trying it too and thinks it helps.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Tears and Bewilderment in Brazilian City Facing Zika Crisis. “The Zika epidemic has spread much faster than science’s understanding of it. Researchers here believe that the virus made the leap from Polynesia to Brazil during the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament. Since then, as many as 1.5 million people in Brazil are believed to have been infected, and the virus has spread to more than 20 countries and territories in the Americas.”
Related: Vaccine for Zika Virus May Be Years Away, Disease Experts Warn.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 10 Tips for Making Long Flights (Somewhat) Bearable.
One tip references onboard Wi-Fi, but in the past few months of taking regular flights to DFW, I’ve been astonished at how slow Gogo is these days; it’s become much less usable then when the service debuted, in contrast to land-based broadband, which generally seems to have increased due to the demand Netflix and other streaming services place on it. Why is Gogo increasingly a no-go these days?
LET’S PLAY THE ‘BLAME ISRAEL GAME’ WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES: “No matter how hard the Times tries, it can never quite find the elusive answer to the question of why Palestinians keep murdering Jews.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE: “Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them,” from a 2013 article titled, “David Bowie: What I’ve Learned.”
Also true: “With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There’s nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line,” although I prefer American-made Alden shoes myself. (Though wearing size 12D, any shoes are going to be Potemkin-sized on my feet.)