Monthly Archive: December 2018
Briefly, On Trusting The Police
The Hoover Police Department has been caught lying about Emantic Bradford Jr. on at least two separate occasions since having killed him. On Monday, it became clear that the HPD’s version of events remained seriously and intentionally wrong.
How To Pay For It
I’m against Medicare for All but I understand that many people are for it. There are various arguments in favor. But paying for it will not be easy. And supporters had best stop trying to pretend that it is.
Thursday Throughput
Does men’s dominance of Scrabble prove there’s no sexism in science? Eh, not quite.
Observance: George HW Bush Lying in State
“Cross-section of America” is a phrase that gets overused. In the lines snaking their way through the Capitol and around a rotunda occupied by the 41st president lying in state, it was made manifest. A living, breathing example of E Pluribus Unum, queued up in neat rows waiting to pass by the honored George HW Bush.
On Wanting To Serve
Your lack of service does not make you a lesser citizen or unworthy of respect. Your success is not tainted by what you think is a catastrophic failure.
Wednesday Writs for 12/5
Your weekly round-up of law and legal related links from around the web. This week: lawyer/dad jokes, genetic predisposition as defense of violent crime, SCOTUS updates and more.
Tech Tuesday for 12/4
Oscar Gordon brings this weeks Tech Tuesday with stories about Mars still being far from a routine trip, ISS is almost old enough to drink, the pinwheel of death, fun with hydrogen, cancer killing viruses, the fossil record, and more.
Yes, Virginia, We Can Block the Sun (Maybe). No, We Shouldn’t.
You are trying to balance two environmental disasters against each other, with catastrophe looming on either end.
Ordinary World for 3 Dec 2018
Your Ordinary World for 3 Dec 2019 with links to stories about Brexit, China, India, Pakistan, France, Russia, Japan, Canada, and Nigeria where the president has announced that he is not, in fact, a clone.
Thriller at 35
Just watch the video and bask in the sight of one of the 20th century’s great entertainers at the absolute height of his powers.
Stephen Hillenburg, Creator of Spongebob, has passed away
Spongebob is the character I needed but never had growing up.
