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And now, the aftermath. Because even when you finally finish an election, there's the postscripts. Like CEOs threatening to freeze hiring and fire already-working employees because they don't like the idea of having to provide health care for them. And then there's also the conservative commentariat's wildly variant suggestions on how to win in 2016. Some laughable, some that might be decent solutions.
The best advice offered to the Republican Party and the conservative movement, though, comes from someone they would never listen to. Rachel MAddow asks the conservative movement to come back to the world of facts, rather than continuing in their bubble of feel-good misinformation. Because the current environment produces white male bigots lashing out at everything but their own proudly displayed bigotry as being responsible for the defeat of the white male bigot candidate. And people so enamored of their hate of the other side that they will attempt to remove all traces of it from their life and associations. Not realizing, of course, that they will have a hell of a time constructing a life that ideologically mirrors theirs, as there's almost always something they will have to encounter that was done or maintained by a Democrat...
In any case, remembering that it's always the lesser of two evils and the plutocrats in charge really want you just to accept their rule is a helpful thing when something that really would be good for the middle class is sunk with bipartisan support. After all, they're working against you, so it might be worth discussing the differences but working toward some common goals.
We could also do with less partisanship interfering in elections, like a poll worker filling in races with no vote cast for the Republican. Or the conservative movement's propaganda wing rebranding a staunchly Republican Governor as a Democrat because he worked with the Democratic President on disaster relief for the people of his state. By "accident", I'm sure.
Ah, yes, and there's Republican Governors cutting off their noses to spite Obama's face by denying health care to those who most desperately need it in their states.
Doing good things with small amounts of money produces The People's Bailout, and the associated Rolling Jubilee, where the Occupy movement raises funds to buy distressed debt and forgive it completely. Since such debt can be bought at pennies on the dollar, a small amount of money can forgive a large amount of debt.
The Dead Pool Voice Actors Corps calls home Lucille Bliss, known for diverse roles from The Smurfs to Invader Zim, at 94 years of age.
Out in the world today, Antivirus pioneer John McAfee is wanted by police in Belize as a suspect in a murder.
The Supreme Court of Canada voided Pfizer's patent for Viagra in the company, unanimously syaing that Pfizer had not disclosed enough about the drug to meet Canada's requirements for patents - limited monopoly in exchange for being able to replicate it at the end of the patent term. That's how a limited monopoly is supposed to work, and kudos to the Canadian court for telling Pfizer to play by the rules.
Also in Canada, an HIV vaccine cleared Phase 1 trials with no adverse effects, which means that it can move to Phase 2, where it is tested to see if it can prevent infection. If successful there, then there's Phase 3, a much bigger trial to test the same thing.
Domestically, The Director of the CIA, David Petraeus, resigned his position because of an extra-marital affair and the security issues that developed from having someone with access to potentially classified data. (Will we see people wanting to pin this as an OBAMA SCANDAL? Got me...)
The mechanics of how California's Proposition 35 turns people charged with prostitution (or soliciting prostitutes) into human traffickers subjected to lifelong government surveillance.
An investigation into how religious exemptions can hide incredible amounts of abuse in terms of religious houses in Florida. Even though it's a minority of those investigated, one would think it in the best interests of everyone to have some sort of minimum oversight or requirements. Religious freedom goes a very long way, but when those who aren't of age to consent are involved, someone has to step up for them. It's like the places where kids get kidnapped to so they can be "reformed" from their "deviant" ways.
Elmo puppeteer and voice Kevin Clash was accused of having an affair with an underage child, an allegation he denies, claiming the romance only started after his partner was of legal age. Since then, the person making the accusation has recanted. To the relief of a lot of fans (and the Sesame Workshop).
Also, good things, though - the Victoria's Secret company was able to help a National Guard armory out with power, an Internet connection, and heavy equipment movers when the guard base went off-line due to the hurricane.
Also, a neo-Nazi rally in North Carolina was drowned out by the presence of clowns shouting slogans just different from those of the white supremacists.
Into technology, where young women scientists in Africa have created a generator that runs on urine - six hours of power from one liter of urine. Elsewhere, Michigan State University scientists have found a way to turn a toxic substance into fine gold. Alchemy is awesome!
Additionally, for people who like their music to play indefinitely because it's that cool - The Infinite Jukebox, which analyzes music by beat and then constructs jumps so that the song can infinitely loop without having to go start-to-finish and loop there.
There's also applied cryptography in the natural world, or how fairy wrens can tell the difference between their kids and a cuckoo.
If you like Windows Live / MSN Messenger, come April, you're getting Skype! Enjoy. Microsoft decided they wanted to put their acquisition to use in a typically Microsoft way - discontinue alternatives.
Into the opinions we go, where we want headlines to reflect actual studies, especially when they're trumpeting about the inability of men and women to have platonic friendships because women are icy and men are controlled entirely by their penises. Reality, as they say, is more complicated than that.
Wil Wheaton reminisces about not having a cast member and friend any more for a work that he still gets asked to sign a lot of autographs for.
When it comes to what happens on sub-Reddits, the moderators and administrators of the main Reddit are good with turning a blind eye, because they believe in the power of the market and in the freedom of speech. Which gets interesting when you have news organizations outing the names of moderators for subreddits they are appaled by. I think this corrective mechanism is seen as a feature, rather than a bug, and it reflects the idea that speech should be countered with more speech. But it's also an interesting view when it comes to all the morally questionable things that can happen when you have technology that allows for great things to happen.
Last out of opinions, a textbook example of the concept of "mansplaining". For additional fun, observe the comments, where several other fine examples happen. (And some Bonus! fails and fallacies, too.)
