“Elite” SWAT cops petulently destroy their own office. So what do you suppose this guy was ticketed for? I’m not sure which is more remarkable: that three-year-olds are now getting type II diabetes or that this one recovered with sensible lifestyle changes. Your government at work — threatening, bombing, shooting, and otherwise terrorizing its unwanted neighbors. (Via Shel in comments) Here’s a new thought (and a longish article on it): what if all those creeps who are aggregating and selling our personal data are a national-security threat? (Everything else is, so why not them?) Americans (particularly those of means) continue…
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If you’re a geeky kid who likes inventing electronic gadgets your name better not be Ahmed Mohamed. Poor kid. That’ll teach him to want to be a maker instead of a destroyer. (UPDATE: Looks as if Ahmed might come out of this in good shape, though.) I love it! And A.G. was so right when he asked in comments, “How did this ever make it into the New Yorker?” (Speaking of coming-of-age novels, as we were) “The Politically Correct Lord of the Flies.” Ulp. I always thought snakes in toilets was a myth. Damn! The world is ending. Again. This…
Mostly on the lighter side this morning … Godzilla vs. Congress. Cats vs zombies. Security vs Privacy. I had no idea that “window licker” was a thing. Did you? But of course, being a thing, it gives somebody yet one more thing to get OUTRAGED about. (Being outraged all the time must be so exhausting.) Uh oh, paleo. Turns out cavepersons were using grains and making flours a long, long time ago. (Via Pat in comments) Booksellers’ great signs (Via A.G. in comments) (A Pair of big H/Ts to JB and MJR)
In the era of Common Core, classical education begins to rebound. Why on earth is there even a debate about whether cops who kill people should be identified? Especially when this is the LEO culture we live with? If you or I killed somebody, or were even suspected of it, our names would be blatted all over the media. Woman says she was strip-searched, drugged, and locked up in a metal ward (and billed for it) because cops don’t believe she owned her BMW. Man in jail for minor offenses ends up in a coma because jailers wouldn’t let paramedics…
Library joins the TOR network to give its computer-using patrons privacy. Local cops intervene. Hope is not yet lost, however. Skunk water. Cops’ latest weapon against we the uppity — and anybody else who happens to be in the way. Yes, that 13-year-old boy was stupid. But then, 13-year-old boys are. Law enforcers ought to know better. If you happen to be passing through Colorado on Wednedsday … Those new, more complicated (and vastly more invasive) medical codes Shel warned about in a recent comment section are to become official on October 1. Quadruple the info for doctors and medical…
Ha! Here’s a dude who decided to rob the wrong young woman. Five parenting situations that require alcohol. And not the rubbing kind. A loaded gun. A round in the chamber. And guess where this dumb tweaker broad decided to stash her firearm? Great advice for LEOs (and the person who sent me this link spent his career in that category): how to avoid being killed or being a killer of the innocent. Eight things that might get you on the infamous no-fly list. And note how few of them have anything to do with being dangerous. (H/T PT) The…
Boys with sticks learn what sticks are for. Beautiful. Bovard on the latest “food insecurity” fraud. Hmph. Must be nice to be so powerful that airlines change their routes so you can get to your second home more quickly. Seven archeological mysteries that could be solved in this century. Another potential use for cannibis: preventing organ rejection after transplants. Much more research needed. The rise and fall of the Salem witch hysteria. This dog is a caretaker at a zoo.
Taking tacticool to an even more ridiculous extreme. (H/T jb) Remember that New Yorker article on the coming Cascadia “coast is toast” quake? Went a little over the top in places. Now its author, Kathryn Schultz is back with some pretty sound advice for staying safe when Cascadia decides to do its thing. This history of modern government medicine was a bit thick for me, I confess. But if you really want to know how we got in the fix we’re in, this is the article for you. (H/T ML) Look who’s pushing the international arms treaty and how they’re…
Okay, holiday weekend coming up. Time to relax, take it easy, enjoy the freedom we’ve snatched from the jaws of politicians. So nothing too heavy today. Just a few brain tests. Then you can go have a beer.
You are committing a crime. Right now. By reading this page. Really. (H/T MJR) This is from earlier this year, but the message is timeless. Always, always trust your dog’s impressions of people. Google’s driverless cars are programmed to obey all traffic rules. But oops, the people they attempt to navigate among … not so much. Yeah, you already know it, but Heather Wilhelm says it well: D.C. is America’s biggest busybody neighbor. Seems the big food companies suddenly like Michelle Obama now that they’ve figured out whole grain and low-fat junk foods are bringing in the profits. Yet another…