Gisele. (This link may rot soon, it's WSJ.)

Appreciate that. Link was working just now, Cridster.

Bombings.

As with the water quality in Flint, and perhaps most dramatically, as with loss of American soldiers' lives overseas, our standards for risk and suffering are much lower than they used to be.

At the first of the year, this seemed like an important article about the distribution of authority in our country.

And it's patterns are now demonstrated in Texas.

Still don't know what this was about.

Maybe Trump is losing it:

[STAT] asked experts in neurolinguistics and cognitive assessment, as well as psychologists and psychiatrists, to compare Trump’s speech from decades ago to that in 2017; they all agreed there had been a deterioration, and some said it could reflect changes in the health of Trump’s brain.

Here's a fun paragraph for you social science types:

And then there was the research that involved humiliating and emotionally tormenting 22 undergraduates at Harvard University over three years starting in 1959. (One of those students was a young Ted Kaczynski, who later became the Unabomber.)

An excellent and short Mead, concluding:

Mr. Trump’s presidency is the result of establishment failure rather than the cause of it. Until the national leadership absorbs this lesson, the internal American crisis will deepen as the world crisis grows more acute.

If you want to teach an eleven-year-old boy to respond to the swell of a woman's hips before he knows why he's going to respond to the swell of a woman's hips, teach him about this car.

Maybe those experts should refresh their memories about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule ?

“For $65,000 [in full attendance costs], you can bet your sweet ass that I’m calling that school … If your children aren’t getting what they’ve been promised, colleges are going to get that phone call from parents,” Stacy said. “It’s my money. It’s a lot of money.”

As colleges and universities learn to live with helicopter parents, related by Joanne Jacobs.

Hope you're feeling better, Miss Alkon!

Crid, did they do this comparison for all federal politicians pushing 70 and beyond, or just Trump?

"Stanford scholars analyze children’s ability to detect 'sins of omission'"

"Stanford researchers found that children as young as 4 years old, under certain conditions, can discern “sins of omission” – misleading but technically accurate information. The researchers found that the order in which information is presented makes a dramatic difference for the study’s youngest participants."

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/05/23/stanford-psychologists-examine-sins-omission/

Amazon: the gift that keeps on giving.

There are actually a couple of things I’d like to discuss today. The first is a new feature from Amazon that has some authors and traditional publishers in a tizzy. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if there aren’t more than a few suits in the vaunted towers of NYC publishing that are having to change their pants. Why? Because Amazon has taken a swipe at the NYT Best Sellers List and similar lists and started what it calls “Amazon Charts“.

Why has this new list caused such an uproar? Because it shakes things up, mainly (I presume) because it will be easier for indies and small presses to be listed. There’s something else that probably upsets them as well. Not only does the list show the most sold books (Top 20 right now) but it also shows the most read books. These lists include Audible downloads and downloads/reads through the different Amazon subscription services. So, those titles enrolled in the KU program can and will be recognized if they hit high enough.

https://madgeniusclub.com/2017/05/23/amazons-at-it/

Would it matter?

Dad Tells Daughter Why He’s ‘Proud’ She Became A Porn Star

Her dad said, “If I could’ve made hundreds of thousands of dollars having sex I would’ve done it, too.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aurora-snow-porn-father_us_5922ddffe4b034684b0ddc79

In the Telegraph, Tim Stanley maintains that Roger Moore was the greatest Bond. Mild, polite, British comment war ensues.

Interesting.

A photochrom image circa 1898 of the USS Texas second-class battleship. The Texas was the forerunner of BB-1, USS Indiana. In modern parlance, the USS Texas would have probably been categorized as a Heavy-Cruiser or Battle-Cruiser being under armored and with smaller armaments than that of a Battleship of the period. The USS Texas was the sister ship of the USS Maine which met an unfortunate end in the harbor of Havana. The Main and the Texas where not give hull designations.

https://strategypage.com/military_photos/20170523232027.aspx

In the Telegraph, Tim Stanley maintains that Roger Moore was the greatest Bond. Mild, polite, British comment war ensues.

I thought he was far better as The Saint or even in The Persuaders.

The last memory I have of Roger Moore is on the comedy film Boat Trip. He stole the show as he portrayed a wealthy (gay) chubby chaser in that film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285462/

You trump guys must be bustin' your buttons over there.

Math is hard, generosity is harder.