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Archive of entries posted on 30th March 2017
The Power Grid Made Comprehensible
[What’s The Biggest Machine In The World?] (Viewer #343,956)
It’s actually only 8 minutes, and it’s paced pretty well.
One weird thing I noticed: after explaining why wind and solar have only very limited scalability and why nuclear and fossil fuels are essential components of a reliable national power grid, he ends by pretending it doesn’t matter and blithely declaring that renewables are our future.
I hope he was being ironic.
Well, Surely It Must Be SOMEbody’s Fault
A new report show’s there’s been a two week straight lack of sunspots, the longest stretch since 2010.
Let me guess – it’s caused by man-made global warming?
Also, We Need a Bureaucracy for Creating Bureaucracies
Link of the Day: #3 Makes Me Respect Him, and I Never Knew #9
[High Praise! to Mental Floss]
15 Heartwarming Facts About Mister Rogers
[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]
On the Right Track
When registered voters were asked whom they view as the leader of the Democratic Party, 40% said it has no leader.
Good. Now we just need to make it so that it has no followers, either.
Straight Line of the Day: LA’s Mayor Said His Town Will Remain a “Sanctuary City” for Illegals. Also Welcome in Los Angeles…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
LA’s Mayor said his town will remain a “sanctuary city” for illegals. Also welcome in LA…
Building an Impenetrable Wall of Moose Antlers
A new poll shows that half of Canadians want to deport people who are illegally crossing into Canada from the United States.
The other half want to apologize for how rude the first half are being.
Cartoon of the Day – Tricks
Of course, no one will go after Obama for the things he’s done. He’s a Democrat. The only reason they went after Nixon was that he was a Republican. I was certainly old enough to remember all that. I’m not defending what Nixon did, just pointing out the hypocrisy of it all.