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Stephen Retired

Stephen Retired's Journal
Stephen Retired's Journal
January 21, 2015

PBS Frontline: Putin's Way (free to view)

Scapegoating, false intelligence, manipulation, the parallels between Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Richard Bruce Cheney are nothing short of chilling.

January 21, 2015

Had you the power, which non-pol would be POTUS two years from now?

I'm for Colbert, but I've tried to think of other (generally-liberal) people. I've probably missed some obvious choices, but you can blame the Jameson for that!

January 21, 2015

Why You Shouldn’t Fear Artificial Intelligence



"Come with {AI} if you want to live."
January 20, 2015

Kendall Jenner Is Now A Wall Street Journal Magazine Columnist

For its February issue, The Wall Street Journal Magazine asked six "luminaries" to weigh in on the topic of youth. One such guiding light: model and reality TV star Kendall Jenner.

As a newly minted columnist for the publication, it's worth noting that Jenner, the self-proclaimed "worst reader, you guys," openly employed a ghostwriter to pen a dystopian teen novel that no one bothered to read.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/16/kendal-jenner-wall-street-journal_n_6487114.html

In a related story, I'm now going to drink a bottle of drain cleaner.

January 19, 2015

What Huygens Saw On Titan - New Image Processing | Video

Published on 14 Jan 2015

For the probe landing’s 10th anniversary, a new sequence has been rendered from Huygens’ Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) data. The craft landed on Saturn’s largest moon on 14 Jan 2005. -- Landing Animation: http://goo.gl/6t6XuA



Yes, I'm a space nerd!
January 19, 2015

Sarah Palin takes responsibility for sinking McCain in 2008

This is actually a few months old, but I had never seen nor heard of it. (Naturally, everything else she says is dumb.)

January 19, 2015

Pats 37, Seahawks 17

And I'm being generous to Seattle, who barely scraped by an injured Aaron Rodgers.

January 18, 2015

Elizabeth Warren will run for POTUS in 2016, with Godot as her Veep nominee

Just be patient, and keep waiting!

January 18, 2015

One In Three Men Would Rape If They Could Get Away With It



I've certainly nagged (and begged!) several women into having sex with me, but force??? RAPE??? Jesus!

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Name: Stephen
Gender: Male
Hometown: Nashua, New Hampshire
Home country: United States
Current location: Columbia, Maryland
Member since: Fri Jan 9, 2015, 06:25 PM
Number of posts: 190

About Stephen Retired

Spent my whole career as a cog in the DC bureaucracy. Now I am free!
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