Sunday, December 15, 2013

WE'RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND WE'RE HERE TO HELP YOU: California health exchange shares consumers' data without permission.

Whether you want it or not.
JUST SAY NO: Doctors boycotting California's ObamaCare exchange. I doubt that very many doctors go into medicine to get rich, but surely they don't go into medicine to go bankrupt. There are much easier ways to accomplish that objective.
BB GUN CONTROL: In New Jersey, kids’ rite of passage could mean felony. If that were the law when I was a kid, I'd probably just now be getting out of jail.
COLLEGE PROFESSORS ARE CONFINED TO IVORY TOWERS FOR A REASON: University sends email to alumni equating the tea party with the KKK.

People like this shouldn't be allowed outside the ivied walls without an escort. I tend to suspect that the reason gun control advocates shy away from mental health issues is that they fear too many of their base would be caught in the screenings.
POWERLINE: Guns, Glocks, Shooters, and a Day at the Range. My thoughts exactly. I need to spend more time on the range.
GO TO MARS, get hit by a comet.
REMINDER: The President's ObamaCare lies.
SATURN MOON'S COLOSSAL METHANE SEAS:
Measurements of a big sea on Titan ... show that it contains about 9,000 cubic km of mostly liquid methane. This huge volume is equivalent, say scientists, to about 40 times the proven reserves of oil and gas on Earth.

"What you're talking about here is essentially liquefied natural gas," explained Randy Kirk from the US Geological Survey (USGS).

"People ask me if you could bring it to Earth, and that's a dumb idea on many levels. But what you might not realise is that there simply wouldn't be enough oxygen here to burn it all," he told BBC News.
So if we do manage to mine Titan (and eventually we will), we may be on the verge of an oxygen shortage. Environmentalists will be delighted.
MEDICAL JOURNAL: Agent 007 is an impotent alcoholic. Yes, I realize it's tongue-in-cheek, but there are some things the health nannies should leave unspoiled.
FIVE LAWS that made sense on paper (and disasters in reality). Sense in the reality world inhabited by liberals, and disaster in the real world inhabited by the rest of us.

Cracked is a comedy and satire website, but it's correct on the facts.