- There will be lots of demonstrations around Trump’s inauguration. None will top this: the DC Cannabis Coalition will give out 4,200 joints, which are to be lit up 4:20 minutes into The Donald’s inaugural address.
- Perhaps it’s not much of a loss to the big, wide world, but the Shakers are now down to two members.
- Anxiety. It can give your dog gray hair, too.
- The New York Times is shocked to discover that those mysterious savage tribespeople west of the Hudson like pickup trucks. (Via Say Uncle)
- Community banks are being destroyed by Dodd-Frank’s regulatory burden. Yet another example of how regulations help the large and politically connected at the expense of the small.
- Assange snorts, “A 14-year-old could have hacked Podesta’s emails.” And Glenn Harlan Reynolds adds, let’s not provoke a war because Podesta fell for a phishing scheme.
- Laughably ignorant medical patients. (Much of the ignorance involving s-e-x, so NSFW.)
Impatient patient? A 14-year-old girl failed the rabbit test. She was puzzled, and had trouble believing that Saran wrap was insufficient protection. (True story, from 1966.)
“Stupid is as stupid does” is a documentary.
Active proselytizing by Shakers might reduce certain social problems? Celibacy does not lead to over-crowded apartments, although a bit of snip-snip-snip might be more efficacious. 🙂
“the DC Cannabis Coalition will give out 4,200 joints, which are to be lit up 4:20 minutes into The Donald’s inaugural address.”
Ha! 🙂 Love the gesture and symbolism! Donald, legalize it!
Got my invite to the inauguration yesterday and now I have a reason to go; the DC Cannabis Coalition will give out 4,200 joints, which are to be lit up 4:20 minutes into The Donald’s inaugural address!
BTW methinks it will be the last invite to an inauguration I will ever get too, amazed I got this one, except because this one had a price tag of $8,744.57, any takers?
You’d be surprised what kids don’t know about sex. They used to be told “Don’t do it,” now they’re given condoms and pills and expected that they will do it, but without any knowledge of consequences or cause-and-effect.
Whose fault – the parents or the schools? Unless they’re born on a farm, or given step-by-step instruction, few people are raised to know anything about sex. The kids today who weren’t taught were raised by adults who weren’t taught, either. And most kids learn from their peers, anyway; they’re reluctant to believe their parents know anything. “To do or not to do” is the only consideration, the details are vague and irrelevant, and often unbelievable by kids.
I liked this comment to the truck article:
“Liberty Doc @libertydoc82
Amazingly, people in NYC buy the @nytimes even when they do not have any fish to wrap”
Comrade X; let me know if you find any takers for that invite. Might peddle it over at Gab.ai where they think Trump is the bees’ knees and the cat’s pajamas. Possibly even the bees’ pajamas and the cat’s knees.
Reading about the “ignorant medical patients” brought to mind this George Carlin quote:
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Clare, found a taker at lunch, he’s a yuge Donald fan with a deep enough pocket, there’s a deadline on this where you have to RSVP by 1/09/17, if for some reason he backs out I’ll send it your way, there is one problem whereas the invite is in my name but IMHO with this like so many other things; money talks and changing the name should just be a minor detail, if they want the money enough.
Comrade X — I wasn’t sure whether you were kidding about the invite. You sounded serious until you gave the price including $.57. Then I thought you were joking.
So may I ask (if it’s not too privacy-invading) how you got an invite to the inaugural? I hope your guy follows through on purchasing your invite. ‘Cause though I thank you for the thought, I have no idea what I’d do with a Donald Trump inaugural invite.
This kind of reminds me of the year that I got both an invitation to attend a Renaissance Weekend (Bill and Hillary were then going every year) and an invitation to Doug Casey’s Eris Society gathering. I went to the Eris meeting, but laughed at the Renaissance thing. It would have cost about $3,000 to attend and no way was that ever going to happen. But I was both amused and flattered that they found obscure little me. It did show they were fairly serious about inviting “idea people” of all stripes.
I may be the only person ever (and surely I was the only Loompanics writer ever) to get invitations to both gatherings in the same year.
“Liberty Doc @libertydoc82
Amazingly, people in NYC buy the @nytimes even when they do not have any fish to wrap”
Pat, that was my favorite, too. 🙂
The price is weird but it’s related to the lodging costs that’s included.
I was made a member of the Reince Priebus Chairman’s Advisory Board years ago, not that I wanted to be on it but because of my past actions concerning electing republicans methinks I unknowingly volunteered. Oh the advice I would give Mr. Priebus today which I am sure would be the last advice he would ever want to hear (I have met him before when I was more loyal to his cause). I am a political animal having been at one time decades ago a member of a democratic central committee and another time much more recently a republican central committee member; today I am proudly a member of neither. I belong to no political party today and I hope to never again to be a part of such shenanigans either. It’s hard because to some people politics is as addicting as any drug.
