ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Where do the biggest coffee-lovers live? Portland, Maine, tops the list (but residents of Jackson, Mississippi, couldn’t care less).
Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt
May 9, 2014
FROM EUGENE VOLOKH: The linked-to article is at New Study Reveals 89% Of Nation’s Food Stamps Squandered On Junk Food and a bunch of things don’t quite check out — the Malbeck Data Institute doesn’t seem to have a Web page, the author’s supposed books don’t show up on Amazon, and the quotes in the story have that made-up feel to them, if you know what I mean. In any case, I wanted to flag this just in case. — It’s quite possible I’ve been taken. It agreed with my internal prejudices and the fact that ebooks you give away for free always get terrible reviews!
THREAT AND MENACE: U.N. Report On Magical Realism Warns Of Increased Incidences Of Women’s Tears Flooding The Entire World. Mind you, the greatest menace is that most things thus classified are third-world, blame American misery-porn fests.
BIG FISH: Rare megamouth shark caught off Japan.
DON’T BLAME THEM: Arlington Heights District 214 votes to leave federal lunch program. WHY are the Feds involved in lunch programs, to begin with?
SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING FROM A SUPERHERO MOVIE: Massive tunneling machine stuck under downtown Seattle, fix could cost taxpayers millions.
GOOD: Surveillance Reform bill moves forward in Congress. Even if the source of these good news makes me a little uneasy.
GOOD DOG: Dog Protects Missing 3-Year-Old Boy.
THINGS YOU GET FOR FREE ARE WORTH LESS: New Study Reveals 89% Of Nation’s Food Stamps Squandered On Junk Food.Of course the fact that all the recommendations on what is and isn’t “empty calories” for the last few decades seem to have been wrong, doesn’t help.
DUMB OR EVIL? YOU DECIDE: Top Dem lawmaker proposes seating just one lawmaker on Benghazi panel.
NO WORD ON WHETHER THEY’VE FOUND HARRY REID’S ORIGINAL TOMB: Archaeologists unearth 5,600-year-old tomb complete with mummy that PREDATES the First Dynasty of pharaohs. What? Like other people don’t think of him as The Mummy of Progressivism. (Coming soon to a theater near you.It’s a horror movie.)
RIGHT NOW I’D BE HAPPY TO KEEP POLLEN OUT OF MY NOSE: But some of these microscopic images of pollen and flowers are beautiful. The hibiscus stamens look like a sculpture.
THIS MADE ME GIGGLE: Behold, The Silliest Secret Of Egypt’s Pyramids. (I was actually looking for explanations of snails in medieval manuscripts. It’s for a story.)
I’VE HEARD OF THIS BEING DONE FOR TEN YEARS: Commuter cited for driving in car-pool lane after trooper spots mustachioed DUMMY in the passenger seat. Arguably the US has been trying to pull this trick with its presidency since 2009. I think the other countries are catching on, though. Maybe if we draw a little mustache on Obama?
HOW LONG BEFORE THEY NEED A BAILOUT: De Blasio Unveils $73.9 Billion Budget, With Focus on Schools and Housing.
ALAS, NO PUNISHMENT FOR CRIMES AGAINST FASHION: FiveFingers Maker Will Pay Millions To Suckers Who Bought Its Shoes.
BEFORE OR AFTER THEY MADE PROTEST SIGNS AGAINST BOKO HARUM: White House on lockdown for second time in 3 days. Why is it democrats in the white house always feel the need for extra protection and incite alarms of the most ridiculous kind? Do they feel like the aristos, insecure in their palaces? (Actually what this reminded me of is when schools go into lockdown at the first ridiculous thing. Is this the image our president wants to project?)
THEY BELIEVE THEY CAN FLY: Now you can fly like a BIRD: Flapping Oculus Rift machine makes humans feel as if they’re soaring across the skies. Because, really, what we need is more delusional people, right?
WHEN HIGH TAXES CHASE COMPANIES AWAY: Close “loopholes” that allow them to move. That will totally work. Just ask any Worker’s paradise, from Zimbabwe to Venezuela.
WELL, HE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MILITANT NATIONALISM:Putin Warns of Growing Militant Nationalism, Nazi Ideology in Europe. Once more, the rotten idea that pro-Russian ideologies are somehow “international” and therefore the opposite of Nazi ideology raises its ugly head.
THE STUPID IT BURNS: And this woman is a teacher. It burns but doesn’t surprise, not since I heard a colleague of mine, on a panel talk about the clash of Hitler and Stalin as the clash between capitalism and socialism… I think the distorted teaching has gone on a long time.
FIGHTING BOKO HARAM ON TWITTER: Operation Pouty Face. And just a reminder of the link that Ed Driscoll put below. When it counted, Hillary’s State Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists.