Hitching a ride…
…in a pinch:
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US drops to second…
…in the list of the world’s fattest developed nations. Quick—without reading the article, what are the others? I would not have had a clue. I’m not even sure what I would have guessed—maybe Samoa (or is that considered a “developed” … Continue reading →
This is absolutely irrelevant but…
…I find it odd that the three doctor witnesses in the Zimmerman case (the first two for the prosecution, the third for the defense) were named Rao, Bao, and Di Maio.
Continue reading →The Texas abortion battle
As expected, the Texas House has passed legislation banning abortions after 20 weeks and placing other restrictions on the operation of abortion clinics, restrictions that supporters say are intended to protect women’s health and will not close down many or … Continue reading →
Should men* be allowed to opt out of child support?
For biological reasons, men and women are inherently unequal when it comes to their roles in becoming parents. To be exact, women become pregnant and give birth and men don’t, and those differences are likely to remain into the foreseeable … Continue reading →
Karsenty explains the verdict in the France2/al-Dura case
Now that he has lost the most recent defamation judgment in the long-running saga of his fight against Charles Enderlin, France2, and the famous al-Dura tape, Philippe Karsenty describes why the French “Court” of Appeals (scare quotes mine) decided against … Continue reading →
Cruz
The other one:
Continue reading →Our future?
Detroit.
Continue reading →Obamacare: well now, it seems that…
…it’s the honor system for Obamacare income subsidies. Oh, that’ll work just fine. Unbelievable. And yet at this point, ever so believable: The White House seems to regard laws as mere suggestions, including the laws it helped to write. On … Continue reading →
Today in the Zimmerman trial…
…powerful testimony that the screamer on the tapes was Zimmerman: A pleasant older man, Donnelly was introduced to the jurors as a physician’s assistant. It also soon emerged, however that he was a close personal friend of Zimmerman’s, and indeed … Continue reading →
Spambot of the day
Bearing-of-glad-tidings bot: I have to say, japan is going well. Well, if you have to, you have to.
Continue reading →Morsi supporters killed in Egypt: finding the truth-tellers* on that island
Many Morsi supporters have been killed by the military in Egypt—but why, and who attacked first? I don’t profess to have a clue. But when I read this I began to wonder (and by the way, the number dead has … Continue reading →