4.22.2017

Why am I guessing they also sell beer?

Chocolate Chip Mint: Better get used to it . . .


https://goo.gl/QVTm2F

It was a very good year

20-year-old McDonald's sauce packet sells for nearly $15K | New York Post


"I just bought a really old car, while cleaning it I found a packet of this sauce," reads the auction author's description. 

Science discovers peer pressure

Social media causes runners to exercise even more - NY Daily News


Researchers have discovered that people's fitness routines are heavily dependent on how they feel about other people's fitness routines.

Pretty soon we'll know everything.

4.21.2017

Phooey. Now I want one

The Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino Represents Everything That Is Wrong With America


https://goo.gl/VsT3UE

Pot and kettle really going at it now

Did Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent and Kid Rock go too far in mocking Hillary Clinton's portrait?

The Washington Post

Paul Begala, a former White House counselor to President Bill Clinton, called the impromptu photo "a white trash Mount Rushmore." 

Read the full story

How long before SNL satirizes itself?

That's a thought!

Berkeley reverses decision to cancel speech by conservative pundit Ann Coulter - The Washington Post


"What are they going to do? Arrest me?"

Meanwhile Berkeley, once the home of the free speech movement, is now apparently the home of the safe speech movement. How far we have fallen.

Banks need more love… and more of your money would be nice too, you cheapskates

From Reuters News:

Trump to order U.S. Treasury to delve into taxes, post-crisis reforms

U.S. President Donald Trump will order the Treasury on Friday to find and reduce tax burdens and review post-financial crisis reforms that banks and insurance companies have said hinder their ability to do business.


4.20.2017

Newspapers forever



And a LOT more at…



Noted by M from our Midwest Bureau

Yahoo! yahoo

Yahoo Bows Out as Public Company With Revenue Shrinking


Bill O'Reilly Out At Fox News Channel, Ending 21-Year Run


Or we do

Who are the Democrats? - The Washington Post


At 77– and 66-years-old respectively, House and Senate Minority Leaders Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) hardly represent the next generation of Democrats. Even Sanders, who seems to have the most energy of any Democrat, is 75. Chelsea Clinton doesn't represent anything but a small slice of Manhattan liberals and the dwindling few that live off Clinton nostalgia. The ill-considered and clueless Black Lives Matter movement is not a movement that can attract new voters to the Democratic Party; in fact, it contributes to the opposite. And their Hollywood supporters appear to be a spent force, except as an occasional fundraising platform. Democrats need a new bag of tricks.

4.19.2017

Why is April tax month?

Because it’s Mathematics Awareness Month

Got your attention, didn’t it?

They said it was a repressive society but it turns out to be even worse than that

North Korean men aren’t allowed to get Kim Jong Un’s haircut | New York Post

Be still my heart

Student makes PowerPoint for crush to show just how dateable she really is | New York Post

"Fenton reveals: 'I am a tantalizing conversationalist and can hold riveting table talk with your parents.'"

30 mph…

… is the average speed of the high-speed train from Vermont over the 150 mile distance between here and New York City.

I bet your horse can't go that fast.

Be a citizen scientist (somebody's got to do it)

CrowdMag: Real-time crowdsourced magnetic data | NCEI
Here’s an app you install on your smartphone to contribute data about the Earth’s magnet field to NOAA. All you have to do is install it, forget it, and accept the adulation of a grateful world.  
Read the info linked above and check your phone’s app store.

4.18.2017

Wait, what?

Trump's White House Misplaces an Aircraft Carrier

"This episode does not seem to be a lie as much as it seems to be a further demonstration of the clusterfckish management style there at Camp Runamuck. At this point, my faith in what the administration says is such that I believe that, when the missiles flew into Syria, the president* and Xi actually were splitting a Twinkie and a bottle of YooHoo."

Seriously. Keep that dude away from that button.

Little cloud gets stuck in big tree


Let's not get carried away here

Opinion | Trump's administration doesn't understand the meaning of power

The Washington Post

…a Trump Doctrine is still at the lumpy, unwhisked-batter stage of intellectual baking. 

Read the full story


Shared from Apple News

4.17.2017

Spare us the fancy writing, please

Margarine sales: investors can't believe they're not better

The Economist

THE debate over fats is larded with controversy. 

Read the full story


All that great weather forecast I was looking at?

It was for Phoenix.

Alas.

OK, 60° and rainy isn't horrible, exactly, but it's not Phoenix. No way.