Friday, July 28. 2017
 French Philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle Dies Attempting to Save Drowning Children
Philosopher and Psychoanalyst. An advocate of taking risks in life. Good for her. She died well, valiantly, in action and not in deep thought.
A Four Thousand Year Old Bond
Keeping Cocktails Cold Without Dilution
Sheesh, Coyote. Is this all that important? I like the physics, tho.
A Guide to Global Book-Reading Habits
The Incas and the Collectivist State
Only the royalty led full free lives. Still that way lots of places where people are oppressed by a parental State
Picture Alan Alda in a leotard. That is a campus liberal’s concept of healthy masculinity.
Speaking of which, See the Violent Italian Sport that Inspired Modern Football
I would not last long out there, I am sorry to say
Researchers Have Been Underestimating the Cost of Wind and Solar
Empowering the Administrative State
European nations treat their people like sheep; the USA treats its people more like goats, although the would-be shepherds keep pushing
New Orleans bilks federal taxpayers of $2 billion in Hurricane Katrina repairs
Hey, it's the New Orleans Way
The military isn’t about social engineering, it’s about lethality and protecting the US
Seven Republicans betray their party and their constituents
They had the chance to do something good. Could have gotten rid of mandate, allowed a wide variety of plans, and allowed cross-state plan sales. For starters.
Related: 15 million Americans would opt out of Obamacare if they could
John McCain Kills Obamacare Repeal With Single Decisive Vote
'Let Obamacare fail,' says Trump. It already has.
Charlie Guard: The inevitable ending for those under a government run single-payer system
Top FBI Lawyer Under Investigation For Leaking
Imran Awan Needs a Special Prosecutor 1000x More Than Trump
Related from Steyn: RussiaRussiaRussiaRussiaRealbitofnewsRussiaRussiaRussiaRussia...Wait a minute, what was that?
Still waiting for PMSNBC to get smart and hire Steyn. World-class wit.
Imran Awan Scandal Shows Just How Much Dirt Dems Wanted to Hide By Focusing on Trump-Russia
Russia probe: Democrats block key witness against shadowy firm Fusion GPS
Shady Research Firm Fusion GPS Behind Fake Trump Dossier WAS BEING PAID BY DNC AND RUSSIANS!
Malanga: Same Old “New” Democrats - Trying to reclaim lost voters, the party rolls out a derivative slogan to promote old, failed ideas.
The Post-Hillary Democrats - How in God’s name, the Democrats wonder, did we ever lose the 2016 election to HIM?
Are The Unions Finally Getting Tired Of The Democrats?
Z-man on Trump:
He’s a once in a century political force who will be judged more on what he destroys than on what he creates. He is the destroyer of worlds, because the world of Washington needs destroying.
House Judiciary Committee Calls for Second Special Counsel to Investigate Hillary, Lynch, and Comey
Drain the swamp! It's about time.
Senators caught on hot mic: 'Donald Trump is crazy. I'm worried'
The President Better Pick His Battles To Win The DC Game of Thrones
Re this Mooch guy, it's a new low for this White House
Is he that guy from Goodfellas? Or is he Scarafucile? I know people have always talked that way in the West Wing, but not in public.
CNN’s Jake Tapper: Scaramucci 100% Right, People Trying to Bring Down Trump From Within…
British Police Force to ‘Consider’ Charging People Who Mocked Promise to Track Down Trolls
How shall I mock thee? Let me count the ways...
Wednesday, July 26. 2017
"Why is Michigan's Upper Peninsula not part of Wisconsin?"
Shrinkflation at the supermarket
Sneaky
Would a supervolcano wipe out civilization?
Roomba maker may share maps of users' homes with Google, Amazon or Apple
Why Randi Weingarten has to lie to attack school choice
Feds Dole Out $3 Million To Fight “Microaggressions” In Science Fields…
Princeton’s new ‘men’s engagement manager’ to combat aggressive masculinity on campus
Toxic femininity vs "toxic masculinity." Sheesh. Can't we all just get along?
