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Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. White People Shouldn’t Translate Black Poetry Amanda Gorman— a poet who happens to be Black— rose to
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. China “Accidentally” uses Covid anal swab tests on US Diplomats In January we mentioned that China began
There used to be a show from the 90s called America’s Funniest Home Videos, where host Bog Saget would show silly home movies that people sent in from across the country. The videos typically featured people doing stupid things. And if the video was funny enough, someone could have won the $100,000 grand
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. “Chestfeeding People” is the New Gender Inclusive Term in UK Hospitals The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals
In the early first century AD, in the final years of his reign, the Roman emperor Augustus imposed a new tax on his subjects called the vicesima hereditatium. In Latin this means literally “twentieth of inheritance”, and in effect it was a 5% tax (i.e. 1/20th) on money and property that was inherited
One of the most important lessons that a lot of people learned the hard way last year was how important it is to have OPTIONS. Nearly everyone on the planet suddenly experienced, almost in unison, an astonishing loss of freedom, practically overnight. Local public health officials went from being little-known bureaucrats to being
On April 3, 1948, when Europe and Japan were still smoldering from the devastating effects of World War II, the United States government passed a massive stimulus bill that became known as the Marshall Plan. The Marshall Plan was highly controversial; the US national debt was at an all-time high in 1945 due
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. California Public Health Department: “Stay Away from your Loved Ones” “Love means staying away,” according to the
In honor of Black History Month, schools across the Land of the Free are adopting a curriculum that’s being pushed from the organization Black Lives Matter. Curiously, the “Black Lives Matter at School” curriculum has absolutely nothing to do with history, let alone black history. Instead, the organization presents an entirely Marxist, ultra-woke
Earlier this week, the right honorable politicians of the United Kingdom rolled out strict new Covid travel rules. Bear in mind that the UK already has some of the strictest Covid rules in the world right now. People must stay at home and only go out if they have a “reasonable excuse”. Anyone
The year was 1977. Disco was in. Star Wars was the biggest movie of the year. The world’s first personal computer was announced– the Commodore PET, which came with 8 kilobytes of memory. And the Gross Domestic Product of the United States reached $1.9 trillion– more than double what it had been just
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Google Deletes 100,000 negative Robinhood reviews Last week we talked about how YouTube was deleting “dislikes” on
Herodes Atticus was born in the year 101 AD into a wealthy family in Greece, which at the time was part of the Roman Empire. During Emperor Hadrian’s rule, Herodes petitioned for public funds to build a proper water system in the famed city of Troy. When the water system cost more than
On March 12, 1989, a research fellow at CERN named Tim Berners-Lee submitted a paper to the agency’s senior management, proposing a new way to organize information across computer networks. The Internet was already in full swing by 1989, at least among governments and universities. But it was mostly used for email at
Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. China Pushes New Trend: Anal Swab COVID Tests In the earliest days of the pandemic, China locked