Interesting Links for 23-02-2018

[andrewducker]

This is your daily dose of "What the hell is wrong with people???"

(tags: urine eyes wtf OhForFucksSake EpicStupidity )

I remember the 80s

(tags: music history )

What Ever Happened To Brendan Fraser?

(tags: Hollywood abuse OhForFucksSake )

Mysterious origin of domesticated horses ‘turned upside down’ by DNA analysis

(tags: horses genetics )

"We At The New York Times Have Not Gone Far Enough"

(tags: satire journalism usa society politics racism cannibalism )

How opinion on Brexit has moved since the referendum

(tags: Europe UK polls referendum )

After Columbine over 10,000 school police officers were hired just in case a school shooting happened. Two decades later, they haven't stopped a *single* school shooting. Instead they've arrested over 1 million kids, mostly students of color, for routine

(tags: guns USA schools OhForFucksSake )

The trouble knowing how much screen time is 'OK'

(tags: computers health mentalhealth )

Comments

[threemeninaboat]

Thank you for the eye urine post!

[andrewducker]

As an extreme example of what not to do?

[momentsmusicaux]

Why are people even putting wee in their eyes? WHY???

[khoth.livejournal.com]

And when it goes wrong, why do they try to solve the problem by putting more in?

[amaebi]

Yes, I'm pining to know.

[darkoshi]

Look up "urine therapy". My brother once sent me a Shyam Singha book, which among other less shocking things, advised washing the eyes with mid-stream urine to improve vision. I decided not to try it.

NYTimes parody

[amaebi]

I get it as mockery of NYTimes story assignment and editorial policy.

But it seems even more apt as a characterization of current US conservative demands for discourse.