It would appear we have a vicious criminal mastermind in our midst... ... Not pointing fingers, but., (1)
Joke time... AgainVladimir Putin, to get on the good side of the public, goes to visit a school in Moscow to have a chat with the kids. He talks to them about how Russia is a powerful nation and how he only wants the very best for the people. At the end of the talk... See More »
162 lies and distortions in a news conference. NPR fact-checks former President TrumpThere were a host of false things that Donald Trump said during his hour-long news conference Thursday that have gotten attention. A glaring example is his helicopter emergency landing story, which has not stood up to scrutiny. But there was so... See More »
Does the Russian language have a word for irony?"Putin has cast the Ukrainian offensive as a “major provocation”. Sergei Mironov, leader of a Kremlin-loyal political party, called it a “terrorist attack” and “the invasion of an internationally recognised foreign territory”.
A different take on life....I was confused when I heard the word "service" used in these ways: telephone service; cable service; internet service; civil service; public service; customer service. This is not what I thought service meant. Then today, I overheard two farmers... See More »
Apparently free choice has gone out the window ...Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, on Tuesday sued a global advertising alliance and several major companies, including Unilever, Mars and CVS Health, accusing them of unlawfully conspiring to shun the social network and intentionally causing it t... See More »
Great quote from an article re the US elections"Delivering for people on economic issues is an important goal in itself, but it is not an antivenom for the snakebite of authoritarianism,” sociologist Deepak Bhargava and his colleagues wrote last year in the journal Democracy. “The emotional... See More »
From those wonderful folk at NASA This is called the penguin and the egg,.. Can't figure out why exactly... (1)
So, the prez is immune from anything...Considered to be part of official duties.... How does that make you feel... Comfortable? What's the old quote..."cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war “? Gilead just got one step closer..
Your future laid bare ...Just reading an article on NPR News... Below are two paragraphs lifted from said article where right wingers equate fact checking with censorship... If Trump wins, this is your future... Good luck! The Stanford Internet Observatory, a prominent... See More »
Fresh from the land of WTF ...... If one is facing a charge of driving with a suspended licence, there are better ways to make one’s case than from behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. That self-evident reality was momentarily lost on a Michigan man who did just that earlier... See More »
I must apologise to our American cousins...It seems we've exported our own brand of silliness in your direction ... Morrison is in the US to promote his new book Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness, which he will launch at the Australian embassy in... See More » (1)
And just when you thought it couldn't get any sillier ...From the guardian ... Trump praises fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter during rally speech Ex-president calls Hopkins’ cannibalistic Lecter ‘late, great’ while condemning ‘people who are being released into our country’ ... And this is the... See More »
Time to be amazedFrom an article in the guardian on brain research.... The clump of brain amounted to a mere cubic millimetre of tissue, but working out the wiring still presented a huge task for the team. Electron microscope images of more than 5,000 slices of the... See More »