I was not involved in any way in the general election this year so that is why I was amazed to get the invite. Maybe they need the money, the price included 5k dues to continue to be on this so called board, with so many special bonuses I’m sure?
I certainly can relate to the medical stupidity stories. The really sad thing is that so many doctors, nurses and other health care “professionals” can come up with unbelievable things too. Especially the young ones. Just remember where they get their “education.” There is just so much they think they know that isn’t even remotely true.
Ignorance is the lack of valid information.
Stupidity is the refusal to learn, in the face of reality.
I work as a Paramedic in a mid sized city (just over 1 million) in the downtown area mostly. I’ve found that most low income people have a low level of education over all but the information about sex is pretty well understood. The “stupid” sex stuff tends to be in the “wealthy” areas.
Over all the stupid medical stuff is more people calling 911 for really dumb things. Stubbed toe two weeks ago with toe nail falling off. It becomes an “emergency” because it hurts. In my experience they have learned this from TV. I had one person explain to me that you see your Primary Care Doc for check up’s and screenings, but you go to the Emergency Department when you are sick. After all you need an appointment for your PCD but the ED is open all the time and that is where the people on TV do.
They go to the ED, Dr Building limps in and insults you for a bit then comes back after the ad break and gives you a pill that fixes everything.
This is common across all social economic areas. I had a mid-level manager of a world wide massive two letter company who had a fever, body aches, and nausea. “Have you taken anything?” No. “No ibuprofen? Pepto? Aspirin?” No. “You have felt bad for three days, did you call your Physician?” No, why would I?
Then they tell me to stop asking them all these questions and just drive them to the Hospital. (then get mad when they have to wait in the waiting room, because they came by ambulance and “have insurance”.)
I’m not talking about “new parent” stuff either. a good 40% or more is stuff that they could have treated on their own, another 30% is stuff they could have self transported to a clinic or their MD’s office.
This is why medical treatment is going up.
The article about Shakers mentioned how they got their name. It never occurred to me at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhc9PK2tG5k
I once read a very plausible explanation of why hair “turns” gray. We are constantly growing new hairs and having old hair fall out. The older we get, the less pigment the new hairs have, so they tend to be grayer. Under stress, hair can fall out at a much faster rate. The older hair is more vulnerable, leaving a higher percentage of graying hair, thereby giving the impression that the hair has changed color. Being fellow mammals, there’s no reason dogs wouldn’t experience the same phenomenon. Many years ago a friend told me spontaneously that his dog’s hair turned gray after his wife left him. It was easy to notice, too, as the dog was black.
4,200 joints, which are to be lit up 4:20 minutes into The Donald’s inaugural address.
Nothing against the joints, but wouldn’t it be refreshing if the Inaugural Address wasn’t that long? “Hi. I’m the new POTUS. Let’s get to work.”
As one of those mysterious savage tribespeople west of the Hudson I drive a Jeep Patriot instead. My small-town weekly-newspaper reporter wife drives our extended-cab pickup, though, because she can see where she’s going. One of the other reasons the NYT missed is the local population of whitetail deer and feral hogs. And the fact that in any direction it’s at least 400 mostly-empty miles to the state border.
A 14-year-old could have hacked Podesta’s emails.
How is this news? Now if he would have said a forty-year-old could have hacked Podesta’s emails, that would have been damning.
About six years ago, a young couple I know had to have help getting pregnant. (Legitimately.) They report that the first step, before seeing a doctor or being allowed to make an appointment, was to watch a how-to video, with a nurse to answer questions. The nurse said she was specifically instructed not to keep track of the “O! Rly?” responses.
And most kids learn from their peers, anyway;
Well, there’s all that p*rn available, which is at least slightly more realistic than what you see in R mainstream movies and TV. [/sarc]
When my kids were teens the prevailing theory was, “If you teach them about s-e-x it will encourage them to experiment.” As if humans needed “encouragement.”
The local high school had a day care center, and it served kids from junior high moms.
A very courageous and loyal dog (don’t know how to get just the video) http://videos.komando.com/watch/11384/kims-picks-dog-protects-his-friend-from-oncoming-train?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=tvkim&utm_content=2017-01-05-a-e
Thank you, Shel. That’s a wonderful story! I saw a version of it earlier, but couldn’t get the video on the version I found. Your version is so much better.
It amazes me that the non-injured dog even stayed on those tracks while trains passed over their heads.
BTW, I think this happened in Ukraine. The dogs had owners and were eventually returned to them, I believe. It took a while to get them off the tracks because the non-injured dog wouldn’t let anyone approach his wounded friend.