"Definition of a liberal education: What you need to learn in order to get this joke."
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Musings on Photography, Technology, Cooking, Life, Politics, Religion, and Whatever Else Attracts my Attention. If a Blogger Blogs and Nobody Reads it, is it Still a Blog?
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Varun Pruthi
A message for Bruce Rauner and his ilk.
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Friday, May 29, 2015
Thursday, May 28, 2015
How Comedians Became the New Public Intellectuals
They have discovered that the truth, simply and pithily stated, always gets a laugh. Try it in your next business or board meeting.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Art does heal: scientists say appreciating creative works can fight off disease
This may make me immortal. However, the statistician in me says "Bullshit."
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This family sold everything they own to visit 400 National parks in an Airstream Bus
There are only 59 National Parks! Not sure it is truly meaningful, but it sure looks like fun.
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Can We Finally Treat Food Workers Fairly?
Walmart may the most evil corporation ever.
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Obama To Invade Texas...With Temporary Housing, Clean Water, Food And Cash (VIDEO)
I think we should just give it back to Mexico, just like the Texas right want, End the occupation.
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How we cut youth violence in Boston by 79 percent
Rahm Emanuel You need to bring this guy in to run the police force. "That you do for me, without me, you do to me"
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Watch Jon Stewart Interview David Letterman as His Final Guest in 1995
Will Jon Stewart interview Letterman again for Jon's last show?
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From the Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew: The Secret Ghostwriters of Children's Fiction
Huh! I thought the Hardy Boys were long gone.
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Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness
Reality remains remarkably strange.
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How to mine Bitcoin on a 55-year-old IBM 1401 mainframe
I wrote an accounting suite in Assembler for this machine!
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Monday, May 25, 2015
Ciência Hoje
Is there any reason to believe that the future will be more stable than the past?
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Art Makes You Smart
Come see the original at the Art Institute of Chicago
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It’s Time to Bring Imperialism Back to the Middle East | Foreign Policy
Excellent analysis. What is left unsaid is that the USA's focus on Democracy as the solution to every problem is itself a problem.
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Sunday, May 24, 2015
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Lee Camp: How The UK Elections Made America Look Stupid (VIDEO)
The next Jon Stewart? There is hope!
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Friday, May 22, 2015
Kansas Republicans have come up with a disgraceful new way to screw the poor
Fortunately you are not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy.
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The Golden State Approach to Managing the Middle East
“We don’t have problems to be solved; we have conditions to be managed.”
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Thursday, May 21, 2015
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
20 years of data reveals that Congress doesn't care what you think.
"Because purchasing political influence is 100% legal" and is called bribery!
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Chicago records chilliest May 19th in 15 years; warmth in arctic driving buckled jet stream...
In case you thought it was cold today - you were right.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Monday, May 18, 2015
How Two Billionaires Are Destroying High Speed Rail In America
Why America's transport infrastructure is exceptional - exceptionally bad, that is.
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Sunday, May 17, 2015
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Disturb Reality
With cops like these guys, who needs criminals?
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What If Americans Ate Like South Africans And Vice Versa?
"corn porridge" = "mielie pap" ~ "grits" is good for you!
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FBI: researcher admitted to hacking plane in-flight, causing it to “climb” | Ars Technica
Oh Shit. Will they soon ban all computer use on planes?
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Friday, May 15, 2015
Witness Accounts in Midtown Hammer Attack Show the Power of False Memory
Eyewitness testimony without video backup is worth nothing. Unfortunately we have been incarcerating and exonerating people for centuries with no valid reasons.
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Thursday, May 14, 2015
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
THIS Is What That Extra Shoelace Hole Is Used For. I Wish I Knew This Earlier!
I learn something new every day. Sometimes it is even useful.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Allen West confronted with imaginary 'Sharia law'
If your name is not Steve, he doesn't like you.
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Deerfield High School One Of Top 10 in Illinois: U.S. News
Good job, Jacob Bokor and Julia Bokor!
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Monday, May 11, 2015
How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter
"Our incarceration rate is the highest in the world, triple that of the now-defunct East Germany. "
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Sperm has reportedly been created in the lab for the first time ever
The last unique capability of men - now gone? Woe are we!
