The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
This isn’t what you think, I guarantee you…
Truck owner wants DEA to pay up after botched sting
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Owner-wants-DEA-to-pay-for-truck-damage-from-sting-3743683.php
As hard as it is to believe that this even happened, it is even more difficult to believe that our Great …
Our Chick-fil-A economy
What happens when Americans start thinking about economic policy the same way they do gay marriage or abortion?
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/03/our_chick_fil_a_economy/
Man am I getting liberal in my old age! Reading this article and its comments on the Prosperity …
Videographer had bottoms up view of nuclear blast, lives to tell tale
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/27/how-does-it-feel-to-stand-under-nuclear-bomb/
Granted it was ‘only’ 2 kiloton (or 2,000 tons which is 4,000,000 lbs, according to my math), but 10,000 feet is less than two miles away. Of …
Cancer Stem Cells May Be Responsible For Tumor Growth
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/248537.php
A very interesting concept and one that, if proven to be true, basically means that all our efforts in the last 40+ years to combat cancer have been totally wasted. …
Education reform’s central myths
The education debate rests on two faulty premises: that public schools are failures, and choice is the solution
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/01/school_choice_vs_reality/
My complaints about our education system pull from my background. Maybe our education system isn’t really bad, …
Ludicrous Times Op-Ed Forgets Entire Year of Wall Street History
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/ludicrous-times-op-ed-forgets-entire-year-of-wall-street-history-20120801
More proof, as if we needed it, that we are all in really deep shit.…
Chris Hayes on elite failure
Why don’t American oligarchs fear the consequences of their corruption, and how can that be changed?
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/01/chris_hayes_on_elite_failure/
It is a bit repetitive to bring up the police state again so soon, but this is another …
Your wallpaper could soon be an HD display
http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/30/technology/microsoft-vx-display/index.htm?source=cnn_bin
Like that deleted scene in Avatar (available on the extended version), at some point in the not-too-distant-future we will have the ability to have an HD screen the size of our …
Plutocratic vistas: America’s crisis of democracy
Is the present American national legislature an “exact transcript of the whole society”?
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/30/plutocratic_vistas_salpart/
This is really interesting in its historical perspective. I talked earlier about the elite ‘conspiracy’ to rule the world, some …
Extremism normalized
How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/31/extremism_normalized/
Regular reader(s) will no doubt be well aware of my thoughts on our police state. I haven’t had a …