A former Massachusetts drug-lab chemist was high on the job nearly every day for eight years, according to a report from the state's attorney general. The report said that the chemist, Sonja Farak, was under the influence of drugs like crack, meth, LSD, and ketamine as she testified in court in drug cases and while examining drug samples in a crime lab between 2004 and 2013.

The report from AG Maura Healey also said the chemist cooked crack cocaine in a crime lab at night while working overtime.

Wait...hold on a second...and you cluefucks couldn't tell/didn't notice? I'd like to see her performance evaluations. I'm thinking that there are other people who should be finding new employment opportunities...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/state-chemist-was-high-daily-thousands-of-drug-prosecutions-jeopardized/

Government runs your life in ways you may not know about:

http://lfb.org/how-government-wrecked-the-gas-can/

This should give you warm, fuzzy feelings:

Americans will react with shock when they find out the new Mayor of London is a Muslim who called moderate Muslims ‘Uncle Toms’.

http://heatst.com/politics/moderate-muslims-uncle-toms-new-london-mayor-who-represented-911-bomber/

Competition Is Mean. @WSJ: The running boom is over; millennials choosing noncompetitive fitness http://on.wsj.com/26XBphG

Three New York college students who said they were targets of a racially motivated attack face multiple charges for what prosecutors are calling a false claim.

http://pix11.com/2016/05/03/suny-albany-students-accused-of-fabricating-racially-motivated-attack-indicted-on-charges/

http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/05/after-being-hijacked-by-sjws-mizzou-enrollment-plummets/

This comment at the bottom sums it all up:

What doesn't get mentioned much is that the staffing cuts were directed at janitors and gardeners and not at Vice-President, Diversity and Inclusion officers.

Mizzou will put up with overgrown lawns, cluttered bushes, messy offices and classrooms, gross toilets, sinks and urinals, but no way can they live without diversity officers.

Oh, Apple. Good thing you have lawyers on retainer. You're gonna need them.

What Apple considers a “match” often isn’t. That rare, early version of Fountains of Wayne’s “I’ll Do The Driving,” labeled as such? Still had its same label, but was instead replaced by the later-released, more widely available version of the song. The piano demo of “Sister Jack” that I downloaded directly from Spoon’s website ten years ago? Replaced with the alternate, more common demo version of the song. What this means, then, is that Apple is engineering a future in which rare, or varying, mixes and versions of songs won’t exist unless Apple decides they do. Said alternate versions will be replaced by the most mainstream version, despite their original, at-one-time correct, titles, labels, and file contents.

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/

This is the problem with allowing someone else access to your materials and giving them full control.

Ridicule has its uses:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435054/virginia-tech-jason-riley-can-speak-campus-after-all

Homeland security is threatening a subpoena over a hyperbolic blog comment regarding a civil asset forfeiture case:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160506/10324634363/homeland-security-wants-to-subpoena-us-over-clearly-hyperbolic-techdirt-comment.shtml

DAM-AN! I R A

I'm speechless and glad I'm a luddite that does not believe in destroying cotton mills.

Well the "privileged" discussions can stop now.

"I [LOU WEISS] hereby declare myself the World’s Most Privileged Person.

I know, I know, some people will suffer as a result. College diversity vice presidents will find themselves at loose ends, no longer needing to monitor who’s ahead in the privilege sweepstakes. Humanities teachers will be burdened with teaching Shakespeare or Aristotle for universal truths rather than dissecting the author’s gender/class/sexual orientation/religion/eye color."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/privileged-check-1462487589

"This is the problem with allowing someone else access to your materials and giving them full control."

Two indie bands I know are having problems with this, as their musical arrangements are on Apple laptops and they have several remizes of the same song in inventory to tailor performances to venue and time constraints. As it turns out, you can prevent the mindless "updating" of your Music Library with a couple of changes to the Preferences in iTunes, and for security's sake, a backup on an external drive would be a great idea, too.

What did you learn in College? (The man bun will never die)

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