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I read a great article in the Wall Street Journal this week: Decoding Millennials – For $20,000 an hour. Wow! Sounds like the Millennial dream job! Unfortunately Millennials need not apply; apparently in order to be a Millennial expert you have to not BE a Millennial.Butt first the problem: the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s (referred to as Millennials as they came of age around 2000) now make up the largest single generational group in the workforce and big companies are scrambling to figure out how to make them happy. Remember when recent hires used to do the...

Tyler O’Neil gives us a list of the Top Thirteen Incompetent Failures in the Obama Administration. I’m not sure how he narrowed it down, but here it is, presumably starting with the least of the incompetents and counting down to the most incompetent. Ben "The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama's Foreign-Policy Guru" Rhodes. Makes sense he would land a gig with "the Aspiring Singer, Basketball Player, Community Organizer Who Became President. Tommy “Dude, that was like 2 years ago” Vietor. The former press van driver who became National Security Council spokesman and special assistant to the president (and beer pong...

The question of the day: does Donald Trump seem as immoderate today as you once thought? Does banning Muslims from entering the country “until we figure out what’s going on” seem immoderate when you consider the behavior of jihadis around the world? Does enforcing the immigration statutes on the books seem immoderate in light of what jihadis do in their spare time - murder, rape, acid dips, converting airliners to weapons of mass destruction?Or in light of the number of illegal aliens pouring across our borders daily with impunity?Here come the “niños”I guess you could stay aboard the #HillaryByProxy Express...

  Did you see the Wall Street Journal article yesterday about Starbucks new app? Raj was in it! They spelled his name wrong, of course: For Sathyarajkumar Krishnasamy, 49, an engineer, finally seeing his properly spelled name on a cup has been a breakthrough. In Starbucks stores, he had tried everything from providing his nickname, “Raj,” which sometimes came out as “Rodge,” to telling baristas to identify him simply as “number 10.” The accuracy of the app, says Mr. Krishnasamy, is “a small happiness.”  One hot black grande for “Rodge”!Butt that was the whole point of the story: how Starbucks...

Meet Brony Sanders... He wants you to know that Bernie Sanders is literally a horse's ass... And you can get this stuffed animal for the low low price of $150! Really. I'm not kidding. Some commie lover made a Bernie Sandres stuffed animal and is charging $150 for it. Oh the irony... Only liberalism, an ideology predicated on greed being bad and priding themselves on how much they give to others would produce something so ridiculous for an outlandishly high price in honor of a candidate who says the rich (which you would have to be to justify this purchase)...

OK, so Bernie won Oregon, big deal; they’ve been committed to socialism for quite awhile. Butt Kentucky? It was apparently a yuge win for Hillary! Mind you, in the Age of Obama “yuge” doesn’t mean what it used to. And seriously, if Bernie doesn’t stop whining about all things Clinton he may find himself added to the list of 47 former friends and associates of the Clintons who suffered an untimely death.  And that list doesn’t even count the 4 dead in Benghazi.Butt seriously – 47 friends and associates dead in the prime of life? As somebody once noted, how...

  Here’s an innovation that’s already about 8 years too late to do most of us any good: Print Your Own 3-D Drugs. Just think how much more fun life would have been if, when Nancy Pelosi told us we’d have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it, we could have just looked away from the computer screen and hollered: Barkeep! Print me one of those double doobies! And one for my friend at the end of the bar too.I don’t know exactly  how the 3-D drug printing works butt I’m guessing there will be a yuge demand for...

Baby rhinos crying when their milk runs out sound like American college students. Maybe they saw some chalk? Click link to see.

Comparing outcomes and foreign policy for Trump vs Hillary in a more rigorous way pic.twitter.com/ujwQS3iXmb— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) May 15, 2016

** not to be republished without donation to FR and appropriate credit to author ** The author is in fact a climate scientist of a sort, although not of the modern variety or persuasion. I graduated in 1971 with a degree in geography specializing in climatology. That's what it took back then to enter the field of climate science. As it happens, I have taken a strong interest in meteorology and forecasting and have become a recognized forecaster over the many years since that education, but almost everything I learned about forecasting was among actual meteorologists at private weather companies....

