Overnight Open Thread (2-15-2015)

Because I'm in transit from human social event to human social event you'll get this here pithy ONT.

Delingpole: So Butter Is Good For You? Just Like Global Warming, Then

Just because scientists are doing it does not mean what they're doing is science.

Parents Upset After Middle School Students Given '50 Shades of Grey' Bondage Puzzles

Parents in a Pennsylvania school district are turning 50 shades of red over word search puzzles given to middle school students based on an erotic novel and movie.
The students in Monessen were given puzzles based on "Fifty Shades of Grey" that contained terms including "spanking," "submissive," "leather cuffs" and "bondage." Other words on the list were more explicit.

Why? Were they all out of US presidents or famous writers word-finds?

The Hugo Wars: How Sci-fi's Most Prestigious Awards Became a Political Battleground

Because the Left destroys everything it touches, and because every area eventually attracts its attention.

Why Are Jews So Liberal When It Comes to Politics

Cooke: Why We Worry about Islamist Violence and Not Progressive Atheist Violence

California Appeals Ruling Allowing Foie Gras Sales

Tulsa University Now a Non-Free Speech Zone: Suspends Student For Someone Else's FB Post, Bans Him From Getting a Degree in His Major

Inside H&K USA's 'Gray' Conference Room

Jesse Ventura Staying Classy

Smart Homes Often Dumb, Never Simple

Back When Folk Music Was a Thing

Brian Epstein signed The Silkie because he heard them playing in the Cavern Club when he dragged his Savile Row arse in for a gander at the Beatles. It's hard to say whether the Beatles or The Silkie did the cover version of Hide Your Love Away. Both versions were recorded at the same time by the same people, more or less. It's assumed that John Lennon always wanted to be someone other than himself on a given day, and that day he wanted to be Bob Dylan for a spell.

And yes The Rolling Stone's 'Satisfaction' is now 50 years old.

Which means it's as far away from us today as ragtime jazz hits of the 1910s were from 1966.

Cause Teenagers Gotta Teenage

SEXUAL INTERCOURSE BEGAN IN 1963. BETWEEN THE END OF THE "CHATTERLEY" BAN, AND THE BEATLES' FIRST LP

Which helps explain why pornography wasn't developed until 1969 at least according to noted porn historian, Ken.

Weekly Commenter Standings

Top 10 commenters:
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2 [399 comments] 'rickb223'
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5 [341 comments] 'Ricardo Kill'
6 [333 comments] 'Anna Puma (+SmuD)'
7 [315 comments] 'Insomniac'
8 [312 comments] 'Misanthropic Humanitarian'
9 [309 comments] 'Nevergiveup'
10 [298 comments] 'The Political Hat'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [204 names] 'The Political Hat' [28.66 unique names/day]
2 [87 names] 'Turd Ferguson'
3 [71 names] 'Blue Hen'
4 [53 names] 'Lyin' Brian Williams'
5 [48 names] 'wth'
6 [40 names] 'Bill in Chappaqua'
7 [36 names] 'andycanuck'
8 [35 names] 'SPLC'
9 [29 names] 'Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages'
10 [25 names] 'Cicero (@cicero)'

The group. Never heard of it.

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