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We Should Stop Helping the Silver Scammers

by ArielMathew9449 Posted on October 30, 2015

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We’ve all seen ads like this a million times, but for some reason this one finally caught my attention. It’s the usual pitch: there’s a limited supply of silver bars, and California residents can get them cheap if they act fast! “For the next 2 days residents who find their state listed on the Distribution List above in bold are getting individual State Silver Bars at just the state minimum of $57 set by the Federated Mint.” And if you order ten bars, shipping and handling are free!

The current fixing for an ounce of silver is about $15. So if you pay $1,140 for $150 worth of silver, they’ll throw in shipping gratis. What a deal.

Anyway, I know this is all legal because the fine print says yada yada yada, and there’s no law that prevents selling goods for an astronomical price. But really: are we all so desperate for advertising dollars that we have to sell space to folks like this? I guess the answer is yes, but maybe that ought to change. We all know who gets taken in by these kinds of ads, and it doesn’t speak well of any publication that continues to be complicit in this.

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The Great 1998 Chart Swindle Is Now Officially Over

by JanisUnaipon Posted on October 26, 2015

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One of the favorite topics in the climate change denial community is the “global warming pause.” It’s based on the fact that 1998 was an unusually warm year, so if you begin a climate chart in 1998 it will look as if nothing much has happened since. I made fun of this last week, but it occurs to me that we might genuinely have seen the last of that famous chart.

Why? Because it’s no good anymore. David Roberts tells me today that Republicans are incensed over a recent NOAA paper that suggests the “pause” is due to mismeasurements of ocean temperatures, but who even needs that anymore? Just look at the basic numbers in the chart below. Even if you start in 1998, you can see obvious evidence of warming.

Bottom line: Even the famously deceptive 1998 chart doesn’t work anymore. I suspect that we’re going to see a sudden lack of interest in 1998 charts from the denialists. They’ll have to move on to swindling the rubes with something else.

And if you’re curious, here’s an honest, plain-Jane chart of the past 50 years. The 1998 outlier is pretty obvious here, and the evidence of steady warming is pretty obvious too.

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Welcome to New York. This Is What’s Been Waiting For You.

by PenneyMcfall Posted on September 21, 2015

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Welcome to New York. This Is What’s Been Waiting For You.

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Friday Cat Blogging – 18 September 2015

by Emily Collins Posted on September 18, 2015

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This is how I often take a shower: with an audience of one trying to figure out what I’m doing. Hopper is, by turns, fascinated (movement! sprinkly stuff!) and appalled (he’s covering himself with water! on purpose!). When I’m done, she peers suspiciously into the shower stall and eventually hops in. This gets her delicate little paws wet, so she sort of dances around as if she’s walking on hot coals. A few days later she’s forgotten all about this and we go through the whole routine yet again. With cats, nothing ever gets old.

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Friday Cat Blogging – 18 September 2015

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Eat Any Kind of Sugar You Want, Just Don’t Eat Too Much of It

by MichellDubay Posted on September 11, 2015

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From Susan Raatz, a research nutritionist at the USDA who recently conducted a test of cane sugar, honey, and high-fructose corn syrup:

The marketers “made a big mistake when they called it ‘high-fructose corn syrup,’” said Raatz.

Now, now. Let’s not blame the marketers. They had no hand in this debacle. And they did try to rename it “corn sugar” a few years ago, but the FDA turned them down.

Anyway, Raatz concluded that HFCS, honey, and cane sugar all had similar effects on the human body. This should not come as a big surprise, since all three are basically 50-50 mixes of fructose and glucose.

So why is HFCS high fructose? Because it has more fructose than ordinary corn syrup, not because it has more than most other sweeteners. But the damage has been done, and now concerned parents everywhere are making sure to feed their kids only cane sugar or honey, in the misguided belief that they’re somehow healthier and more natural.

Sorry. Sugar is sugar. Eat any kind you like. Just don’t eat too much of it.

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54% of Republicans Think Obama Is a Muslim

by MagaretRusso Posted on September 1, 2015

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You know, I thought this nonsense had stopped. I don’t know why I thought it had stopped—out of sight, out of mind?—but apparently it hasn’t. Crikey.

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Friday Cat Blogging – 28 August 2015

by biletedeavionrezervari Posted on August 28, 2015

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This is how we roll around here in August: stretched out to maximum length for maximum cooling power. Plus it might lure someone over to give Hilbert a tummy rub. Pretty often it does, in fact.

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Friday Cat Blogging – 28 August 2015

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A Peek Inside the Anti-Immigrant Id

by EileenRubinstei Posted on August 22, 2015

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An Alabama fan offers some advice to Donald Trump:

“Hopefully, he’s going to sit there and say, ‘When I become elected president, what we’re going to do is we’re going to make the border a vacation spot, it’s going to cost you $25 for a permit, and then you get $50 for every confirmed kill,'” said Jim Sherota, 53, who works for a landscaping company. “That’d be one nice thing.”

Charming. But I’m sure he’s just kidding. Don’t be so hypersensitive, people.

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Friday Cat Blogging – 21 August 2015

by LucieLHAEafk Posted on August 21, 2015

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My old friends at the Washington Monthly sent me an early copy of their latest College Guide issue, and apparently it inspired Hilbert to think about pursuing an advanced degree. Unlike humans, though, he doesn’t need to read the issue. He merely has to absorb it through his fur. Stupid humans.

Anyway, because I have this issue in my hot little hands, I know which college scored #1 in the Monthly’s unique “Bang for the Buck” ranking. Among Western colleges, this year’s winner is the University of—

Aack! It’s embargoed until Monday. And the embargo police are at the door. I have to leave now before they bust in. Does anyone have a hidey-hole nearby I can use for a few days?

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Friday Cat Blogging – 21 August 2015

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Word of the Day: Trumpery

by MittieAvila Posted on August 21, 2015

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This may be the greatest, classiest entry in any dictionary ever. Yes, it’s real.

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Word of the Day: Trumpery

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