Do we (yet) have a set of policy issues by which we may identify someone as a “neo-confederate”? That is, as opposed to a good-ol’ confederate (seeking secession from these United States in order to preserve the practice of slavery)? Or may we just accept this as some new-speak equivalency between “neo-confederate”…

So, they have no recollection of Magneto’s origin story? (“history is the first victim of a society which doesn’t reward subtle contemplation” —mary chestnuttt)

Our nation is unquestionably disgusting, and it has never been overtly moreso than it is now. That being freely admitted, it still manages to be better than yours.

As regards pruitt’s continuance however much he costs the taxpayers is, of course, irrelevant. All that matters is the perception among a couple of billionaires as to how many yet more billions pruitt’s evil policy changes may allow them to accrue. Like everyone is trump’s administration: only shock and confusion will…

have any migraines in your family? (that is, do any in your family have migraines, not that cousin jeremy isn’t a migraine incarnate). if so, there’s a 67.3%* chance that your eye problem isn’t an eye problem. it helps to keep in mind that your eyes are (only) light transducers so if the light source itself doesn’t…

At a University Medical Genetics department (where i plied my trade as an itinerant statistician) the accepted baseline was: “20% non-paternity”. Which is the erudite way of saying: on average, one outta five kids have a different biological father than the stated one. (milkman kisses goofy by mistake)

Brutally short version: In a difficult job market “I was only following orders” should satisfy any trial, even at Nuremberg. (“y’know you just went godwin.” yeah, i have a godwin timeshare)

Perhaps you-all don’t get to write your headlines (as was typically the case in the Cretaceous ‘print’ era), yet do you believe that your posting specifically supports the headline that the public discourse of Roseanne Barr’s (either the actress or her character) connection to trump has “got out of hand”? There seems…

Not to allow even a narrow margin of relief to the douche-nozzle Giuliani; airpods look stupid even when worn correctly. (“you’re holding it wrong!”)

One feeble vote from an ancient trekker: Let It Die (set to a tune from an overrated disney film). This effort has deviated too far from anything recognizable as ‘Trek’ to be considered as recognizable to anything ‘Trek’. It should rather be titled “(goateed) Tartigrades in Spaaace.” Far closer to Trek is (with only a…

..guess we’ll have to tune-in to discover which will become chief chief by virtue of all the other mere chiefs being voted off the isl ... white-house. More than a few bright bulbs have pointed out that in order to ‘understand’ trump, one has to think like a crappy reality show. (“no no no... crappier than that”)

“With all the charm of an awkward teenage robot in a wig, Zuckerberg finally clarified...” ey! i’ve known a number of awkward teenage robots (and if a robot has hair, it’s a wig) and the vast majority of them expressed themselves with a smooth, almost programmed, clarity - so no insulting robots with Zuckerberg…

arrrrg... DNA with the wrong twist (should be right-handed) on top image! And gizmodo itself has an excellent Kirsten Brown posting admonishing this very callow act of posting. (ey, you want a “Science writer” or a writer o’ science?)

i know of a half dozen folks in the midwest (highly weighed electoral college zones) who spend a substantial portion of everyday crawling Facebook. So it would not be surprising if the modest tripping point 77,000 votes were generated with this Facebook/Cambridge_Analytica/Bannon effort alone (Russian help…

Lawyer going after software contractor: “Good people of the jury, if only the defendants had utilized an application language with a proper syntax of functional strictly typed lexically scoped monads then my client’s mother might be alive today” (too soon man, waaay too soon)

“graphene: an easy-to-apply, safer, and...”? errmm... the jury is still out on that whole “safer” issue. (helluva lot of aromatic bonds for nucleotide intercalation there, ahm just say’n (read, oh read about “Human health” here (or not)))

dangflang-it ...just searched this entire otherwise-excellent posting for “eInk” and nothing. If you want a persistent low-power daylight readable display like...oh, a watch, you can hardly expect better than an eInk display (as Pebble knew) (“foolish child! you must have abundant gaudy colors (or AGC) or go-fish”)

Ripley’s an “alien”!? ...what a twist. (“didn’t you see that episode with Winona? i think by that time everyone was an alien”)

It ought to be mentioned in passing (please no demise pun intended) that the sense of asphyxiation (gasping for breath etc) is primarily triggered by a build up of carbon-dioxide, and not the loss of available oxygen. So, in theory, replacing the atmosphere with an inert gas (nitrogen, argon, helium, ...) should…

Anyone facing confirmation hearings who has ever provided support for torture in the past must be asked if they themselves have experienced that treatment to judge its effectiveness for discovering truth as compared with anything which just might stop the torture — and if they refuse to answer that question they ought…