- Can a wandering mind make you neurotic? Hell, yes!*
- One more way for the left to eat its own. When biological males who identify as females are allowed to compete in sports against biological women and girls the predictable happens.
- When the content police came for the (satirical) Babylon Bee.
- Wendy McElroy (and Noam Chomsky) on the tactics of those who’d force us to speak and think as they’d like on “gender” issues.
- An R and a D in the U.S. Senate introduce a bill to end federal pot prohibition in states that have legalized cannabis. A halfway measure but better than nothing.
- Trump — who you might recall just imposed a bunch of monster tariffs — advocates dropping all tariffs and trade barriers. (And subsidies; I think that’s where method enters the madness, and that’s the bit the media’s not grasping.)
- Look at all the movies and music that finally come off copyright and enter the public domain next year.
- How did hacker/betrayer Adrian Lamo die? After weeks of investigation, it’s still a mystery. He did have some very exotic drugs in his system, though. And a history of seizures.
- J.D. Tuccille adds his $0.02 to Reason’s “Burn After Reading” issue: Off-grid survival.
- One (of many) reasons Mr. Rogers was so effective at communicating with children: He spoke Freddish and expected staff to do the same.
- Brains cling to old habits when learning new tricks.
- Sometimes one one kind remark from a stranger can change a life.
- More in the people are good department. The kid’s a bit cocky about himself, but in this case he has every right to be.
- A blind woman sees her beloved guide dog for the first time, thanks to special glasses.
* This and a number of today’s other links are courtesy of Shel, who’s been very busy surfing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmallow-test/561779/
I want a smore.Now.
Very interesting timing about the expiration of the copyrights yet we still face the infamous Article 13 of the European Union censoring of what we can post.
http://www.alphr.com/politics/1009470/article-13-EU-what-is-it-copyright
It’s likely to have a chilling effect on the Internet.
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One Kind Remark – heart touching and revealing.
The kind remark hit very close to home today and was forwarded to someone who it would very much help through a hard time methinks.
Thanks Claire.
That link to stuff off copyright was great, thank you, Claire for posting that.
About tRump and his quest for trade wars via tariffs… Between the US, Canada and Mexico, there are approximately 500 million people who comprise 7 percent of the world’s population, together they produce 29 percent of the world’s wealth. Free trade has allowed America to reach very high levels of prosperity and a historically low unemployment rate of 3.9 percent and tRump wants to piss that all away. Meh, it doesn’t matter. It’s looking like America has a very good chance of experiencing dystopia firsthand in the near future, all because your imperious leader is an idiot.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/bernanke-says-u-s-economy-faces-wile-e-coyote-moment-in-2020-1.1089585
In the re-staging of the Marshmallow Test, I couldn’t help but notice, it says the first study ” tracked how children went on to fare later in life.” But the re-staging compared them “in terms of standardized test scores and mothers’ reports of their children’s behavior.”
Does anybody here think standardized test scores are the same as succeeding in life?
I thought the marshmallow was interesting in that poor kids take it now,where richer kids were able to wait.Poor kids take it when they can get it,makes sense.
And that poor kids are more likely to wind up poor than more privileged kids,that weve seen elsewhere.Just more opportunity.
IDK Mike,Im not buying 3.9% unemployment any more than Im buying 2% inflation.
Im with the Founders,gov should be run on Tariffs.Put on tariffs,give us back our income tax,sure would put the brakes on the fed gov.
For starter,would stop deficit spending on the war machine.they would have to sell war bonds.
^^^^^ IMO of course.
Life’s success varying with “defer gratification” vs. “have it now”? Hmm. Some imaginative sort might come up with a comparison between ants and grasshoppers as a modern fable.
Oops.
Adam Ford recently sold the Babylon Bee. It’s a pity Facebook and Google weren’t invited to the Christian Denominational Hunger Games first.
“The Orthodox Presby’s male volunteer has even grown his beard large enough to fashion a survival shelter for him and several other allied denominations in a pinch …”
LOL!
Tributes who volunteer and shelter others sometimes … subvert expectations. 😉
Fred, here are the current unemployment numbers for you, see for yourself.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
And here is the current rate on inflation in the not so United States.
https://www.statbureau.org/en/united-states/inflation
I can’t speak for fred, but I don’t believe he was questioning the existence of those numbers, but was questioning their veracity.
For instance, if you achieve 3.9 percent unemployment only by ignoring those who are so discouraged they’ve quit looking for work … you don’t have 3.9 percent employment. You have propaganda.
When almost a third (or more) of the (could be) working population is on the government dole (one way or the other) the real unemployment rate would be greater than that of the great depression (which didn’t have this massive government dole) but when that dole goes bust (which it will) then tell me what the unemployment rate will be then?
According to BLS.gov, the labor participation rate is approximately 63%. If accurate (big if), then the unemployment rate could be said to be ~37%.
Which is probably also inaccurate, but should at least be closer to the ballpark.
Source: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
Biological males competing as females is nothing new. See the story of Stella Walsh:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/69911/how-olympic-sprinter-stella-walsh-nearly-lost-her-medals-because-her-autopsy
Highway robbery: https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash
I much prefer the numbers at John Williams’ http://www.shadowstats.com to those of the BLS. Using the methodology of the 1930s, unemployment is around 23%.
Using pre-Clinton methodology, consumer price inflation is near 10%.
This is clever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-c2lCoOQc0&feature=youtu.be