Why Josh Duggar Isn't Nearly the Sick Fuck You Think - Well, He Is, But Also Deeply Pathetic, Too

Ashley Madison subscriber and former sister-fingering sick fuck Josh Duggar may have just lost his last, best reason to have an erection: turns out of the millions of AshMad paid subscribers, there were probably less than 6,000 actual women.

I can see why Josh disappeared into a 28 day rehab program today. In addition to whatever debris he carries from his teenage proclivities now he has to process his newly-revealed history of masturbating to another man's female sexual fantasy.

"the more I examined those 5.5 million female profiles, the more obvious it became that none of them had ever talked to men on the site, or even used the site at all after creating a profile."  http://bit.ly/1JnBa3x

So There's This: Another Mathematical Demolition of Climate Denialist "Science"

While I'd like the chance to review their R language coding I'm impressed at the volume of study data the authors were able to collect. Credible study.

What if the tiny sliver of scientists that don’t believe global warming is happening, or that human activities are causing it — that two to three percent of climate contrarians — are right?

That’s the hypothetical question that a new study, authored by Rasmus Benestad, Dana Nuccitelli, Stephan Lewandowsky, Katharine Hayhoe, Hans Olav Hygen, Rob van Dorland, and John Cook, sought to answer. Published last week in the journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology, the study examined 38 recent examples of contrarian climate research — published research that takes a position on anthropogenic climate change but doesn’t attribute it to human activity — and tried to replicate the results of those studies. The studies weren’t selected randomly — according to lead author Rasmus Benestad, the studies selected were highly visible contrarian studies that had all arrived at a different conclusion than consensus climate studies. The question the researchers wanted to know was — why?  http://bit.ly/1JnAV8y

Looking for evidence some GOP legislators have placed ideology over biology? Here's an example from Colorado. In a letter to the head of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, they go full throttle suspension of disbelief over the fraudulent CMP videos.

Dear Dr. Wolk,

Videos recently released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) have surfaced showing barbaric, unethical and potentially illegal actions relating to the trafficking and sale of aborted babies, the human organs of aborted babies and other aborted baby body parts by some Planned Parenthood Federation of America affiliates; including Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains right here in Colorado. http://bit.ly/1JnxVca

To his credit, Dr. Wolk declined the request, noting that no fewer than four Congressional investigations will fire up after Congress gets back from vacation. I'll add that not one of the state level investigations have found any irregularities, and the CMP videos are not validated by independent  reviews.

If Her Server Is Illegal Her Candidacy Is, Too! Or Maybe Not. It's Complicated.

There have been some partisan suggestions to the effect that if Hillary Clinton's email server violated State Department rules or  federal law her eligibility to run for the Presidency would be damaged, perhaps beyond repair (although similar arguments seem to not be applied to the indicted Rick Perry). There's an argument to the contrary, and if you're the sort of person who likes legal argument this might interest you.

The power to judge members’ qualifications is expressly and unambiguously committed to each house of Congress, but no such express power is unambiguously committed to Congress in regard to adjudicating a president’s (or presidential candidate’s or president-elect’s) qualifications. It would seem to follow that if Congress has no power to add to the standing qualifications of its own members, it cannot add to the standing qualifications for the other elected constitutional positions,[10] i.e., the President and Vice President. Any other result risks congressional aggrandizement at the expense of the presidency; any other result risks Congress’s manipulating qualifications for the presidency so that Congress chooses the President, rather than the People of the United States.[11]  http://wapo.st/1JnvXIO

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So I Guess Tim Tebow Won't Mind Retiring at 28?

So in the process of competing to be the third string quarterback, vastly over-rated Tim Tebow seems to have made peace with his final shot at a pro career:

For years Tebow, a former Heisman trophy winner, has made it clear that he is not defined by his football career. In 2013, he told Liberty University's 10,000 students that serving is more important than his NFL career.

"In the end, football is just a silly game. Greatness comes from serving," Tebow told the crowd. "... You want to be great? Be a servant. You want to be great? Humble yourself."  http://bit.ly/1Jnsdat

Hindus Now Less Than 80% of Indians

Picture an American-style media reaction to this - cries of a "War on Vishnu" would reverberate across India!

"India's Hindus have dropped below 80 percent of the population for the first time since independence.

Census data, released on Wednesday by the ministry of home affairs, showed that Hindus declined to 79.8 percent of the country's 1.2 billion people in 2011, from 80.5 percent a decade earlier. Muslims, India's largest minority group, now make up 14.2 percent of the country, up from 13.4 percent in 2001.

Christian numbers stayed put at 2.3 percent, while the Sikh population fell to 1.7 percent from 1.9 percent.

Sakshi Maharaj, a Hindu priest-turned-politician, caused an uproar earlier this year when he said Hindu women should give birth to four children to ensure that their religion survives." http://bit.ly/1Jnqjqm

Weekly Quiz | Charlie Rose: The Week | PBS

Weekly Quiz | Charlie Rose: The Week | PBS



This seems easier than some.