Berkeley Radio Station Cancels Richard Dawkins Appearance Over His Denigrating Comments About Islamism-- But Not Over His Far More Extensive History of Attacks on Christianity
Muslims are a protected group
Like him or not, ya gotta admit Rush has fun with his radio show
He just has to talk about his iPhone
Drugs vs. Border: How Smugglers Get Creative (video)
Rescind the Obamacare Rule Exempting Congress
Coyote: Public Choice and "Privilege"
Economy Needs Workers, but Drug Tests Take a Toll
Democrats 'Better Deal' Agenda Isn't New, And It Isn't Better
Dems promise freebies, Repubs promise jobs growth
The Democratic Party’s False Centrism
Trump Is Offering Populism, Minus the Free Candy
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SICKENING TREATMENT OF JEFF SESSIONS
" Trump seems surprised by all the difficulties he's facing as president. Does he have any idea of how his treatment of those who work with him will make it even more difficult to find competent people who are willing to come work for him?"
Does anyone doubt that the New York Times has already prepared the title for the editorial on terminating the Trump presidency. Perhaps it reads: "Now, Finally, He Must Go!
Saturday, July 22. 2017
Prologue
Below, I have the now-infamous Marc Morano 'Climate Hustle' documentary that so unnerved the delegates at the Paris climate accords in December of 2015.
Will he do perp walk? Morano ‘WANTED’ posters for being a ‘Climate Criminal’ go up in Paris on eve of ‘Climate Hustle’ premiere
Climate criminal Marc Moreno looking guilty, as he should
Luckily, Mr. Moreno skipped town just before the storm troopers arrived.
France Puts 24 Climate Activists Under House Arrest Ahead of UN Talks
Three of those concerned, who are in their late 20s, are suspected of belonging to the "radical opposition movement", according to information obtained by AFP.
Close one, Marc!
Before we get to the video, allow me to set the background with a few relevant links and quotes. You're welcome to skip ahead and watch it, of course; I'm just posting the following to show that the claims made in the documentary are hardly unique.
Continue reading "(We've been...) Climate Hustled"
No One Hates Your Transgender Child. We Hate What You Are Doing to Him
How fentanyl is making deadly drugs even deadlier
Loving a Borderline
Idleness kills manliness
How Capitalism Averted The Bee-Pocalypse
The Man Who Got Americans To Eat Trash Fish Is Now A Billionaire
The 20 most in-demand jobs that pay more than $100,000
World War II Military Surplus 1911’s Coming To Store Shelves
Ice cover in Greenland is steadily increasing, in defiance of rising carbon levels and even greater levels of green rhetoric.
Claremont McKenna Punishes 7 Students Over Blockade Of Heather Mac Donald Speech
California College Chancellor Wants To Abolish Algebra Requirement, Calls It A ‘Civil Rights Issue’
How bad is grade inflation?
Minnesota Schools Adopt Transgender Toolkit for Kindergartners
An Immigration Horror Story
I think the real problem is that he’s embarrassed them by solving the problem quickly, easily, and cheaply. That is unforgivable.
Food Stamp Use Falls to Lowest Level in Seven Years
Political Intolerance Is Rising
Media Spins Positive Trump Poll as Negative
Where did white voters back Hillary Clinton?
Clinton Scandal Only Deepens — So Why Is Trump, Not Hillary, Targeted For Investigation?
Latest Deep State Leak Proves Obama Was Spying on Trump Campaign Early On
MUELLER EXPANDS HIS PROBE AGAIN - It’s all Russia, Russia and Trump, Trump -- all the time.
Mike Pompeo: Russia Interfered In The 2016 Campaign — And Campaigns Before That
[Fill in Name of Government Program] Would Have Worked Had the Right Person Been Running It
Gorka: America is back with the first 6 months of Trump
President Trump Kills 16 Regulations For Every New One, Crushing 2-For-1 Goal
Netanyahu Unbound
Slovenia’s Side of Melania’s Story: How the First Lady’s Upbringing in Communist Eastern Europe Shaped Her Fight for Freedom in America
Amsterdam to punish unsuccessful dating attempts
Sweden: A Failed State?
The Red Cross and the Holocaust
Iran’s terrorism goliath - The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps terrorizes its own people and casts a dark shadow over the world
Friday, July 21. 2017
h/t Q&O
Thursday, July 20. 2017
 How did dogs become our best friends? New evidence
´Let them eat food off the floor, play in the soil!´: It IS important to expose your children to germs to boost their immune system, expert urges
At age 111, America's oldest veteran is still smoking cigars, drinking whiskey and loving life
The Royal Family's dress code uncovered
Why Americans Are Having Less Sex
Perfect: Listen, Area Boss Gets It
USA Today: People Might Be Upset By Lack Of Women, Black People In ‘Dunkirk
Green Cronyism Gone Wild: It Looks Like The State Of California Is Bailing Out Tesla
What Facebook Can Learn From Company Towns - As the technology firm plans to build a village in Silicon Valley, history suggests what can sustain a company town long after its founders are gone.
