Linky Friday #150: Burning Fuel
This Week: Sports, Food, Resources, Government, Cities, and Technology!
Monthly Archive: January 2016
Flint Water Crisis: The Not-So-Usual Suspects
This is a huge public health disaster. And we Americans like our big, bad disasters in black and white.
Bitter Empire: The Presidential Candidates Ranked By Their Usefulness In A Bar Fight
4. Chris Christie Again, Christie is not going to be one of the best physical fighters you’ve ever seen, but it’s a good bet that the guy knows how to throw a punch. Plus...
The Big Sort in the Democratic Party
The problems of coalition building. Do Democratic voters not live and talk to each other?
The Trouble With Curious George
He may be a good little monkey who is just always a little curious, but he’s actually kind of a bad influence. In more ways than one.
Obama comments to Southern U student set off debate on president and black colleges
Every HBCU is different, and some are quite good. The question of what to do about the others is… fraught. Obama also said that “some HBCUs are having trouble with graduation rates. And that...
Biden: We don’t need ‘socialism’ | TheHill
"We need a more progressive tax code — not confiscatory policy. Not socialism. A tax code." -VP Biden #wef16 — VP Biden (Archived) (@VP44) January 20, 2016 The comments seem to be a shot...
National Post: Could your past life nix a Senate spot? Liberals appoint hypnotherapist, singer to selection panel
One of the panelists named by the Liberal government to a board that will select new senators tries to recover the past lives of people she treats using a largely debunked psychological technique.Manitoba folk...
Buzzfeed: You’ll Be Able To See Five Planets If You Wake Up Early Enough For The Next Month
“This is what I call eyeball astronomy,” Beatty said. “It’s just being in the moment. You don’t need to wait for your eyes to adjust to the darkness, or have a telescope or binoculars....
The Shipwreck and Eventual Rescue of the Crew of the Bark Trinity
Sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip…
Full Text Of Sarah Palin’s Trump Endorsement Speech – BuzzFeed News
From: So, Uh, Here’s The Full Text Of Sarah Palin’s Bizarre Trump Speech – BuzzFeed News
The Atlantic: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bernie Sanders and Reparations
Sanders’s anti-racist moderation points to a candidate who is not merely against reparations, but one who doesn’t actually understand the argument. To briefly restate it, from 1619 until at least the late 1960s, American institutions, businesses, associations, and governments—federal, state and local—repeatedly plundered black communities. Their methods included everything from land-theft, to red-lining, to disenfranchisement, to convict-lease labor, to lynching, to enslavement, to the vending of children. So large was this plunder that America, as we know it today, is simply unimaginable without it. Its great universities were founded on it. Its early economy was built by it. Its suburbs were financed by it. Its deadliest war was the result of it.
From: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bernie Sanders and Reparations – The Atlantic
Southern White Women Are Apparently in Pretty Bad Shape These Days
I think that’s wise. For one thing, if you slice the data in a different way, you might get a different result. What’s more, as I’ve mentioned several times, the increased mortality affects the young too, not just the middle aged. So if you spun some brilliant theories about why middle-aged whites are so damn depressed these days, you might want to rethink things. Your new theory needs to explain why the young and the middle-aged are dying in greater numbers, and you also need to explain why it’s affecting primarily women in the South. Good luck.
From: Southern White Women Are Apparently in Pretty Bad Shape These Days | Mother Jones {via Zic}
BOC Changed Their Minds
Lemmy and Bowie got all the press, but they were just the tip of the iceberg.
