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The latest from Red State Update: Link: https://youtu.be/B-hJsajwvj4 by … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2016
From SNL last March, a trailer for an alleged forthcoming live-action remake of a Disney animated classic. (Some slightly indelicate bleeped language.) Link: https://youtu.be/uFJz2IMUeDE by … Continue reading
These two recent commentaries by pediatrician and researcher Aaron Carroll MD are quite interesting. The gist is that in a number of studies it appears that basic emergency life support -- CPR and automatic defibrillators, for example -- does such … Continue reading
This is funnier than you'd think, and at four minutes it's admirably concise. Link: https://youtu.be/d9WzC2baIW4 The Mexican chop suey sounds like it shouldn't be as awful as they say, but then again I haven't tried it myself... by … Continue reading
As I've mentioned before (link), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has said some seriously absurd and misinformed things about global warming. Here's another brief example from a Senate hearing in which Cruz questions David Titley, a retired rear admiral whose duties … Continue reading
The free market is a wonderful thing. It's remarkably good at supplying the goods and services people want and need, and the alternative of top-down planning has been shown pretty conclusively not to work. (I should admit my bias here: … Continue reading
An artist named Dirk Loechel has gone to the trouble of creating a massive chart showing dozens of spaceships from print, television, and motion picture science fiction, all pictured at the same scale. In a box at the top, barely … Continue reading
Robert Gates, appointed Secretary of Defense by George W Bush in 2006, continued to serve in that office under President Obama until he retired in 2011. Gates has also served as an Air Force officer, as Director of Central Intelligence … Continue reading
In the United Kingdom, citizens can petition their government on line. (The same is true in the U.S.; see https://petitions.whitehouse.gov.) If 100,000 people sign on to a given request, a committee of Parliament takes it up for consideration. The most … Continue reading
Last night I braved my way out into the cold for dinner at a local restaurant. As I walked in I saw a guy lounging on a bench outside and chatting with a woman who was heavily bundled up and … Continue reading