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Published February 16, 2016 11:57 am by Claire
  • In case Donald Trump wins, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, will roll out the red carpet to Americans. No word on where we’ll go if anybody else wins, but to hell in a handbasket seems a likely option. (H/T MJR)
  • “Nino at the Bridge.” Quote: You know your country has big trouble when the death of one man tosses your political reckonings, your expectations, your fundamental understandings into the briar patch … (Yes, the author’s a bit more enamored of the Constitution that you probably are, but Scalia was a good man.)
  • Borepatch: Don’t buy a Samsung smart TV. I think I’d make that don’t buy any smart TV unless you can easily take it offline. Big Brother will be listening.
  • There are good reasons Europe’s Jews are so nervous. And this article covers only the “right” half of them.
  • You mean Radio Flyer is still around? Here I thought they disappeared with coonskin caps and the original hula hoops. But boy, their little red wagons sure have changed.
  • Since so many hereabouts are so fond of things that go boom, whoosh, and pow, I present Josh Bloom on fluorine: the element from hell. Complete with videos!

Published in Cultural insanity, Miscellaneous, Poly-Ticks, Privacy and self ownership and Religion

10 Comments

  2. Fred
    Fred February 16, 2016 2:10 pm

    SMART = tracking you.

  3. Shel
    Shel February 16, 2016 2:30 pm

    Thomas Sowell, as always, has an enlightening perspective, this time on Trump. http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/01/23/do-emotions-trump-facts-part-ii-n2108185

    Maybe Scalia wasn’t as important as we thought. http://www.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/189251/long-serving-scalia-controversial-widely-unknown.aspx

    I realize that there’s considerable sentiment on this site that holds the Constitution isn’t all that big a deal. I just don’t know how, without written codified legal principles, we could be anything other than a plain democracy, complete with the two lions and a lamb environment. At least with the Constitution there has been something to point to as a guide, which in my mind has held society together longer than it would have otherwise lasted.

  5. Pat
    Pat February 16, 2016 3:38 pm

    I realize that fluorine isn’t fluoride, but I do find it ironic that water can add fuel to a fluorine fire. So much for playing with chemicals…

  6. Bear
    Bear February 16, 2016 3:45 pm

    Things I Won’t Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride.
    “If the paper weren’t laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you’d swear it was the work of a violent lunatic. I ran out of vulgar expletives after the second page. A. G. Streng, folks, absolutely takes the corrosive exploding cake, and I have to tip my asbestos-lined titanium hat to him.”

    A few years ago people trying to talk Derek Lowe into compiling his TIWWW series into a book.I need to check if that happened.

  7. Bill St. Clair
    Bill St. Clair February 17, 2016 7:14 am

    99% of everything everybody does has nothing whatsoever to do with government, whether constitutional, democratic, or dictatorial. That 1% causes most of our problems. End it.

  8. Jim B.
    Jim B. February 17, 2016 10:43 am

    Have you guys seen what’s happening with the iPhone encryption “debate”?

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