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WE CAN DREAM – FROM DAILY STAR:   Devices plugged into people’s skulls are being developed, funded by the US military’s research division DARPA.  These implants will use electronic pulses to alter the chemicals in people’s brains in a process called “deep brain stimulation”.  This will then change people’s moods and is believed to be able to treat mental illness and provide therapy.  Artificial intelligence in implants will detect and study the brain to know what pulses to send – described by scientists as a "window on the brain".   DARPA has handed the cash to teams from the University of California and Massachusetts General Hospital.  Do you think this can eliminate liberalism? 

LOYALTY – FROM FOX:   A German man took parking lot forgetfulness to a whole new level — misplacing his Volkswagen for 20 years.  The unidentified 76-year-old reported to Frankfurt police back in 1997 that his Passat had been pilfered, but it turns out he had merely forgotten where he parked the car, the Augsburger Allgemeine reported.  He was finally reunited with the long-lost automobile, which was found rusting away in the garage of an industrial building slated to be demolished.  Police were able to track down the owner and reunite him with the vehicle, according to the news outlet.  Unfortunately for the man, though, the car was in no shape to provide Fahrvergnügen — or “driving enjoyment,” as described in an old ad campaign — and was sent to the junkyard to be scrapped.  I dunno about this.  Didn't the car have a license plate?  A VIN number?  Didn't the garage have attendants?  A phone?  This is a very strange story, but no further facts are provided. 

TEACHING OUR CHILDREN – FROM COLLEGE FIX:  CHICAGO – A “border studies” professor says she is upset with National Geographic for two of its reality tv shows which she contends exalt border patrol agents in various ways.  The pair of reality television shows portraying border agents on the U.S.-Mexico border and U.S.-Canada border could be considered propaganda, the professor said at a recent academic conference.  Anita Huizar-Hernandez, a professor at the University of Arizona, said editing techniques used in two television shows, “Border Wars” and “Border Security: Canada’s Front Line,” help perpetuate popular stereotypes that have emerged about the two borders.    Yeah, those border patrol agents really are a threat to civilization.  Must not portray them favorably.  The madness continues, doesn't it?

November 25, 2017