Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Life Lessons from a Board Game. Learn something every day - the name of the person in Operation is Cavity Sam.
- The Lesson from Murder's Row, Two Layers Deeper. A lesson from WW II we need to relearn today.
- Jonathan Turley: Yale Medical school accused of racial discrimination in admissions. This is my shocked face.
- Massachusetts demonstrates the futility of gun control. And yes Mass is run mostly by dumbasses.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Mass vs RFK Jr. over Dunkin' Donuts. Think a Kennedy would know enough not to mess with Dunkin's in Mass.
- The sinking of the Dena was textbook.
- The hidden insurance rules keeping MLB star from the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
- Sebastian Junger: What it feels like to get blown up. Some thoughts on the US military involvement in Iran.
More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Interesting - the evolution of the modern chicken. Who knew crocodiles were related to chickens?
- Jonathan Turley: Brown threatens student journalist. While sympathetic with Brown to a degree - wouldn't the student also be covered by whistleblower laws?
- As a Mass taxpayer - I didn't vote for this.
- NFL 5th year options tracker for 2022 1st round draft picks. What will New England do with Cole Strange?
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- Mass makes deal to pay federal government $2.1 billion over 10-year because of "mistake."
- The Tech Bros love Trump because the Democrats pushed them away. Reminder that Trump, RFK Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard were also literally Democrats (HT Stephen Landry)
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- US GDP by State. I'm competitive and want Mass to catch and pass NJ. On the bright side - our GDP is higher than Sweden's.
- Midnight Run turned 35-years old this week. Never realized that Danny Elfman wrote the music for the film.
- This was a very sad night for me. Still is.
- Jonathan Turley on the attempt to censor Jason Aldean and his video Try That in a Small Town. Amused he mentions CMT maybe becoming the next Bud Light (although he doesn't call the Streisand Effect by name). Just an example of minds thinking alike.
Reason has a brief article on Animal Rights Laws in CA and Mass. I was unaware of both of these laws.
In Mass people travel to NH to get menthol cigarettes (they were outlawed in Mass) and people in RI go over the border to Mass to buy legal weed. Now people from Mass may have to go to either of those states to get an omelet. What a crazy way to do interstate commerce.
California legalized weed five-years ago. Why is the illicia market still thriving? The short answer is because politicians and bureaucrats in California could screw up a wet dream.
In Massachusetts legalized marijuana seems to be working out fine. In Worcester pot dispensaries are as common as liquor stares (aka "packies") with each dispensary paying a pretty good amount in new taxes that would not have existed prior to legalization. And prices still seem reasonable plus a ton of new jobs have been created. Would be interesting to see what the unemployment numbers would look like in Mass if you took away the pot related jobs.
Mass also allows the growing of six plants per adult for personal use. This has created a literal home-grown market for individuals to make a little side money clipping buds off their well-cared for personal plants. This has become a big hobby for many and their dedication to the craft is admirable. I'd bet that organized crime in Mass has gotten out of or greatly reduced their role in selling illegal weed in the State.
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.
Theory I've heard a few times now - Governor Charlie Baker is waiting to fully open up Massachusetts until after Saint Patrick's Day because he doesn't want to risk drunken idiot super spreader events. My theory is Charlie Baker is waiting to open up the State because he doesn't own testicles... Andrew Cuomo's Covid-19 policies of putting infected people in nursing homes may have killed 5-times or more people than the number who died in the Twin Towers on September 11th. How is this not a bigger scandal?... For all the angst on the Left about orange man bad Donald Trump - you never hear anyone pining for Hillary Clinton do you? No "Hillary would have done this" or "Hillary would have done that." Isn't that weird? Or very telling?... Phrase of the day, "Drinking with Godot" - drinking while waiting for friends who may or may not arrive... Do you remember back in July when Andrew Cuomo said, "We now have people coming to New York, fleeing other states because it's the 'safe' state." Do you remember that? I do...
