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Diaries published: 6 (2608 days since last diary on Mon Oct 17, 2016 at 04:36 PM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: The IRS screwed up. No political group should enjoy 501(c)(4) status, 50 comments, 14 recommends
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The Republican Party has sent out flyers warning potential voters that their neighbors will know if they don’t vote Republican.
First of all, this is a lie. Who you vote for is not a matter of public record. Secret ballots are one of the bedrocks of...
by Ender
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on Mon Oct 17, 2016 at 04:36 PM PDT
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I was on vacation when the NSA story hit the wire, so this question may have been asked.
Has anyone asked if the NSA is using speech-to-text to store our phone calls into a big database? I mean, ...
by Ender
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on Tue Jun 18, 2013 at 03:13 PM PDT
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Was the F5 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma caused by global warming? Probably not. There hasn't been an increase in tornado activity in recent years.
F4 and F5 tornadoes are extremely rare:
Graphs ...
by Ender
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on Wed May 22, 2013 at 02:01 PM PDT
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The tax law requires 501(c)(4) organizations to operate exclusively to promote the "public welfare." In 1959 the IRS edited their tax codes to only require that they mostly promote the public welfare.
by Ender
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On their best day, Hitler and Hirohito never shut down a major American city. If two amateurs with makeshift bombs can cause a major city to go into lockdown, isn't this a signal to terrorists that ...
by Ender
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I thought that George W. Bush served as president for eight years. Apparently not. If you count the red bars in the chart that Michele Bachmann displayed in her SOTU response, you will learn that ...
by Ender
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- In our last episode, the maiden voyage of the commercial space travel startup “CatAstrofy” took an unplanned detour. And get it they did. As the passengers stretch their legs and collect souvenirs around the space ship, Andy and Peng head off to get a...249 comments 119 Recs
- Last week when the Trailerban Convoy came to Toronto I went to check things out and to be honest it was pretty tame. Unlike in Ottawa where there have been documented threats, assaults, vandalism, smashed windows, and at least really scary arson...144 comments 254 Recs
- Well, Donald Trump’s picture book memoir has finally come out. The Washington Post book critic Ron Charles begins his review as follows: “Last June, in a moment of unintentional honesty, Donald Trump said, ’I’m writing like crazy.’” And really that’s...330 comments 267 Recs
- Here’s the punchline up front: You can’t change an antivaxer’s mind because he doesn’t understand what a vaccine is. Many years ago, I got into one of those total-waste-of-time arguments about the validity of the theory of evolution with a coworker. We...295 comments 252 Recs
- The Atlantic published a great in-depth article both documenting and explaining the mass exodus of U.S. healthcare workers during this pandemic. For those who can’t get through the paywall, below are some excerpts. To be clear, as a starting point, we...286 comments 285 Recs
- In honor of the season, here’s a reprise of a road trip episode from 2019. Happy Halloween to all of you! The last time we checked in on the road trip gang, they had journeyed to Monterey for some fine dining. It was well past sunset by the time the...152 comments 115 Recs
- In any chart of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s easy to pick out the point where the delta variant became the dominant version of the the SARS-CoV-2 virus. That’s the point when, even in nations like Israel that had relatively high levels of vaccination,...199 comments 438 Recs
- … and, winter is coming. For those just scrolling by while whistling past the graveyard, you might want to read this story and prepare yourself while you watch your wallet because the shit just might hit the fan and soon. Economic Impacts from climate...135 comments 210 Recs
- In the last two months, we’ve watched two billionaires fly their personal rockets on suborbital flights that they celebrated with lots of self-aggrandizement. On Wednesday evening, another billionaire will launch, not on his personal rocket, but on one...65 comments 76 Recs
- Yesterday as I was finishing an appointment I could hear my receptionist’s frustration as she was struggling with a phone call. I wasn’t certain about the details, just the frustration in her voice. The caller was put on hold and I got one of those...290 comments 355 Recs
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