Taibbi in Iowa: Dems Are Repeating GOP's 2016 Primary-Season Errors – Rolling Stone
7.26.2019
Welcome to life in the bullseye
It's all about the thrill.
NASA tracked three large asteroids zipping by today -- and one was closer than the moon - CNN
7.25.2019
If anybody asks you what LOL stands for, it's this
Trump 2020: President's reelection campaign hauls in $200,000 selling plastic Trump straws - CBS News
"Liberal paper straws don't work. STAND WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP and buy your pack of recyclable straws today."
Bombshell, what
The print editions of this morning's New York Times and Boston Globe, and I presume other papers around the country as well, had lead headlines about Robert Mueller's "bombshell" statement yesterday that Russians and other villainous types are trying to influence the 2020 U.S. elections "as we sit here."
No kidding.
We've know this all along (haven't we?). In any event, for the last several months or so the FBI, US-CERT, DHS and others have been pumping out emails to political campaigns and advising them of threats to the election and defensive steps they need to take. I know. I'm on the mailing lists and I have copies.
And, there's this: http://bit.ly/2MfyP4e
Is it too much to ask our newspapers to keep up with the news?
Right. I won't.
You Won't Believe What These Historical Figures Actually Looked Like - History 101
(It's pure clickbait, so no link. But…)
Do not start your report, letter, article or other literary effort with a question that can shoot the whole thing down on the very spot. (You won't believe these prices! Have you ever dreamed about a luxury vacation at the South Pole? Want more broccoli?)
It's just a bad idea.
7.24.2019
Not your usual donnybrook
Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy - Lawfare
Yes, adding a backdoor increases our collective security because it allows law enforcement to eavesdrop on the bad guys. But adding that backdoor also decreases our collective security because the bad guys can eavesdrop on everyone. This is exactly the policy debate we should be having—not the fake one about whether or not we can have both security and surveillance.*
Peachy
After four or five feckless tries to buy a halfway decent peach at my local grocery store this summer I was just about to give up the hunt, and then I cut into this last one on the counter and it's, well, peachy.
So now I don't know.
So now I don't know.
Things get sticky in New Orleans
Sweet mess: Syrup spills at edge of French Quarter
… police tweeted a #SYRUPDATE that began "We're not waffling."
7.23.2019
Will global warming save the whales? (Maybe in Maine)
Maine political leaders promise to press Trump for state's lobster haulers opposed to new rules — Hancock — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine
According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, no right whales have died from entanglement in Maine fishing lines in many years, as increasingly rising ocean temperatures have driven the whales and the food they eat into Canadian territory.
7.22.2019
I've heard of blue hair, but who has Bluetooth hair?
Hacked Bluetooth hair straighteners are too hot to handle – Naked Security
As its name implies, it uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to communicate with an Android Glamoriser app and, as with a growing number of previously dumb and perfectly satisfactory consumer products, it's SMART – by now most readers will know what's coming next.
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