Just saw the news headline, but...

THC-laced candy causes bad reactions at Ohio concert

So listen, if you have any interest in science and academe and medicine, even if you're not statistically minded, you'll find much to learn in this Google guest lecture from 2014. It's an hour long. Ioannidis is the guy who brought the contemporary failures of reproducibility to popular awareness.

We get the sense that a lot patterns in Western Civ might be getting reconfigured in the years ahead... And science has suffered from presumptions just as have housing, farming and financial policy.

We need to be smart enough not to throw out the baby with the bath water.

Whole Foods is a contender for the Darwin Awards:

https://twitter.com/Chartoc/status/762151973743370240

Interesting article on the shared tradition of Wahhabism and ISIS. The Middle East is reaping what the Saud's sowed.

It contains a link to the second of Crooke's articles on ISIS at the end. Also worth a look.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html

"Ibn Saud’s clan, seizing on Abd al-Wahhab’s doctrine, now could do what they always did, which was raiding neighboring villages and robbing them of their possessions. Only now they were doing it not within the ambit of Arab tradition, but rather under the banner of jihad. Ibn Saud and Abd al-Wahhab also reintroduced the idea of martyrdom in the name of jihad, as it granted those martyred immediate entry into paradise."

IMO, the reports of the demise of history were greatly exaggerated:

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/08/06/the-return-of-history/

Keep this in mind when you read the media:

https://sofrep.com/60334/british-press-freak-inept-reporter-believes-naval-5-inch-guns-literally-5-inch-guns/

The full grandeur of the Olympic "movement" is best expressed in the gentle rhetoric of telecasters.

Children

Here's Cosh, thinking of the children.

Others have noticed that this was beginning to be a problem.

And still others had noticed that children can be a problem anyway.

And while you might have good luck with a few of them...

...Our culture deserves better solutions.

...Our culture deserves better solutions

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