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Vatican outlaws gluten-free bread for Holy Communion

Transubstantiation is serious business.

In case anyone's been wondering why a hefty plurality if not an outright majority of the stories pushed over the weekend and the first couple days of the week came from yours truly, it's because I hopped on my cavalry bear, rode all over the country, and beat all the Editors except martyb (who I saved for last and only had to threaten into submission) upside the head with a double-barrel chainsaw.

Or it's because I saw there was pretty much nothing except partisan hack jobs and bloody stupid garbage that I sincerely hope the Eds never publish in the submission queue and quickly subbed everything remotely interesting that I found in my feed reader.

Believe whichever amuses you the most.

One politician’s solution to the overdose problem: Let addicts die

As Opioid Overdoses Bleed City's Budget, Councilman Proposes Stopping Treatment

Let overdoses die? Ohio councilman stuns with his take on opioid abuse

Looks like we let the story queue run completely dry last night for about 3.5 hours. Feel free to give the Eds some good-natured ribbing over it here.

Newly placed 10 Commandments statue at Ark. State Capitol destroyed, man arrested

According to CBS affiliate 5NEWS, Reed has a history of similar behavior, destroying a Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma. He was charged with destruction of state property or improvements, indecent exposure, making threatening statements, reckless driving and operating a vehicle with a revoked license back in 2014.

In 2015, Tulsa World reported that Reed stated his psychotic break was inspired by a Dracula film and that Michael Jackson's spirit was living inside meat. He also believed he was "the incarnation of an occult leader" and attempted to contact "Lucifer's high priestess he called Gwyneth Paltrow."

It all makes sense now! Gwyn*th P*ltrow is working for the almighty S*tan! Her steam-cleaned v*gina enhances her powers as a SUCCubus!

Them liebruls will stoop to any low in order to deny G_d and bring about the end of the world! They'll destroy priceless monuments just like ISIS!

Michael Jackson's spirit was living inside meat.

But of course! MJ is the patron saint of grape juice and man meat.

Also at WaPost and NYT.

Are you ready to Praise Kek yet?

This is what some people really believe:

If EMdrive is real and scales with Q factor then we get almost Star Trek level Technology (or Stargate Atlantis, going by the picture)

An EM-Drive with a q factor of 3 billion would need required is 20 MWe for the 1 gee acceleration spacecraft. 20 MWe is more than any reactor ever orbited but well within known design parameters.

An EM-Drive with a q factor of 30 billion would need required is 2 MWe for the 1 gee acceleration spacecraft.

An EM-Drive with a q factor of 60 billion would need required is 1 MWe for the 1 gee acceleration spacecraft.

An EM-Drive with a q factor of 300 billion would need required is 200 KWe for the 1 gee acceleration spacecraft.

For 30 to 300 billion q factors the power levels for a 1000 ton vehicle drop to the level where, you could use solar power for Emdrive to counter gravity on earth. It would be virtual anti-gravity. Structures that would be possible would not just be flying cars or floating antigravity but flying cities.

Gee = G.

Even the millinewtons of thrust being measured currently are disputed.

I won't say that EmDrive won't kill thermodynamics, because the expansion of the universe is apparently accelerating. Maybe that is an energy source that is being tapped into by the magic thruster. In which case turning on enough EmDrives would save the Universe by preventing the Big Freeze/Rip.

Earth being unusually dry for a habitable world would be a Fermi Paradox soft landing

1. The Fermi Paradox is still a thing.
2. Many Earth-sized planets may be completely covered in water, with no surface land whatsoever.
3. If there are life forms on these planets, they would be unable to develop technologically even if they were intelligent. No metallurgy, no electromagnetic communications, no spacecraft.
4. We can land boats onto the water worlds and dominate the fishy lifeforms.

UFO researcher says new documentary exposes ‘what the secret agenda has been’

Even within the much-maligned and widely misunderstood field of “UFOlogy,” Steven Greer is a divisive figure.

His affinity for the spotlight and his willingness to dive deep into areas of the subject where other UFO researchers fear to tread have painted him with a broader target for contention than many of his contemporaries. He is at it once again with the recent book-and-film combo Unacknowledged: An Exposé of the Greatest Secret in Human History — the compelling documentary half of which will receive its Toronto premiere coupled with a Q&A with Greer this Saturday. The event is open to non-conference attendees as part of the three-day Alien Cosmic Expo UFO symposium taking place over the weekend at the Airport Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Greer is not easing off. As he puts it, Unacknowledged — the book and the film, the latter directed by first-time documentarian Michael Mazzola — “really take people from zero to 100 quickly.”

Video (warning: contains deplorable content) and text description:

On June 7th, 2017, Eichenwald claimed he had been sent an anti-semitic flyer as a result of Tucker Carlson mentioning him on his show. In an effort to prove the veracity of his claim, Eichenwald tweeted an image of him holding the flyer he was sent (shown below).

It was soon noticed that in the image, Eichenwald had a tab on his computer opened to B-Chiku, or Hentai. This led many to joke about the idea that Eichenwald masturbates to hentai pornography. These jokes were covered in Mediaite[9] (examples shown below).

The following day, Eichenwald defended himself by saying the tab was open because he was “trying to convince his wife that tentacle porn existed.”[10] Eichenwald went so far as to include a screenshot of a conversation with his wife where she verified his story.

Rather than tentacles, the tabbed hentai contained "traditional gender roles and values, with a submissive stay-at-home wife and a working husband".

Wikipedia profile.

US coalition in first downing of Syrian army plane

U.S. warplane downs Syrian army jet in Raqqa province

I'm a little shocked it took this long.