STILL SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES: Kurt Schlichter’s Wildfire (Kelly Turnbull Book 3).
Archive for 2018
December 9, 2018
OPEN THREAD: Do that comment voodoo, that you do so well.
ANY LANDING YOU WALK AWAY FROM IS A GOOD ONE: Manhattan Science Teacher Safely Lands Plane on New Jersey Golf Course. “‘We tell all our pilots to train as if this will happen to you,’ said Richard McSpadden, executive director of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s Air Safety Institute. But an emergency landing like this, he said, ‘is very rare.’”
JACK DORSEY MUST RESIGN! Twitter CEO under fire for tweeting about Myanmar trip without mentioning human rights abuses.
15 MINUTES ON SOCIAL MEDIA COULD TELL YOU THAT: More seeking mental help, but not those who need it most.
THE IMMORALITY OF SOCIALISTS: Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy.
Chomsky goes on and on about the horrors of what he calls “neoliberalism” since 1979. As with other leftists of a similar ilk, he simply ignores the fact that the rate of extreme poverty globally has fallen from around 27% to around 4% (!). Indeed, poverty rates worldwide have fallen dramatically more generally. You’d think if you were a socialist (or really almost anyone, but especially socialists), this would be the greatest thing to happen in the history of mankind. And yet, they not only don’t celebrate it, they don’t even acknowledge it. Which makes you think that their purported concern for the poor and downtrodden isn’t really what’s motivating them.
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CHANGE? ‘Zombie PM Theresa May is facing a Brexit exit.’
Migration is a gaping hole in zombie May’s Brexit scam.
Myths and scaremongering mixed with public unease were the toxic mix that ignited the narrow vote for a cataclysmic wrench.
Yet we still don’t know what the Prime Minister would do three months before Britain’s due to leave Europe and two-and-a-half years after that referendum.
The glaring gaps in the PM’s plan –what replaces the movement of people with our 27 neighbours – has been put on the back burner.
Her Cabinet’s split on this, like so many other issues including fishing, is another reason she’ll be defeated tomorrow and toppled.
We’ll know soon enough.
DISPATCHES FROM THE JUNIOR ANTI-SEX LEAGUE. Facebook Also Becoming a Sexuality-Free Zone: New rules ban erotic art, talk of shared sexual interests, kink groups, and anything that “encourages sexual encounters between adults.”
Earlier: “Moral concerns pop up one decade in right-wing clothes, and, in the next, change into another outfit.”
WELCOME NATIONAL TOURING COMPANY OF THE WIZ AND SPINAL TAP. Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Bill and Hill Resort to Groupon to Sell Tickets.
NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO, THAT’S WHERE YOU ARE: Westerners who seek the secret to a fulfilled life in other cultures are bound to be disappointed.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Is Swiping Right On Tinder Considered Cheating?
I BET YOU CAN GUESS WHY: In the U.K., 58% of burglaries occur while someone is home. In the U.S.A., the figure is only 28%.
CHANGE! U.S. transforms into net oil exporter for first time in 75 years.
How odd — I can remember prominent “community organizers” telling us that we couldn’t drill our way to prosperity only a decade ago.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Misquotes Constitution, Threatens To Run For POTUS.
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BROKEN CLOCK AWARD: “Columbus — at least, the statue that dominates Columbus Circle — is safe: Gov. Andrew Cuomo has now engineered both state and federal landmark protection for the historic monument.”
THE LONG DARK: In Antarctica, Scientists Enter an Extreme State of ‘Psychological Hibernation.’
Some of the world’s most important science is conducted in one of its most inhospitable, hostile places. But not without a cost, new research reveals.
A new long-term analysis of researchers stationed in Antarctica sheds new light on a psychological phenomenon very few of us ever have to experience: a unique coping mechanism, triggered when people are confined in isolation within a dark and extreme physical environment for several months at a time.
This condition – known as winter-over syndrome – isn’t just something that faces scientists in Earth’s extreme polar regions.
People could also be susceptible in other exceptional kinds of prolonged confinement, researchers think, like during months-long missions travelling to (or stationed on) Mars, for example.
“Our findings could reflect a form of psychological hibernation,” explains one of the researchers behind the new study, psychologist Nathan Smith from the University of Manchester in the UK.
“Previous research has suggested that this is a protective mechanism against chronic stress, which makes sense – if conditions are uncontrollable, but you know that at some point in the future things will get better, you may choose to reduce coping efforts in order to preserve energy.”
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