Sunday, August 31, 2014

Jon Stewart's Priceless Response To Fox News On Ferguson

It is so strange that the Comedy Channel carries honest and accurate news and commentary, while the news channels collectively are nothing more than a bad joke.

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Owner Of Gun Range Where Instructor Was Killed Defends Letting Kids Operate Uzis

"Considering imposing a minimum height for children" - How about a minimum IQ for parents, instructors, gun range managers, and gun owners? Height is the important characteristic? Short people of the world, revolt!

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28 People Who Are Too Dumb For Their Own Good

Not the headline news ... but it could be the next generation of news anchors.

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Hyper lapse is the new black

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

NRA: 'Children Can Have Fun at the Shooting Range'

How dumb can one organization be? This dumb!

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Now that is what I call the "right to bear arms"!

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Diet Cults vs. Science-Based Healthy Eating « Science-Based Medicine

I have discovered a wonderful weight loss program. Its description can fit into any margin: "Eat Less"

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Monday, August 25, 2014

Toddlers And Their Intuitive Understanding Of Probability

"This intuitive grasp of statistics and weighing likelihoods of a cause-and-effect scenario show that toddlers don't need to have to go through trial and error to learn" It is sad - actually tragic - that our Congress is not as smart as toddlers.

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Scott Adams Blog: ISIS Strategies 08/25/2014

Scott Adams has written the most honest assessment of the ISIS situation i have seen. Just like his "comic" strip, he is on the money!

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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Friday, August 22, 2014

Apple announces battery replacement program for the iPhone 5

In case this happens to you -- Hilda's phone will get a new battery soon! She is eligible.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Monday, August 18, 2014

What Facebook doesn’t show you

If you don't see this post, you are not alone :-)

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Sunday, August 17, 2014

You're Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

In the USA you are more likely to be killed by a policeman than a terrorist.

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Friday, August 15, 2014

Suburbs Are Making Us Fat

So, we have a new place in the city, and I have lost 18 lbs (8 kg for the avoirdupois challenged) QED?

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Thursday, August 14, 2014

What Happens To Your Face When You Wear Sunscreen Might Shock You. It Did For These People.

You most likely have a UV filter on your camera - so why not on your face?

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Global Parenting Habits That Haven't Caught On In The U.S.

Because our legal system with its emphasis on punishment will put a parent in jail if a kid gets harmed in any way?

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This 2.2-Million-Year-Old Child Fossil Made A Lot Of Scientists Very, Very Upset

Interesting story, good storytelling, and someone that speaks like I do.

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Against Consensus

You can have your own beliefs. You can't have your own facts.

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Chicago to get early peek at Blue Angels jets

Time for a photoshoot. I will be there, rain excepted!

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South African Resigns From Parliament After Degree Is Questioned

Lying is endemic among politicians in all countries and across the political spectrum. The ability to lie may actually be a prerequisite for success in the field. Nice Ph.D. study topic for a Political Science scholar. But wait - politics is not a science!

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Monday, August 11, 2014

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Saturday, August 09, 2014

You’re Saying It Wrong

"because we tend to believe, incorrectly, that dictionaries dictate language usage rather than reflect it; because each generation takes a strange joy in believing that the next is set to destroy everything good and holy; because it feels good to demonstrate our presumed intellectual superiority; and because we cling to the rules we think we know"

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Police mistakes led to Chicago cop's death

"the officer who initiated it had been fired from or forced out of five of the seven most recent departments for which he worked" Unbelievable that he was kept on the force - no wonder we have a crime problem in some parts of Chicago.

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Let It Bleed

See Michael Oren's "Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present" for the details. You can disagree with the conclusion, but you can't disagree with the facts (unless you are a member of any political party)

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Thursday, August 07, 2014

Some idiot’s been using my e-mail address for years

I have had a few of them. Not spam, but genuine emails regarding accounts, rentals, etc, from multiple countries. I have tried to help out the hapless individuals, but some of them are beyond help. It's hard to believe that so many people with memory problems have the same name as I do.

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IBM researchers make a chip full of artificial neurons

HAL at conception - and IBM still has the chops!

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Video: This is What It's Like to Photograph a Wild, Territorial Silverback Gorilla

International politics in its purest form. The world's nations still act territorially.

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Social Media Arguments: Can’t-Win Propositions

"As the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw said, “The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” "

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Rainbow of Terror: how a government program to track suspicious activities snared an unsuspecting photographer

So sad that our police force is so scared that they cannot understand the law or the realities of modern life.

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Wednesday, August 06, 2014

This one is for the Facebook fans (or haters)

An interesting view that will explain (sort of) why you see (or don't see) what you see on Facebook. The discussion is from the perspective of a person whose business largely depends on social media, but can be relevant for all.

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Turkey wakes up to Islamic State threat - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

The IS is the biggest danger in the Middle East -- at least until it get into a war with Iran.

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Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Before they attacked Obama, the Koch brothers almost destroyed each other. This is the untold story

Lessons in how to raise your children to be assholes. Yes I know it may make them rich, but I do not want rich assholes in my family.

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The 2014 CWUR World University Rankings are out now.

Wits ranks 114 based on this scoring system, up there with Michigan State and Georgetown.

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Monday, August 04, 2014

i24news English

Worth a look. If you want to see the world from a non-US partisan perspective, watch both i24News and Al Jazeera online.

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Hamas in their own words - please share

What part of this video do you not understand?

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What Would Krishna Do? Or Shiva? Or Vishnu?

What Would Krishna Do? Or Shiva? Or Vishnu? - very interesting.

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"Why Don't I Criticize Israel?" Controversial Atheist Sam Harris Weighs in on Gaza Conflict

"Whatever terrible things the Israelis have done, it is also true to say that they have used more restraint in their fighting against the Palestinians than we—the Americans, or Western Europeans—have used in any of our wars. They have endured more worldwide public scrutiny than any other society has ever had to while defending itself against aggressors. The Israelis simply are held to a different standard. And the condemnation leveled at them by the rest of the world is completely out of proportion to what they have actually done.'

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Friday, August 01, 2014

"Speaker Cruz" tanks John Boehner's border security bill

The crazies are getting crazier. They can't even agree with themselves. This brings "Just say no" to the level of an overriding political philosophy.

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