William Hartung, How the Arms Lobby is Distorting Our Budget Priorities.

Proviz Triviz and Nightrider Video Demo

This unquestionably is a an ad. In Seattle in the wintertime bicycle commuters are, some of them at least, WAY more tricked out than this, but take note all!

Skunkworks

RantWoman keeps changing her mind about what belongs in this blog. At the moment, RantWoman is simply going to describe this blog as her electronic Whatsit drawer, a place for media moments RantWoman wants to store but about which RantWoman for whatever reason is willing just o rely on text and the search bar in efforts to find again at later dates.

Synonuyms:

Skunkworks

Social media laboratory

Even less polished for prime time than RantWoman's other blogs.

Slightly more coherent that pocket lint.

Enjoy!

The Zombie doctrine: George Monbiot

http://www.monbiot.com/2016/04/15/the-zombie-doctrine/

A Modesty Proposal | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

You too can run for office and be declared "Elected Paperweight of the week."

A survey of Felon Voting Rights as of Super Tuesday

http://prospect.org/article/survey-felon-voting-rights-super-tuesday

Road snacks: a site you may not want your city to wind up on

Infotainment
a site you probably do not want your city to wind up on.
http://www.roadsnacks.net/dumbest-cities-in-montana/

Imagine an all-female Presidential Ticket

As voters head out for the Iowa caucuses and the Presidential elction year bakeoff begins, RantWoman offers idiosyncratic commentary:

Awhile ago on Facebook, someone RantWoman knows was FACETIOUSLY considering tossing her hat into the ring as (yet another) Republican candidate for President. This friend was looking for running mates. She Liked RantWoman's suggestion that she should aim to have at least as many running mates as she would have competitors in the Republican primary. RantWoman offered to be one of this Cast of Thousands.

RantWoman is not really worried she is going to be called to serve. In fact, the exchange prompted RantWoman to think in a different direction.

What if the goal is women at the top of BOTH parties' tickets?

RantWoman has been cautiously tossing around pairings. So far the possibilities include:

The Battle of the Secretaries of State:
Condolezza Rice vs Hillary Clinton
Why should Condi mess around with an academic post or, say, Commisioner of the NFL when she could be Commander in Chief?
We already know Hillary is interested.
What would this ticket do for America's presence in the world?

Clash of the Financial Titans:
Carly Fiorina vs Elizabeth Warren
Ohhh the possibilities.

The Good Candidates because, besides boundless respect from RantWoman they have shown no signs of being interested ticket
Sandra Day O'Connor vs Michelle Obama

The Lipstick on a Pit Bull / Song and Dance Ticket.
Sarah Palin vs Beyoncé.
RantWoman regularly performs the thought exercise of considering in what ways knowing how to field-dress a moose might impact statecraft. RantWoman would not mind fewer opportunities to think of the issue but since Sarah Palin persists in public presence, RantWoman is happy to award her a place on a fictitious fantasy Presidential ticket
RantWoman really does not know very much about Beyoncé except a few notes from Wikipedia including the important fact that by the November election, she will be old enough to be President. RantWoman has the impression she can also hold intelligent conversation about other topics besides field-dressing wildlife.

How will the results of these tickets be determined?

Since none of these races are likely to occur in any actual polling place, RantWoman is going to pick some sort of quantitative data stream from the internet with data about each candidate, maybe search engine results, maybe...  and report from time to time.

Stay tuned.

How black middle class kids become poor adults

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/how-black-middle-class-kids-become-black-lower-class-adults/384613/?utm_source=SFFB

Buddhist Conversations with Peter Singer about altruism

This article made RantWoman want to throw things.
unfortunately RantWoman's reasons to throw things queue is overbooked and RantWoman will simply store this article and maybe return to it, maybe not.

http://www.matthieuricard.org/en/blog/posts/altruism-meets-effective-altruism-thoughts-on-conversations-with-peter-singer

Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet

Filed awhile ago. Posted as a marker.

Another amazing moment from the War on Drugs: Drinking tea, growing tomatoes

Posted without comment
Drinking tea and growing hydroponic tomatoes lead to pot raid

Today's traffic and Pedestrian articles

RantWoman does NOT promise joy. Sigh.

Washington Post Driverless Cars and teh Tolley Problem


Slate: why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit

The weight of data: Jer Thorp at TEDxVancouver

Pleasure viewing about data

ABBA - FELICIDAD/HAPPY NEW YEAR - 2016

This post dedicated to all the 2016 Presidential Candidates and to striking the right cords / getting the right threads woven into the picture as far as the incredible Spanish-speaking diversity in the US.

RantWoman has to assume getting the right voices into the conversation might mean more than good dubbing and famous nortenos, but this is what RantWoman has to offer today!




#Happy2016

Everyone I know is appalled by the Comfort Women Agreement

Otherwise.net on the agreement between Japan and Korea regarding Korean women foreced to serve as sex slaves during WWII.

Posted here as archive.

Everyone I know is appalled by the Comfort Women Agreement

Survey of City Planning departments about use of data

Interesting high-level survey about city planning departments' use of electgronic resources:

http://www.planetizen.com/node/73480/city-planning-department-technology-benchmarking-survey-2015

1980s MIT study of women in Science

http://web.mit.edu/fnl/women/women.html#The%20Study

Harvard Sociologist on impact of evictions

from Harvard magazine, ethnography
http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/01/disrupted-lives

Robots are starting to break the Law and No One knows what to do about it.

To file:

http://fusion.net/story/35883/robots-are-starting-to-break-the-law-and-nobody-knows-what-to-do-about-it/