- Supremes decide in favor of Masterpiece Cake Shop — but on very narrow grounds. A mixed bag.
- The company formerly known as Monsanto will be no less destructive by any other name. (H/T PT)
- Rewarding failure: an American epidemic.
- If too much bad news could really make us sick we’d all be on our death beds. (Tip o’ hat to MtK)
- OTOH, disgust may be good for us.
- The expanded Internet sales tax will be a threat to both small business and federalsim.
- The inversion. Our private power vs the power of government and the mob. (Via WRSA)
- To get rid of bullying get rid of schools. (Per M in comments)
- Canadian farmers, already suffering from a delayed spring, are asked not to spread manure on their fields … to avoid offending politicians. (Via Borepatch)
- Dem sez Zuck lied to Congress about FB user privacy. (This is news?)
- William James on consciousness and the four features of transcendent experiences.
- Not the way to re-home a puppy.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/04/patron-shot-by-fbi-agent-at-colorado-nightclub-to-receive-free-drinks-forever.html
Probably the best deal anyone ever GOT in a Gun-Free Killing Zone.
(My comments will lead off the news summary today at HebrewNationOnline.com, up in a few hours.)
Rewarding failure is one of the main reasons for mass shootings. The little darlings just can’t handle failure because they’ve never been subject to it. Since they have no experience with failure, when they fail they snap.
A lot of the folks who are most opposed to fertilizers and GMO seeds really would rather people starve. Monsanto isn’t perfect, but the green revolution is a big reason why Malthus didn’t come true.
The United Nations’ disaster-monitoring system says that since 1970, the number of disasters worldwide has more than quadrupled, rising to about 400 per year.
Wellll, did disasters quadruple, or did reporting of them expand? I suspect it’s the latter.
When we lived in Nebraska there were feed lots on one side of town. When the wind blew from that direction those in the know smiled and said, “It smells like money.”
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The publicity surrounding finding the puppy greatly increased the chances she would find a loving forever home, as opposed to just taking her to the shelter.
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A lot of the folks who are most opposed to fertilizers and GMO seeds really would rather people starve. Monsanto isn’t perfect, but the green revolution is a big reason why Malthus didn’t come true.
Monsanto as a company has had shockingly awful ethics and has treated innocent farmers brutally. For me, it’s not about the larger green revolution, but about a giant corporation trying to control global agriculture by hook, crook, lawsuit, or law.
Bayer….yet another product I will never buy again.