Excellent advice from one who did. Rule number two in this list of ten commandments goes beyond the needed snark (and the first principle, which might be called the Tao of science: the only way to achieve Nobelity is not to strive for it). This second principle actually says something dead on point on where …
As The WarCons Reband, Let Us Trip Down Memory Lane
Twelve years ago today, Donald Rumsfeld composed this: (h/t Rob Golan-Vilella) As the entire Republican party brays for war in Syria, Iran, Ukraine, wherever next…remember: their reunion tour will make us long for Nickleback. That bad.
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Justice Delayed…
The good news: Anthony Ray Hinton walked out of the Jefferson County Jail at 9:30 a.m. today a free man for the first time in 30 years. “The sun does shine,” he said as he was embraced by family and friends. The bad: One of the longest serving death row prisoners in Alabama history and …
The Great Satan And Islamofascist Central Agree!
Nuclear talks with Iran produce a preliminary agreement. Statement glossed here. Obama to speak on the accord at 2:15 In the meantime, here’s the debate prompt: Worst deal since Munich or worst deal ever? Discuss. Image: Jan Fyt, Mushrooms, first half of the 17th century.
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Now This Is Funny
Via Boing Boing, this, from Google Japan: Most scary: the seeming universal nature of hipster affect. Talk amongst Ur-selves.
Today’s Republicans: Traitors Or Psychopaths?
On the treason side, I give you Stephen Steven King¹, who is, of course, of interest to any GOP presidential aspirant as a major figure (FSM save the Republic!) in first-in-the-nation-caucus-state Iowa: “…here is what [one] thing that I don’t understand, I don’t understand how Jews in America can be Democrats first and Jewish second and support Israel …
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Smart Linebacker Wants To Stay Smart
Via ESPN: BERKELEY, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland, one of the NFL’s top rookies this past season, told “Outside the Lines” on Monday that he is retiring because of concerns about the long-term effects of repetitive head trauma. Borland, 24, said he notified the 49ers on Friday. He said he made his …