News For The Day (11/29/16)

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Democrats won the most votes in the election. They should act like it. Scroll down to the correction at the end of the article. Be careful or you will miss it and go right on past it. Rarely has a correction more thoroughly debunked the premise of the article (remember, the title is that Democrats won more votes then Republicans and the article is not all about Hillary vs Trump). Apparently most of the people posting this article to Facebook don’t understand the significance of the Republicans winning 3 million more votes in the House of Representatives then the Democrats took.

In The News

Report: Trump ‘Furious’ at Kellyanne’s Romney Attack

Australia ceases multimillion-dollar donations to controversial Clinton family charities

Self-driving trucks will hit the road in Ohio.” Headline is misleading. Still, long haul trucks going from depot to depot are the best place to start using self driving vehicles.

Not In The News But Should Be

Europe’s Collateral Crunch

Entertainment of the Day

In the movies, often times it is the ugly people who have all the talent. It is a shame they don’t get to shine more. What follows is one of the best (if not the best) representation of the Scotch-Irish pride that runs so strongly in rural America.

https://youtu.be/hW2JONQ2k3c

News For Today (11/28/16)

Bogus News Story Of the Day

NPR Reporter Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator; Here’s What She Learned. The story is most likely true, although it reads like a naive reporter is being taken for a ride. But what makes the story bogus is the is the idea that “fake news” is a right wing thing exclusively. This is rich given how much public radio profited off of Mike Daisey. A more relevant example would be the huge traffic in fake hate crimes such as this.

In the News

Record number of car buyers ‘upside down’ on trade-ins

The Abolition of Money

Unsexy Infrastructure: Lock and Dam

Ideology & Human Development This is a long one and can be hard to follow. But it is a good overview of why communism was a disaster for Cuba from a left of center perspective. Shorter and not nearly as good perspective here (also left of center).

Not In The News But Should Be

The Little-Known Arms Race Threatening to Blow Up the South Caucasus

Entertainment of the Day

China’s civil service exam: Can you answer these questions? I don’t think this is really news worthy, but it is kind of fun to see what is expected out of them. Looks a lot more like a straight up IQ test then anything comparable here.

But if that is not your thing, here is some modern rock combined with traditional Mongolian music for your entertainment.

https://youtu.be/PncUiPfu13M

https://youtu.be/8xAG5kl9fzY