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All You Need To Know About The Pulitzer Prizes (Self Parody Alert)
by Francis Menton ("The Manhattan Contrarian")



It's likely that you have heard of the Pulitzer Prizes, and you may even have the idea that they are something very prestigious. If so, take a look at some winners of the current round of these things, announced yesterday. You will likely find yourself asking, is this a parody? A fair characterization of several of the prize recipients for this year is "Who did the most to advance the progressive narrative of the moment?" But can you win the prize even if what you report is completely false, even the most clear-cut of "fake news"? Actually, that seems to be a principal qualification for winning.

Of course the article congratulating the winners is on the front page of the New York Times, and of course it emphasizes the prizes that Pravda itself won. And what was the big prize this year in the main category of "national reporting"? Yes, it went to the Times (and Washington Post) for their many, many articles on the Trump/Russia "collusion" story:

The national reporting prize went to The Times and The Washington Post for their coverage of Mr. Trump’s possible ties to Russia — a recognition of two journalism stalwarts that exposed the hidden activities of the Trump White House while withstanding much presidential ire.

Wait a minute: I thought that the Trump/Russia collusion story had completely blown up in the faces of the Times and the Post. This is the classic bogus story, the story that gave "fake news" its name. After dozens (or was it hundreds?) of articles from Pravda and Izvestia in late 2016 and early 2017 breathlessly screaming that the Trump campaign had "colluded" with Russians to "hack" the 2016 election, the whole thing has completely fallen apart. Instead of actual evidence of Trump/Russia "collusion" (whatever that means), we gradually have learned from other sources that:

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...Were any other prizes of note announced yesterday? Well, there was the one for music that went to rapper Kendrick Lamar for his album "DAMN." The Times insightfully describes the album as "defiant." Are you interested in a sample lyric? This is from the song "Element" on that album:

I don't give a fuck, I don't give a fuck

I don't give a, I don't give a, I don't give a fuck

I'm willin' to die for this shit

I done cried for this shit, might take a life for this shit

Put the Bible down and go eye to eye for this shit . . .

If I gotta slap a pussy-ass nigga, I'ma make it look sexy

If I gotta go hard on a bitch, I'ma make it look sexy

I pull up, hop out, air out, make it look sexy

They won't take me out my element . . . .​



Heavy, man! Definitely Pulitzer material!...


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My own stuff. I'm considering "The Deep State" or "How Team Odumba Destroyed Trump and His Deplorables"
 

Where The Rivers Run North

by Willis Eschenbach

In the continental US, most of the rivers run east, west, or south. But in the Yukon and in Alaska, a number of them run north. The Yukon is a most curious river. The source of the Yukon in Lake Bennett in the Yukon Territory is only about forty miles (65 km) from the ocean … but instead of taking the direct route, it flows a total of almost 2000 miles (3200 km) before it finally gets to the ocean near Nome, Alaska.

Along the way, past Fairbanks in Alaska, the Yukon is joined by one of its many tributaries, the Tanana River. Like the Yukon, the Tanana also flows mostly north.

https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/yukon-and-tanana.png?w=720

You can see the Tanana River noted in blue just to the left of Fairbanks.

And why is it significant that the Yukon and Tanana rivers run north? Well, it leads to a curious condition in the springtime. Over the winter, of course, the rivers tend to freeze up solid. In the spring, the south end of both rivers tend to thaw first … and that makes the breaking up of the ice a sudden event, with the mass of water surging downriver and clearing out the ice as it goes.

This is all of interest to climateers because the nights in the far north are so long. Why is the length of the nights relevant? Well, people get bored when it’s dark most of the time, and back in the day there was no TV up north … and as a result, more than a century ago people took to betting on the exact date and time that the rivers would experience “ice-out”, as it is called. Hey, you gotta do something to keep the megrims away …


https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/nenana-ice-classic.png



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1928: Year Of The Dictionary

by Peter Gilliver




‘This year, whatever else it may be, is the Year of the Dictionary.’ So wrote Charles Onions in the Times of 19 April 1928, in an article celebrating the completion of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The final section or ‘fascicle’ of the Dictionary, covering words from Wise to Wyzen—and with the names of Charles Onions and William Craigie, the two surviving Editors, on its title page—was published on that day, bringing to a triumphant conclusion the labour of thousands of people over nearly three-quarters of a century. The English language now had a dictionary unmatched in its comprehensiveness and wealth of detail: ‘the supreme authority, without a rival or the prospect of a rival’, as it was described a few years later—a description which still holds today...

