Bogus News Story Of The Day

Syria: The Siren Song of War. I don’t think the blog post link is bogus. Rather it is a good commentary on a how fast everyone in American forgets. We have removed quite a few evil dictators from the middle east in the last couple of decades. But you would be hard pressed to show that we made it a better place. One thing I wished developed more is the hypocrisy of thinking it is worse for him to kill children with gas then barrel bombs (which has been going on right along).

In The News

Tesla Passes Ford in Market Value as Investors Bet on the Future

A Swedish company has started implanting microchips under its employees’ skin

U.S. and Syrian Allies Stormed Across a Lake, Then Overran This Key Air Base

Not In The News But Should Be

On Judicial Confirmations — History and Numbers

Entertainment of the Day

Alexei Navalny Shakes Up a Slumbering Russia. You should read this as an obituary.

The Dirtbag Left’s Man in Syria. Read this for a reminder of what the “good guys” are like. And by that I don’t mean the western dude trying to find meaning in life. Rather, I mean the Kurds who are US allies at the moment.

10 cities where you don’t want to get sick. For what it is worth, Binghamton and Elmira both made the list. But I have to wonder if that is the fault of the hospitals or clientele.

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Flynn’s Reported Immunity Request

In The News

Oroville Dam documents kept secret by state, federal officials

Can you dig it? Badger captured on camera burying cow

Spain drops plan to impose veto if Scotland tries to join EU

Not In The News But Should Be

Why Has Italy’s Banking Crisis Gone Off the Radar?

Entertainment of the Day

For some reason this reminds me of government work.

Bogus News Story Of The Day

So What if Mike Pence Won’t Dine Alone With Women, Say a Surprising Number of People

In The News

In West Mosul, Iraqi Troops With Heavy Weapons Battle ISIS Snipers

No Proof of Benefit from Contralateral Mastectomy, But Rates Rise Anyway

Not In The News But Should Be

Puerto Rico’s Coming Fiscal Adjustment (Still Too Big). I am surprised that we don’t see more about this in the news. It is going to turn into a full blow crisis before long.

Entertainment of the Day

Nothing for today.

Bogus News Story Of The Day

Nothing for today.

In The News

Six Reasons FCC Rules Aren’t Needed to Protect Privacy. Take it for what it is worth, but in general, I am not a fan of letting the FCC regulate these kinds of things. Next thing you know, they are telling bloggers what they can and can not do.

Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control, House committee hears

How Utah Keeps the American Dream Alive. Statistics in the article are fun, but the bottom line is that the type of people in the state matter more then the politics.

This is actually better than our last few escalator mishaps: nobody’s dead yet.

Not In The News But Should Be

Massachusetts Prepares to Vacate Nearly 24,000 Tainted Drug Convictions

Entertainment of the Day

Wot I Think – Torment: Tides of Numenera (for series newcomers)

Torment: Tides Of Numenera (for Planescape veterans)

We will start off slow….

Three people are arrested after Trump supporters are doused with pepper spray as they clash with protesters during Make America Great Again march in Huntington Beach . I don’t like linking to the Daily Mail, but the pictures are worth it. It seems that the “anti-fascist” left has tried the same tactics to many times in a row. It is starting to produce a counter reaction where people are ready to pay them back in kind. I don’t think that is a good thing for the country as a whole, but it is to be expected.

An Unexpected New Lung Function Has Been Found – They Make Blood. An article on new science that actually may be worth the hype.

How Pakistan Is Planning to Fight a Nuclear War. Not a lot new here for those who have been keeping up. But how many people have been keeping up on this issue? If you have not been keeping up on this issue, the comment section might be even more educational then the article, if only to show where some peoples heads are at.

“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US Seems like a common sense idea and rare example of bipartisanship that is actually good for the country. But as always, the devil is in the details. How do you decided (and how many reams of paper work does it take) who gets to pull cable? What if anything do they get to pay? What kind of constructions standards do you mandate for the pipes? That said, it does not seem like those problems should be insurmountable.