Reader Tips

Reader Tips 19 Comments

Even the most hardcore ethnomusicologists among us will be impressed by tonight’s musical entertainment en route to the Tips, as Nina & Frederik, all padookied up in whiteface, perform an unmistakably authentic Caribbean version of the Calypso classic Mango Vendor.
When they’re finished, the video will automatically stop playing.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.

19 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Yes, Oregon:

    Measure 88 won more votes than anything else on the Oregon ballot. More votes than pot legalization. More than the incumbent governor, the incumbent senator or any of the six other ballot measures. The widely popular, landslide vote on Measure 88 prohibits illegal immigrants from getting drivers licenses.

    Filched from American Digest.

  2. “British judges could force mothers-to-be to pay compensation to their child and face criminal charges for ingesting certain types of food or drink during pregnancy that are deemed risky for unborn children.
    …
    types of food and drink, such as unpasteurised cheese, runny eggs or raw meat and fish, could land women with “crime of violence” charges because it puts the foetus at risk.”
    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-pregnant-women-eating-cheese-could-face-fine-criminal-record-1473404
    Apparently abortions are still ok as far as the risk to fetus is concerned….

  8. A potato genetically engineered to reduce the amounts of a potentially harmful ingredient in French fries and potato chips has been approved for commercial planting, the Department of Agriculture announced on Friday.
    The potato’s DNA has been altered so that less of a chemical called acrylamide, which is suspected of causing cancer in people, is produced when the potato is fried.
    The new potato also resists bruising, a characteristic long sought by potato growers and processors for financial reasons. Potatoes bruised during harvesting, shipping or storage can lose value or become unusable.
    The biotech tubers were developed by the J. R. Simplot Company, a privately held company based in Boise, Idaho, which was the initial supplier of frozen French fries to McDonald’s in the 1960s and is still a major supplier. The company’s founder, Mr. Simplot, who died in 2008, became a billionaire.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/08/business/genetically-modified-potato-from-simplot-approved-by-usda.html

  11. Yeah that’s right Fearless Leader.
    I guess North of 60, a vague inadvertent reference to IQ level, belongs to the ages. Now it’s John Galt; different name same paranoia.

  15. AGW Regress Report.
    Ich Bin Der Stupidd.
    “Americans must be just too stupid to appreciate all that President Obama and the Democrats have done and to understand the climate risks that threaten ahead.”
    …-
    “German Climate Alarmists Deflated By GOP Election Sweep: “Could Not Have Come At A Worse Time””
    “Especially the many German greens and socialists are struggling to fathom what happened and are only left to conclude that Americans must be just too stupid to appreciate all that President Obama and the Democrats have done and to understand the climate risks that threaten ahead.
    For the reaction of Germany’s formidable climate alarmism movement, a good one is presented by klimaretter.info, an online alarmist site on climate and energy policy run by a motley crew of activist journalists with no scientific background.
    “It could not have been any worse”
    http://notrickszone.com/2014/11/07/german-climate-alarmists-deflated-by-gop-election-sweep-could-not-have-come-at-a-worse-time/

  17. Why should anyone object to genetically engineered junk food? If someone can make a profit from the willful ignorance of people then why not? That’s what free will and free enterprise is all about. Someone is working on edible packaging; all they have to do is make sweet bacon flavored cardboard and the people will eat it. Garbage problem solved. It won’t be long before they can hook the toilets to a machine that makes McNuggets. Soylent green is the best answer to the obesity epidemic; make ‘new’ junk food from used junk food.

  18. John Galt lives North of 60. Name – address. Got it now, or do you need a picture to color in? Too bad if you have a problem with that, and your paranoid mind feels deceived. Suck it up, buttercup; welcome to the internet.

  19. ‘John Galt lives North of 60. Name – address’
    And here I thought John Galt was a character in an Ayn Rand novel.
    Beautiful country North of 60, especially the Alaska and Dempster highway.

Proudly powered by WordPress & Skyrocket Themes

MENU

Navigation