Last out for tonight, the cat program at a men's maximum security prison that is keeping the inmates out of trouble, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has published full-text guides of exhibits that have been at the museum, and why Machiavelli is so very important to our lives and politics, well past the book he wrote.
The best advice offered to the Republican Party and the conservative movement, though, comes from someone they would never listen to. Rachel MAddow asks the conservative movement to come back to the world of facts, rather than continuing in their bubble of feel-good misinformation. Because the current environment produces white male bigots lashing out at everything but their own proudly displayed bigotry as being responsible for the defeat of the white male bigot candidate. And people so enamored of their hate of the other side that they will attempt to remove all traces of it from their life and associations. Not realizing, of course, that they will have a hell of a time constructing a life that ideologically mirrors theirs, as there's almost always something they will have to encounter that was done or maintained by a Democrat...
In any case, remembering that it's always the lesser of two evils and the plutocrats in charge really want you just to accept their rule is a helpful thing when something that really would be good for the middle class is sunk with bipartisan support. After all, they're working against you, so it might be worth discussing the differences but working toward some common goals.
We could also do with less partisanship interfering in elections, like a poll worker filling in races with no vote cast for the Republican. Or the conservative movement's propaganda wing rebranding a staunchly Republican Governor as a Democrat because he worked with the Democratic President on disaster relief for the people of his state. By "accident", I'm sure.
Ah, yes, and there's Republican Governors cutting off their noses to spite Obama's face by denying health care to those who most desperately need it in their states.
Doing good things with small amounts of money produces The People's Bailout, and the associated Rolling Jubilee, where the Occupy movement raises funds to buy distressed debt and forgive it completely. Since such debt can be bought at pennies on the dollar, a small amount of money can forgive a large amount of debt.
The Dead Pool Voice Actors Corps calls home Lucille Bliss, known for diverse roles from The Smurfs to Invader Zim, at 94 years of age.
Out in the world today, Antivirus pioneer John McAfee is wanted by police in Belize as a suspect in a murder.
The Supreme Court of Canada voided Pfizer's patent for Viagra in the company, unanimously syaing that Pfizer had not disclosed enough about the drug to meet Canada's requirements for patents - limited monopoly in exchange for being able to replicate it at the end of the patent term. That's how a limited monopoly is supposed to work, and kudos to the Canadian court for telling Pfizer to play by the rules.
Also in Canada, an HIV vaccine cleared Phase 1 trials with no adverse effects, which means that it can move to Phase 2, where it is tested to see if it can prevent infection. If successful there, then there's Phase 3, a much bigger trial to test the same thing.
Domestically, The Director of the CIA, David Petraeus, resigned his position because of an extra-marital affair and the security issues that developed from having someone with access to potentially classified data. (Will we see people wanting to pin this as an OBAMA SCANDAL? Got me...)
The mechanics of how California's Proposition 35 turns people charged with prostitution (or soliciting prostitutes) into human traffickers subjected to lifelong government surveillance.
An investigation into how religious exemptions can hide incredible amounts of abuse in terms of religious houses in Florida. Even though it's a minority of those investigated, one would think it in the best interests of everyone to have some sort of minimum oversight or requirements. Religious freedom goes a very long way, but when those who aren't of age to consent are involved, someone has to step up for them. It's like the places where kids get kidnapped to so they can be "reformed" from their "deviant" ways.
Elmo puppeteer and voice Kevin Clash was accused of having an affair with an underage child, an allegation he denies, claiming the romance only started after his partner was of legal age. Since then, the person making the accusation has recanted. To the relief of a lot of fans (and the Sesame Workshop).
Also, good things, though - the Victoria's Secret company was able to help a National Guard armory out with power, an Internet connection, and heavy equipment movers when the guard base went off-line due to the hurricane.
Also, a neo-Nazi rally in North Carolina was drowned out by the presence of clowns shouting slogans just different from those of the white supremacists.
Into technology, where young women scientists in Africa have created a generator that runs on urine - six hours of power from one liter of urine. Elsewhere, Michigan State University scientists have found a way to turn a toxic substance into fine gold. Alchemy is awesome!
Additionally, for people who like their music to play indefinitely because it's that cool - The Infinite Jukebox, which analyzes music by beat and then constructs jumps so that the song can infinitely loop without having to go start-to-finish and loop there.
There's also applied cryptography in the natural world, or how fairy wrens can tell the difference between their kids and a cuckoo.
If you like Windows Live / MSN Messenger, come April, you're getting Skype! Enjoy. Microsoft decided they wanted to put their acquisition to use in a typically Microsoft way - discontinue alternatives.
Into the opinions we go, where we want headlines to reflect actual studies, especially when they're trumpeting about the inability of men and women to have platonic friendships because women are icy and men are controlled entirely by their penises. Reality, as they say, is more complicated than that.
Wil Wheaton reminisces about not having a cast member and friend any more for a work that he still gets asked to sign a lot of autographs for.
When it comes to what happens on sub-Reddits, the moderators and administrators of the main Reddit are good with turning a blind eye, because they believe in the power of the market and in the freedom of speech. Which gets interesting when you have news organizations outing the names of moderators for subreddits they are appaled by. I think this corrective mechanism is seen as a feature, rather than a bug, and it reflects the idea that speech should be countered with more speech. But it's also an interesting view when it comes to all the morally questionable things that can happen when you have technology that allows for great things to happen.
Last out of opinions, a textbook example of the concept of "mansplaining". For additional fun, observe the comments, where several other fine examples happen. (And some Bonus! fails and fallacies, too.)
Last out for tonight, the cat program at a men's maximum security prison that is keeping the inmates out of trouble, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has published full-text guides of exhibits that have been at the museum, and why Machiavelli is so very important to our lives and politics, well past the book he wrote.