...The main event in Oxford was a special exhibition of dictionaries at the Bodleian Library: rather more muted than the ‘military exercises, boxing matches between the dons, orations in Latin, Greek, English, and the Oxford dialect […] and a series of medieval drinking bouts’ that had been predicted by the American humourist H. L. Mencken...


https://public.oed.com/1928-year-of-the-dictionary/


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adrina said:
When a person relies on gif's to continually make their points it shows a lack of imagination and intelligence.
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You really should be more circumspect and respectful— people will know EXACTLY to whom you are referring.



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Laurel said:
Speaking of scaring the cats...

If killer whales lived on land, we’d be in trouble. Highly intelligent and social, the black-and-white marine mammals hunt in packs, launching coordinated attacks on other whales and sharks, and even wave-wash seals off Antarctic ice floats.

On April 18, a half-dozen orcas battled a pod of sperm whales off the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The unusual encounter is one of fewer than a dozen such recorded conflicts — and the first observed in the Indian Ocean.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/wp-content/gallery/orca-sperm-whale/9-shawnheinrichs-20130418-110228-_v3t5842-edit.jpg

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/wp-content/gallery/orca-sperm-whale/1-shawnheinrichs-20130418-122232-_b0a6300.jpg​
- read the full article (with more pics & video) Photographer Captures Dramatic Battle Between Orcas and Sperm Whales (from Wired)​
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islandman said:
This thread is so full of interesting reads that I haven't touched my books in days.
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Laurel said:
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How Two Women Created a Striking New Poster That Fights Sexual Harassment in Restaurants

By Nikita Richardson

As #MeToo hit a fever pitch late last year, Karen Leibowitz, the co-founder and director of communications at the Perennial in San Francisco, found herself speaking with other women in the restaurant industry about how to address sexual harassment. With a little inspiration from the well-known choking-victim sign created for New York City restaurants in 1989, and the help of New York–based designer Kelli Anderson as well as Cherry Bombe co-founder Kerry Diamond, Leibowitz created a poster that instructs restaurant workers on how to document and report sexual harassment in the workplace. Available for purchase via Cherry Bombe, the poster has already been translated into Spanish, with a Chinese version currently in the works. Grub spoke with Leibowitz and Anderson about how they came up with the idea for the poster and their hope that it will make its way into every kind of workplace.

http://www.grubstreet.com/2018/05/striking-new-poster-fights-sexual-harassment-in-restaurants.html
 
Mutually Nonconsensual Sex

"The image that this conjured—of a couple waking up in the fetid bed of blackout sex, coming to the hideous realization of what happened and then lacing up their running shoes for a mad race across campus to the Torquemada of Title IX—is not just amusing, but offers a potentially useful precedent to the nation’s college men. "
 
Got a copy of "The Help".

I've read it once and seen the movie. It gets better every time. :)

Also, Minnie is one cool ass bitch.
 


So Which Is It: High Energy Prices Or Low? (a/k/a "Chuckie Doesn't Know Fuckie")

by Francis Menton ("The Manhattan Contrarian")




...Which brings us to that bizarre news conference held a couple of weeks ago by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a few of his colleagues (Cantwell, Menendez, Markey). From the Washington Post, May 24:

Standing in front of an Exxon station blocks from Capitol Hill, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) made the case that Trump’s decision to end U.S. participation in the Iran nuclear deal brokered by his predecessor, President Barack Obama, is constraining global oil supply and forcing motorists to tighten their belts before the Memorial Day weekend. “President Trump’s reckless decision to pull out of the Iran deal has led to higher oil prices,” Schumer told reporters. “These higher oil prices are translating directly to soaring gas prices, something we know hurts middle- and lower-income people.”​

It's hard even to know where to start with this. I mean, wasn't Schumer the number one Democrat to come out publicly against Obama's Iran deal? OK, forget about that for now. Isn't it official Democratic Party policy that higher oil and gasoline prices are absolutely necessary to force reduction in use and thereby save the planet?

You could be forgiven for getting the impression that this Schumer guy stands for absolutely nothing and is only about getting whatever fleeting political advantage he can from whatever straw he can grasp at the moment.

In any event, I welcome the "lower energy prices" Democrats into the political fray. Perhaps they can have a conversation with our Governor Cuomo, who besides having banned "fracking" in our state, is deep into the project of blocking pipelines, closing economical power plants that work, and building the most expensive and useless forms of energy supplies, like off-shore wind...



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