Year: 2019

*Vinyl Is Poised to Outsell CDs For the First Time Since 1986: Sales of vinyl records have enjoyed constant growth in recent years. At the same time, CD sales are in a nosedive. Last year, the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) mid-year report suggested that CD sales were declining three times as fast as vinyl sales…

*EXAMINER–INVESTIGATES:  *Whole Foods CEO Says Plant-Based Fake Meat Is Bad For Your Health (But Good For Environment): The media may have fallen in love with plant-based fake meat like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods (who produce the Beyond Burger and Impossible Burger, respectively), but one high-profile super vegan doesn’t think the “meat” is good for anyone’s health. John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole…

*P.C. GONE WILD! – San Francisco Board Rebrands ‘Convicted Felon’ as ‘Justice-Involved Person,’ Sanitizes Other Crime Lingo: Crime-ridden San Francisco has introduced new sanitized language for criminals, getting rid of words such as “offender” and “addict” while changing “convicted felon” to “justice-involved person.” The Board of Supervisors adopted the changes last month even as the city reels from one…

*TMI: Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Change Underwear Daily, NewSurvey Says: Some 13% of Americans go a week or more without changing their underwear, a new survey finds. These skivvies are skeevy. Nearly half of Americans have worn the same pair of underwear for two or more days, according to a survey by apparel maker Tommy John. Out…

*Facial-Recognition Software Mistook One in Five California Lawmakers for Convicts: One in five California lawmakers were mistaken for convicted criminals in an experiment testing the reliability of facial-recognition software in identifying potentially dangerous suspects. Local assemblyman Phil Ting called for the experiment as part of a bill to ban the use of such technology by police and law-enforcement agencies.…

*NY University Gender Studies Department Publishes Paper Saying Milking Cows Is Like Sexual Abuse: The journal of one New York University’s Women’s and Gender Studies program has published a paper that insists that milking cows is comparable to “sexual abuse,” “emotional trauma related to pregnancy,” and “nonconsensual hormone treatments,” according to Celine Ryan, writing for Campus Reform. The paper, “Readying…

*Former MCC Inmate: There’s ‘No Way’ Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself: The following account is from a former inmate of the Metropolitan Correction Center in lower Manhattan, where Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive Saturday, and declared dead at a hospital of an apparent suicide. The ex-convict, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, spent several months in the 9 South special…

*Why Hasn’t War on Poverty, Welfare Cured Poverty?: When President Lyndon Johnson launched his War on Poverty in the 1960s, he pledged to eliminate poverty in America. More than five decades, several welfare programs, and $25 trillion later, the welfare system has utterly failed the poor. The poverty rate remains mostly unchanged, and tens of millions of Americans are dependent on…

*SHOCK – Less than Half of Students say US is Most Powerful Country: A new poll shows that about three in ten American college students say that China is more powerful than the U.S. The survey, conducted by College Pulse, collected responses from over 27,000 college students. Altogether, 8,394 respondents (30 percent) claimed that China, not the U.S., is the most…

*MUNCHIE MANIA – STUDY: 28% of Delivery Drivers Have EatenYour Food:  According to the survey of 2,015 Americans, some of which identified as having worked as a deliverer for at least one food delivery app, 20% of consumers suspect that their driver has eaten some of their food, which is charitable considering 28% of delivery drivers…