Oh, Hillary:

Hillary Clinton wrote 104 emails that she sent using her private server while secretary of state that the government has since said contain classified information, according to a new Washington Post analysis of Clinton’s publicly released correspondence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-on-her-private-server-wrote-104-emails-the-government-says-are-classified/2016/03/05/11e2ee06-dbd6-11e5-81ae-7491b9b9e7df_story.html?postshare=7131457226814659&tid=ss_tw

She could be the first President to pardon herself as her first act as President.

John Oliver's piece on 'special districts'.

Sucking up $100B in tax revenue with no oversight.

She could be the first President to pardon herself as her first act as President. ~ Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at March 7, 2016 6:48 AM

I don't think we've ever had an election wherein one of the major candidates running for a first term was under investigation for federal crimes and in which the winner could be subject to indictment and arrest almost immediately upon ascending to the office (except, possibly, the last time a Clinton ran for president).

If she wins, Hillary's vice president could very well become president by default.

$100 billion? a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. A slush fund for the politically connected? oh, you bet!

Tax money is collected, sent to the politically connected, some overpriced work is accomplished, and out comes campaign contributions. In more civilized locations, that's called money laundering.

Just when you thought it was safe for women to be in the sciences (abstract follows):

Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers – particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) alternative representations of glaciers. Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.

http://phg.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/01/08/0309132515623368.long

Remember, a glacier is either an immovable object or an irresistable force depending on what you're doing and doesn't give a flying fig about what is hanging down from your crotch.

Is it time to downsize the State Department since they seem to have too much time on their hands?

Following the example set by elite liberal universities, the U.S. State Department has begun cracking down on “microaggressions” in the workplace. According to a newsletter from State Department chief diversity officer John Robinson, employees who commit “microaggressions” may risk violating harassment laws in doing so.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/07/state-dept-warns-employees-microaggressions-may-count-as-harassment/#ixzz42FVpi2rs

That glacier paper? was funded, of course, to the tune of a cool (SWIDT?) $400K:

https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/706920477260980225

In the "Somewhere Skynet is smiling" category:

Now it seems a Twitter bot has kissed whatever blarney stone Trump once smooched. The bot, given Trump's ancestral family name of "Drumpf" - according to John Oliver - tweets out Trump-like lines thanks to an artificial intelligence algorithm.

@DeepDrumpf is the creation of Bradley Hayes, a postdoc at MIT's CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab). The bot uses a technique called deep learning to recognize patterns and create new content from what is has absorbed.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/138815/20160305/deepdrumpf-is-an-ai-powered-twitterbot-that-tweets-like-donald-trump.htm

What's next? @DeepDrumpf filing suit in federal court arguing against the requirement to be 35 years of age, and a living organism, as being discriminatory against cyberbeings and thus unconstitutional?

Amy called it a while back ... just keep herding the sheeple and they'll eventually do anything... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw7mO3fknS4