Burying The Lede
(Advisory — clicking the link on that image may take you to “too much information”)
h/t Sean
Great Moments In Socialism
The program, Panera Cares, was initially created to serve food to low-income people nine years ago in 2010. The concept was a pay-what-you-want business model in which patrons visiting the restaurant could eat for a donation.
In 2010, Ron Shaich — the company’s founder and former CEO — said that the program’s aim was a “test of humanity.”
I won’t spoil the ending.
From The People Who Want To Engineer Your Climate
And your driving, and your diet…
Compostable bags, cups and cutlery are designed to be even more environmentally friendly than their standard biodegradable counterparts. Like biodegradables, they are capable of breaking down into the soil, but compostables have the added benefit of releasing valuable nutrients into the soil when they decompose. Such nutrients can aid the growth of plants and other wildlife, making compostables the plastics of choice for environmental advocates.
Compostable use in the U.S. is rising dramatically, with the number of certified products climbing 80 percent in less than four years.
However, to properly break down, compostable products typically need to undergo high temperatures and moisture. Such conditions require placement in special industrial facilities. While a growing number of programs offer compostable disposal sites, a lack of proper labeling and public unawareness is resulting in many people simply throwing away their compostables in the trash, where they end up in landfills and fail to decompose.
Lady Hitchhikes Across Iraq To Prove Humans Are Good
I won’t spoil the ending.
We Need A Famine
Vancouver Home’s $2,000 Cat Door
The story, unfortunately, tells us otherwise very little about the cat — personality, reading habits, wardrobe, his take-out menu. Which is a shame. It would be nice to know, for example, what jewelry he selected for his litter box. No self-respecting tabby with a two-grand bolt hole is going to back-squirt in some 10-buck plastic pan from Walmart. That we can be sure of. It’s a Birks box and a gold flush or Robert’s your uncle.
h/t Me No Dhimmi
This is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society
“”How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school?”
This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, “nearly 240 schools … reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.” The number is far higher than most other estimates.
But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government’s Civil Rights Data Collection.
We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.”
What could possibly account for the discrepancy?
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights administers the survey every two years.
Oh.
Famous Last Words
“You watch the news and you read the papers and you’re led to believe that the world is a big, scary place,” wrote Austin during their trek. “People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted….I don’t buy it.
This Is Your Power Grid On Windoze
Flashback…
Oceans Of Propaganda
The World Wildlife Fund and Ocean Conservancy both provided ebullient quotes for Starbucks’ press releases. Liberal magazine The New Republic praised the move as an “environmental milestone.” Slate hailed the Starbucks straw ban as evidence of as a victory for a bona fide anti-straw movement, one that would hopefully lead to bans of more things plastic in years to come.
Yet missing from this fanfare was the inconvenient fact that by ditching plastic straws, Starbucks will actually be increasing its plastic use. As it turns out, the new nitro lids that Starbucks is leaning on to replace straws are made up of more plastic than the company’s current lid/straw combination.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
If only we had this kind of catch and release technology for bacteria, so that we didn’t have to kill them with antiseptic cleaners.
If You Build It
Wynneing!
A $650,000 logo is never a $650,000 logo.
The Emperor Has No Paint
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Laugh Our Asses Off At Neil Young
Musician Neil Young blasted the Alberta oilsands on Sunday and urged Canadians to rise up.
“It’s the greediest, most destructive and disrespectful demonstration of something run amok that you can ever see,” he said. “There is no way to describe it. It’s truly a disaster.”
This Is My Brother Mohammed, and This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
That’s not how they work, Omar…
The Rebel’s obsession with Muslims led some online algorithm to believe that they’re a good place to advertise a Muslim dating site #hilarious pic.twitter.com/e3GE72Tg5n
— Omar Alghabra (@OmarAlghabra) February 8, 2018
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The company engaged in risky speculation in the finance field far away from its core competencies, while embracing progressive values in its fabled industrial divisions.
It’s as if they don’t understand that “progressive” is newspeak for “socialist”.