No Justification for Importing More Low-skilled Labor, Study Claims
The Myth of Technological Unemployment - If the nightmare of technological unemployment were true, it would already have happened, repeatedly and massively.
The Mother of All Disruptions - Yes, robots are coming to the workplace, fast—and yes, America will change.
These Technologies Are Changing Farms in Some Surprising Ways - As agriculture adopts recent advances in automation and data science, farms will become super-efficient — and perhaps a bit lonely.
My University Treated Me Like a Criminal Over a Joke
Why It's a Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence
The English Language Is Under Attack. We Must Defend It.
Contrarian:
Fifteen posts into this series -- and I certainly hope that you have read all of them -- perhaps there are still a few of you out there who continue to believe that this whole global average surface temperature (GAST), "hottest year ever," "record warming" thing can't really be completely fraudulent...
WaPo’s Latest Worries About How Somali Community Will React To Police Shooting
Epstein: The Single-Payer Siren
Ronald Reagan has the answer to GOP’s ObamaCare riddle
The Left’s ‘Hamburger Problem’ Is Not Going Away
Josh Barro is a recovering ex-Republican who is now a member of a niche political group: the non-crazy Democrats. He coined a cute phrase — “the hamburger problem” — to describe the relentless politicization of everything by progressives and Democrats. He writes, “Democrats’ problem isn’t that they’re on the wrong side of policy issues. It’s that they’re too ready to bother too many ordinary people about too many of their personal choices, all the way down to the hamburgers they eat.” He cites nonstop Democratic hectoring on, inter alia, the team name of the Washington Redskins, the way men sit on subway trains, and even some Americans’ choice not to abide by China’s one-child standard as the reasons why the party is today as electorally wobbly as Rocky Balboa in the 15th round. Yet the GOP’s success puzzles him still, because so many core Democratic cultural ideals (notably, gay marriage and marijuana decriminalization) poll more and more strongly.
...
When John Stuart Mill called the British conservatives “the stupidest party,” it stuck. Today the Democrats are the Annoying Party. The Left thinks Americans are picturing Mary Poppins when they talk about the nanny state; in truth, they’re thinking of Nurse Ratched. The prospect of a new set of nuisances being dreamed up and lashingly enforced by Hillary Clinton is what led voters to roll the dice with an Atlantic City grifter.
Elizabeth Warren Attends Martha’s Vineyard Fundraising Dinner Hosted By Big Bank Executive
About erasing history:
It would be far better to teach the vital lesson that good men, well-meaning men, brave men and women, can be dreadfully wrong by our current standards and understanding. Charlemagne’s world is not the post-modern European Union. Neither was that of Cortez and De Soto. We need to be studying these men and women in order to remember that they did great things in terrible ways, they did what we today consider heinous things in the name of what they believe to be a great good, that they were not perfect and neither are we. Napoleon was a great man. A great and terrible man, because the wars he unleashed on Europe and his exporting the ideas of the French Revolution led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, people left homeless, and sowed the seeds for troubles that were and are still bearing fruit. So do we erase Napoleon from European history? Or do we learn from all his complexity?
While Nation Is Focused On Healthcare, The WH Press Corps Continue To Push Russia Conspiracies
Taxing Hospitals Is a Lousy Way to Fix Health Care- Higher hospital profits were a feature of Obamacare, not a bug.
Fmr. U.N. Amb. Power Emerges As Central Figure In Obama Unmasking Investigation - Congress demands answers on why Obama officials demanded classified intel that harmed Trump
Pavlich: Clinton’s Russia dirt
Tucker Carlson Calls Out Dems For Double Standard On Russia
USPS broke law in allowing workers to boost Clinton campaign, watchdog says
New Documents Suggest “Puff Pieces” On Dem Sen. Kamala Harris Due to Major Spending With PR Firm
Palestinians: Another Lopsided Deal
Palestinian Authority’s 2017 Budget Shows ‘Huge Increase’ in Funding for Terror Payments
Mosul and Urban Warfare
The city is severely damaged, with neighborhoods reduced to rubble. Its people have endured sustained terror.
