Bop Or Not: Scissor Sisters’ “Lights”
Surely the the Scissor Sisters’ “Lights” is the platonic ideal of a bop.
Monthly Archive: February 2017
A largish excerpt from Plato’s Symposium For Valentine’s Day (Aristophanes’s Speech)
In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it.
Japan Times: Japan’s suicide statistics don’t tell the real story
According to the National Police Agency (NPA), Japan’s annual total of suicides dipped below 30,000 people for the first time in 15 years in 2012 — to 27,766. While the fall is great news, part of me wonders: Has there really been a drop in suicides or should we look at it as a drop in homicides?
According to the government’s 2012 “White Paper on Suicide,” in 2011 there were 30,651 cases recorded of people taking their own lives. The motives listed were in the following descending order of problems related to health; daily life; family; and work.
But here’s an odd thing: The reasons for the suicide were only determined in 73 percent of cases — in more than 25 percent of cases they were for reasons unknown. Many of those cases perhaps presented no reason because they weren’t suicides at all.
From: Japan’s suicide statistics don’t tell the real story | The Japan Times
Dear Boycotting People
No, I’m not going to be boycotting Netflix over their new series, Dear White People. And neither should anyone else.
Saturday!
On Things Lost In Translation: One Night Ultimate Vampire isn’t as awesome as One Night Ultimate Werewolf
Trump’s First Big Defeat In Court
A very quick run-through of the February 9, 2017 decision in State of Washington v. Trump.
PATN Week 6 – I’m in love with the Lo-Lo
This week on Play All The Nintendo, I trudge through some bad headers to get to a lovely trio of puzzlers from Hal Laboratory.
Tech Thursday
I’m starting to think Will is using me to put these together when he wants a day to screw around and not produce content…
Guardian: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as ‘unreliable’ source
One wonders what this will do to Ordinary Times‘ comment section.
WaPo: The Silencing of Elizabeth Warren and an old Senate Rule Prompted by a Fistfight
It was all too much for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who said Warren had “impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from Alabama.” In an extraordinary move, the Senate voted on party lines to shut her down…
