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Sep 14 2019
Canada’s Two Sides
So there’s this side that has good beer and legal marijuana, and mussels and scallops and lobsters and haddock (pretty nice actually) and snails, and Tidal Roars and Waterslides and reversing waterfalls. And free public health care. Then there’s that other Canada where A&W has withdrawn the Glass Mug from its establishments (sure you can …
Sep 13 2019
Cliff Huxtable
Do you remember when he was “America’s Dad” and not some creepy sexual predator who drugged girls half his age so he could rape them while they were unconscious? Me too (in fact I go back to before Robert Culp), but I started becoming disaffected with the advent of the Cliff Huxtable character. Not that …
Sep 13 2019
Chernobyl on the Thames
Nothing to see here. Keep Calm and Carry On. Even the Tories admit it: only duty free can get us through by Marina Hyde, The Guardian Fri 13 Sep 2019 “I’m afraid I didn’t do enough work at university. My strong advice is: don’t waste your time at university. [sigh] Don’t get drunk, don’t do …
Sep 12 2019
Hey! It’s Sam!
All Sports Edition. Actual Breaking News! And Golf. Moose Racing More Golf!
Sep 12 2019
Twits at The Times
Politeness on the Internet? How basic. My advice, now and always, is don’t take the bait no matter how bright, shiny, buzzy, injured snack imitating it is. The Illusion of Civility Irritating Parasite? Would Bret was the only one.
Sep 12 2019
Cartnoon
A Noble Gas As the price of Helium increases the cost of things like MRI Machines, even running them because there is always some leakage, goes way up. It is equally true that we throw most of it away, it’s literally as cheap as dirt so at the moment there’s no incentive to price frivolous …
Sep 11 2019
Wall to Wall
One thing that bothers me is when the Media (I’ll dignify it with neither “News” nor “Journalism”) gets focused on a single topic and you hear the same thing (normally wild speculation) over and over and over again. That’s when you need YouTube or Netflix or Duck Tales on Disney XD (Voiced by Who Two- …
Sep 10 2019
How Are Things In Fukushima?
Just as terrible as ever and about to get worse. Japan will have to dump radioactive water into Pacific, minister says by Justin McCurry, The Guardian Tue 10 Sep 2019 The operator of the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will have to dump huge quantities of contaminated water from the site directly into the …
Sep 10 2019
Majority Viewpoints
I keep saying that most policies considered “impossibly far Left” by the D.C. Political and Media Establishment of both Parties are in fact ideas favored by supermajorities of United States Citizens. This is a good summary of some of the issues on which the D.C. consensus is just wrong and is being ground under the …