Blame ISIS for the terror and ruin. ISIS commanders relied on beheadings and torture to control the population. They obliterated numerous shrines and historic sites in the region, with the biblical city of Nimrud a special target. Why? Erasing history ISIS leaders deemed "un-Islamic" was a key political policy.
UNESCO is an Immoral, Anti-Semitic Organization - Decent Countries Should Leave
Tuesday, July 18. 2017
Late due to extended delightful dental fun
There Is No Human Right to a Big Mac
EVANGELICAL FUNDAMENTALISM AND CATHOLIC INTEGRALISM IN THE USA: A SURPRISING ECUMENISM
Monday, July 17. 2017
Ancient Peat Bog Sheds New Light On When Sahara Turned Into A Desert – But Not Why It Happened
The 4 Best Reasons to Skip Church — Debunked
Anglicans and Episcopalians: Why bother going to church, when you can get the same liberal lecture from television?
Student gets stuck in giant stone vagina in Germany
Were chastity belts a myth?
Stone vagina didn't have one on
When Your Doctor Is Fitter Than You Are
Book Review – 4/5 Stars: “101 Things ALL Young Adults Should Know”
Ride Hailing Is Being Blamed For Taking Down Credit Unions In New York City
San Francisco Bans Chocolate Milk … Because Anything Enjoyable Is Obviously Evil
Why can't governments just give us the short list of what is permitted?
California Doesn’t Have Money To Fix Roads, Drops Millions On Gun Violence Research
The New York Times Thinking Speech Is Violence Is Laughable
NY Times Goes Mac & Cheesy With Science
How the Left Hijacked the American Psychiatric Association and Normalized Personality Disorders
The ancient Greeks invented them
Haiti Official Who Exposed The Clinton Foundation Is Found Dead.
Interesting: Fusion GPS Co-Founder Refuses to Appear Before Senate Judiciary Committee
Editorial: Campus rape? Call the police.
Colleges Pay Diversity Officers More Than Professors, Staff
Climate-change fearmongering has turned totally unhinged
IS GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISM A COMPLETE FRAUD?
California wants to run the auto industry
Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage Experiment Does Not Bode Well for the Rest of Us
It's a job-killer
Now too many Polar Bears
They said they'd be extinct by now
Pruitt blasts Europe, Merkel for ‘hypocrisy’ on climate
Research Team Slams Global Warming Data In New Report: "Not Reality... Totally Inconsistent With Credible Temperature Data"
I think I am normal, and I don't care
This Is What Happens When You Ask Pro-Taxers to Pay More
Natural Law: Mark Levin on Rediscovering Americanism
GOP Guest Hits MSNBC Host With Stat of Journalists Donating 96% to Clinton
The weaponization of the law, particularly the civil courts has become so common, that we no longer notice it.
Is Major Medical insurance junk insurance?
Democrats' Real, Pervasive Collusion With Russia Somehow Lost In Media's Hysterical Anti-Trump Campaign
I've Worked with Refugees for Decades. Europe's Afghan Crime Wave Is Mind-Boggling.
Italy Threatens EU With "Nuclear Option": Give 200,000 Migrants EU Visas, Sending Them North
Europe: Frustrated, Joe plops down in front of his TV, only to hear his favorite comedian mock White males like him while praising the politician responsible for mass lay-offs and mass immigration.
Saturday, July 15. 2017
 McDonald´s fries: The little-known ingredient that makes them so addictive
How St. Augustine Invented Sex - He rescued Adam and Eve from obscurity, devised the doctrine of original sin—and the rest is sexual history.
Good stuff:
The archaic story of the naked man and woman, the talking snake, and the magical trees was something of an embarrassment. It was Augustine who rescued it from the decorous oblivion to which it seemed to be heading. He bears principal responsibility for its prominence, including the fact that four in ten Americans today profess to believe in its literal truth. During the more than forty years that succeeded his momentous conversion—years of endless controversy and the wielding of power and feverish writing—he persuaded himself that it was no mere fable or myth. It was the key to everything...
The ancient, secular reason why saints are shown with halos
Romania's marital prison
Book Review: Russell Redenbaugh's 'Shift the Narrative'
An impressive man
New Theory Explains Economic Growth In Terms Of Evolutionary Biology
Science: Power Causes Brain Damage - Studies raise questions about what authority does to the mind.
