Month: February 2020

The Trump White House reduced "$15 billion in national health spending and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS. And the government's $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated." All this was basically a "Obama did it so we don't want it" penny-pinching move.... "In May 2018, Trump ordered...

Flat Earth theorist "Mad" Mike Hughes dies in rocket crash -- we are not making this up: trying to prove the Earth was flat, Mike Hughes went up in a HOMEMADE rocket to try to prove the Earth is flat, said rocket crashing with him in it, killing him. He was taking pictures to try...

No, it's not made from distilled unicorn horns. A $40,000 Dollar bottle of whiskey? Oh yes. The whiskey has allegedly (we have only their word) been in a cask for 50 years. It's from a distillery that closed and this was *trial whiskey*. It wasn't even their best thing, clearly. These guys found some rather...

Information Theory 101: if code touches a bit, it can introduce error. Two counties in Oregon and some jurisdictions in Washington, are offering voting via mobile phone app for overseas armed forces personnel. The app, called "Voatz," according to a recent MIT paper, has elementary security flaws that would allow someone to see and intercept...

As Trump's 'Environmental Protection Agency prepares to finalize the latest in a long line of rollbacks, the nation's power sector has sent a different message: Thanks, but no thanks. Exelon, one of the nation's largest utilities, told the EPA that its effort to change a rule that has cut emissions of mercury and other toxins...

Jim Bakker is back on TV and--that in itself is amazing. Does no one remember this guy? I mean--how stupid ARE we? Consider: As was widely reported, Bakker-- pioneering Prosperity Christianity televangelist and husband of legendary eccentric Tammy Faye Bakker--secretly paid Jessica Hahn hush money after he raped her, stole money supposed to go to...

"Chemical analysis tests gathered by the Times Free Press challenge the basis of a popular Dalton, Georgia, ministry that claims to have a Bible flowing with oil." Mineral oil, that is. These here fellas have a Bible miraculously flowing with it! "Each week, hundreds of people come to Dalton's Wink Theater to see the Bible...

OHHHHH so many examples. SO VERY VERY MANY. Millions of Americans now seem to have no ability to tell a crackpot news site from a reputable one. Many of us are apparently stupid enough to believe any website that claims to be authentic journalism regardless of the wild ludicrousness of its claims. Because--there are pictures!...

"At a Broadway performance...I was told to place my smartphone in a Yondr pouch, a soft contraption that resembles a beer koozie. It remained hostage in my bag until after the event, when attendees lined up to have them set free by an usher carrying a special unlocking tool resembling a kitchen gadget." More and...

As reported in October-- Trump WH Cuts All Funding For Program Meant To Prevent The Next Viral Pandemic--the Trump administration has been busily working to make us all more vulnerable to the Coronavirus. Not on purpose. It was just... Stupid. You know, something stupid they did. The Guardian has just reported: "US preparedness to deal...