vnatale wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:39 pm

It was Newsweek that broke the Monica story.

It was Drudge, surely?

Edit:. Ah, Drudge's scoop was that Newsweek had the scoop they were sitting on. So Newsweek had done the legwork, but were keeping it under wraps.

The trick is to make the background transparent rather than any particular color.

Tech, would you make this your avatar?

Tech, is there anything Trump could do or not do in the next four months that could get you to not vote for him? Not saying you’d vote for Biden, but just sit out? I'm obviously not Tech, but to answer your question, I would not vote for Trump if I found out that he had died. ;) (Sorry, just trying...

The Permanent Portfolio holds 25% of its allocation in long term US Treasury bonds. There is an extensive FAQ on the subject here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160324133409/http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2009/02/09/permanent-portfolio-25-bond-allocation-faq/ Are these FAQs up somewhere? The link is ...

Cortopassi wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 29, 2020 11:32 am

Clippers with no attachment for me. Leaves about 1/8" of hair. Damn easy to take care of, and I don't care about hair. Never did. If I could take a pill to have all the hair fall off my body and never shave again, I would. Except for eyebrows. That would look weird.

Eyelashes?

No idea what it was back then.

Here it is for $39 for a six-month supply:
https://www.amazon.com/Kirkland-Minoxid ... B00DTPYGHQ

I'm sure it was hugely expensive then. I looked into it once: you can get a whole pile of Costco-branded (Kirkland) Rogaine-equivalent for hardly anything.

The great link that flyingpylon posted in the other thread points out that in Texas, any patient who is hospitalized for whatever reason and happens to test positive for coronavirus (and it isn't even clear whether that means antibodies or an active infection) is counted as a "coronavirus hospitali...

The great link that flyingpylon posted in the other thread points out that in Texas, any patient who is hospitalized for whatever reason and happens to test positive for coronavirus (and it isn't even clear whether that means antibodies or an active infection) is counted as a "coronavirus hospitaliz...

Something like Condorcet voting would help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method

But it still wouldn't lead to the kind of multiparty coalitions you see in Europe.

I think fundamentally a big issue is "first past the post" voting. The Constitution doesn't recognize political parties, and that's very nice in theory... But they sprang up anyway, and with winner-take-all 51% voting everywhere, it's inevitably going to turn into exactly two parties at each other's...

I might one day see a poster saying "Strike out cancer!" with a picture of a pitcher throwing a ball. Baseball is America's pastime... I'm American... Now I'm offended because the poster is bigoted against Americans!