Mike Lee Makes A Fool Of Himself Mocking Green New Deal

Click here for a 15-minute presentation on the House floor by Mike Lee: see Reagan riding a flag-waving velociraptor, firing a machine gun with a rocket strapped to his back; Star Wars creatures to ride in Alaska, 20-foot seahorses to ride in Hawaii, Lee's description of his conversations with cows, the governor of Utah using a tennis racket to fight off a shark in his office in Sharknado 4 -- and then the most ludicrous part of the speech, where Lee proposes his "serious" solution to climate change: have more babies.

Russia And The Trump Campaign

Click here for an article at Mother Jones, by David Corn, entitled "Here’s the Real Trump-Russia Hoax (It’s Trump defenders and lefty Russiagate skeptics claiming there is no scandal)." The Trump campaign essentially aided and abetted Russia in its interference in the election.

Trump's Barrage Of Lies After Barr's Letter

Trump let loose with a barrage of lies and exaggerations on Hannity's show. Click here for a WaPo article by Aaron Blake entitled "Trump and Hannity binge on conspiracy theories in Trump’s first post-Mueller Fox News interview."

And click here for another cloud of lies at Trump's first post-Barr rally, at Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is an article by Linda Qiu at The New York Times, entitled "Trump’s Inaccurate Claims on Mueller, Health Care and the Great Lakes." "Inaccurate Claims"? More pussyfooting by the NYT.

Task Manager

Click here for a useful article at How-To Geek entitled "Windows Task Manager: The Complete Guide."

Ari Fleischer Can't Stop Lying - Get That Man A Job In The Trump Administration!

Click here for an article at Esquire by Charlie Pierce entitled "Ari Fleischer and the Iraq War Ghouls Are Proof the Republican Party Needs a Total Reset."

God, I thought we'd heard the last of Ari Fleischer. But here he is crawling out from under a rock lying again in defense of the war criminals in the W administration who engineered the Iraq invasion.

Aviation Safety Features Optional - If You Pay For Them?

Click here for an article at Esquire by Charlie Pierce entitled "Boeing's 'Optional' Safety Equipment on the 737 Max Is a Monument to Corporate Greed."

One Boeing 737 Max coming right up. Would you like some added safety features with that?

Patricia and Girls Girls Girls - Whiskey A-Go-Go

Mind Games: The Checker Shadow Illusion

Click here for an article entitled "Do we perceive reality? The checker shadow illusion."

Two squares on a checkerboard -- a dark-colored square in full light and a light-colored square in shadow -- appear to be vastly different, but are in fact the same shade of gray.

Steve King Fantasizes About Civil War

Click here for an article at WaPo by Reis Thebault, entitled "Steve King posts meme warning that red states have '8 trillion bullets' in event of civil war."

The Iowa Republican broached the subject in a Saturday evening Facebook post — a meme of two fighting Frankenstein figures, one red and one blue, each an amalgamation of states based on their political leanings. The art was ripped and uncredited, as meme art usually is, from a New York Times book review in 2013, and was originally designed by Yarek Waszul.

“Folks keep talking about another civil war,” the meme read. “One side has about 8 trillion bullets, while the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use.”

Richard Painter, chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, tweeted “This is treason. Steve King should be expelled from the House immediately.”

In reply, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe commented that King “isn’t actually COMMITTING treason, but he is fomenting and inciting it. Ample reason to expel him.”

Just another congressman joking about civil war and how his side would win. Move along, folks -- nothing to see here.

Cool Mathematical Trick

x% of y = y% of x

An easy example: Let x=10, y=60.
Then x% of y -- 10% of 60 -- is 6.
But y% of x -- 60% of 10 -- is also 6.

Those calculations are rapidly performed in your head. But what if the calculation is just a little more difficult: What is 4% of 75?

You can divide 75 by 100 to get .75, and multiply by 4: .75x4=3

Or you can flip the equation; instead of doing 4% of 75, do 75% of 4.

"Fox News has become an American plague."

That's the closing line of an article by Margaret Sullivan at The Washington Post entitled "It’s time — high time — to take Fox News’s destructive role in America seriously." Click here.