The NY Times has a sort of amateur hour for pop philosophers whose pontifications can’t be contained by the local Starbucks. They call it “The Opinionator,” with a few categories; one of which is called “The Stone,” for no apparent reason other than I think today’s writer is high. Today we hear from an actual…
Month: November 2015
Nice Little Business You Got There – Shame If Anything Happened To It
November 2, 2015: Clinton Calls for Exxon Probe After Company Cuts Off Foundation Funding Hillary Clinton is calling for a federal investigation of ExxonMobil’s climate change activities Source: Clinton Calls for Exxon Probe After Company Cuts Off Foundation Funding – Washington Free Beacon November 5, 2015: Exxon Mobil Investigated for Possible Climate Change Lies by…
Protest against Trump hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ grows
NEW YORK (AP) — Pressure continued to mount on NBC to cancel Donald Trump’s guest-host appearance on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” as a coalition of advocacy groups delivered petitions to the network Wednesday calling… Source: Protest against Trump hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ grows Hell, Ace beat me to this one, which I’d put into…
Attacker identified as UC Merced freshman
Source: Attacker identified as UC Merced freshman | The Sacramento Bee So they’ve now identified the hairball who stabbed four people at UC Merced: The student has been identified as Faisal Mohammad, a freshman student from Santa Clara. Faisal Mohammed? Oh. Mohammed factor 50%. Color me stunned. And just for the record, I doubt very…
The science of biopolitics
Via the AoS Coblogger @JohnEkdahl we have this little bit from Ars Technica Oxytocin makes socializing more enjoyable. First let’s clear up a common misconception. This is Oxytocin, a naturally occurring hormone not to be confused with OxyContin, the name brand for oxycodone a narcotic. (Ars’s comparison to pot does not help this confusion.) Nevertheless,…
Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math
Source: Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math So 90+% of Detroit students are not proficient in math or reading? The hell you say. Cue the shopworn liberal bleat about needing more money. Yet Detroit spends $18,361 per student. That’s not enough? The average private school tuition in Michigan…
CNN Breaking News: TSA Utter Failure
Ok that’s not their headline. But to them this news is so breaking they used their fancy infographic at 8AM CT and haven’t even posted the story to their website yet. The gist of it is this: the GAO is going to report today that the TSA has largely been a waste of money that…
The Rights of “Transgenders” Trump The Rights Of All Others
In our increasingly Kafka-esque country, the right of a high school student who “identifies” as a girl to use the girl’s locker room in his high school is being supported by the Federal Department of Education. Ignoring the insanity of this support, I am embarrassed that I never thought of this scam as a way…