Not that she needs MY help or anything...

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Nifty, nifty, Etch A Sketch is 50

Via:  Dr.Helen

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Return for regrooving

Tam, struck by a horrible thought:

...Is the phone going to ring and I’m going to answer it and say “I have miles to go and promises to keep,” in a flat monotone and then go do something horrible, like vote for Andre Carson, all because of some crap they taught me in second grade?

Yep, that’s pretty horrible, all right...

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#39: Murphy is alive and well

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Latest word from the climate kitchen

And a reminder:   “Consensus” isn’t the same as truth.

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Green where it shouldn’t be

Frank James spots an anomaly:

...You notice there are more than a few plants out there that have withstood the glysophate treatment and appear as healthy as all get out.

... I'm pretty sure it was soybeans last year, so there is zero chance those healthy plants represent “volunteer” corn from last year.

So, where did these healthy Round-Up tolerant plants come from?

From the seed bag.  This disaster perfectly illustrates how the seed companies are passing off impure seed to farmers who later get accused by our good ole corporate buddy, Monsanto, of pirating their precious seed and technology.

He has a picture, too.

You know, if our local newsies were interested in something besides shilling for the progressive agenda, somebody just might find the makings of a story here.

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All you need to know about FinReg

“nemo paradise”:

The people trying to keep a straight face while suppressing the urge to yodel are the lawyers, because they are going to be very, very busy for a long time to come.

No one can agree on what this bill actually says, since the one thing that is clear is that nothing is clear at all.  This is hardly surprising, and very much in line with what most lawyers really expected.

Barry Ritholz:

If [FinReg had been law in] the year 2000, the only part of it that might have prevented, or at least slowed down the crisis, was the new minimum underwriting standards for mortgages.  No more “No Doc, NINJA, or Liar loans.”  That Lenders must verify income, credit history and job status certainly would have prevented the worst vintages of sub-prime and exotic mortgages from ever being written, or subsequently securitized.

Other than that, there is not a single element of the reform that would have prevented the last crisis.

Elsewhere:

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Compare and contrast

Yeah, I know anecdotes != data, and there’s always an exception.  Still, the variations continue to amaze me.


There’s no question which I’d rather associate with.

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Replacement paws for Oscar

Popular Science:

When Oscar the cat lost both his hind paws in a farming accident, it was feared he'd have to trundle around in one of those wheeled-cat apparatuses. But Noel Fitzpatrick, a neuro-orthopedic veterinary surgeon in Surrey, pioneered a groundbreaking technique instead, installing weight-bearing bone implants to create a bionic kitty.

What’s revolutionary is that these “intraosseous transcutaneous amputation prosthetics” are attached directly to the bone, and the skin grows into place around them.  Picture and video at the link.

Elsewhere:
Via:  Slashdot

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Typical– but then you knew that

R.S. McCain:

“The American Left:  Shamelessly Following Orders Ever Since Stalin Told Us to Endorse Hitler’s Invasion of Poland.”

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