Chicago Boyz
Speaking of Surveys
An extensive collection of political polls, current and historical. Use the ‘poll type’ and ‘state’ scroll bars, or the free-form search field. Remarkably fast search.
Who Knows?
So, by a curious coincidence, my address has been tagged by a long-time and established polling organization, to receive increasingly plaintive pleas for any adult in the household to participate in whatever line of questioning on important...
Miscellaneous Business/Economics/Energy Items
Apple is going to make Watches and MacBooks in Vietnam. (More precisely, Apple suppliers will make the products there. “Make” in this context meaning mostly “assemble”, I think.) Apple is also planning to produce the iPhone...
Centinel2012
Episode 1056: Holiday!
Revenge of the Cis Published originally on Rumble on September 1, 2022 – Gov. Greg Abbott sends busload of migrants from Texas to Chicago– Reed Coverdale joins us
US Oil Reserves Nearly Depleted
Armstrong Economics Blog/Energy Re-Posted Sep 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has been at its lowest level since, ironically, 1984. The reservoirs are composed of four underground sites constructed...
Germans Stockpiling Firewood
Armstrong economics Blog/Energy Re-Posted Sep 2, 2022 by Martin Armstrong We are quickly reverting back to the Dark Ages. Cooking and keeping warm with fossil fuels may become a luxury as the energy crisis spreads across the West. Reports...
The BRAD BLOG
See You in September...
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CA's New Insulin Plan a Shot in the Arm Toward Socialized Medications, Ending Patent Abuse
The state of California is embarking on a ground-breaking effort to manufacture and distribute a life-saving drug. The plan also deals a first major blow to private pharmaceutical companies that have long abused the nation's legal system...
Sunday 'Redacted' Toons
Support a disappearing craft with a subscription to a political cartoonist. * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie...
bluebird of bitterness
Perfectionism or OCD?
You be the judge.
Friday happy dance
Find the crabs!
Four crabs lurk among the lobsters. See if you can find them. The solution will appear in the comments section later today.
BlackListed News
U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China
Chip designer Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Wednesday that U.S. officials told it to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China, a move that could cripple Chinese firms' ability to carry out advanced...
Jon Stewart and the Pentagon honor Ukrainian Nazi at Disney World
Defense Department-sponsored “Warrior Games” featured liberal comedian Jon Stewart awarding a member of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion at Disney World. The Pentagon refused to tell The Grayzone whether US taxpayers funded...
FBI Official Accused Of Blocking Probe Into Hunter Biden Says He Retired, Wasn’t Fired
An FBI official who has been accused of blocking an investigation into President Joe Biden’s son stepped down this month, lawyers representing the official confirmed to The Epoch Times on Aug. 31.
Research Digest
Most of us don’t have a desire for unlimited wealth
By Emily Reynolds. Study challenges common economic assumption that we all want unlimited resources.
Racial biases shape the way people interpret body poses
By Emma Young. White participants saw Black, but not White, people as more aggressive when in Superman pose.
People with no mind’s eye have less vivid and detailed memories
By Matthew Warren. People with aphantasia also show deficits when describing hypothetical future events.
Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places
Onsala Space Observatory in Onsala, Sweden
Radio telescopes are one of the more impressive types of telescopes mainly due to the enormous size of the dishes. While the biggest radio telescopes these days are large arrays of small telescopes, visiting a radio observatory still feels...
Why Birds Changed Their Tune During the Pandemic
In the spring of 2020, as eight million residents of the Bay Area hunkered down at home hoarding toilet paper and dried beans, the natural world sprang to life. By night, San Francisco’s darkened, deserted streets echoed with the howl of coyotes...
Helicopter Crash Memorial in Salt Wells, Nevada
Fallon, Nevada is the unexpected site of the Naval Air Station Fallon, one of the US Navy's largest training facilities for naval aviation. Presumably, it's somewhat safer for aviators-in-training to practice over the desert rather than...
Accidental Deliberations
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Martha Lincoln writes about the needless harm caused by public health messaging about being people being "tired" of pandemic precautions which many (if not most) are entirely willing to take. Rachel Gilmore...
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Rachel Aiello reports on Health Canada's approval of COVID booster vaccines targeted at the Omicron variants. And Andrew Romano discusses the hope that the updated vaccines will result in a turning...
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Liz Szabo examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved - and the reality that the large number of infections in the Omicron wave is overwhelming the benefit of existing immunity. And...
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