Weekend link dump for November 19

“The massive asteroid that slammed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs might never have triggered a mass extinction had it struck almost any other part of the planet, scientists claim.”

“In a dramatic intellectual turnabout, most archaeologists and other scholars now believe that the earliest Americans followed Pacific Rim shorelines from northeast Asia to Beringia and the Americas.”

“No wonder the Heritage Foundation is so jazzed for this guy — an Originalist who can actually ask George Mason what he was thinking.”

RIP, Liz Smith, legendary gossip columnist.

“So when you ask, will evangelicals abandon Moore over this? Some will. But Trump admitted assaulting women and still 81% of white evangelicals voted for him. White evangelicals remain his strongest base of support.”

“So – even putting aside the point that the criminal-law standard of proof doesn’t apply to a political campaign – there is ample evidence for the proposition that Roy Moore, as a thirty-two-year-old assistant district attorney, molested a fourteen-year-old girl. The prisons are full of people convicted on much less proof.”

“I’m going to state that again, in case you didn’t get the full meaning of that: The conservative right — the most religious segment of our population — decided to boycott a company because it refused to sponsor a show that defended a pedophile. To put it in other terms: The enemy of my enemy is my friend, ergo, Hannity and Co., are now friends with pedophilia.”

How to Opt Out of Equifax Revealing Your Salary History.

“While WikiLeaks bills itself as a neutral proponent of transparency, the 2016 election made it quite clear that wasn’t the case.”

“At no point during the 10-month correspondence does Trump Jr. rebuff WikiLeaks, which had published stolen documents and was already observed to be releasing information that benefited Russian interests.”

“The evidence of Russian hacking has been coming in from other sources, including George Papadopoulos, who was informed that Russia had obtained hacked material long before any of it was actually released. What remained a question was whether Wikileaks was a witting or unwitting participant in Russia’s game. In my opinion, these Twitter messages remove any doubt about that. Wikileaks was acting in a way that was completely indistinguishable from how a Russian intelligence agency would act. And they weren’t making any effort to disguise this from the Trump campaign.”

“Sean Hannity would like his fans to stop smashing Keurig coffee machines.”

“Well, it turns out that Roy Moore — in addition to being a vicious bigot seething with contempt for LGBT people, Muslims and non-white people, and in addition to being so contemptuous of the rule of law that he was twice removed from service as a judge, resulting in a lifetime ban from Alabama courts, and in addition to being a Barnum-esque grifter who turned used a Ten Commandments monument to fleece church-goers out of millions in donations, and in addition to being an alleged child molester and attempted rapist who so creeped out his neighbors that he was (allegedly) banned from a local shopping mall and YMCA — is not particularly honest.

“Trump’s tweets are impulsive, immediate, unvarnished. They amount to realtime surveillance of what he was thinking and what he knew at key points of the campaign. They just require the fruits of the ongoing investigations to decipher what they mean.”

RIP, Bobby Doerr, Hall of Fame second baseman for the Red Sox. As it happens, a family friend was part of the effort to get Doerr inducted into the Hall by the Veterans Committee in the 80s. I remember reading a paper he’d written called “Open The Doerr” to advocate for his case.

The more I hear about the Galaxy Quest TV show, the more I am looking forward to it.

“Cards Against Humanity, an irreverent card game company known for its attention-seeking pranks, says it bought land on the U.S.-Mexico border to block President Trump from building his wall.”

Roy Moore’s lawyer is kind of an idiot.

What Mara Wilson says.

Sen. Al Franken should be ashamed of himself, and it’s good that he will cooperate with the Senate ethics investigation against him and accept their verdict. For what it’s worth, Leeann Tweeden has accepted his apology, which is not something we’ve seen in any of the far-too-many cases before now.

RIP, Ferdie Pacheco, boxing analyst and ringside doctor for Muhammad Ali.

RIP, Malcolm Young, co-founder of and guitarist for AC/DC.

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One Response to Weekend link dump for November 19

  1. Bill Daniels says:

    The people smashing their coffee makers are probably a few fries short of a Happy Meal. If you are upset with a company for whatever reason, stop buying their product. If you own their product already, that is a sunk cost. You don’t hurt the company by taking a sledgehammer to it, you just make yourself look stupid.

    Personally, I wouldn’t have one because I drink a lot more than one cup of coffee a day, and their 1 serving cups are an expensive way to drink multiple cups of coffee in one sitting.

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