16 January 2024

Tuesday Links - 16 January

Clayton Cramer starts us off with a Musical Interlude. If You Are Too Young to Remember President Reagan

You may be too young to remember the Fleetwood Mac song Tusk with the USC Marching Band. It is really worth watching.

The Other McCain is still obsessed with Sportsball. The End of Two Football Dynasties

Can we take just a moment — before discussing anything else about this news — to extend our condolences to Cleveland Browns fans?

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 12 January 2024: Consume Soylent Pie Edition

Google also laid off about a thousand staff and closed its Mountain View daycare center. (SF Gate)

Just call this year 2023B and be done with it.

The Post Millennial - Trump designated Yemen's Houthis as terrorists—one day after taking office, Biden reversed it

Shortly after taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden reversed President Donald Trump's designation of the Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis as a terror group.

In so doing, Biden spoke about the need to deal with the humanitarian disaster in Yemen at the time. The Trump administration believed that the Houthis had used violent campaigns to destabilize the region.

Meep at Stump - Plagiarism and Faked Data in Academia

In which I discuss the recent brou-ha-ha over ex-President of Harvard Claudine Gay’s plagiarism in her published papers (and dissertation), the likelihood of widespread plagiarism (in certain fields), and the incentives to plagiarism and faked data in academia.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Whip it good!

The greatest DEVO song ever recorded [Disclaimer: It's not a DEVO song. Z-Deb]

American Free News Network - Media Polling: Quality Data, Unreliable Garbage or Manipulative PSYOP? – Continued

Primary polls are even more unreliable and even harder to do. That has always been true and is even more difficult now with the lack of landlines and the pathetically low participation rates of some of polls, often in the 1% and 2% range.

Impro Guns - Slam fire zip guns

A .22lr and 12 gauge slam fire firearm seized from the home of a man in Monticello, Indiana.

Wombat-socho again - Rule 5 Monday: Happy Lee-Jackson Day!

Unfortunately, we aren’t allowed to remember great men if they fought for the Confederacy any more, and so the holiday was first merged with MLK Day in 1983 and then abolished in 2000.

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