dimland radio 5-26-18 show notes

The Streisand Effect

I started the show talking about the Streisand Effect and what the phrase means. I was laying the groundwork for suggesting that the NFL's kneeling during the National Anthem policy might get more kneeling and not less.

NFL Doesn't Know What It's Doing

Players can stay in the locker room during the playing of the National Anthem, but if they are on the field they better stand to attention. If they should kneel there will be penalties and fines. That's the new policy of the NFL meant to deal with players kneeling in protest during the Anthem. Maybe this will stop the kneeling, but I think it might actually anger the players and they'll kneel out of spite of the rule.

 

The League should have just said, "Hey, it's a free country. They can kneel if they want." Things might have petered out, but with all this policy-making it's just extended the life of the gesture.

 

But I could be wrong.

Sometimes I Choose To Live In A Different Reality

Kim Davis, the anti-gay marriage lady has written a book. MSN.com ran an article  abut her new book. The headline for the article suggested a reality I'd rather live in, so I didn't read the article in order to keep from ruining that reality.

 

I'll link to the article, but take my advice: Don't read past the headline. Life will be more funner that way.

 

A Dimland ARRGH!: "Perfect"

 

The word "perfect" seems to have become today's "awesome". And, although the trend is more assuming to me than an ARRGH!, this ad definitely annoys me.

 

A 19th Century Battle Between A Scientist And A Flat-Earther

 

I thought I'd tell the tale of 19th scientist Alfred Russel Wallace accepting a challenge to demonstrate that the earth is round. The flat-earther, John Hampden, offered 500 pounds to whoever could prove it. Wallace took him up on the challenge.

 

On March 5, 1870, Wallace proved the earth is a sphere. Hampden lost the bet and Wallace got the money. And a huge headache that lasted about 20 years.

 

I got my info for an article in Skeptic Magazine. You can click here to find the article. It's part of a special section of the magazine that focused on Wallace, the co-discoverer of Natural Selection.

 

And Then There Were Eight

 

Six more families of Sandy Hook shooting victims have filed lawsuits against shit-stain Alex Jones, the blowhard conspiracy monger who has earn millions of dollars off spreading misinformation about Sandy Hook and other similar events. He claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax and there were no victims and the families and friends are actors.

 

So, with these six families that makes eight suing Jones, plus an FBI agent has also filed a suit against the false-flag claiming asshole.

 

Hey. He had it coming.

 

Three Cool Things

 

3) There are plenty of strange and scary sounds in the wild. Those sounds come from sources that aren't so strange. Here are two lynx making some very strange noises. When you hear a strange sound in the woods, it might be a lynx or fox or elk. Think those animals before you think bigfoot.

 

 

2) I stumbled upon an 1979 episode of the British TV documentary series South Bank featuring Talking Heads. Very cool!

 

1) Baseball on Facebook!!!

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'Entre Nous' by Rush & 'Waltz The Halls' by Game Theory

Second ad break bumpers: 'English Roundabout' by XTC & 'Rattle My Bones' by The Suburbs

Closing song: 'Angler's Treble Hook' by $5 Fiddle

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dimland radio 5-12-18 show notes

It's Not True: Blucher Does Not Mean Glue

 

At the end of last week's show I blurted out that in the classic comedy Young Frankenstein Cloris Leachman's character name means glue in German. I had heard that not-a-factoid recently on the Dana Gould Hour podcast. I didn't verify and friend of the show, Michael, clued me in on it being a myth. There is no German word meaning glue, either a noun or a verb, that is in any way close to Blucher.

 
US Code, Title 36, Subtitle 1, Part A, Chapter 3, Subsection 301

I am not easily offended, but I am easily annoyed. And I find it very annoying to see people at sporting events standing with their hands over their hearts during the singing of God Bless America. According to the US Code, American citizens are to do that during the playing of our National Anthem - The Star-Spangled Banner. God Bless America is not our National Anthem, people!

