Benghazi talking-points villain: David Petraeus
No real surprise: Petraeus is highly conscious of publicity and focuses a lot on managing media relations. Kevin Drum notes: After reading through the Benghazi “talking points” emails and doing some...
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Another amazing graph: Cigarettes smoked in movies and TV shows
What happened in 1999? Here’s the answer.
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The morning shave, with turmeric
I’ve used Vicco before, and this time instead of smearing a little on my beard (the shaving cream is a little runny), I squirted a little onto the knot of my (wet and shaken) Rooney Style 1, Size 1...
View ArticleThe first US anti-Nazi film, suppressed at the time
Fascinating bit of history, but of course many in the US strongly favored Hitler and the Nazi party, Charles Lindbergh notoriously among them. Emily Greenhouse writes in the New Yorker: In the early...
View ArticleCleaning up OS X Mail auto-completion of addresses
I didn’t know this. Very helpful. If you don’t want to click: Go to Mail > Window > Previous Recipients and delete what you don’t want.
View ArticleSame animation magic again, with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto 4
Once again via Open Culture, where you can find the other two movements:
View ArticleThe Danger in Our Water Supply
Bridget Huber reports in The American Prospect: This investigation was conducted by FairWarning (www.fairwarning.org) a Los Angeles-based nonprofit investigative news organization focused on public...
View ArticleExtremely good looking chair, homemade
More information here, including illustrations on how you do it and sources of complete instruction.
View ArticlePaul Volcker interviewed
Very interesting interview in the Washington Post, with Neil Irwin asking the questions: Paul Volcker has spent a lifetime as a public servant, helping guide U.S. economic policy during the Kennedy and...
View ArticleWho gets the biggest tax breaks, in six charts
If you like charts, here are some good ones. UPDATE: Link fixed.
View ArticleOne Way Obamacare May Already Be Working
Ezra Klein writes at Bloomberg: There was a time when all anyone in Washington wanted to talk about was “bending the health-care cost curve.” Forget covering the uninsured — the ultimate test of the...
View ArticleA closer look at Jay Sekulow
I blogged earlier about this guy, linking to a Pam Martens article, and now Pam is taking a closer look: Jay Sekulow is all about freedom and liberty – for some. He’s not a fan of a woman’s right to...
View ArticleMore evidence that the finance industry owns Obama
And most of Congress, as well. Teresa Tritch writes in the NY Times: Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has defended financial reform recently, but on closer inspection, the defenses are oddly ambiguous....
View ArticleThe Wealthy Kids Are All Right
Chuck Collins writes in The American Prospect: Two 21-year-old college students sit down in a coffee shop to study for an upcoming test. Behind the counter, a barista whips up their double-shot lattes....
View ArticleWhat that feeding tube is delivering to your body
If you become seriously ill and unable to eat, you will be fed Corn Syrup, Corn Maltodextrin, Sugar (Sucrose), Corn Oil, Sodium & Calcium Caseinates, Soy Protein Isolate and Artificial Flavor,...
View ArticleCreate your own religion
L. Ron Hubbard did. Joseph Smith did. You can as well—though perhaps for reasons other than those that motivated those. Here is an excerpt from Create Your Own Religion: A How-To Book Without...
View ArticleAre Babies Healthier in North Korea or Northeast Ohio?
Michael Fitzgerald posts at Pacific Standard: Infant mortality within a three-mile radius around one of the nation’s best children’s hospitals, in Cleveland, Ohio, is worse than that in some...
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Ein Deutsch rasieren
All German today: the Mühle silvertip badger brush did a fine job making a truly terrific lather from Tabula Rasa Patchouli shaving cream—and I do like the fragrance. The Mühle 2013 R41, unlike the...
View ArticleObama Administration continues to ignore science regarding marijuana
Obama makes promises much too easily—probably why he breaks them so readily. Paul Armentano writes at Alternet: Despite issuing a highly publicized memorandum [3] in 2009 stating, “Science and the...
View ArticleThe FBI seems to routinely break the law—now we can add murder?
Oh, wait: Melvin Purvis had that covered right from the git-go. Greg Mitchell notes in The Nation: The incident raised questions from the start, but now it is approaching absurdity—maybe parody. Next...
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