The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials Into the New Serfs. My sympathy is dented by the fact that millennials are most likely to support policies that make their problems worse (i.e. restrictions on house building and the like). Also, as a group, they are awful picky about the types of jobs that they will do. This plays in to their lower incomes although it is not the only factor (another not often noted contributors is that rich people have few to no kids so millennials are more likely to be a from poor broken homes then previous generations).
Federal Court Basically Says It’s Okay To Copyright Parts Of Our Laws. This has always irritated me immensely because most of the laws that effect me professionally are Copyrighted and you have to spend big bucks to get copies of them. Of course, it is my employer that has to pay, but it still bugs me.
Entertainment of the Day
Hobbyist made video that I am re-purposing to be a morality play about February. Not really all that good but it seems to fit.
The one of the problems with all the movies David Belle stars in is that it just does not seem credible that the thugs can stay with him for as long as they do.
Was Snowden a Russian Agent? In the conservative press the answer is assumed to be yes. This article presents a different view. I think you have to be naive to think that he has not told them what they wanted to know now. But I doubt he was controlled all along. I don’t think the Russians would have wanted the drama from an agent they controlled.
Italy’s Growing Refugee Problem Main take away: Despite a warning from former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, other EU countries have shown little willingness to cooperate. Shortly before his resignation, he said his country “would not get through another year like this.”
Days of Rage. The history recap in this post is valuable but any fool can do the speculation that follows it.
Entertainment of the Day
I had forgotten just how non-seriously Arnold took his role in the first total recall. For those who watched the remake, compare this to the similar scene in the remake.
Since it was mentioned in one of the articles, I thought I would post this. Although honestly speaking, I don’t care for it all that much. Seems too forced to me in spite of its fame. The best parts of this movie had an Irishman in it. He was the only thing that kept the movie from being too forced.
Pravda on the Checkout Line. I always think that I have reached the point where I can’t be surprised by educated fools attempts to explain Trump’s win, but then they go and surprised me again.
Jerry Miculek is like the Michale Jordan of the shooting sports world. He takes all sorts of first place prizes in all sorts of shooting competitions (though most of his verified world records were set with a revolver). But I think this video below is more a feat of strength then it is of accuracy. I felt my hand hurting just watching it.
My favorite classical (as opposed to “realistic”) martial arts fight is the one below. Posting two version of it. The first is the high quality one and one with sub-titles and a little bit more of the context.
