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Mueller Russia Probe: Another Guilty Plea
For those of you playing along at home that brings Mueller's score up to 4 guilty pleas and 15 indictments.
Mueller probe: London-based son-in-law of Russian businessman to plead guilty to false statements
Conservatives React to Peter Thiel's Los Angeles Move
As Peter Thiel ditches Silicon Valley for LA, locals tout 'conservative renaissance'
If the billionaire tech investor and noted libertarian Peter Thiel really does leave Silicon Valley for Los Angeles to escape what he views as an increasing intolerance for conservatives, the city’s growing community of conservatives will be there to welcome him.
Among LA’s right-leaning residents are the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, the political commentator Dave Rubin and the blogger Bill Whittle. There’s also the former members of the defunct Friends of Abe, a secretive group of Hollywood conservatives that fractured in 2016 over the candidacy of Donald Trump.
“Silicon Valley has long despised the American right and it’s beginning to flex its muscles against us,” said Michael Knowles, an LA-based podcaster for The Daily Wire, referring to a lawsuit filed by conservative media site PragerU against YouTube for allegedly “censoring” conservative videos.
“It’s a sign of the time that Peter Thiel is heading down here because there’s been a conservative renaissance in Los Angeles,” Knowles said.
PragerU’s chief marketing officer, Craig Strazzeri, added: “It’s both astounding and sad – but unfortunately not surprising – that there are parts of this country where you are socially and professionally shunned if you support the duly elected president of our country. That might be changing in Los Angeles.”
Previously: Peter Thiel Migrating From Silicon Valley to Los Angeles
Foutanga Babani Sissoko
You can add 17 to that list of 43 white supremacist murders
You Up? College in the Age of Tinder
You Up? College in the Age of Tinder
Frankly, dating apps can also just make things incredibly awkward. My freshman year I swiped through hundreds of people. At one of the last tailgates of the year, a random man walked by me and yelled: “Hey! We matched on Tinder! You are Tinder girl!”
I was mortified. Suddenly everyone around me knew that I was on Tinder. And I had swiped through so many people, I had no idea who this guy was. He was just another nameless “match” that I would never get to know. Because, needless to say, I walked away and never spoke to that guy again.
[...] The same Snap asking to “hang out” sent at 2 p.m. can have a completely different meaning when sent at 2 a.m.
[...] You don’t want to be mid-makeout while the jewel-encrusted crab from “Moana” is singing about how shiny he is.
Trump Vowed Not To Run $400 Billion Deficits.
...Instead He’ll Run A $1 Trillion One.
Fourteen months before he was elected president, Donald Trump vowed to make sure the country would never again run a $400 billion budget deficit.
“Well, he’s right about that,” laughed Capitol Hill budget veteran Stan Collender on Monday.
Because, as it turns out, Trump kept his promise ― only not in the way his supporters might have hoped.
In the first budget cycle fully under their control, Trump and the Republican-run Congress are likely to run a deficit that will top $1 trillion, some two-and-a-half times as big as the one Trump had complained about at his Sept. 30, 2015, rally in Keene, New Hampshire.
New York Times Hires and Fires Writer Within 6 Hours
29-Year-Old Pregnant Virgin
I’m a 29-Year-Old Pregnant Virgin
"This is me giving a middle finger to the people who told me I couldn’t do it because I’m not married yet."
Suggestion: Improving TFS
Today, I was greeted with this FS...
...which contained the following error...
Both are observable by the companies they report too to
...as I stared at this, I thought, "I should let them know"... then I realized there was no conveniently associated way to let anyone know without posting a message in the actual comments, a message that really didn't belong there, other than, well, that was the easiest thing to do.
So I suggest that at the end of each FS, there be a small link such as...
...which, when clicked, would give you a form to report whatever it is that they missed, fouled up, or otherwise need to know. The form would provide the person who clicked with a copy of TFS to work with, and when submitted, the editors with the link to TFS automatically, a copy of the content, raw, ready for editing in another form field, and the remarks from the submitter.
The user of this link would copy the text, click the link, paste, make the appropriate remark(s), and submit. Easy.
I submit that it is better for the site in general if we all have the opportunity to improve it, and if that process is as painless as possible. Readers, and that includes new readers, that are not stabbed in the eye with obvious grammar, spelling and other errors, will both be more engaged with the actual story and less inclined to think poorly of the site.
Russians Mock Their Space Program After Falcon Heavy Launch
Russians are mocking their space program after the SpaceX launch
Some dove head-first into Russia's rising inequality and the excessive wealth among the country's billionaire elite. One user noted the millions of dollars and years of effort Musk has plowed into pioneering space technology, and lamented the comparison with the kinds of things Russia’s notorious 96 billionaires tend to spend their own money on.
His example: Roman Abramovich, the Russian oil-and-metals magnate who spent some $233 million buying the U.K. soccer team Chelsea.
Abramovich, who’s worth $11 billion according to Forbes magazine, also splashed out some $400 million for the world's second-largest yacht in 2010, which he named Eclipse, ironically enough.
Others used the SpaceX craze to poke fun at Moscow’s standard tit-for-tat diplomatic approach to disputes with Washington, with one user photoshopping a mobile missile launcher flying through the cosmos as Russia’s “symmetrical response.”
How Elon Musk Beat Russia's Space Program
The Soviet Union tried something similar in the 1960s and early 1970s. Sergei Korolev, the rocket designer who launched the first satellite and the first man into space, began the development of what came to be known as the N-1, a 30-engine superheavy rocket capable of taking a 75-ton space station to orbit and perhaps to the Moon, Mars and Venus. Finished after Korolev’s death in 1966, the N-1 was test-launched four times. Each of the launches failed, largely because of the difficulty of running so many engines at the same time.
Now SpaceX has pulled off a similar task, and even though it’s not clear yet who will contract for the Falcon Heavy’s services, SpaceX founder Elon Musk now has the most capable missile in the world: It can deliver up to 64 tons into orbit. Russia’s plans to build such a rocket, capable of flying to the Moon or to Mars, aren’t even complete yet, and certainly not fully funded, though Igor Komarov, head of Roskosmos, the Russian space agency, has promised a first launch in 2028. Even China is likely to have a superheavy launch vehicle before Russia. But it’s the success of upstart Musk that smarts. Roskosmos has the full power of the state behind it, after all. And yet here’s this boyish-looking showman launching his roadster into space, David Bowie blasting from the car’s speakers and “Don’t Panic” -- a quote from Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” -- lit up on the central console.
