See, when people talked about pizza rat, this is what I initially thought of.
"People looking for an energy boost may turn to vitamin B6 and B12 supplements for help, but new research finds that men may be doubling their risk for lung cancer if they take it over an extended period of time — and tripling it if they’re smokers." Well, fuck (full disclosure I take extra B vitamins for a number of reasons). Hey, remember when they told you taking herbs and vitamins were a complete waste because they didn't do anything for you?
"Abstaining from sexual activity is a surefire way to prevent pregnancy and avoid sexually transmitted diseases. But programs advocating abstinence often fail to prevent young people from having sex, researchers write in the September issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health." Hmm, it says here water is actually wet. Whodathunkit?! "Promoting abstinence until marriage as the only legitimate option for young people 'violates medical ethics and harms young people,' Lindberg says, because such programs generally withhold information about pregnancy and STD prevention and overstate the risk of contraceptive failure." And the Sun rises in the East? Fascinating. Yes, I'm being flippant. And it's obviously necessary for these studies to come out. But, again, actual education, pregnancy prevention, and abortion issues isn't what this is all about. It's about control and rolling back the sexual revolution. You're using logic when the opposite side isn't even ready to be logical. I'm slowly approaching the point where I am ready to write off a portion of the population as irredeemable and set up political walls to ignore them. "The administration recently cut more than $200 million in federal funds for teen pregnancy prevention programs. Meanwhile, the administration's budget proposal includes millions of dollars to extend the 'Abstinence Education and Personal Responsibility Education Program.'" So we fuck over (quite literally) another generation.
"A new photo of the red 'supergiant' Antares is the best ever captured of a star other than the sun, researchers said."
The sea-salt harvesters.
The man with the sign. "Waving a 'Blacks for Trump' sign behind President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, he was impossible to miss… Maurice Symonette… was an eye-catching figure during the rally in Phoenix. Trump supporters lauded him on social media for his T-shirt reading 'Trump & Republicans Are Not Racist.'… Perhaps they should have checked him out first." Research? Who needs it.
"An Arizona law banning ethnic studies violated students' constitutional rights, a federal judge said Tuesday… 'Both enactment and enforcement were motivated by racial animus,' federal Judge A. Wallace Tashima said in the ruling." Next up, water is wet (oh wait, we covered that didn't we). Don't get me wrong, a ruling is great. But didn't we already know this?
"Civil rights activist argues to keep Confederate monuments." No, NPR, that's not what he's arguing at all. Stone Mountain, yes, with the addition of the "freedom bell." But for the rest he's saying it's a distraction and there are far more important issues to be fought for and protected. He's saying the time isn't right because a majority of people want to keep them, and you can't win them to your side by going against their deep wishes. I can see his political calculus, but I believe it's wrong. When Same-sex Marriage advocates started the majority was against them, they now have the majority. Many of their coalition said it was too soon to make the legal challenges, but they won. Are the statues important? Yes. Is it alienating a lot of people? Yes. But we need to make the case for why they need to come down. And it is out there, it's just a lot of people aren't listening/don't want to listen.
"Not out of the woods yet: 5 looming threats to Obamacare and Medicaid."
"Seven members of the White House’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council resigned from the panel on Monday, sending a letter to President Donald Trump telling him that his actions have undermined the country’s 'moral infrastructure,' Roll Call reported." Not sure I should go with "rats leaving a ship" or "he still had an advisory board he hadn't folded?"
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