â–¶ how to step out of a spinning car by Bruce Willis – YouTube.
Watched RED. So much awesome in that movie. Willis stepping out of a spinning car sets the tone perfectly.
Neither the cannons of construction nor any empirical analysis suggests that Congressional drafting is a perfectly harmonious, symmetrical and elegant endeavor. Sausage makers are indeed offended when their craft is linked to legislating.
Judge Andre Davis as quoted by E.J. Dionne JR. on The Diane Rehm Show, Conflicting Court Decisions On Federal Subsidies For Health Insurance.
The seventh guest was one of the first PC games I bought with my own money. It’s the kind of game you don’t see much anymore, but back then it was a great. Puzzle and adventure games went by the wayside for a while, but I’m glad to see them picking back up in the age of tablet gaming. I can’t wait to see what comes of this project.
The 7th Guest: The Collector aims to harness new tech and live-action human emotion | Polygon.
Somewhere there’s a database programmer surrounded by empty Mountain Dew bottles whose husband thinks she’s dead. And if these people stop, the world burns. Most people don’t even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn’t make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants.
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I’m not required to be able to lift objects weighing up to fifty pounds. I traded that for the opportunity to trim Satan’s pubic hair while he dines out of my open skull so a few bits of the internet will continue to work for a few more days.
This is a perfectly written vent on the psychological challenge of writing code for a living. And while it feels good to bitch every now and then I still love what I do enough that I rarely consider getting out (which is usually only when I’m feeling a bit of the old imposter syndrome).
The only accurate way to report that one out of four Americans are skeptical of global warming is to say, ‘A poll finds that one in four Americans are wrong about something.’
Brilliant! Spot on criticism of the false equivalency news media give to deniers of science. Most scientists across the globe agree that global warming is real and that it is at the very least influenced by human society. And still a majority believe the current warming rate is caused (not just influenced) by human society.
Oliver is turning out to be quite the firebrand now that he’s running his own show.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Climate Change Debate – YouTube.
“Isn’t it a problem when science guys attempt to bully other people?†Cupp asked Nye, before coming to the aid of Heritage Foundation economist Nicholas Loris. “Nick here had to say, ‘I’m not a denier.’ He had to get it out: ‘I’m not a denier.’ Because really, the science group has tried to shame anyone who dares question this, and the point I’m trying to make is, it’s not working with the public.â€
It’s a funny thought to imagine a science geek bullying a non-science geek. I’ve no doubt there’s a bit of shaming going on (not by Nye, but from the science community in general), but seriously, people who deny climate change, deny the human impact, or deny that we should be doing something should be ashamed. Still, few people respond well to public shaming … though I really don’t have a clue how to get the point across when a denial it’s refuses to recognize the fact, or cherry picks those facts or statements which conform to their existing beliefs.
What I thought remarkable about the clip is that someone from the Heritage Foundation agreed that a) climate change exists, and b) humans are responsible to some degree.
Kentuckians only hate Obamacare if you call it Obamacare – Vox.
This, more than anything, is what I find most disturbing about the arguments against “Obamacare.” It has been shown that many people against Obamacare don’t even know what it is and that they just hate it because President Obama’s name is attached to it. Even worse, when you ask many of these same people about individual aspects of the law they actually approve more often than not. It’s not an argument over policy, it’s an argument over politics and “who you’d like to drink a beer with.”