I expressed that annoyance on the Facebook and someone attempted to tell me I was wrong. As if! When have I ever been wrong? Oh. Right. The Frau Blucher thing.

 

In the course of that social media discussion, I was a bit sloppy and I was called on it. I eventually set things straight by not attempting to paraphrase and just quoted directly from the Code. That went better. I need to be more clear.

 

However, there is one argument that, if made, I would concede the whole thing. Did someone make me concede?

 

The Thin Edge Of The Wedge

Can someone explain to me what it is with some Republicans and their obsession with getting their god back into the public schools? It's really quite disturbing how some feel it's fine to exclude certain students in the name of tolerance (and promotion) of the majority's religion.

 

Well, they say, "God" can be any god, not just ours (wink, wink).

 

Oh, really? Does that include those religions that worship multiple gods?

 

This all stems from Minnesota State Sentator Dan Hall's legislation that would allow public schools to install privately funded displays of the National Motto (it really shouldn't be our motto) In God We Trust. It's so good to know that all the other problems have been solved, because our state senate can spend its time figuring out how to combine Church and Sate. At least, the legislation doesn't mandate the display. Oh, Minnesota is so progressive!

 

This legislation is the thin end of the wedge to get kids saying the Lord's Prayer in school so things can be great again the way it was in the Senator's day. He even says it's a "good start."

 

I'm an atheist. My wife is an atheist. Our son is an atheist and he's in the public school system. Why, Senator Hall, do you want to exclude us?

 

A Dimland Radio Pedantic Moment: Taking Your Guns And Tombstone Meme

I know, for a Pedantic Moment I really ought to have everything straight, but I didn't have the image of the meme available, so I didn't get the wording exactly right, but I had the gist of it correct. Good enough. (You try to do an hour long show!)

 

As you can see, the meme above is an anti-gun control message. The person who made it used a gun protestor's admission of wanting to take guns away from law-abiding Americans to give their response. Their response was shown by using an image of Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) from the film Tombstone. Sort of, "Oh, yeah? Well, just try and take 'em."

 

Except. In the movie, just prior to the big gunfight at the OK corral, what was it Doc and the Earp brothers came to take from Ike Clanton and his gang? Hmmmmm?

 

The Clairvoyant's Clients Are Being Conned By Someone Other Than The Clairvoyant?

It appears a con is on. A second one. Well, you see, there's a clairvoyant woman in Scotland who has spent the last 30 years connin... er... building a clientele and some other con artist is attempting get in on the con... er.. I mean... umm.

 

Actually, the irony of this story is awfully fun.

In my opinion, her clients aren't only being conned by the outside party. She's also conning them and, because I'm sure she believes in her abilities, she's conning herself.

 

Three Cool Things

 

3) The monthly meet-up with the MN Skeptics is also cool, and this time a member who hasn't been to one in quite a while finally made it back. And that was really cool.

2) My wife clued me onto this comedy troupe called WomenComedy. It's all dudes, so I'm not sure how they came up with that name, but their videos are very funny and that's cool.

 

1) Facebook helped me solve a case of identifying a famous person at a ballgame. I took a few screen captures, so the quality wasn't the best. Despite the bigfoot level photo quality, the person was identified. Cool!

Music heard on the show...

Dimland Radio opening theme song: 'Ram' by The Yoleus 
First ad break bumpers: 'North Country Girl' by Pete Townshend & 'After The Lights Go Out' by Urban Guerrillas

Second ad break bumpers: 'Chance' by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry & 'Shadow Line' by The Fleshtones

Closing song: 'Angler's Treble Hook' by $5 Fiddle

That's it! See you next Saturday night for Dimland Radio 11 Central, midnight Eastern on www.ztalkradio.com you can also download my show from the z talk show archives page. You can email your questions and comments to drdim@dimland.com

Please subscribe on iTunes! Just search for Dimland Radio in the podcast section. And if you could leave a good rating and a positive review it would be awesome.

You can also go to my CafePress store and buy stuff with my artwork on it and have me do a portrait for you if you like. Find out more here and here.