Something To Follow Up: An essay (in video form) on scientific fraud
Directly quoting his biography, Eric J. Vanman is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland Australia. In this short (15 minute) video below, he uses clear...
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A Story Well Told: War Games at 40
The film “War Games” was released on June 3, 1983, forty years ago. (I meant to get to this earlier.) Hollyweird is often terrible when it comes to computer and technology in movies, but War Games...
View ArticleThe Kuritsy Are Coming Home To Roost: And to rape and pillage
According to google translate, “kuritsy” is plural for chicken. As was predicted by many, recruiting convicts from Russian prisons was a bad idea. They wouldn’t have signed up if suicide missions were...
View ArticleA Flood Of Anger Washes Over: Kill the poor to protect the rich, in China
It’s not just the Russian regime that shows no concern for the lives of people living in the country. In many ways, the Chinese regime is worse because of its stranglehold on the media, social media,...
View ArticleStarved Out: Houston’s new way of killing public education
As others have said elsewhere here before me, the Houston ISD “plan” to close libraries and create “discipline centres” is abhorrent. And in a way that others haven’t yet mentioned, as awful as the...
View ArticleHis Words Bite: Steve Shives is a treasure
If you’re not familiar with him, Steve Shives runs a youtube channel (along with other social media presence) where he primarily talks about Star Trek. Incessantly. Every episode, every series,...
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I laughed: A pair of cartoons seen recently
I think they’re fairly self-explanatory. And hilarious.
View ArticleThe Sick Leave: Cheetolini may have a case of domain poisoning
In his latest video, Beau Of The Fifth Column reports that Cheetolini’s finance scam “Patriots Legal Defense Fund” (US spelling) has been “hacked”. If you visit the PLDF site at this moment, you will...
View ArticlePirate, Curate, And Violate: Is the British Museum run by incompetents or...
For decades, people have rightfully called for European countries to return stolen artefacts and antiquities to the countries they were taken from (see the second quoted text below). The growing...
View ArticleI Wonder If Anyone Agrees
As most know and is plainly obvious, Cheetolini (aka Trump) plans to delay his trials until after the election, in the hope he can be reappointed by the “electoral college” without winning the popular...
View ArticleNothing Changed: Soviet incompetence was always Russian incompetence
It was forty years ago today, September 1, 1983, that the Soviet military shot down Korean Air Lines flight 007, killing 246 passengers and 23 crew members. It took six days for the Soviets to admit...
View ArticleThey Were Naive: How North Korea tricked 94,000 people into moving there
Two videos from the South China Morning Post about the mass migration of 94,000 ethnic “Zainichi” Koreans from Japan to North Korea. Below the fold is a second video on how North Korea persuaded...
View ArticleA Quick Thought To Say…
Regarding the Beatoffjuice . . . I mean, Beetlejuice show and rightwingnut hypocrisy: Rightwing outrage is reserved for when women Bobbitt a penis, not when women Boebert a penis. At least when Pee Wee...
View ArticleA Close Call: Twice
Tuesday, September 26th marks the anniversary of a significant event which, had events gone differently, we wouldn’t be writing or reading this. It was forty years ago today that Stanislav Petrov...
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Etiquette Rules: Don’t Call Me, I’ll Call You
Normally I have little patience for the Washington Compost, but a recent item has made the rounds in certain communities: new rules for telephone etiquette. And I have to say I’m in agreement with most...
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