Category Archives: News

How College Majors Get Picked, Sometimes

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Les Jones

All of the recent talk about college degrees and “useless” majors reminded me of something from my freshman year of college. I had a German language TA who told our class how people sometimes wound up with unlikely degrees. It’s … Continue reading →

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Zimmerman’s weight and 911 call history

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Les Jones

Tom Maguire at JustOneMinute has been on top of the Martin/Zimmerman story. Zimmerman’s weight: Either the NY Times needs to tear out the front page or they have just delivered an epic fail.  In either case, they have delivered a … Continue reading →

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“To Animals, All People Are Nazis”

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Les Jones

Slave the Whales! – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine. Does the 13th Amendment apply to critters? Can whales be plaintiffs? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals thinks so, and has filed suitin a San Diego court to emancipate … Continue reading →

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She Wants to be the Girl with the Most Restraining Orders

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Les Jones

Frances Bean Cobain: Courtney Love is an Anorexic, Chain-Smoking, Pill-Popping Pet Killer! – The Hollywood Gossip. Courtney Love is described as mentally unstable in newly released deposition papers filed by her daughter Frances Bean Cobain, who sought a restraining order … Continue reading →

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Backdoors in Chinese-made Defense Chips

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Les Jones

Business Insider – The Navy Bought Fake Chinese Microchips That Could Have Disarmed U.S. Missiles: Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits … Continue reading →

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What’s the Matter with Egypt?

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Les Jones

What’s Behind Egypt’s Problems? At least part of Egypt’s problem is the fact that in the past the government has threatened to reduce food subsidies. Now it is planning to hold food subsidies level and raise energy subsidies, but it … Continue reading →

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Erin Brockovich, You Ignorant Slut

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Les Jones

“Erin Brockovich” Town Shows No Cancer Cluster: Hinkley, California, the town made famous in the Oscar-winning Julia Roberts movie Erin Brockovich, does not show any evidence of an increased rate of cancers. Pacific Gas and Electric, which released a toxic … Continue reading →

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Anti-knife rapper stabbed

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Les Jones

And the guy’s name is DJ Ironik.

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Bono’s Charity Bamboozle

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Les Jones

Munchkin Wrangler – fueling your private jet with pure hypocrisy: Bono’s charity, ONE, is the poster child for feel-good limousine liberal activism.  In 2008, they took in $14 million in donations, and disbursed a mere $184,000 (or 1%) to charities.  … Continue reading →

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Wikileaks’ Julian Assange – Tattle-Tale Terrorist

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Les Jones

Rights Groups Join Criticism of WikiLeaks: A group of human-rights organizations is pressing WikiLeaks to do a better job of redacting names from thousands of war documents it is publishing, joining the list of critics that claim the Web site’s … Continue reading →

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CSI:Cincinatti – The Case of Pete Rose’s Corked Bat

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Les Jones

“You’re looking at an X-ray of a Mizuno PR4192 bat, commissioned by Pete Rose specifically for his 1985 chase of baseball’s all-time hits record. Inside, clear as day, is a piece of foreign material, about 6 inches long, and the … Continue reading →

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Scary Karl Marx Quote

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Les Jones

“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy … Continue reading →

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BoA to Increase Foreclosures 600%

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Les Jones

Bank of America to Increase Foreclosure Rate by 600% in 2010: I attended a local Building Industry Association conference on Friday 26 March 2010. The west coast manager of real estate owned, Senior Vice President Ken Gaitan, stated that Bank … Continue reading →

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Conversation About Anderson Cooper

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Les Jones

MELISSA: I didn’t know Anderson Cooper was on 60 Minutes. ME: Me neither. MELISSA: I guess they had to bring in some fresh blood. ME: Since everyone on the show is about to keel over dead. MELISSA: Do you know … Continue reading →

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New presidential license plate: ASSMAN

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Les Jones

Obama checks out 16 year old’s derriere. Drudge is pushing the story this morning, but Ace of Spades had it yesterday, with other photos of the president enjoying the view from the south: “He’s got all the tact of a … Continue reading →

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Swine flu back in the news

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Les Jones

Parts of Britain near epidemic. More concerns about a possible U.S. epidemic this fall. There’s plenty of time to buy some masks, hand sanitizer and canned goods, folks. Better safe than sorry and a little preparedness prevents panic.

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Best summary yet of the Honduras situation

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Les Jones

Macon.com – Who cares about Honduras?: The Hondurans are so concerned about potential despots, that Article 239 of their constitution states that any president who proposes extending his term in office is automatically removed from office. Article 313 of the … Continue reading →

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Newspaper has emails between Sanford and girlfriend

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Les Jones

How the heck did they get these? Somebody had it in for this guy. Newspaper “The State” claims they received the emails in December. The emails are from July, 2008. They had to have come from the governor’s computer or … Continue reading →

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Swine flu

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Les Jones

The Google Maps flu tracker I’ve been linked has moved to flutracker.rhizalabs.com. (FWIW, I could never get it to load completely.) Meanwhile reader Rick pointed me to this much better swine flu Google Map. Here’s tonight’s snapshot: Thoughts on how … Continue reading →

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Swine flu news

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Les Jones

First,  your daily snapshot of the Google Map for swine flu infections. Yesterday’s map and swine flu post here. Quick tip: all of these posts are tagged with “swine flu”. You can access all of them by clicking on the … Continue reading →

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