KIM DU TOIT IS STILL ALIVE: and wishes to remind everyone that November 19th is National Ammo Day. 100 rounds (or more) of your favorite ammo.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Thanks for the reminder! Just went to my former law students’ LuckyGunner.com store and ordered some.
WE DON’T WANNA BE NORMAL: English is not normal. I don’t know. Of all the languages I learned, English was the easiest. I don’t want to know what that says about me.
NEXT THEY’RE GOING TO FIND WHAT MAKES US WRITE FICTION: Frontal brain wrinkle linked to hallucinations.
FASTER PLEASE: Hoping to find life on other planets, astronomers start on giant Chile telescope. (And they named it Magellan, after Fernao Magalhaes. Boy from my region. Made good.)
A GENETIC LACK OF SELF CONTROL: Embarrassing Christmas party drunks may have genetic mutation
STRANGE NYC: When cows grazed next to Grand Central.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Feds Spent $22,500 on Conference on Balding.
I’VE SEEN THE FUTURE, BABY, IT IS MURDER: There’s nothing fictional about the threat de Blasio’s city faces.
AND HOW: War Is Interested in You.
OH, COME ON, EVERY WORD WAS A LIE INCLUDING THE AND A:Did Obama actually follow in Lincoln’s footsteps?.
YEAH, GO SELL IT TO THE JIHADS: Should We Eradicate Manhood?
WE ALL KNOW THE DEFINITION OF MADNESS: Obama is sticking to the strategy that gave us Paris.
MORE LIKE TOTALITARIAN SLIP: Why does John Kerry hate free speech? John Kerry’s Freudian slip.
RADICAL SEEDS BEAR BITTER FRUIT: The University Gone Feral.
THERE’S NO CORRUPTION LIKE CLINTON CORRUPTION: Clinton Foundation Donor Conducted Review of Clinton Foundation Tax Returns.
BUT AFTER A LIFETIME OF TEACHING THEM TO EXPECT LESS: And after saddling them what massive student debt, what else can they do? Dear Millennials: Living In A Dorm After College Is A Terrible Idea.
HE NEEDS NO HELP: Francois Hollande is making Obama look like a fool.
I AM AWAY TILL TUESDAY (WHEN I’LL RESUME LATE-NIGHT DJ-YING): But I wished to share Paris.
SO, A LITTLE OLDER THAN HILLARY: Astronomers Find 13 Billion Year Old Stars at Milky Way’s Center. (At least they don’t look tired.)
DOES THIS MAKE THEM TRANS-NEURONS: Neurons Can Be Changed from One Type Into Another from Within the Brain.
SO AT LEAST SOME CULTURE SURVIVES: Astronaut plays bagpipes on International Space Station.
THE RAINS IN SPAIN: Mysterious ‘Blood Rain’ Tints Water a Gruesome Hue.
WHY STEREOTYPES EXIST: Melissa Click’s Resume Is a F***ing Parody.
YEAH, OCCASIONALLY I DO WAKE UP SCREAMING: Obama Has a Strategy in the Middle East, and It’s Working.
OBAMA AND GULLIBLE IDIOTS MOST AFFECTED: Iran Threatens to Walk Away from Nuke Deal.
NEWS FROM THE CULTURE WARS: Fighting back in the War on Comedy.
BEYOND PARODY: Vox Media Bans Staff from Mansplaining.
DO YOU MISS HIM YET: George W. Bush surprises veterans visiting the Bush Center.
IF ONLY: Hillary We Hardly Knew Ye.
BUYING MORE PANHANDLERS:That $200-an-hour panhandler proves Bill Bratton right.
BUT DON’T WORRY, IT WILL COME HOME TO ROOST: Chicken Little isn’t squawking — yet.
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: U.S. to Help Iran Rebuild Nuclear Reactor.
AT LEAST THEY HAVE PHILOSOPHIES: GOP Debate Highlights Conservatives’ Philosophical Divisions.
