Kanye, trying to secure the nomination for biggest douché on the planet:

“I don’t even know what [Beck] said. I just know that, the Grammys, if they want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. We aren’t going to play with them no more. ‘Flawless.’ Beyoncé’s video. And Beck needs to respect artistry, he should have given his award to Beyoncé. At this point, we tired of it. What happens is, when you keep on diminishing art, and not respecting the craft, and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you’re disrespectful to inspiration. We, as musicians, have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyoncé album, and they feel like it takes them to a different place. And then they do this promotional event, and they’ll run the music over somebody’s speech, the artist, because they want commercial advertising. We aren’t playing with them anymore. And by the way, I got my wife, my daughter, and I got my clothing line, so I’m not going to do nothing that would put my daughter at risk, but I am here to fight for creativity. That’s why I didn’t say anything tonight, but you all knew what it meant when ‘Ye stepped on that stage.”

Beyoncé has already won twenty Grammy awards. She has the most Grammy nominations of any woman, ever; she is #2 for Grammy wins. She won three last night. There's an enormous Wiki page devoted to all the awards she's won.

This is the woman the Grammy's are being disrespectful to, and "playing with".

Or maybe they were disrespectful to Kanye, who has only won 21 Grammys.

Remember, the asshats who are now screaming about the evils of government mandated vaccinations are the same asshats who, four months ago, were experts on public health in general and ebola in particular and were screaming as loudly as they could that Obama wasn't doing absolutely everything in his power (and then some) to stop ebola from killing us all.

But the ebola scare went away as soon as the 2014 elections were over. I wonder what seemingly unrelated event will get them to stop telling people that the government should let parents choose to vaccinate their kids or not...

Too much exercise really can kill you, scientists have discovered, after finding runners who speed along at 7mph or more are doing themselves more harm than good.

A study of 1,098 runners found that those who ran the fastest were nine times more likely to die prematurely within 12 years than those who enjoyed a more sedate pace of around 5mph for two or three times a week.

h/t RobC.

Why must I agree with Megan McArdle ?

I, too, wore the bread bags. And so did pretty much everyone in my school who didn't have rain boots (and there were a lot of us). I always walked to school, even in kindergarten, and my mother (and step-mother) would make me wear the bags when it was raining or snowing because that's the best way to tromp through two miles of wet and not wreck your feet.

Joni Ernst is a doofus, but bread bags over (or inside) your shoes were plenty common in the 70s and 80s, in upstate NY.

Cause and Effect.

Of course that MSNBC story doesn't mention the cause. They just mention that the NWS is understaffed and so is unable to do the job it needs to do. And how this came to be is left to the reader's imagination. Good work, MSNBC - make sure nobody figures out that elections have consequences.

iPhone

A college professor was addressing his history class....

Vox:

The decision of American media organizations to publish or not publish the cartoons has typically been framed of one of bravery or cowardice, based on the assumption that publishing invites physical risk from some number of the 2.6 million Muslim-Americans who will take offense and perhaps action. Vox.com was praised on MSNBC for its bravery, even though this purported risk did not actually enter into our calculus, and other outlets have presented their decision to publish as a way to defy the Islamist radicals who threaten free speech.

Writers at Vox have indeed been bombarded with threats for our Charlie Hebdo coverage. But not one of those threats has come from a Muslim or in response to publishing anti-Islam cartoons. Revealingly, they have rather all come from non-Muslims furious at our articles criticizing Islamophobia.

...

Ironically, these threats are typically couched in arguments that Muslims are inherently irrational and violent. Further, threats made with the explicit intention of silencing journalists from discussing Islamophobia are positioned as necessary "defenses" of free speech against the threat of Islam. The people making the threats seem unaware that they are themselves seeking to curb the very free speech they pretend to uphold.

An anonymous advisor to Mitt Romney told the Boston Globe in an article published on Tuesday that if the former Republican nominee had been elected President, there would be no Islamic State terror group in Syria and Iraq, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin would never have invaded Ukraine.

“There wouldn’t be an ISIS at all, and Putin would know his place in life," an anonymous longtime advisor told the Globe. "Domestically, things would be in better shape.”

ISIS originally formed in 1999 and has gone through many name changes since. It became ISI ("Islamic State in Iraq") as far back as 2006.

How about you go through your 90 second "preparation" on your own time and print when I tell you to print?