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“He chose to receive him because Putin asked him to,” an anonymous White House source told POLITICO. “Putin did specifically ask on the call when they last talked.”

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Check out this post in the Politics vibe: "House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy Said Vladimir Putin 'Pays' Trump In Leaked Tape" So, this is the whole of the Republican Party, right? Yep, sure is alright.

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Check out this post in the White House vibe: "Fox News Seriously Downplayed The James Comey News. It Backfired."

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Dump is a joke business man and presidential disaster.

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United passenger was forced to urinate in plastic cup

A woman said she was barred from using the toilet on a United flight because the seat belt light was on mid-flight. She told the attendant that she urgently had to pee and the attendant gave her a couple of plastic cups, which she used. What happened after she used the cups was worse. From SFGate:

https://boingboing.net/2017/05/10/united-passenger-was-forced-to.html

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Statist and Anarchist #176: Lost Potential

I’d take this time to lament about how the 1980s and 1990s were better times as “the good old days”, but I’ve already put on my old man pants, sat in my rocker, and told my “old man” spiel a long, long time ago in a previous comic. If you want a repeat of that, I’d recommend reading it again. But if you wish to reminisce about better, more optimistic times, by all means, feel free to watch Reagan’s famous Morning in America ad, which this comic strip was slightly inspired by:

(Originally posted on Blogspot on April 5, 2017.)

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Milky way core over Nugget Point Lighthouse, 26 February 2017. [OC] [1459x2000]

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The Greatest Presidential Cover Up in American History

Nixonian #StayWoke

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This blog is Dedicated to anyone suffering from Anxiety! Please Follow Us if You Can Relate: ANXIETYPROBLEMS

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Comey

Moshe Gilula (Netherlands)

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Airport security -  Imagining airport security in the year 2030

by Luis Buenaventura ( Philippines)

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Fall in love with someone who tastes like adventure but looks like the calm, beautiful morning after a terrible storm.

Nikita Gill (via thelovejournals)

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105mm isn't enough flak for me I need bigger

Ah, alright Mr. Kratos, then let me introduce you  

12.8 cm Flakzwilling 40/2 twin 128mm AA flak artillery piece, for when you need to kill the entire Greek Pantheon from the confort of your own backyard!

(Some assembly required) 

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diagnosed correctly

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A black man walks into the San Francisco CTO Summit

On May 8, 2017, at precisely 11:41 a.m., I walked onstage at the San Francisco CTO Summit to give a talk titled “Tech and Inclusion. Why So Difficult?”

At $995 for the session, and with over 200 attendees, the event was billed as being presented by senior engineering leaders from startups (more than 75% are chief technology officers, vice presidents of engineering or directors of engineering). Previous presenters were the CTOs and VPEs of Stripe, Coinbase, MongoDB, Zenefits, Warby Parker, Squarespace, Shopify, Birchbox, Tumblr and CustomInk.

As I took my place on the stage, I looked out at the crowd and posed the question, “Who identifies as an African-American?”

No one responded.

It was if no one had noticed until that moment that the makeup of people in the room and the title of my talk were strangely in alignment.

With all the ongoing conversations and controversy surrounding inclusion and diversity, it is surprising that a tech conference in San Francisco — which bills itself as a place to learn and connect with your peers — allows this to happen.

Let’s unpack what makes it difficult.

1. Inclusion takes work.

You have to expand your network and ask for help from people you are not accustomed to asking for help from.

2. Inclusion is uncomfortable.

The conference organizers knew the title of my talk months in advance. How awkward would it have been for the conference organizers to ask for help in finding people of color to attend and present? Probably less awkward than me calling it out onstage.

3. Inclusion means changing the way you think about everything. 

— Leslie Miley (@shaft), a Silicon Valley native who has held engineering leadership roles at Slack, Twitter, Apple and Google. Read more 

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