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Sunday, May 10, 2015
How to control someone else's arm with your brain
Jacob Bokor and friends. How about this for a career?
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WATCH: Womanizing Cop Caught Feeling On Woman, Arrests Guy Who Tries To Film It (VIDEO)
So the question is - why have this cop and his buddies with him not been charged with criminal assault, unlawful detention, and a whole lot of other things? Most cops are good cops (I hope) - but the system seems to protect the bad cops. And many justify their actions on the grounds that the people they assault are not good people! GMAFB!
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The Surprising Brain Differences Between Democrats and Republicans
"It's not that conservative people are more fearful, it's that fearful people are more conservative."
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Saturday, May 09, 2015
eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov
Cool. Hot. Highlights the dry deserts.
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Ringing In Your Ears? Finally, Researchers Finding New Clues About Tinnitus
Interesting - but a sample size of one is hardly convincing.
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Human cognition-affecting virus discovered (Wired UK)
I always thought that stupidity was contagious. Now I understand the mechanism.
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Friday, May 08, 2015
Study: Half Of Tinder Users Aren’t Single
It is from The Onion - but it caught me :-( ... and I still think it is not a joke. The divide between satire and reality continues to erode. If the universe is a hologram maybe it is a satire on a late night intergalactic TV show. Everyone is laughing at us. Think about it.
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Real-Time Lightning Map :: LightningMaps.org
If you want to know where the lightning is, check this out. Very cool.
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World War II: The Fall of Nazi Germany
It is hard to believe that the whole war in Europe lasted just a little over five years, with the war with Japan starting later and ending later. About 30,000 deaths PER DAY! About half of them civilians.
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Jeb Bush Names George W. Bush As His Most Trusted Middle East Adviser
The man who gave us the Iraq debacle is back!?
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Live: The Conservatives win big in Britain’s surprisingly decisive election
One think the UK does more efficiently than the US is electing its government. It takes a few months vs a few years, and costs a lot less.
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Meet the outsider who accidentally solved chronic homelessness
Huh. Why is this not more widely adopted?
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It sounds crazy, but he asks it anyway: What if we got rid of immigration laws?
It worked for the United States of America. Why not the United States of the World?
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Thursday, May 07, 2015
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
Ex-CIA Official in New Book: GOP Distorted Agency’s Benghazi Findings
Without a conspiracy, what would the chattering classes chatter about?
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From the hood to Harvard
The bigotry in the comments is astounding.
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Tuesday, May 05, 2015
Rep. Seth Moulton appears to be determined to do the right thing, even if it means not getting...
An honest Congressman? Hw will not last long.
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F-35 Contractors, Under Fire, Spent Record Amounts in 2014
" the four main contractors on the project have made sure campaign funds flow to lawmakers who are instrumental in keeping government payments coming for the jet. " So Congress takes our tax money and sends it to the defense contractors who send it right back to Congress. Why such a complex route? Why not pass a bill that allows the congressmen just to take the tax money and kill the program. It would save a lot of money overall.
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Monday, May 04, 2015
Sunday, May 03, 2015
Wearing a suit changes the way your brain works, research finds
It is not the suit. It is the tie - it restricts blood flow to the brain and makes you act stupid.
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Evidence Shows That Saudi Arabia May Be Using Internationally Banned Weapons
Well Gee Golly Gosh. OMG. Weapons are being used for what they were designed to be used for. How shocking. I am shocked, shocked. This can't be. Do these people not know that the right to bear arms is restricted to US patriots.
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Calling for a True Conservative Strategy - Breitbart
Why on earth would any sane person call for a true conservative strategy?
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America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking
"Smart money versus dumb voters is hardly a fair fight. But it does offer compelling evidence that the survival of the fittest remains an unshakable truth even in American life. A sad sort of proof of evolution.:
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Science Confirms: The More Coffee You Drink, The Longer You Will Live
Actually, it is the other way around. The longer you live, the more coffee you will drink.
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Saturday, May 02, 2015
U.S. House Repeals Estate Tax for 0.2% and Leaves a $269 Billion Tab for the 99.8%
I am not sure if corrupt, crazy, or stupid is the best adjective.
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