Concentration Camps Reveal the Nature of the Modern State
Feminist Magazine Explains Why You Must Not Gender Your Pets
High Schools as Indoctrination Mills
The Problem With Helicopter Colleges - The Harvard professor Steven Pinker objects to a proposal to ban various undergraduate social clubs, citing a model of higher education that many elite institutions are rejecting.
Not Everything Is Caused by Climate Change, Part 971
ABC, NBC under fire after smearing Christian organization as a “hate group”
AN UNHINGED LINDA SARSOUR LASHES OUT AT THE “ZIONIST MEDIA”
The Left’s Inversion of Anti-Semitism - The new, inverted definition of anti-Semitism.
Social Security Slouches Towards Insolvency
Atlantic: Tucker Carlson Is Doing Something Extraordinary - He is offering a glimpse into what Fox News would look like as an intellectually interesting network.
The One Sentence That Explains Washington Dysfunction - Column: The political class never expected Donald Trump to become president
Jamie Dimon blows up at DC's dysfunction, says he's tired of 'listening to the stupid s----
Trump Derangement Syndrome: Yes, They Have All Gone Completelyy insane
Donald Trump appears to have caused David Brooks to lose his senses. In today’s New York Times, Brooks imputes the alleged ethical lapses of Donald Trump to the the original sins of his grandfather and father.
Germany: Infectious Diseases Spreading as Migrants Settle In
What Really Matters in the Middle East
Friday, July 14. 2017
From a commenter on HuffPost Ventures Out to Discover There’s a Whole Country Between the Coasts:
I wonder what @HuffPost will discover on their tour across the Midwest. Can we hashtag this and start a trend?
— basic becky (@Tiffany1985B) July 13, 2017
Report: saw a truck with a gun rack.
Literally. Shaking.
— Texas Guy (@Collinsdw) July 13, 2017
#HuffPoInTheHeartland
Tried to merge in traffic, driver motioned for us to go ahead. Patriarchy even on the highways.
— Lizzy Lou Who???? (@_wintergirl93) July 13, 2017
That random stranger told me to have a nice day. I blew my rape whistle in their face. #HuffPoInTheHeartland
— Dizzy Dee (@ihate_everyone2) July 13, 2017
Thursday, July 13. 2017
How can a Swedish woman raped by an illegal Muslim immigrant be so bursting with racial guilt that she hesitates to report the crime to the police for fear that her report might lead to her rapist's punishment or deportation? Or, more generally, because news of the offense might result in an increase in “Islamophobia?"
India's Gruesome New Welfare Trend
France Unveils Plan To ‘Systematically’ Deport Illegal Migrants
Wednesday, July 12. 2017
A riptide swept away a Florida family. Then beachgoers formed a human chain.
How Zillow Became an Internet Villain - Poor little "McMansion Hell" was a small and sympathetic target.
Evergreen State upheaval felt like some sort of warzone, scholar says
Professors Must Now Fear Intimidation From Both Sides
Expecting good grammar is racist
Speaker gets disrespected by high schoolers, and it inspires him to deliver a great speech (video)
Why Roman concrete still stands strong while modern version decays
Imagine if the media covered alcohol like other drugs….
Ray Bradbury Wrote ‘Fahrenheit 451’ to Prevent a Dystopia. Instead, He Predicted One
We Just Passed Prince Charles’s 96-Month Deadline to Save The World From ‘Ecosystem Collapse’
The Grenfell Tower Fire Would Not Have Happened Without EU And Climate Regulations
As Trump mulls DACA change, undocumented students enjoy lower tuition rates, other perks
Hartford, Hit with Brunt of Connecticut Tax Hike, Hires Bankruptcy Attorney
Why Replacing Obamacare Is So Hard: It’s Fundamentally Conservative
Senate Obamacare Debate Is About Money, Not Compassion
WaPo: The media’s mass hysteria over ‘collusion’ is out of control
"... to the Atlantic writers, defending Western civilization is nothing more than a defense of white racism."
Those of us who have long equated the left with opposition to Western civilization are vindicated. We didn't need Beinart and Fallows -- we already had innumerable examples, such as the University of Pennsylvania English department removing its longstanding poster of William Shakespeare because he was a white male -- but in their explicit articulation of the left's view, they are immensely helpful.
Shakespeare is read in every language that has an alphabet not because he was white or European but because he is regarded as the greatest playwright who ever lived. But the leftists who run that English department place race (and gender) above excellence -- a thorough rejection of Western values...
