- Millennials are being dot.conned by cult-like tech companies (New York Post) It’s the same as the 1990s dotcom boom.
- Yiddish Curses for Republican Jews (Ma Hamatzav?) Yiddish is a wonderful language for curses. My favorite is, “May you find yourself insisting to a roomful of skeptics that your great-grandmother was “legitimately” raped by Cossacks.”
- Head of Chilean chapter of Transparency.org resigns after he is found in Panama Papers (Transparency International) Who says that irony is dead?
- Oops! Bill Clinton Says He ACCIDENTALLY Took $500,000 From Algeria During Key Arms Negotiation With State Department (Downtrend) The depressing thing is that this is probably completely legal.
- Radioactive wild boars rampaging around Fukushima nuclear site (The Independent) No people means more area for them to grow, and larger predators that might keep their numbers down have been crowded out by people over the past 1000 years. They are still too radioactive for people to eat them, so mysuggestion is to airdrop a few packs native predators (the now extinct Hokkaido wolf is very similar to the Gray Wolf, or the also now extinct and smaller Honshu wolf come to mind) into the area.
- Second Russian intelligence report on Turkey’s current assistance to Daesh (Voltairenet) Short version: Our “Ally” Turkey is aggressively supporting ISIS.
Plaster of Paris Bagel and Cream Cheese Paperweight:
Scorcese’s most underrated movie/