Thursday, March 22, 2012

Links

Some links. No theme, no unifying idea, just some links.

The myth of the myth of the independent voter

A parade of idiots. You want to stop watching, but...

Street scenes from Santiago

This week's random and spurious medical correlation: red meat reduces depression

Making fun of rednecks is fine, but not welfare recipients? Then a silly response to same. Fox with its own strange interpretation. And Bill Maher finding it funny to laugh at poor people, rather selectively given his later indignation.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about welfare recipient rednecks?... I know for a fact it's okay to mock welfare recipient rednecks who don't like welfare or at least government debt.

Hasdrubal said...

The number of gun safety fails in that video is why I leave the range whenever someone I don't know (and when some people I do know) shows up.

The guy jumping off the bridge with a wingsuit was at the New River Gorge bridge on Bridge Day, it's the only time and place I know of in the states where BASE jumping is legal. They have a lot of experts there to show you how to modify regular skydiving gear for the jump and it's impressively safe as far as BASE jumping goes: Only 3 fatalities since 1979.

(And yes, BASE jumping gear is different than regular skydiving gear, one thing is that BASE jumping parachutes are rigged to open _fast_ at low velocities whereas skydiving rigs are meant to open slowly at terminal velocity. It hurts less that way ;D )