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Dec 20 2018
Fun With Numbers
For some inexplicable reason we have Parts 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Christmas on I.C.E.. There are no Parts 2 or 4. “Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou …
Dec 20 2018
Cartnoon
Facebook What It Means to Delete Facebook Slate spoke with a small group of people who had publicly declared they planned to #DeleteFacebook. Most were successful, though some find themselves back on the site from time to time. Their stories demonstrate that reducing exposure to Facebook does not necessarily mean deleting an account, but that …
Dec 19 2018
Wheeee!
Cow Tokens! Get your Ur Cow Tokens here! Sumerian Cow Tokens April 24th, 2017 So what is the value of an Ur Cow Token? Sorry, I can’t get a market price for Ur per se so you’ll have to settle for a Sumerian one from around 1953 – 1935 BCE backed (and baked) by the …
Dec 19 2018
Not I/P
It’s about the First Amendment. I used to be a huge supporter of Israel. The image of Jews rising from the ashes of the Holocaust to form a democratic Nation/State was enormously romantic (in the classical sense) and I cheered on their military and territorial success. Indeed I could make a case for a persecuted …
Dec 18 2018
This For That
That’s what Quid Pro Quo means in Latin and while it’s always nice to do a favor for a friend, doing so Coercively (Extortion, nice little democracy you’ve got here, shame if something happened to it) or Corruptly (Bribery, here’s a Benjamin for ‘expedited action’) in the expectation of reward (something of value, doesn’t have …
Dec 18 2018
Not the Legal News We Were Hoping For
Today, after virtually calling Flynn a traitor, Judge Emmet Sullivan postponed his sentencing for 90 day and suggested it could be delayed further pending “completion of his co-operation” in the Russian Treason Investigation. You could take that as an indicator the Judge will depart from the sentencing recommendations of both the Special Counsel’s Office and …
Dec 17 2018
No Confidence
Today we find out that Theresa May won’t put the Brexit deal on the table again until January 14th which will give you 2 weeks to critique the Dr. Who New Year’s special episode. Having survived an intra-Party challenge and thus gaining a year’s worth of immunity in that forum May is playing the rope-a-dope …
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