Videos in honor of the day: Hank and Katherine Green taste-test Valentine’s candy from Target with reasonably hilarious results: Link: https://youtu.be/OUPbP0GVvjA (The version above is edited down to under 4 minutes. If you want to see the full, unedited original, … Continue reading
Bill Maher, who used to have a show called Politically Incorrect, here takes on the excesses of so-called political correctness. (The usual warning to applies for those with sensitive ears: This is a cable program, and it’s also Bill Maher.) … Continue reading
The Pew Charitable Trusts and the MacArthur Foundation have been jointly examining how states make use of evidence-based policies, and on January 26 the released a report. The full 47-page document can be viewed as a PDF, or you can … Continue reading
Astronomer and blogger Phil Plait has a good summary of climate concerns here. As he notes, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the independent research group Berkeley Earth all concur … Continue reading
From Samantha Bee’s YouTube channel, the admirable Michael Forbes at his Scottish home, which Trump tried and failed to buy: Link: https://youtu.be/8m24yYMW2iw For more from Scotland, see this previous post, which includes the Scottish version of Star Trek. by … Continue reading
Charles J Sykes, who formerly a hosted a conservative radio talk show in Wisconsin, now thinks the U.S. far right has gone a bit too far right. (He has a book coming out next October called How the Right Lost … Continue reading
Illegal immigrants have been responsible for some horrendous crimes, which is one reason people want to see illegal immigrants deported. There’s also the belief that immigrants, legal or not, take jobs away from people born in the country. In fact, … Continue reading
The United States Department of Agriculture has ended a longstanding practice of making animal welfare reports available on its website. Previously tens of thousands of reports could be read online concerning treatment of animals at nearly 8000 facilities, including about … Continue reading
On the outside chance you haven’t seen this, here’s one of the best things NBC’s Saturday Night Live has been done in years: Link: https://youtu.be/UWuc18xISwI That’s comic actress Melissa McCarthy as White House spokesweasel Sean Spicer, and even Fox News … Continue reading
Sear Carroll MD talks about a considerable amount of research that suggests there are non-drug interventions that can significantly reduce heart disease risk even among people with genetic predispositions to heart trouble. Given that heart disease is the leading cause … Continue reading