Trump Has 6 Options to Neutralize North Korea—but None Are Good
Giuliani to EU: You’d Be ‘Far Stronger’ Without ‘Socialist Economies’
Tuesday, July 11. 2017
33 depressing photos that show Sears is a disaster
Men and Republicans Are the Best Tippers
U.S. seniors are employed at the highest rates in 55 years.
Seems like a good thing to me
NY Times: Campus Protests ‘A Disaster’ For Mizzou
Kafkatrapped at Evergreen State College - Prof. Bret Weinstein’s attempt to clear himself of false charges of racism used as proof of his racism
Award-Winning Journalist Who Broke Story of Jewish Women Barred From Chicago ‘Dyke March’ Removed From Reporting Duties
Why ordinary Americans hold politicians and media in contempt, all in one Hamptons party
Trump’s Right: The West Must First Have the Will to Survive
Maxine Waters Acts The Fool Lambasting Ivanka At G20, Chelsea Clinton Doubles Down On Stupid
At Least On Immigration, Democrats Are Still Losing The “War Of Ideas”
Z-man:
As the West de-industrialized, the enforcement of labor laws have fallen away. Masses of helot labor brought over from Asia into Silicon Valley, for example, worked under agreements they struck with the business owners. Tech companies love open borders as it gives them a loophole to avoid some of the constraints of the Servile State. The same is true at the unskilled end, where companies rely upon masses of labor from Latin America.
This is an untenable situation in its own right, but the coming automation of the American economy will result in an evolution of the Servile State. ..
White House points collusion-seeking reporters toward the Democratic National Committee
House Passes Medical Malpractice Reform Bill
Kling: A conservative American President in Poland
France: "Jihad by Court"
The Impact of Jihadi Attacks on the British Elections
Monday, July 10. 2017
It's good to be back in the land of Dunkin Donuts. The Scots are tea-drinkers. Well, tea, ale, and whisky drinkers. You can't get a cup of coffee until, at the very earliest, 7:30. Utterly unacceptable. Europeans do not seem to be early-risers.
Many thanks to our occasional (too-occasional) contributor Roger de Hauteville, the one-time Viking King of Sicily, for his unique morning links over recent days. Roger has a gift. Now back to my usual.
You’ll never want to use a reusable water bottle again (h/t Insty)
What killed the giant wombats?
10,000 years ago, North Americans were chowing down on potatoes
Masculine Moments (video)
The Pope "displayed both the demagogic skills and profound intellectual dishonesty that have become a recurring theme of his papacy."
De Blasio’s bizarre humbug in Hamburg
Obama Forgot He is No Longer President, Shows Up at G20 Summit
America’s Long March toward a Secular Socialist Democracy
Have You Heard? All Republican Presidents Are Stupid
Why Democrats are still losing the war of ideas
How and why Maine reduced the minimum wage
The minimum wage is always zero
Goodwin: The 2016 Election and the Demise of Journalistic Standards
THE NEW YORK TIMES IS IN LEGAL TROUBLE
Liberals Can't Deal With A President Who Takes America's Side
Dreher: Yes, They Really Do Despise Their Civilization
Seriously, when I read the transcript of Trump’s speech yesterday, I thought it was pretty ordinary stuff. The American president saying Western civilization is good and worth defending? This is controversial? And as I’ve said a couple of times in this space, it’s eye-rolling to hear Donald Trump talk about the importance of strong families and strong values. Still, if you’re going to go to pieces every time a politician says something hypocritical, you’ll never be able to get out of bed in the morning.
Trump Launched An Energy Revolution While Everyone Was Obsessing On His Tweets
Saturday, July 8. 2017
I need a funny quote about Saturday. I have to paste something in here. You fine readers deserve more than just a few links to digital fishwrap. You merit inspiration. You're worthy of something stimulating. The day itself warrants an attaboy.
Quotes about Saturday are thin on the ground, however. It's the day of rest of days. Saturday is for putting on go to hell pants and painting the fence. Mucking out plugged gutters off rickety stepladders. Going to the dump. Wags and deep thinkers alike have given Saturday a pass. The Saturday sojourn of sol across the firmament just doesn't move the apothegmatic meter.
I say no! Saturday must get its due. Let's see what we can find to tickle our Saturday intellect, and send us to the transfer station with a spring in our step:
Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, "I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool. -- Tina Fey
No, it isn't.
Satire is what closes on Saturday night. -- George S. Kaufman
See: Fey, Tina.
