Archive of entries posted on 5th May 2017

I’ve Never Eaten a Life-Saver in the Dark With a Mirror. You?

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[LIFE SAVER LIGHTNING (Triboluminescence Slow Motion) – Smarter Every Day] (Viewer #265,800)

Here’s what happens as the candy breaks:

areas of positive and negative charge are formed in the sugar crystal. When a high enough potential difference is created, electrons jump across the fractures in the crystal. They collide with nitrogen gas molecules in the air. In turn, these are excited to produce positively charged nitrogen ions, which produce a blue luminescence. Some ultraviolet is also produced, and causes the oil of wintergreen (methyl salicylate) to fluoresce with a particularly intense blue-light production.

Link of the Day: Satire – Trump Expresses Willingness To “Sacrifice Canada” In Potential War With North Korea

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[High Praise! to The Burrard Street Journal]

Trump Expresses Willingness To ‘Sacrifice Canada’ In Potential War With North Korea

[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)]

Donald Trump, DDS, Defangs the Left on Bannon

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From the writeup of Trump’s recent Bloomberg News interview:

Trump even revealed his own term for Bannon’s ideology: “alt-left,” a play on Bannon’s ties to the nationalist conservative movement sometimes called the alt-right.

Why alt-left? “Bannon’s more of a libertarian than anything else, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said Monday during an interview with Bloomberg News in the Oval Office.

Bannon isn’t “alt-left”. There isn’t even such a thing as the “alt-left”. Trump knows both of those things.

So why say it?

Because now every leftist commentator everywhere will have to spend the next week saying exactly what I just said. A good week or so of swatting at ghosts.

And every time they open their stupid leftist mouths on the topic, they’ll drive the term “alt-left” further into the national consciousness and make this non-existent thing become an actual thing, just as nebulous, ill-defined, and muddy as the left’s favorite bludgeon of “alt-right”.

From now on, every time a liberal dribbles on about “alt-right”, they’ll have to bring up the “alt-left”, too, if only to deny it.

Welcome to the Streisand Effect, liberal muckrakers.

Well played, Mr. President. Bacon to you, sir!