Link. Switzerland doesn’t enforce laws against serving the very bad people.
Daily Archives: February 20, 2022
500 lb obese pizza snarfing bear invades homes: “He just sits there and eats,” she said. “He doesn’t attack them. He doesn’t growl. He doesn’t make rude faces.”
Link. Nobody wants to take him and sooner or later he will swat someone.
“they are usually male, they are always intelligent, they are almost always charming, and they generally get through several spouses and many children in a lifetime. They are, in a word, sociopaths.”
Link. Dyer thinks we are getting wiser.
“Only when I see their massed tanks rolling across the Ukrainian border will I accept that Putin is that stupid.”
Link. Dyer stand his ground. No invasion. I have not seen any persuasive story of why a sane Putin would invade. I think he may be stupid though.
1Password WiFi broke with my new iPhone – how I fixed it (for now)
Link. Nasty bug, but they don’t care.
CDC and complexity of publishing data
Link. They are right that untrained civilians can’t interpret data.
NYT Baquet: ““I don’t have regrets about the Hillary Clinton e-mail stories,” he tells Malone. “It was a running news story.”
Link. Fallows slowly builds to putting a knife into Baquet. Well deserved, he’s the main reason I may drop the NYT this year. (WaPo is better.)
“The two most important classes of bonds are “general obligation” and “revenue.” General obligation bonds are issued to fund investments such as roads, bridges, state higher-ed buildings”
Link. Great tutorial on how state budgets work, esp. MN. The real work legislators do. Also, this is a great line: “Oklahoma, in contrast, has been clawing its way to the bottom over the last 20 years by cutting education funding.”