This is a video that will haunt your nightmares: Go to NPR‘s story on this for a narrated version of the video — and you’ll find that what you see is a bacterial colony developing extraordinary capacities for antibiotic resistance in a shockingly short time — two weeks, or a little less, to go from a naive, …
Election 2016
The GOP Yearns for A Strong Daddy, Even If He’s A Russian Autocrat
(Tom Toles via GoComics.com) . So, like good little authoritarians, other Repubs rushed to praise Strong Daddy Vlad, too also… Mike Pence: "Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader" than Barack Obama has been https://t.co/1k3DjLoFqM https://t.co/9c5lMYOX1a — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 8, 2016 GO? https://t.co/xyF9XrNUsg — Josh Barro (@jbarro) September 8, 2016 Rep King (R-IA) …
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Open Thread: Cheap Laffs from the Peanut Gallery
Gary Johnson stuns "Morning Joe" hosts by asking "What is Aleppo?" (VIDEO) https://t.co/kadPLBgizK pic.twitter.com/5mZLCIw7Z2 — Talking Points Memo (@TPM) September 8, 2016 You'd think that a libertarian candidate for president would not only know where Aleppo is, but would praise it as a private sector Eden! — Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) September 8, 2016 @AlGiordano Someone …
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Trump is a Goddamned moron, and has no honor.
But you already knew that. Here’s where it matters.
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Open Thread: They Call Him “Mr. Popular”
The major aftershock from last night's forum appears to be that intel officials are super-pissed off at Trump. https://t.co/Z0hJJSzEav — Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) September 8, 2016 Granted that mid-level professionals in every industry tend to regard the ever-changing “suits” at the top of their hierarchies as seagulls (fly in/squawk&shit/disappear): As U.S. officials cast doubt on …
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Iraqi Oil Fields: Let Me Tell You a Story…
One of the major items that came out of last night’s Commander In Chief Town Hall on NBC/MSNBC was Donald Trump’s repeating his oft stated position that the US should have taken Iraq’s oil. I will leave the lively discussion of the logistics of this to others, and just briefly acknowledge that this would have …
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Embedded Video of Clinton Press Conference
Here’s the embed of the now not so live feed:
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