A BATTLE FOR EYEBALLS: Newspapers escalate their fight against ad blockers.
Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt
May 31, 2016
AND ONCE MORE MY SHOCKED FACE: Clinton has been burying emails since she was first lady. Like a dog returns to his vomit, like a sow returns to her mire, this former first lady is dirty and never ceases to conspire.
OKAY, FROM MY KIDS’ EXPERIENCES, AP IS OKAY, DUAL COLLEGE/HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS ARE GREAT. DON’T BOTHER WITH BACCALAUREATE: Why two bright students say I messed up their high school. And ALWAYS examine the school and program in question, not just a generic “all of these are good.”
HOW IS WINDOWS X LIKE A VIRUS?Warning: Microsoft is hacking your computer.
AND AGAIN MY SHOCKED FACE: America’s ‘recovery’ is baloney — we’re actually broke.
THIS RIGHT HERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Famed Animal Expert Jack Hanna Says Gorilla Would Have Killed Boy.
SURE. DEPENDING ON SAMPLE SIZE; WHAT’S GOING ON IN PEOPLE’S LIVES, ETC: Women Are More Interested In Sex Than You Think, Studies Show. Anyone who thinks women aren’t interested in sex doesn’t realize women are human.
FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IT’S MUCH HARDER TO CONCENTRATE ONCE THEY START DRIVING AND ARE OUT TILL ALL HOURS… AND BEFORE YOU GET USED TO IT: Does Having a Baby Really Make It Harder to Concentrate?
LOOKS DOWN AT ARMS AND BACK OF HANDS: Oh, yes, FASTER PLEASE. New Eczema Treatments Could Be Available Soon.
May 29, 2016
THE FIRST HIT IS FREE (OR STEEPLY DISCOUNTED): Start of Summer Indie Author Sale.
AND AT THE BOTTOM THEY FOUND AN EXAMPLE OF THE UP TILL NOW THOUGHT EXTINCT “HONEST POLITICIAN”: No, I’m kidding. They found nothing that weird. Romanian cave sealed for 5.5 million years is full of strange creatures.
THE DAME OR THE TIGER? AND WHICH IS WHICH? GOP politicians: no good choices this time around.
I don’t harshly judge anyone who supports Trump at this point, now that Trump the nominee is virtually a fait accompli. Nor do I harshly judge anyone who doesn’t support him. Both groups have my sympathy—and my understanding, because of my own struggles. And I’m tired of people expecting a rectitude (and degree of martyrdom) from politicians that is completely unrealistic.
THE RIGHT ANGLE IS RIGHT: In which Whittle, Ott, and Green all Feel the Bern.
BECAUSE THEY HATE HUMANITY: How Environmentalists Opened The Door For Zika.
FASCINATING: Study Suggests That Dark Energy Is The Reason Time Moves Forward. If true, this could unlock a whole new level in science and tech.
NEXT UP, THE LEDBETTER EFFECT: Physicists think they might have just detected a fifth force of nature.
REALLY END STAGE SOCIALISM: Venezuela Drifts Into New Territory: Hunger, Blackouts and Government Shutdown. It might be new for Venezuela but it happens EVERY TIME socialism is tried. Every time.
THE INVASION OF EUROPE: European migrant crisis: Weekly boat rescues reach 13,000.
WHAT THE? HOW ABOUT WE USED THEM IN STRATEGY? Do these people have to have their brains ablated before getting newsmedia jobs? Brian Williams: We Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan ‘in Anger’. And if we had used them in anger, would they have stopped the war less? Stopped the massacre of our troops less? Stopped the likely suicide (in case of American invasion) of Japanese citizens less? Dear Brian Williams, get a clue.
May 28, 2016
STARTING SUMMER READING WITH A SALE: Start of Summer Indie Author Sale. Azounding is a new group promo effort. All Authors Human Wave. 99.9 percent of us well to the right of Lenin. You might want to bookmark and check now and then for free stuff and cheap stuff and nifty stuff. We are not the left. We build.
THE JOKES DO WRITE THEMSELVES. I’M JUST TRYING TO STOP THEM: 10-Foot-Long Snake Slithers Up Man’s Toilet and Latches Onto His Penis — for Half an Hour.
WILL NO ONE THINK OF BERNIE? Quark Stars Might be the Densest Bodies in the Universe.
WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN WHO NEED TO GROW UP? Cause and Effect Milo / DePaul Edition.
OH, THAT DEATH OF THE ADULT: ‘Frozen’s’ Elsa Doesn’t Need a Girlfriend—She Needs PC Adults to Let It Go.
IMAGINING THEY’RE GREAT BECAUSE THEY CAN STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS AND P*SS DOWN: He Was Expendable. California refuses to honor John Wayne, but the state lavishes tributes on liberal-friendly figures guilty of similar (or worse) sins.