Your 2015 Bulwer-Lytton Contest winners.
Two words: Xena reboot. You’re welcome.
The original Bavarian beer-making yeast has been found.
“The disparity between how the law treats abortion patients and IVF patients reveals an ugly truth about abortion restrictions: that they are often less about protecting life than about controlling women’s bodies.”
RIP, Robert “Bob” Farrell, founder of the Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlor chain.
This is a tough way to lose a game.
RIP, Julian Bond, former NAACP Chair and civil rights leader.
Just a picture of Jen Welter and Sarah Thomas shaking hands. If you don’t recognize those names or get why that’s worth highlighting, then you should be sure to click that link.
“The reason I wrote this article is I got interested in the fact [Frankie] Crosetti is basically forgotten for someone who has 17 World Series rings and 23 appearances.”
How to talk like Donald Trump, in one easy lesson.
The Leo Frank lynching, 100 years later.
No spec work. Pay people for their time and effort.
“But it’s important not to lose sight of a more urgent reality: As bad as white-collar workers may have it at Amazon and elsewhere, their blue-collar brethren have it much, much worse, and have much less power to negotiate better conditions.”
How do you solve a problem like Antonin Scalia?
RIP, Yvonne Craig, best known as Batgirl on the Batman TV series. Like Mark Evanier, I will confess to having a crush on her. Be sure to read his post all the way to the end.
I’m happy to not be on this list.
What the war on Planned Parenthood is really all about.
Happy retirement to the Washington Generals, longtime straight men for the Harlem Globetrotters.
So Josh Duggar had Ashley Madison accounts. Well, you know, boys are just curious about that sort of thing.
Having said that, and putting aside the considerable amount of schadenfreude that comes with reading a story like that, the data privacy implications of the Ashley Madison hack are no laughing matter. And whatever else may be said about the people who have these accounts, their exposure is likely to cause a lot of pain to a lot of innocent people. So, yeah.
On the other other hand, what Amanda says.
“It’s one of the dirty secrets of the pharmacy industry that uninsured people frequently pay more for drugs than those with insurance”.
“Isn’t this what the federal government is for? If there’s interstate commerce that wreaks havoc on state and local governments as a rule, shouldn’t Congress step in to legislate the business back to sanity?”
If all life begins at conception, what do you make of this?
Two words: Deez Nuts. You’re welcome.