Update: The White House gave up and restored CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass on Monday, Nov. 19, after CNN threatened to go back to court to prevent the administration from carrying out its threat to resume barring him from press briefings when the temporary order expired. Read story her[...]
Archive for November, 2018
Oh Oh .. New Threats from Trump’s Buddy in North Korea
North Korean state media is reporting that Kim Jong Un observed the successful testing of a “newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon.” The North Korean leader is said to have been “so excited to say that another great work was done by the defense scientists and munitions industrial workers[...]
November 15th, 2018 - 9:18 pm § in Misc.
Russian lane cheaters
A security guard pulled over these guys trying to imitate a bus on a vehicles-only bridge in Vladivostok. (Click here for source.) [...]
November 15th, 2018 - 8:38 am § in Misc.
Sighhh … Nigeria’s Peculiar Antisemitism
The deep vestiges of Christian missionaries have infected Nigerians. Chinazor Onianwah, a man I very much respect, goes off on these rants not because the tiny state of Israel would be a meaningful refuge for Africans but because somehow, Chinazor thinks Israel has an obligation not shared by the Ar[...]
November 15th, 2018 - 1:28 am § in Science
The female scientist who dives naked with belugas
Daily Mail Reporter Braving sub-zero temperatures, a Russian ichthyologist has thrown caution — and her clothes — to the wind to tame two beluga whales in a unique and controversial experiment. A the water temperature hit minus 1.5 degrees Centigrade, a skilled Russian diver, Natalia Avseen[...]
November 15th, 2018 - 12:26 am § in Donald Trump
A lack of ‘common decency’
Our president for better or worse, Donald Trump, was a guest of France last weekend. He was there to represent the American people in events marking the end of World War 1 a hundred years ago. On Saturday, he missed a planned commemoration at an American war cemetery outside Paris, which his staff b[...]
November 14th, 2018 - 10:16 pm § in Religion
Is Jesus African?
Freethinkers’ Night: January 2013 – Is Christianity Still Relevant in Africa?Is Jeus African? January 30, 2013 in Christianity, Freethinkers’ Night Whereas Christianity is in decline in Europe, in Africa it is still very strong. Speaking as a rationalist and freethinker who believes he[...]
November 14th, 2018 - 7:16 pm § in Donald Trump
Asylum seekers are massing on Canada’s southern border.
Will our beleaguered neighbor build a wall? “The number of U.S. citizens seeking asylum in Canada is growing sharply,” the Huffington Post reports, adding the number of Americans seeking refuge in Canada sextupled in 2017 from the year before. This made Americans the third largest group [...]
November 14th, 2018 - 10:48 am § in Environment
Palm Oil v. Orangutans
Pictured below is Indonesian orangutan habitat. Or, it was. Now it grows palm oil, which is used in nearly half of the products on grocery shelves. Sorry, orangutans. Read story here. And here’s a charming ad banned from British TV for being “too political.” (Apparently that’[...]