BREAKING NEWS: The GOP Will Nominate Ryan and Haley Following the polls after last week’s debate, the RNC has quietly decided to run Paul Ryan and Nikki Haley. None of the more or less corporate candiates, Marco Rubio, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush or Ohio Gov. Jo[...]
Archive for April, 2016
April 20th, 2016 - 12:02 pm § in Schools & Colleges
This is an honor code?
Brigham Young University suspended student Madi Barney for reporting being raped to Provo police. BYU’s Mormon-inspired honor code forbids premarital sex. Barney has filed a federal Title IX complaint against the school. Not only that, she also contends the school illegally obtained the incid[...]
April 20th, 2016 - 11:30 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS!: Jackson gone! Tubman rules the 20.
Harriet Tubman’s Journey to the $20 Bill The Treasury Department is expected to announce that the African American woman who helped slaves escape to free states will replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the new note. Readmore[...]
April 20th, 2016 - 10:39 am § in Misc.
Responding to a Bernie Supporter
Jonathon HRC, who is a fine person and a talented politician…..(SMS responses in bold) 1) OPPOSES universal single payer healthcare. She is in favor of our current system that enshrines the private insurance industry. This is despite every other country in the G7 having a healthcare sy[...]
How to blow a few million of WASTATE tax dollars!
Got this email today. Assuming that all our Department faculty show up and based on a reasonable professional fee of $200/hr, this exercises in UW CMA (as in cover my ass) is going to cost tens of thousands of dollars??? If we extend the same absurdity to the entire campus, and guessing that a min[...]
April 20th, 2016 - 9:26 am § in Misc.
Political Hypocrisy
Sanders rips closed party primaries in New York: ‘That’s wrong’ Bernie Sanders agreed with an independent supporter that it is wrong that New York does not allow open voting … Republicans, Greens, Nazis …whoever should have the vote? Trouble is Bernie also celebrates t[...]
April 20th, 2016 - 9:16 am § in Misc.
RACISM: Two sides
This upsets the black lives matter people. What they need to understand is that every medical study is required now to classify folks by race. If I want to find a drug to treat arthritis, I will be required to include “black” people because their “race” may determine h[...]
April 20th, 2016 - 9:05 am § in Misc.
Science Hype: An anti-aging startup hopes to elude the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and death at the same time.
Elysium Health says it will be turning chemicals that lengthen the lives of mice and worms in the laboratory into over-the-counter vitamin pills that people can take to combat aging. The startup is being founded by Leonard Guarente, an MIT biologist who is 62 (“unfortunately,” he says) a[...]
Goodwin: Silly Seattle Silly Shit
Christopher Goodwin The mayor’s office, in an effort to address concerns of conflict of interest regarding one of the people deciding to spend 1.4 million tax dollars to buy the failing bike share program he has an interest in, announced today “Who cares, it’s not my money” a[...]