A professor is prevented from mocking his students with a stress reduction policy. It’s a shame because it could have been fun.

The worst back to school sign known to humanity. Is Walmart trying to make people hate it?

striking relationship between your med school ranking and the rate at which you prescribe opioids

A study at the Columbia School of Social Work found that parenting behavior, namely maternal warmth and sensitivity, to be the most important factor of the gap between upper middle class children and bottom-income quintile children.” Well, duh. 

The predictable demise of Firefox. Gosh, I remember how much I used to love Firefox. What a waste. 

The practice of ritual defamation.

This is one thing I’d never do for Klara.

love the New Optimists. I’d like to meet them in real life.

People with no sense of humor should not read Craigslist.

I don’t want to know about the ridiculous Damore scandal because it’s an overexaggerated bunch of baloney on both sides. But I can’t fail to notice that it’s making people very loopy.

Fun and games in Morocco.

The worst places for poor minorities (in terms of optimism, worry, and/or pain) include blue states like Washington, California, New York, and Massachusetts. And, as it turns out, for poor whites, the situation is desperate in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin.”

11 responses to “Saturday Link Encyclopedia”

  1. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    So sad about all this economic insecurity. Also funny how the term ‘identity politics’ is never used for this stuff.

    https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/896245781014888448

    https://twitter.com/tomscocca/status/896369212490428417

    https://twitter.com/tomscocca/status/896369740809207808

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    1. David Gendron Avatar

      It’s more rich spoiled brats, in fact.

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    1. David Gendron Avatar

      Ann Coulter, Kellyanne Conway, Michelle Malkin, Laurence Southern and other cunts like them are hiding cowardly behind them.

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  2. el Avatar
    el

    What is going on?

    Car rams into crowd of demonstrators after white nationalist rally in Virginia

    One person is dead in Charlottesville, Virginia
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/car-hits-crowd-protesters-white-nationalist-rally-virginia/story?id=49179590

    Also, are anti-racist protestors beating and injuring people too, like some extreme Left group you’ve recently mentioned?

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    1. Stringer Bell Avatar
      Stringer Bell

      Don’t both-sides this, for god’s sake. We already have the president to perform that duty.

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      1. David Gendron Avatar

        At least, el both-sides this in America.

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        1. Clarissa Avatar

          This was terrorism, pure and simple. 19 wounded, 1 dead, what is it if not terrorism.

          I spit on these Nazi insects.

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    2. Clarissa Avatar

      These are neo-Nazis, what do you expect. Of course, there’s violence. That’s the whole point.

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  3. Nicholas Avatar
    Nicholas

    I really like the ‘New Optimists” (first time I’ve heard them called that) analyses of humankind in 2017. I may be biased as a homosexual Eastern European Jew, but even the problems we have are not the problems that our ancestors though insolvable 200 years ago, e.g. starvation, infant mortality, etc.

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