After what it calls “an unduly prolonged period of reflection,” the British medical journal The Lancet has reconsidered an obituary of Dr. John Snow that it published on June 26, 1858, and apologized for other attacks on the work of the physician, who’s been dead for 155 years.
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Tonight, in tribute to memorable and “mad brilliant” comedian Jonathan Winters, who passed away on April 11 at the age of 87, here’s one of his classic routines called Super Service Station.
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The Great Divide Between Canada’s Private & Public Sector
Yesterday I had dinner with a visiting cousin of mine. He was born in 1950 and grew up on a farm in central Saskatchewan. In more recent years he has lived in suburban Alberta and has built a successful career as a contract maintenance supervisor. My cousin is a big, burly guy who might best be described as “salt of the earth” and an absolutely decent, down-to-earth fellow.
He’s not particularly political but we did delve into the subject because of this story in the newspaper: B.C.’s retiring MLAs to hit pension jackpot thanks to taxpayers’ generosity
This morning I was checking out the latest videos at Sun News and watched this segment: LCBO staff vote to strike
Tying these two disparate news items together, what’s the underlying message to private sector workers in this country? Might it not involve the word “suckers”?! When even normally apolitical taxpayers are upset, surely change has got to be coming.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Corn Belt
5,000 media scare stories later: Global Warming Not Significant in 2012 Drought
“When the Democrats do it, that means that it is not illegal”
A secret recording of a campaign strategy session between U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and his advisors was taped by leaders of the Progress Kentucky super PAC, says a longtime local Democratic operative.
Mother Jones Magazine released the tape this week. The meeting itself took place on Feb. 2.
Jacob Conway, who is on the executive committee of the Jefferson County Democratic Party, says that day, Shawn Reilly and Curtis Morrison, who founded and volunteered for Progress Kentucky, respectively, bragged to him about how they recorded the meeting.
It’s Probably Nothing
Unexpected: “Retail sales in the U.S. unexpectedly fell in March by the most in nine months as employment slowed, showing households ended the first quarter on softer footing.”
Meth Is Hard
Winnipeg’s Toxic Chemical Ingesting Community warned their toxic chemicals may be be contaminated with toxic chemicals.
Free Muslim Barbers!
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Michael Totten: What if North Korea is Serious?
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In tonight’s musical entertainment the Carter Family perform one of the many folk-tradition variants of “The Raggle Taggle Gypsy”, a traditional Scottish ballad that dates all the way back to the 1700s: Here are Sarah, Mother Maybelle, and A.P. singing Black Jack Davey.
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Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
A professor at the University of Southern California (USC) appears to have used a fall semester 2012 political science class to deliver sustained and angered attacks on Republicans, who he characterized as old, white, racist, and “losers.”
In a 15 min. video secretly captured by USC student Tyler Talgo, political science Professor Darry Sragow also appears to endorse the illegal suppression of Republican votes.
“You lose their information on the election in the mail,” he suggested when a student asked him how to keep Republicans from voting. “I mean there is lots of ways to do it [SIC].”
Video at the link. (h/t John G)
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
The DHS Customs and Border Protection requires the following items;
LI 001: Carbon Bagpipe Drone Reed Set, 5, EA;
LI 002: Bagpipe Chanter Reeds-Easy, 12, EA;
LI 003: Bagpipe Chanter Reeds-Medium, 12, EA;
LI 004: Deluxe Bagpipe Bag Covers w/ Non-slip Grap Patch and Zipper, 5, EA;
LI 005: Drone Cords, 5, EA;
LI 006: Highland Bagpipe Tuner and Metronome with cases, 2, EA;
LI 007: Combination Tuner and Metronome, 6, EA […]
David Cameron’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and Johnny Rotten is the “voice of reason and civility”.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Like socialist experiments everywhere: … the report argues that Ontario decided to solve a problem that didn’t need solving, and at a considerable cost that will continue to grow over the long term.
Let Me Fix That Headline For You
“New high-speed camera system reveals what snow looks like in midair”
Like anybody gives a shit.
The Iron Lady
Conrad Black on Margaret Thatcher.
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The words to “O Fortuna”, from German composer Carl Orff’s 1936 cantata Carmina Burana, are easy to mishear. Tonight, the words to this ominous-sounding choral work have been rewritten – plausibly so – as an Ode to Terrorizing Toddlers and their Sleep Deprived Parents.
Yea, verily, there shall be no respite.
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
h/t peterj