The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Another of those difficult-to-believe-we-are-that-collectively-stupid things…
Another Hidden Bailout: Helping Wall Street Collect Your Rent
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/another-hidden-bailout-helping-wall-street-collect-your-rent-20120319
This sums it up:
…As one hedge fund analyst put it to me this morning: “Help inflate the bubble, create a foreclosure crisis, buy homes
Your Brain on Fiction
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html
Really interesting to me that the act of reading actually triggers the very neurons that would be engaged if you were experiencing the same thing in real life. Perhaps this will serve as motivation to …
Forget the Money, Follow the Sacredness
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/forget-the-money-follow-the-sacredness/
An interesting bit of a theme working out here, purely by accident…
OK, read the following and pick if you are Type A or Type 1…
Type A:
…“Once upon a time, the
Why Conservatives Are Still Crazy After All These Years
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/why-conservatives-are-still-crazy-after-all-these-years-20120316
…Here’s the problem: To this way of thinking, the triumph of enlightenment liberalism is always inevitable. Now it’s demographics that’s the inexorable force (I debunk that argument here); in the
Mockery: Women’s new weapon
From a sex strike to satirical anti-Viagra bills, the war on reproductive rights has some responding with laughs
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/18/mockery_womens_new_weapon/singleton/
I feel strongly about this whole GOP assault on women, but haven’t really articulated my thoughts here. …
These articles have a common tie (at least to me) so rather than post on each one I thought I would post them together. The first shows that our government culture has the potential to yank its head out of …
Do Statins Make It Tough to Exercise?
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/do-statins-make-it-tough-to-exercise/
A number of years ago after a Doctor’s visit my doctor prescribed statins for me (I think the actual prescription was for Lipotor, not that it matters). While I am not a …
“Of course, our current technology takes massive amounts of high-tech equipment to communicate a message using neutrinos, so this isn’t practical now,” says University of Rochester physics professor Kevin McFarland.
Neutrinos used for communication
http://www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-features/62099-neutrinos-used-for-communication
Now, if you could highly …
Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail
The bank has defrauded everyone from investors and insurers to homeowners and the unemployed. So why does the government keep bailing it out?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314
It is a long article, so for some of …
Congress’s war on the post office
The Postal Service faces a threat greater than email or economics: Politics
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/congresss_war_on_the_post_office/singleton/
Just like the whole war on contraception is really a war on women, this war on the Post Office is …