I’D NEVER WASTE A BOTTLE OF WINE THAT WAY: Seriously, though, if you expect everyone to love your work, even if it were the most brilliant thing ever, you’re delusional and need medications. British Writer Tracks Down Teen Who Gave His Book a Bad Review, Smashes Her With Wine Bottle.
THESE HAVE ALWAYS FASCINATED ME: For a while younger son had a nose cone ceiling fan. PAINTINGS: Nosecone Art.
WHEN IT WAS ALL RIGHT TO READ THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT: Appendix “N” Looked At Again.
THE FEDS LIED? THEY LIED? INCONCEIVABLE: The free money promised by Washington to states agreeing to Medicaid expansion has turned out to be a sucker’s bet.
NO ONE I KNOW, AT LEAST: Nobody Is Actually Upset About The Starbucks Cup. Stop Saying Otherwise.
CLOSER TO MY HIGH SCHOOL DREAM OF LEARNING WITHOUT STUDYING: (Yeah, I was a lazy teen. Deal.) Watching a memory form.
MY PEEPS OFFEND COLLEGE STUDENTS: Sad Robot Puppies: Your helicopter mama breastfed you to puberty, didn’t she?
IS COLLEGE THE WAY OF THE PAST: Forget “Higher” Education.
SOME OF US MANAGE: That said, for years I had to go to the elementary school every week to haul the boys out of SPANISH as primary language classes, so yeah, it’s not easy. And it has to change. Why America makes it hard for immigrants to assimilate. We either make it easier and expected, or we won’t survive very long.
IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE DOUBLE STANDARDS: Bill Cosby is being crucified for being conservative.
TAX LAWS ARE FOR CONSERVATIVES: Will Clinton Foundation accounting fraud implicate a major accounting firm?
THE END RESULT OF HELICOPTER PARENTING AND “NO FRUSTRATION” UPBRINGING: Precious Snowflakes at Yale are Revolting (UPDATED).
AND HOW TO KEEP IT SO: On Fertile Ground.
WE DON’T REALLY WANT IT, BUT: More on Missouri.
MORE NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Make A Feral Cat Shelter.
WE BUILD:‘We Are United by Love’.
YOU’RE MAKING DESMOND MORRIS CRY NOW: Humans are not apes.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Great French Artist Eugène Delacroix on Self-Doubt, Idea-Ambivalence, and the Cure for Procrastination. Well, a report I can use at any rate.
THE DEATH OF EBOOKS IS GREATLY EXAGGERATED: No, e-book sales are not falling, despite what publishers say. Which was also my opinion here: Whistling Past The Graveyard.
VIRTUE SIGNALING AIN’T CHEAP: California pension systems stand to lose millions by divesting from coal. And, of course, they count on us to bail them out.
LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS: Burden of Truth Back on Media as BuzzFeed Finds Confirmation from Carson’s Mom on Stabbing Incident.
A NEW WAY TO GREEN: Fracking, Not Renewables, Is Responsible For Emissions Reduction. Save the birds. Frack!
AND THEY SAID MATRIARCHIES WERE FAIR: College spokesman says rape didn’t happen, loses his job.
THE CURE FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE: The College of Lost Arts.
SHE NEEDS A SAFE ROOM, APPARENTLY: Meet The Mizzou Media Professor Who’s Trying To Ban Media Coverage.
GREATER FRIEND HAS NO CAT: Cat donates his kidney to fellow cat.
PERHAPS GROUPING KIDS WHO HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON BUT AGE IN A CLASSROOM IS NOT THE MOST EFFECTIVE TEACHING METHOD: Hillary Clinton: Most charter schools ‘don’t take the hardest-to-teach kids, or, if they do, they don’t keep them’.
A QUESTION WE SHOULD ALL ASK: Though his answers would become mush in the hands of the current establishment. A venture capitalist searches for the purpose of school. Here’s what he found. (I suspect for most places and parents the answer would be “Keeping the kids out of trouble while the parents work. And that is the root of most of our educational problems.)