I'm blessed by the fact I only need five hours of sleep on a daily basis. I do tend to regard Saturday and Sunday as work days. -- David Rubinstein
David strikes me as the kind of person who mentions his SAT scores to everyone he meets, even though he's 54. I don't know about you, but I'm not inspired by this quote. I don't want to add any weekend toil to the good, solid, fourteen hours of work I perform during the week. Let's move on.
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. -- Lyndon Johnson
Oh, dear. Old Lyndon Baines wasn't exactly Cicero, was he? I get the impression that this quote is an adulteration of a quote from Lady Bird Johnson, "Lyndon, every man has a need for a Saturday night bath, whether he's president or not."
I enjoy Saturday night racing. -- Dale Earnhardt
Sorry Dale, but by Friday afternoon, I feel as though I've hit a wall.
Wait, that came out wrong. Never mind. Forget the whole thing. Here are the Saturday links. You're on your own for inspiration:
Dad Takes Hilarious Pics With His Baby Girl In Costumes And They’re Just Too Adorable
File that headline under: Girl with access to social media accounts who used to work at Buzzfeed. Charming dad and daughter, nonetheless.
Dad Can't Afford to Take His Daughter to Disney World, So He Improvises With an Awesome Virtual Reality Roller Coaster Ride
More good dad goodness. Now that I think of it, Saturday is a dad kind of day. I can guarantee that this dad gets comped at Disney five times over. The video is more viral than the doorknob at an Ebola clinic.
Move over millennials, members of Generation Z are ready to work
A worthy topic, and the article isn't entirely fanciful or stupid. There's no way the surveys aren't skewed to the boneheaded side of the ledger. This fellow seems to think Generation Z are all Bernie supporters, face painters, and sign holders. Not hardly. Let me sum up the generational divide from my personal experience. Millennials have wasted their useful working and reproductive lives with childish agitation and untenable social and work situations. They're already toast if they haven't cashed out their failed startup stock options. Generation Z has learned to be circumspect, won't answer surveys, don't like Millennials, and will make Eisenhower look leftist.
Do you know who these people are?
One of those pleasant pieces of internet sea glass that washes up from time to time.
Samsung set to surpass Apple as the world’s most profitable tech company
Anecdata: I was in the phone store on Wednesday. I had to choose a phone to go along with my new plan. I said, "Anything but Apple." Clerk said, "Everyone says that now."
US nonfarm payrolls total 222,000 in June vs 179,000 expected
By gad that webpage is a nightmare. Self-playing video that follows you around. Sidebar picture of a woman who got her makeup done at a funeral parlor hectoring you to change three sentences on your LinkedIn page to go from dumpster diving to six figures, and Jeff Bezos smiling or having a stroke, I can't tell the difference with him. You have to wade ten paragraphs in to find out anything important:
Those considered out of the labor force declined by 170,000 to 94.8 million while the labor force increased by 361,000 to 160.1 million.
People who have been shut out of the labor market since Nancy Pelosi hove into view are getting jobs again. It makes me happy to hear of it.
FBI: Flight attendant broke wine bottle over man's head
Everyone pretends to be angry at the airlines, but it's the TSA they hate, but don't have the nerve to confront. Making people who fight with flight crews and police into celebrities encourages more of that sort of thing. This guy probably thinks he'll be on Oprah next week, sitting next to Gloria Allred, and clutching big checks from the airline and the company that makes Ambien. I have my doubts.
Trump’s leaks crackdown sends chills through national security world. Agency officials say measures have been taken to isolate leakers, creating a culture of fear.
Oh noes! Not a culture of fear! Way to clutch those pearls, Politico. My tiny violin is working overtime.
173,000 DeVry University students will share in $49 million settlement
DeVry University has agreed to a $100 million settlement in connection to ads federal officials said misled students about their job and earning prospects.
That description only fits about 10,000 colleges.
Fight over Star Wars and Star Trek led to assault, Oklahoma police say
Oklahoma City Police Department reports show that Whyte and another man were in the living room of an apartment in the 1400 block of NW 16 Street when they began arguing if Star Wars or Star Trek was better. The victim told police he became frustrated and stated "You're just a trick" before walking back to his room.
Surprisingly, the combatants weren't pasty, obese neckbeards wearing trilbys and My Little Pony tee shirts.
Woman finds strangers living in home, and now she can't get them out
Sigh. I miss college.
Have a great Saturday, everyone!
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