Day: September 21, 2018

Briefly, On “She Should Have Reported It!” cash bail

Briefly, On “She Should Have Reported It!”

Sam Wilkinson September 21, 2018

Donald Trump stayed silent for five days. Then he attacked Brett Kavanaugh's accuser.

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Animal Testing Was Never That Reliable, but Now It’s Pointless Too

Kate Harveston September 21, 2018

Animal-Based research is silent fraud, but new technology may be making this wasteful practice obsolete.

Interracial Adoption: A Mirror For Our Cultural Attitudes

Mike Dwyer September 21, 2018

Adoption is hard enough without the political extremes of our country making it harder.

Another Way to Soak The Rich? One-dollar bill shaped as a shirt

Another Way to Soak The Rich?

Will Truman September 21, 2018

Let's tax the rich and their million-dollar mansions.

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Who Gets A Chance

Sam Wilkinson September 21, 2018

In the aftermath of his attempt to rehabilitate Jian Ghomeshi, Ian Buruma is out as the editor...

Linky Friday: Knowing and Not Knowing, Wondering and Wandering links

Linky Friday: Knowing and Not Knowing, Wondering and Wandering

Andrew Donaldson September 21, 2018

Linky Friday is Ordinary Times’ Friday tradition of bringing you various links from across the web and...

Weekend!

Jaybird September 21, 2018

I have had dental work.

Jaybird in reply to Koz on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaSo your opinion on the tariffs is immigration?
Koz in reply to Jaybird on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaHow you feeling about the whole “Republicans are the party of fiscal sanity” thing given the tariffs…
Jaybird in reply to Koz on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaHow you feeling about the whole "Republicans are the party of fiscal sanity" thing given the tariffs…
Koz in reply to Jaybird on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaYeah, you’re right. I didn’t say “Trump is not even lying, he’s going to disappoint you, he’s not go…
Koz in reply to Jaybird on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaHas he shown up recently? I'm still here, barely. In fact, I just submitted a guest post which hopef…
Jaybird on From Marginal Revolution: o3 and AGI, is April 16th AGI day?The benchmark that makes sense to me: Can it beat Pokemon? 10-year-olds can beat Pokemon.
Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Apparently, a guy went down to the address and, when the lady who lives there came out of his house,…
Dark Matter in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Members of my extended family are homeless or headed there. They make terrible choices because of so…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The extent to which that thought is comforting compared to "the government is feckless if not malici…
Chris in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025One of the interesting things about homelessness is that we don't want to spend resources on people…