Wednesday, April 27, 2022

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Chicago Boyz

  • What Would YOU do with Twitter?

    Suppose that instead of Elon Musk being about to take control of Twitter, it was YOU. Your mission… –you want to establish Twitter as a true free-speech ‘town square’ –you need to make enough money to repay the substantial debt that...

    2 days ago

  • Where I was Last Weekend…

    The first big airshow in two years, at Randolph AFB. Part of the air show included a sort-of-recreation of the attack on Pearl Harbor, with accompanying pyrotechnics. My camera was giving me fits, so I managed to capture some interesting shots...

    2 days ago

  • A Stylish Diversion

    David Foster’s discussion of the numerous analogies – some helpful, some not – that have been spun from the Titanic disaster reminded me of an essay’s  rather lovely job of spinning out for two pages a simple analogy.  The verbal...

    4 days ago

Centinel2012

  • Trudeau Admits He Does Not Understand Basic Math

    Armstrong Economics Blog/Canada Re-Posted Apr 27, 2022 by Martin Armstrong In an old video that has resurfaced from Justin Trudeau’s days as a West Point Great Academy teacher, the now prime minister admitted that he struggles with basic...

    7 hours ago

  • Antidepressant Prescription Sales Spike

    Armstrong Economics Blog/medicine Re-Posted Apr 27, 2022 by Martin Armstrong A SingleCare Team study revealed the majority of the US population takes some form of a prescription pill. The insurance agency found that the number of people...

    8 hours ago

  • Would Putin Use Nukes?

    Armstrong Economics Blog/War Re-Posted Apr 27, 2022 by Martin Armstrong Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Kozyrev served under Putin’s predecessor Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s. From his former position...

    8 hours ago

The BRAD BLOG

bluebird of bitterness

  • Dog shaming

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  • Wednesday weirdness

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  • It’s a jungle out there

    Sid was a petty criminal who’d had many run-ins with the law. He needed a job, but because of his record, no one wanted to hire him. Then a pal tipped him off that the local zoo was hiring, and that they had a good record of hiring people in Sid’s...

    a day ago

BlackListed News

  • Russia halts gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria

    Russia halted gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland on Wednesday for rejecting its demand to pay in roubles, taking direct aim at European economies in its toughest retaliation so far against international sanctions over the war in Ukraine...

    a day ago

  • Triple-vaccinated Kamala Harris tests positive for Covid

    The vice-president’s case is considered a ‘breakthrough’ infection, as she is fully vaccinated and received a booster shot last October

    a day ago

  • US weapons, European supplicants block peace in Ukraine

    As the Russia-Ukraine war opens a new phase in the Donbas, scholar Richard Sakwa on the absence of diplomacy; the Western media’s veneration of Zelensky; the European Union’s self-implosion over the war; and the crackdown on dissent...

    a day ago

Research Digest

Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places

  • Are the Great Lakes Really Inland Seas?

    The water reared up and slammed onto the sand like an ambush predator. Then it withdrew, and came back. Again and again the surf attacked the beach, and exploded over a nearby concrete breakwater. White gulls stood out against a dull sky as they...

    3 hours ago

  • Al Shinanah Historical Tower in Ar Rass, Saudi Arabia

    About 217 miles (350 kilometers) northwest of Riyadh, Ar Rass is the largest urban center in Al-Qassim Province by size and third-largest by population. Ar Rass (الرس) translates to “old well,” and refers to the source of water that...

    9 hours ago

  • Podcast: The Last Tenement

    Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit the Last Tenement in Boston’s old West End, which has come to represent everything that can go wrong...

    13 hours ago

Accidental Deliberations

  • Wednesday Morning Links

    Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Andre Picard highlights how the response to COVID-19 has been complicated - if rendered all the more important - by the recognition that people can expect to be reinfected if exposed to it...

    10 hours ago

  • Tuesday Night Cat Blogging

    Communicative cats. 

    a day ago

  • Tuesday Morning Links

    This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Lauren Pelley reports on the strain Canada's children's hospitals in particular are facing in the midst of COVID-19's sixth wave. David Axe discusses the most important risk factors in the potential...

    a day ago
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