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Tuesday links

  • Pretty amazing way for a 16-year-old to live. (H/T JB)
  • OTOH, some people may just have too much time on their hands. And hatchets and beer in them. (H/T ML)
  • Speaking of too much time and hands … did you know there’s a (not joking) world of rock-paper-scissors competition? (Tip o’ hat to jed)
  • Looking for some good hard science fiction? (H/T MJR)
  • Get businesses freaked out enough about “discriminating against the disabled” and they’ll fall for anything.
  • 12 lessons to learn and hang onto forever. (Especially for business, but plenty have applications in the rest of the world, too.)
  • Just to cheer you up, here’s the latest report on global-catastrophic risks. I confess not to have read it yet. I don’t need that kind of “cheering up” right now. But just in case you’re interested. (H/T MJR)
  • Assume your state government is in big trouble if one, single taxpayer saying goodbye could have this much impact.
  • It seems more lefties are realizing their fellows have become high-handed elitist snobs, and that it happened when the left parted ways with the working class.

7 Comments

  1. jed
    jed May 3, 2016 5:04 pm

    I suppose an emotional support sturgeon would just be too impractical.

    For the NYT-impaired: One taxpayer moved …. Well, New Jersey can just shudder until it falls into the sea, at least a good sized part of it. I’ve heard there are nice parts. I suppose those politically infected as well.

  2. jed
    jed May 3, 2016 5:06 pm

    Meanwhile, if you’re getting impatient with your corn on the cob, use a cordless drill.

  3. jed
    jed May 3, 2016 5:13 pm

    … and The Barking Dead: Dogs inherit the Earth in apocalyptic comic

    Their new comic series Legend tells the tale (tail?) of a world where humans as we know them no longer exist, and domesticated animals have to find their way in a barren wasteland.

    But no, the animals aren’t evil zombies.

  4. lane
    lane May 7, 2016 7:25 pm

    Re: NJ billionaire decamps for FL, and NJ’s response is “It’s more about keeping an eye on people, seeing where they are and enforcing the tax rules.”
    And issuing travel permits no doubt.

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