Barry went to Rutgers yesterday to deliver the commencement speech.  I wonder which one of his failed novelists wrote this fantasy speech for him; whoever it was, they used the opportunity to hawk for Hillary by belittling Trump “Class of 2016, let me be as clear as I can be: In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue.” Unless of course you’re Barack Hussein Obama. In which case ignorance is actually evidence of how smart you really are. He knows everything. And yet he seems to know nothing…he’s the captain of the Culture of Competency who has overseen...

This bowfin is trying to fight back from becoming a meal, losing its head won’t stop this determined fish. Watch a fish dinner try and turn the tables on some poor woman and bite the hand that’s trying to make it into a fish fry. See the zombie fish in action here.

FULL TITLE: Hampshire College Students Demanded Obama Or Beyonce As Graduation Speakers, Freaked Out When They Got An Asian Doctor, And Demanded A Transgender Black Person Hampshire College had their graduation this weekend and it was the sh--show everyone dreamed Turtleboy’s favorite hippie college would be. Don’t know how we missed this story from a couple weeks ago, but I literally spit out my coffee and started laughing when I read this paragraph:Hampshire College President Jonathan Lash announced that the college has selected a new commencement speaker in response to students who were upset that the original choice — Dr....

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! The Hillary Clinton campaign is in the process of screwing the Bernie Sanders supporters in a big way and it is absolutely HILARIOUS!!! The Sandernista DUmmies hardly even know what hit them. The big news now is how the Hillary campaign completely SCREWED the Sanders delegates out of their spots at the Nevada convention. You can read details about it HERE or at almost every other thread in DUmmieland right now. Why so surprised, DUmmies? You actually thought Team Hillary would play by something as ridiculous to them as RULES? Fortunately we have the experience of just how...

Yesterday we discussed the new disorder plaguing white middle class Americans: Empathy Deficit Disorder (EDD). Today I thought I would pursue one of the root causes: Snowflake Syndrome (ϟϟ). The latest outbreak of ϟϟ - at Seattle University, Matteo Ricci College School of Humanities - has been documented by the Daily Caller and, as the saying goes, requires a special kind of stupid. A brief summary: students at the Matteo Ricci School of Humanities took over the Dean’s office and demanded that the Dean be fired and all of their demands (which are ample) be met. Chief among their demands is an order...

Here’s an important study: Empathy loss: Tylenol makes you care less about other people's pain. Normally my first question would be “who funded this study?” however in this case I think it’s pretty obvious that it was the Motrin/Advil cabal. It’s a classic case of an explanation in search of a problem  -and they’ve found one: Americans just aren’t as empathetic as they used to be.  Of course once the  problem was isolated research dollars could be allocated to researching the cause: why are so many Americans today incapable of identifying with the pain and shutruggles of their fellow Americans? I...

LOLOL. Talk about three-dimensional media chess, and owning the new cycle. This guy is an epic candidate. The person who leaked the 25-year-old “audio tape” to the Washington Post was…. wait for it,…. Donald Trump:

Next year we might even get our own locker kids!Every year for 13 years now Vanessa the duck flies into a courtyard surrounded by walls and windows at an elementary school in Hartland Michigan to lay her eggs. Unfortunately when her ducklings hatch - since they can’t fly yet - there’s no way out. So Vanessa walks to the school door, quacks loudly till somebody opens it and then leads her brood on a march through the school halls and out another door that leads to a pond - and the good life that all ducks have a right to....

The next two days are busy around here so I’m leaving you to your own devices: don’t make me regret it.If you need a little something to get started let me direct you to Gerard’s eclectic collection of facts, fads and fun at American Digest. There’s tons of new stuff every day. Take yesterday for example: there’s the 1941 Billie Holliday recording of God Bless the Child along with the interesting back story on it’s inspiration.Then, from the endless archives of Gerard’s fertile mind, there’s a reposting of PART II of GROWL -  DEMOCRAT! by Gerard Allen Van der Ginsberg, ...