Comments 12-9-13

Interview: James Piereson on Camelot and the Cultural Revolution
"'[I]t is an attempt to explain an incredible transformational shift in American culture, which occurred during the years from 1963 and 1968, particularly in the media and on college campuses.'" [rdbrewer]


The most photographed places in the world
Via @PicturesEarth. [rdbrewer]

NFL QBs on FACEBOOK: “SNOW PLOWED”

CNN Money: Google's Eric Schmidt wants a ban on Amazon's drones
Eric Schmidt is worried about privacy. Right. "How would I feel about a drone that could snoop on me? Probably the same way I'd feel about a company that monitored all my online activities -- the e-mail I send and receive, the websites I visit, the places I visit, the products I buy, the YouTubes I watch, etc. etc. -- and sold that information to advertisers." [rdbrewer]


Charles C.W. Cooke: MSNBC’s Alternative Universe
"But MSNBC — well, MSNBC consists of a remarkable 85 percent opinion and only 15 percent news." Via @JohnEkdahl. [rdbrewer]

WaPo Editorial: China’s strong-arm tactics toward U.S. media merit a response
FYI, China, your strong-arm tactics won't work at AoSHQ. Cash might. Large amounts of cash. But the other thing, huh-uh. [rdbrewer]


Byron York: Among 'Obama Coalition,' Obama approval plunges
"The only key part of the Obama Coalition that did not experience a double-digit drop in support for the president is black Americans, although his support is down there, too -- from 92 percent last December to 83 percent today." [rdbrewer]

Fab Audio Books: An audio book channel on Youtube
I just started listening to Heart of Darkness. [rdbrewer]


Clarice Feldman: Obama Stars in The No-Name Law That Sank His Party
"Right now I, too, see Obama as star of his own movie, he's standing on the prow of the Titanic as it sinks beneath the waves." [rdbrewer]


The Great MacGuffin
"Greater income equality... is the Great MacGuffin of the Democratic base. It’s a goal they will never reach. Deep down they know they will never reach it. But that doesn’t matter because the goal itself holds their coalition together and gives them a reason to go on." [rdbrewer]

2013 in review: 12 months of Kate Upton [rdbrewer]

AoSHQ Podcast RSS iTunes

The December 6, 2013 episode with guest Sean Davis has been posted.

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Mcdonalds hands out bag of cash rather than breakfast Mistakes were made. Oops.[purp]

Hospital on French island to use seawater for air conditioning needs. They'll pump up very cold deep sea water and run it through a fresh water heat exchanger.[Purp]

Iran and Afghanistan to sign regional security cooperation pact. Yo Barack, there seems to be a dagger sticking out of your back. Might want to have that looked at.[purp]

World War II movie filming fail. Wait for it. [dri]

The movie Galaxy Quest was originally rated R but the adult scenes were cut to give it a PG13 rating. [dri]

Update: Dave's Crap Tree is up. New pics! for those unfamiliar with this horrible yet wonderful tradition, see here

Obamacare and the bifurcated cusp. Using math (well, a few diagrams) to suggest the nature of the abrupt shift in public opinion toward Obamacare (and Obama himself), and why Obama's PR blitz is likely to fail. [Fritzworth]

Science Daily: Study Delivers Protein Across Blood-Brain Barrier to Degrade Alzheimer's Plaques
"The researchers began their work by considering how they might breach the blood-brain barrier. Daniell hypothesized that a molecule might be permitted to cross if it was attached to a carrier that is able to pass over, as a sort of molecular crossing guard.... They next identified a protein that could clear the plaques that are found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients." Via @DoreenHDickson. [rdbrewer]

Accuweather.com: You've Never Seen a Snowflake in This Much Detail
Thanks to krakatoa. [rdbrewer]

RealClearTechnology: Our Final Invention: How the Human Race Goes and Gets Itself Killed
"Barrat argues that the time it will take for ASI to surpass human level intelligence, rendering us ant-like in comparison, could be a matter of days, if not mere hours, after it is created. Worse (it keeps getting worse), human researchers may not even know they have created this potent ASI until it is too late to attempt to contain it. An ASI birthed in a supercomputer may choose, Barrat writes, to hide itself and its capabilities lest the human masters it knows so much about it, attempt to shut it down." [rdbrewer]

Comments 12-6-13

Video Dump [rdbrewer]:
• Oldie but Goodie
• Cats on a Treadmill
• Eagle Thief
• Monkey Wants Leaves Crushed
• Happy Fox
• Mark Twain Juggles Piano
• Russian Icicles
• Russian Tow Truck
• Russian Road
• Aussie Car Commercial

Jonah Goldberg: Get set for the rise of the machines
"People don’t go into business to create jobs; they go into business to make money. Labor is a cost. The more expensive labor is, the more attractive nonhuman replacements for labor become. The minimum wage makes labor more expensive." [rdbrewer]

The Union Jack Was Created to Symbolize the Union of the British and Scottish Thrones, Laying England's Red-Cross-on-White-Field Flag over Scotland's White-Cross-on-Blue-Field Flag. If Scotland Votes to Abandon the UK, What Will the New "Union" Jack Look Like, Absent the Scottish Bits??
Spoiler: Possible designs range from "horrible" to "vomitous"

Can we parody President Ego’s self-parodying Mandela tribute? Yes. We. Can!
Photoshops. [rdbrewer]

Guy Benson: Mark Pryor last year: Politicians shouldn’t rely on the Bible for political decisions, you know
Busted! [rdbrewer]

ObamaCare's next victim - first responders.
If you like your local volunteer fire department, you can keep your local volunteer fire department. [ArthurK]