16 February 2024

Friday Links - 16 February

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog is first with Why Is Google Selling Adwords For Snuff Films?

A comedy group called Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie had a skit about why you should keep your parents off the Internet. “I want to find out if latex paint bonds to stucco. I guess I’ll search for ‘Latex Bondage.'”

“Uh, you don’t want to do that!”

I just had one of those moments.

Meep at Stump - Taxing Tuesday: Getting SALTy

Okay, let’s do a quick round-up of the tax themes going around. Given where I live, and that Mike Lawler is my rep, I’m going to keep hitting SALT (State and Local Tax deduction from federal income tax) as a theme.

Mike Rowe - The Smartest Dropout I Know is Rikki Schlott (Ep. 370)

Rikki Schlott was studying at NYU during Covid – one of the most expensive universities in the country. Like most of her contemporaries, she found the Zoom version of her college education to be…lacking. And she was likewise disappointed that NYU didn’t lower its already sky-high tuition during the lockdowns. In fact, she was appalled when they actually raised it.

Tam at View from the Proch - Dust Bowl

In 1936, The Atlantic published a series of letters from a woman in Oklahoma to her friend who had given up on farming out west and had decamped for her home turf in Delmarva.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 14 February 2024: Diggy Diggy Hole Edition

The original proposal for the World Wide Web was written in Microsoft Word for Mac 4.0. Can we still read it? (JGC)

Yes... Mostly. Though not in Word itself. Libre Office works though.

The Other McCain - How to Lose a Special Election

Democrats nominated an old white guy and won. Gosh, too bad the Republican Party in New York doesn’t have any old white guys . . . Wait a minute. What did you say?

“RAAAAACIST!”

Granite Grok - Good Gun News: Committee Recommends Passage of Bill to Protect Gun Owner’s Privacy

New Hampshire isn’t waiting to see where the on-again, off-again relationship between zealous gun grabbers and credit card merchant codes for guns and ammunition end up. They’ve advanced legislation that would prohibit Merchant Category codes for firearms-related anything.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - Speaker Mike Johnson: No Foreign Aid Until You Address The Border

Foreign aid is a luxury. Protecting the border is an enumerated responsibility of the federal government.

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