I just finished listening to the Shit Town podcast. Has anyone else listened to it? After the first episode, my wife said “That guy (John B.) sounds a lot like someone from Balloon Juice.” Overall, I liked it a lot but I thought it dragged a lot after the first three or four episodes. I …
Headlines that make me want to gouge out my eyes with a melon baller
What do you get when you cross an inanity with a pathetic attempt to paper over gaping ineptitude and a statement of the blindingly fucking obvious? This headline from your paper of record: Trump keeps global rivals off balance with improvisational foreign policy, but it has risks https://t.co/uPyDhxCaaJ — NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) April 20, 2017 …
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Writing Group Update and Open Thread
I’ve been debating a writer’s thread this weekend and YES won out. So there will be an one at the usual time, 12:30/11:30/10:30/9:30. Two things caught my eye today: For our New England friends, the Tall Ships are coming. https://t.co/2VFZKBqFWB — Miss T (@TaMaraRullo) April 21, 2017 There is a great slideshow at the link. …
Catching the falling knife in Iowa
Iowa’s Exchange market is in trouble. Right now there looks to be one insurer, Medica, that will cover most of the state. I think this is a stable equilibrium. But what is going on in Iowa that makes it such a stressed out state. It has some of the typical problems with large transitional, underwritten …
100 Days of Derpitude
Twitler doesn’t understand much, including how the government works. But he does know how news cycles function in the celebrity-driven media circus that swirls around him, so he knows he’s about to get hammered for failing to achieve anything of note in his first 100 days: No matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous …
Friday Morning Open Thread: March for Science
They were ordinary people, who did extraordinary things pic.twitter.com/WQBeWxWU9o — WIRED (@WIRED) April 20, 2017 Question from commentor MarcoPolo: Have my lab coat & will be at the St Louis march w/ friends. Hoping the weather winds up being more cooperative than is currently forecast (rain & about 50). 50/50 on whether I wind up …
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On The Road
Good Morning All, This weekday feature is for Balloon Juicers who are on the road, travelling, etc. and wish to share notes, links, pictures, stories, etc. from their escapades. As the US mainland begins the end of the Earth day as we measure it, many of us rise to read about our friends and their …