OF COURSE IT IS: ‘Trumbo’ is a whitewash of an unrepentant Hollywood commie.
NEWS FROM MY FIELD: Advance and Retreat.
I WISH IT WERE SILLY:Whose hands are on the warning triggers?
INSTEAD IT ECLIPSED PARIS: How New York City could have looked like Paris.
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: Migration crisis: EU gambles on sweeteners for Africa.
THEY ALSO SERVE: Homefront heroine: Sybil Stockdale’s fight for MIAs, POWs.
SO, THEY TOO HAD POLITICIANS? Giant Rat Fossils Help Track Human Activity in Southeast Asia.
THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY IS NOT ALL ABOUT LIGHT SABERS: Distant world’s weather is mixed bag of hot dust, molten rain.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Earthquakes: Fact versus Fiction.
BACKBONES HAVE BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME: Complex skeletons evolved earlier than realized, fossils suggest.
LIKE ANYTHING ELSE, COMPATIBLE IS BETTER: Dating and politics — a perilous mix.
BECAUSE THEY NEVER TRIED THE REST OF THE WORLD: ‘Shark Tank’ star Robert Herjavec says only Americans think there are no opportunities in America. (Video.)
OH, LIGHT BRINGER, SON OF THE MORNING MEDIA, HOW HAST THOU FALLEN: The Obama Legacy: Over 1,000 Democratic Seats Lost to Republicans.
SOME CATS ARE USEFUL: Apparently. Not that I have any experience of this. Cat Helps Man Pull a Cable Through a Hole. (Video.)
AND WHY I’M NOW DEAD: How I told my parents I’m a porn star. (Well, I’d be dead if I told my parents that, even at my age. Eh.)
ONE OF THEM IS TO LEAVE THEM VULNERABLE TO THEIR OWN NARRATIVE: Academia’s Rejection of Ideological Diversity Has Consequences.
I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED LIKE A MAN SNUGGLING WITH AN ELECTRIC EEL: Adventures in Immigration Non-Enforcement.
WELL! IT IS THE 21st CENTURY: There’s Finally Battle-Safe Foam Lightsabers That Actually Glow.
NO ECONOMY NO JUSTICE: A $15 wage could cost half a million NY jobs.
NO. IN MY CASE IT’S BECAUSE I FORGOT THE ECZEMA MEDS: This Is Why You Scratch an Itch.
LIKE SOMETHING IN A FANTASY NOVEL: Singapore is building an entire forest in a high-rise apartment atrium.
WE’RE NUMBER FIVE! Study Ranks I-70 5th Worst Highway In U.S. Yeah, I know. Not of national importance. Probably. But considering how many ours of my life have been spent in traffic jams on I-70 I needed to share. I didn’t imagine it. That road sucks.
BUT THAT’S THE BEAUTY OF CAPITALISM: The real reason for Facebook’s pedophile ban.
IT’S ALRIGHT. THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CAN IGNORE THIS TOO: Truth-telling cameras — Palestinians’ new foe.
DO NOT RESUSCITATE: Your ♡bamaCare!!! Fail of the Day.
COATTAILS ARE OUT THIS SEASON: The 2015 election tightened the Republican stranglehold on state government.
LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS: ‘NYT cost us our jobs!’ How Gray Lady’s mis-reporting is ruining lives.
TWENTY SEASONS? WHY: The wise life lessons of ‘America’s Top Model’.
DO AS I SAY: Native American offended by Redskins wore blackface.
IT WAS ALWAYS MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: The 2016 race has debunked all that ‘dark money’ hysteria.
THEY HAVE NO RATIONAL RESPONSE, SO: Liberals’ response to dissent: Shut up.
WELL, THIS AT LEAST I CAN APPROVE OF HIS DOING: The pope calls out the anti-Semitism of Israel-bashers.