NYT reports chronic national shortage of automotive mechanics
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News for Today (4/25/17)
Japan Made Secret Deals With the NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance. I could not have guessed how this article was going to end. It starts off as a perfectly reasonable if boring story and by the end of it I was groaning in pain.
Mali’s Desert Climate Is the Doom of Armored Vehicles. Everyone seems to have forgotten this place but it is one of many places that the western powers are setting on to try to keep the world from blowing up.
Phoenix Point is now crowdfunding: we spoke to Julian Gollop about standing out in a post-XCOM world. I am skeptical, but it looks more interesting then I would have thought.
News for Today (4/23/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
How Chobani’s Hamdi Ulukaya Is Winning America’s Culture War. Maybe I should not put this in the bogus category. I don’t dislike the guy and I don’t know that any of the facts in the article are wrong. But I know it that politics and hating brown skin are not the whole story about people who don’t like this guy. Bottom line: You look up the definition of hagiographical portrait of someone and there is a link to this article.
That said, it is true that nobody else was likely to get that factory in upstate New York up and running again. But I think it is clear that he is not fool enough to do that again (and I don’t mean that as a criticism of him so much as a criticism of New York State.
In The News
The trees that make Southern California shady and green are dying. Fast.
107 cancer papers retracted due to peer review fraud
Laser Vision: Special Operations Command Prepares to Test Airborne Directed Energy Weapon
Not In The News But Should Be
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Entertainment of the Day
Links for a Friday
Power restored in SF after blackout shuts businesses, cable cars
Are French pollsters cheating? The jury is still out
The below is a follow up to the last video I posted and well worth watching particularly if you don’t know a lot about World War II history.
News for Today (4/20/17)
Bogus News Story Of The Day
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In The News
Medieval medical books could hold the recipe for new antibiotics
South Indian frog oozes molecule that inexplicably decimates flu viruses
Extremists on Left and Right Push France to the Brink
Not In The News But Should Be
This kind of reminder of how commanders of day were looking at things is sadly lacking in today’s historical education.
Entertainment of the Day
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What I got for today
Um… NY Governor Cuomo made nearly $800K on a book that sold 3K copies?
The West Virginia Productivity Miracle. Really!. Headline tries a little too hard to contrarain but still some interesting thoughts.
‘They’re just hiding’: Experts say Puerto Rico may be underreporting Zika-affected births
Kevin O’Brien. So sad in a very selfish way. One of the few good military bloggers down.
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Friday News
All the large chunks of oak tree are off the lawn and waiting to be split. In other less important news….
‘They Taught Us How To Decapitate a Person’
The U.S. Dropped a MOAB in Afghanistan and You’ll Never Believe What Happened Next! The amount of bad news stories about this bomb drop from both right wing and left wing sources is staggering. I never would have guessed that such a routine bomb drop would become such big news. Granted, it is probably not a good thing that the US is dropping ordnance all over the globe without it getting reported on, but the amount of misinformation by ignorant regarding this particular ordnance drop is staggering. Anyway, the link above will at least give you accurate numbers to put the bomb in context with other bombs and explosives the US drops all the time. Maybe some other day when I am not so tired I will link to a good over view of the military reasons that the US military sometimes uses MOABs.