I just loved this:

https://twitter.com/shortwave8669/status/703472420737290240

Huh:

The key issue turns out to be occupancy -- how full is the train or bus. And it turns out that occupancy is probably lower than most people think. That is because everyone rides on buses or trains as they commute -- they are going in the direction of most people's travel at the time of day they travel, so the transit is totally full. But no one thinks about those trains having to go back the other direction, usually mostly empty. As a result, we get to this fact, from the National Transit Database as synthesized by Randal O'Toole.

2014 Energy Use per Passenger Mile

Transit: 3141 BTU
Driving: 3144 BTU

http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2015/12/does-transit-save-energy.html

What?!?! You mean public mass transit might not be as efficient as central planners fantasize? Talk about inconvenient conclusions!

For some reason, coffee connoisseurs seem to think coffee beans shat by civets are the best (and therefore most expensive) in the world. Now, scientists in the Philippines are trying to duplicate the civet's digestive process in the lab.

I guess somebody has to do it. Who knows? Maybe something will come out of it. Our out of a civet. Or something.

Amy, that is FUNNY!

But, sadly, I think there is a reason for Trump's success. Here's one example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmGUrjSvN4

The political class have so little regard for us that they will lie and have no shame about it! And their minions will enforce their viewpoint on the rest of us telling us to "shut up!"

Heavy chemical cloud spraying today over Oregon-- image courtesy of NOAA: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1041714619222215&set=pcb.101566055482053027type=3&theater
The clouds visible over eastern Oregon look just like what was drifting my way this afternoon, near San Francisco

Ever see snow do this sliding down a roof? Not the snow I saw when I was a kid!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1680886352181079&set=pcb.10156603241785302&type=3&theater
Better weather through chemistry!

Thanks, Jefe, for taking time out of your busy intergalactic travels to alert the planet.

Remember folks: just spray vinegar at the sky and the chemtrails will dissipate before their alien DNA can land on you and wriggle into your brain through your earholes.

jefe... one more time!

What are you claiming? Describe the activity, including the goal, the method and the performer in three coherent paragraphs. Then:

Go down to the airport and buy jet fuel. (You can do this.)

Have it sampled by anyone you like. You will find no mercury, aluminum, or lithium.

Do you know what these trace metals would do to the combustion chamber of a jet engine?

How many sinus afflictions are caused by lithium? Aluminum? They are metals, you know, and rapidly oxidize.

What is the transport term for moving any concentration of aluminum oxide from ~30,000 ft to ground level? How much time does that take? How long does it spend in the air at all?

Unless you're trying to be entertaining, you really need to take your diploma back and turn it in. It wasn't earned.

Now that I have entertained you, you may wish to finish that bottle...

Say Hello to Chuck(les)!