Monthly Archives: January 2016
Tested: How the BB-8 Sphero Toy Works – Tested
How your Sphero BB-8 rolls. You’ve got one, right?
Turning your back on immigrants is a betrayal | Fusion
The nativist bigots who can trace their American credentials to the Mayflower are an odious bunch. But those who are trying to pull the ladder up behind them.
Stonekettle Station: Refuge of Scoundrels
One hundred and forty years ago, men and women fought against a tyrannical government and won their freedom. It seems today that those who hate America most are the terrorists and would-be tyrants within.
This should be required reading in every school room in this country because the pretty, diluted, Texas Department of Education whitewashed-approved version isn’t making it into our kid’s heads apparently.
David Bowie and the gender-neutral pronoun, ‘they’ | Public Radio International
Never “just” a musician – though that would have been enough – Bowie continued to show a better way of expressing yourself and treating each other as whole people.
Man behind gutting of Voting Rights Act: states may have ‘gone too far’ since decision | US news | The Guardian
Asshole almost feels bad about disenfranchising millions.
That is what passes as contrition among our political class.
Marco Tempest: The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla | TED Talk | TED.com
Ten Reasons That Will Convince You That Bernie Sanders Deserves Your Vote AnonHQ
At the end of the day, even though I cannot endorse their tactics in most cases, I am going to listen more to an Anonymous opinion piece than one from a big media source.
A Real-Life Garden of Poison Exists in England | Upvoted
There is a place you can go where everything can kill you.
Well, that garden and Australia, I suppose.
Zzyzx, California, Or the Biggest Health Spa Scam In American History | Atlas Obscura
Another story about Zzyzx, which I am sure I have referenced before.
