- Sigh of relief. That damned election is finally, finally over. And of course Trump won. Despite death threats to electors. Despite Russians hiding under every bed. Despite the media being the media. Despite four out of 12 Washington state electors going rogue. And despite one valiant Texan casting an electoral college v*te for Ron Paul. Can we talk about something else now?
- If you’re old and don’t want to die before your time get a female doctor, sez some new and highly sexist research. (Do you think NPR would be running this story if the research concluded that male doctors were superior?)
- A Molten iron river is picking up speed under Canada and Russia. Doesn’t this just beg for a bad SF movie? Where’s Irwin Allen when you need him?
- Yes, this is why only cops should be armed. The better to terrorize the rest of us. And sigh, some of the rest of us will always reliably make excuses for the worst of them.
- Blame Huma. Or better yet, that entire tiny, insular Hillarian circle.
- So. You’ve tried Atkins. And South Beach. And paleo. And keto. And the grapefruit diet. The raw food diet. The blood-type diet. The werewolf diet (yes, it’s actually a thing). The master cleanse diet. And every other known diet. You’ve done everything but swallow a tapeworm (also a thing, gods forbid). But have you ever tried eating according to the medieval Regimen Sanitatus Salernum? No, didn’t think so.
- I really wanted to cheer on this straight-A student who’s quitting college over the student-loan scam and the poor value of higher education. Except that he’s obviously a perfect example of said poor quality.
- At last! The list all you last-minute shoppers have been waiting for: Dave Barry’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide. All available on Amazon, of course. (Tip o’ hat to jed)
- Religion is not dead on campus. 🙂
“Religion is not dead on campus. 🙂”
I depends on the campus, Claire. My younger son is a very spiritual young man, who is also blessed athletically. He caught the eye of a college football coach at a college that’s known for good football teams. The college itself is right next to one of the Finger Lakes and is a beautiful campus. It’s a rich kid’s school though, a party school that’s very liberal (not of the classical sort) and spiritually devoid. After a year and a half of being generally miserable, a veritable fish out of water, and a knee injury, he transferred to an evangelical christian college in the midwest. His best friend had transferred there after a similar experience at the college he went to and talked my son into transferring, sight unseen. My son took a leap of faith to transfer in the middle of the academic year and it was the best thing he could have done! He thrived at that little evangelical christian college, academically, athletically and spiritually and it was the perfect fit for him! He was captain of the football team, he took an eye-opening mission trip to Ethiopia, sang in the Gospel Choir and worked for the dining commons catering staff. He earned his degree and met his wife and they married after graduation. So yeah, religion/spirituality is not dead on campus, it just depends on the campus.
From my observation, there are two kinds of women doctors–those who compete and those who do not. (Men doctors compete, too, but they are mostly specialists; GPs and most internists don’t, on the surface at least, indicate a competitive nature.) The women who compete do so against the men–to prove they’re as capable. In doing so, they often “act like men,” i.e. how they perceive male doctors should act in a given situation.
Knowledge-wise, they are no better or worse than male doctors, but those who don’t compete come across as more caring, they take more time to explain, and they often understand the “recalcitrant” patient’s problems more readily than male doctors. (It’s not easy to maintain a different regime at home with family members who don’t or won’t cooperate, so many patients keep coming back with the same problems; male doctors can be very impatient with patients who won’t “obey” them, and competitive female doctors are equally impatient.)
Drop-out-Boy: Frankly, I’m glad he quit. I really wouldn’t want to see the guy who panicked over being forced to “learn about the quadratic formula (and other shit they will never use)” designing buildings. (His major was Architectural Engineering, according to his F******k page; I suspect he didn’t know the difference between Architectural Engineering and Architecture, and thought he’d just be drawing pretty pictures of houses.) And he must have taken one course in jock math in high school not to get quadratic equations then, not mention learning to balance his check book.
Hillary’s past finally almost caught up to her, What sank the Hillybeast was Hillary’s arrogance and the corrupt stench of her empire. The foundation, the server, Benghazi, coal jobs,she tried to put too many in her basket of deplorables and the basket couldn’t contain them. We have just seen the collapse of a political bubble stretched beyond reality. Trumps cabinet picks so far vaguely resemble a crew bent on opening up opportunity by destroying regulatory barriers. One can only hope the opening goes all the way down the food-chain to allow real people to trade without big brothers interference.
“Despite death threats to electors.”
Some say it was because of death threats to electors. Threatening someone’s life and the lives of their family does not win them over to your side.
Who’da thunk?
It’s interesting that it was Clinton’s followers who demanded electors change their votes, and Clinton electors who did so.
I’m just getting over the experience of having to trust physicians who aren’t old enough to be my children.
Brown was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court, where a judge issued an order of protection on behalf of the McDonald’s and Diaz. Brown was released without bail.
I bet I wouldn’t have been released without bail. At least the judge included a PO. They’re bulletproof, right?
Back in medieval times water was bad for you because it was usually polluted. Particularly if you lived crammed into a city or castle. The alcohol in the diluted wine killed many of the bugs.
Students in “general studies” haven’t figured out what their major will be, and therefore have no idea what they will or won’t need t know. Although I’d bet against a math-based major for this flower.
Whatever he learned about doing his taxes his freshman year would most likely change before he would graduate. You find the marriage classes over in the Sociology Department. They are–ah–interesting.
Haven’t seen a college yet that didn’t have multiple churches just off campus. Faith isn’t something you get provided; it’s something you search for. It’s something for ALL of us to search for, whether or not you find it in religion.
I didn’t see it in the medieval diet article, but there was no such thing as white bread at the time. That would make a huge difference in the nutritional content of the bread. For that matter, the fact that it would have been sourdough would make a difference in the digestibility.
Fresh, stone-ground flour is a completely different thing from the modern-day store-bought version.
And if you go the extra step and grind your own by hand, you get all the upper-body exercise you need!
Dave should have added this to his list for all of us dog lovers out there;
http://odditymall.com/dog-poop-vacuum
Christmas isn’t exactly “religion” these days, but:
Univ of Tennessee Students told to remove Christmas decorations on campus. This is how they responded
jed and Comrade X — Two thumbs up for the links (although I wouldn’t want to get my thumbs anywhere near that doggie vac).
Regarding the cop who pulled his weapon in a McDonalds:
I wonder what would have happened had there been an armed citizen who drew his weapon and ordered to cop to drop his. And what if the drunk pulls the trigger, misses, and the citizen kills him in self-defense?
Well, given that it all transpired in Brooklyn, NY, even if the armed citizen didn’t kill the cop in self defense, the armed citizen would have been locked away in some nasty place for a long, long, long time. That’s for sure.
This recent Oatmeal offering is amusing. I’ve always been a little suspicious of Kate Perry. 🙂
Jed: Great link. I lingered on the page, and looked up the phrases the author had given a heart to in her profile that I didn’t recognize. Those would be ن and μολὼν λαβέ. Who knew? I didn’t. It’s interesting reading for language nerds and grammar nazis.
Molon labe = Come and take it. Thermopyle, Gonzalez, Texas and today’s pro-gun folks.
Hey is it true that Slick Willie was an elector and voted for Hillary? At long last he was faithful.
Desertrat posted: “Hey is it true that Slick Willie was an elector and voted for Hillary? At long last he was faithful.”
Ha! 🙂 Good one, Desertrat!
Hey is it true that Slick Willie was an elector and voted for Hillary?
“It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.”