Monthly Archive: March 2017
Soccer Ball Kitty Demonstrates Her Strength
In which a fourteen-pound cat causes sleep-deprived Burt Likko a week’s worth of trouble.
Weekend!
Friendly Reminder: If we didn’t have Daylight Saving Time at all, you wouldn’t be losing an hour this coming Sunday morning
PATN Week 10 – Arkanoid arches rival gladiators in America.
This week on Play All The Nintendo: I find two old friends and 1 new friend with common interests: American Gladiators, Arch Rivals and Arkanoid.
Science and Technology Links 3/9: The Color of Magic Laser Bubbles
More of what Oscar thought was cool in Science.
Greenwald: Democrats Now Demonize the Same Russia Policies that Obama Long Championed
In other words, Democrats are now waging war on, and are depicting as treasonous, one of Barack Obama’s central and most steadfastly held foreign policy positions, one that he clung to despite attacks from leading members of both parties as well as the DC National Security Community. That’s not Noam Chomsky drawing that comparison; it’s an Obama appointee.
The destructive bipartisan Foreign Policy Community was furious with Obama for not confronting Russia more, and is now furious with Trump for the same reason (though they certainly loath and fear Trump for other reasons, including the threat they believe he poses to U.S. imperial management through a combination of ineptitude, instability, toxic PR, naked rather than prettified savagery, and ideology; Glasser writes: “‘Everything I’ve worked for for two decades is being destroyed,’ a senior Republican told me”).
From: Democrats Now Demonize the Same Russia Policies that Obama Long Championed
Mexican congressman climbs U.S. border fence to illustrate that Trump’s wall is ‘totally absurd’
A Mexican congressman went to great lengths — and heights — Wednesday to illustrate why he believes that President Trump’s controversial U.S.-Mexico border wall is “unnecessary” and “totally absurd.”
Braulio Guerra, a congressman from the state of Queretaro, tweeted photos and a video of himself perched atop a 30-foot tall fence that separates the Mexican border city of Tijuana from the U.S.
“I was able to scale it, climb it, and sit myself right here,” Guerra said in the video. “It would be simple for me to jump into the United States, which shows that it is unnecessary and totally absurd to build a wall.”
Sunday!
Yet another Big Reveal that leaves you asking “WHY DIDN’T YOU DO THAT IN THE SECOND ACT?”
On Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Bop Or Not: Fine Young Cannibals “Johnny Come Home”
Let’s play another round of Bop Or Not, this time with the Fine Young Cannibals’ “Johnny Come Home.”
California Supreme Court rules government emails on private devices should be public
California’s highest court Thursday unanimously ruled the public has a right to see emails and text messages about public affairs on government officials’ personal devices, ending a decade-long legal battle that began in San Jose and sets a statewide precedent for records disclosure.
The ruling closes what government watchdogs said was a loophole that let public officials conduct the people’s business privately on personal phones and computers outside the reach of records requests that until now covered only their government-issued devices and accounts.
“We hold that when a city employee uses a personal account to communicate about the conduct of public business, the writings may be subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act,” the court opinion said. “If public officials could evade the law simply by clicking into a different email account, or communicating through a personal device, sensitive information could routinely evade public scrutiny.”
From: California Supreme Court rules government emails on private devices should be public
