"A thousand years ago, huge pyramids and earthen mounds stood where East St. Louis sprawls today in Southern Illinois. This majestic urban architecture towered over the swampy Mississippi River floodplains, blotting out the region's tiny villages. Beginning in the late 900s, word about the city spread throughout the southeast. Thousands of people visited for feasts and rituals, lured by the promise of a new kind of civilization. Many decided to stay." The cities of ancient America. (Grokked form Ann Leckie)
"In 2017, a 69-year-old man with pancreatic cancer went to hospital with abnormally low blood pressure. Sadly, he died only two days later, and his remains were cremated… Just one day earlier… he had been injected with a radioactive compound at another hospital to treat his tumour – and when his mortal remains were incinerated, this radioactive and potentially dangerous dose of lutetium Lu 177 dotatate was still inside his body… This alarming case, reported in a new research letter this week, illustrates the collateral risks potentially posed by on average 18.6 million nuclear medicine procedures involving radiopharmaceuticals performed in the US every year." No, it illustrates the dangers of our fucked up for-profit medical system that fractures a patient's medical record and doesn't allow continuity of care.
And the ant-science stupidity continues. "Some lawmakers in Texas are apparently very unworried about the growing number of epidemics across the country involving diseases once nearly eradicated by vaccines, including a five-county one in their state. A few of them are even pushing a bill that would make it even easier to opt out of vaccinations, the Texas Observer reported Tuesday, with one of claiming that people can always just get 'antibiotics.'" Guess which party they belong to. Measles are viruses, antibiotics works against some bacteria. You can't get antibiotics to cure or lessen measles.
"Even better for Jacob Wohl, the 21-year-old Californian who ignited the Harris birther claim with a tweet, some people actually seemed to accept it as fact… 'The believability stuck at about 15 to 18 percent by my measurement,' Wohl said in an interview shortly afterward, declaring it 'not a bad campaign.'" It amazes me how many Americans who think they're patriotic are actually volunteering to be the first against the wall. He's in charge of an intentional disinformation campaign. We have a word for that. It's called "traitor to the Unites States." (Grokked from Matt Staggs)
"We’ve been given the tools and access to god-like awareness, but not the training or the intellect or the self-discipline to manage it." Damnit, Jim Wright. Truthiness comes to the left. It's easy to meet mindless rage with mindless rage. The left's greatest strength and monumental weakness is "we understand." We have empathy, we try to see the other side and understand it. Not everyone. There's a lot of people who got woken up recently. But be honest, Jim, I know you wanted to write, "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." I'll bet you even typed that out and then deleted it.
How goes Brexit? "British Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday that she’ll give Parliament a chance to delay Brexit." A shit-sandwich is still a shit-sandwich 3 months later.
"In an interview released by Fox News on Monday, Trump was asked about Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal proposal and what she would say to people who are enticed by the proposal's job guarantee. In response, Trump said, 'I don't think most Americans in their heart want to be given something.'" Huhn. I don't remember a jobs guarantee in the GND? I remember something about living or "family-sustaining" wages.
"The next Chicago mayor will either be a self-described political outsider who's never run for office, or a longtime city alderman and chair of the county's Democratic Party. Either way, for the first time, the city's top political official will be an African-American woman."
"Less than 24 hours before former Trump fixer Michael Cohen is scheduled to appear in an open hearing to discuss his relationship with the President of the United States and shed light on his involvement in a hush money scheme involving two women alleging they had affairs with the billionaire businessman, Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz directly threatened Cohen via Twitter." Lap dogs gonna lap… or something like that.
"President Donald Trump knew in advance that WikiLeaks was going to release hacked Democratic emails during the 2016 election that would damage Hillary Clinton's campaign, his former personal lawyer plans to say at an open congressional hearing Wednesday."
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