Got nothing to say, but everyone else is not posting, so I thought I would put up a thread.
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Got nothing to say, but everyone else is not posting, so I thought I would put up a thread.
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Omnes Omnibus
little boots will be pleased. But I am going to bed.
patrick II
Watched the Blackhawks tonight — err last night, it’s after midnight. Anyhow, the Blackhawks won in overtime — again. That is six overtime periods — including a 3 OT game 1 — in four games. In last years finals they played 5 overtime periods in six games — including another 3 overtime game one, so in the last ten playoff games the Blackhawks have played 11 overtime periods.
I am over sixty years old. They should show some mercy.
Anne Laurie
Sure, now you post… in the brief interval after I’ve proofed my draft and before I can hit the publish button!
I’d pull my thread, but this way people can carp at me instead of you.
Ruckus
@Anne Laurie:
I think you two plan this for more hits. Or not.
Origuy
Music in AL’s thread, miscellany in this one, what’s the problem?
There’s a big problem in scientific research with “predatory journals”, basically vanity publishing for the test tube set. For a large fee, they’ll publish your paper with little or no peer review. A geologist in Ottawa threw together a paper from a mishmash of other articles, mixing biology, medicine, geology, astronomy, etc. He sent it to 18 of these journals. Only two rejected it, and one of those would have with some “minor tweaks”.
Violet
First of its kind fracking judgment for a family that suffered severe health problems as a result of the wells near their property. Jury award the family $2.9 million:
Link. Interesting story. Sounds like they’ve been through hell and will continue to have health problems. Case could set precedent.
Bruce Webb
@Origuy: Man that is awesome. And worth a Special Category
Ig Nobel Prize
http://www.improbable.com/ig/
Bob In Portland
Is Russian jets invading Ukrainian airspace like North Vietnamese patrol boats attacking the US Navy or like The Maine or like WMDs and aluminum tubes. Maybe they’re like the photos of those Russians who were Ukrainians who weren’t. Those old ladies in the city squares in eastern Ukraine, terrorists, right?
How are these not lies?
Every day the propaganda machine throws up something else but the prog/lefty side of the internet can’t seem to sort out how to handle this. The lack of coverage here at Balloon Juice seems to indicate that the folks who post here aren’t foursquare behind the saber-rattling but haven’t figured out what position to take.
If the propaganda is wrong about Russia, maybe they were wrong about the Cold War, and that would be very confusing. That would mean that our country’s foreign policy for the last sixty years was a lie. Whoa!