The World Series wasn’t the only event in the majors to be postponed because of inclement circumstance. The crisis in the EU, originally scheduled to culminate last night, was deferred when President […]
Feel Better? Antidepressant Use Rises 400%, White Women Top Lists
Pill popping for pleasure pushes past previous records. Or so says the CDC in their report Antidepressant Use in Persons Aged 12 and Over: United States, 2005–2008. “From 1988–1994 through 2005–2008, the […]
Louisiana Bans Cash For Used Goods
After graduating from Southwest Paralegal College—a for-profit Lafayette-based school which has since vanished into the aether; suspiciously, even the Wayback Machine1 has no information on this august seat of higher education (its […]
Nazis, Communists Now Support Occupy Wall Street
Mr Obama said this weekend that Martin Luther King “would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street” but perhaps MLK would not want us to “demonise” bankers, even though those […]
Occupy Sacramento!
The movement began with a rally on the Capitol steps, then proceeded by parade to Cesar Chavez park, at 10th and J streets, where it mingled with the folks who had […]
British Judge Rules Against Bayes’s Theorem
A British judge has thrown a use of Bayes’s rule out of his court. Not only that, his honor (Lordship?) ruled “against using similar statistical analysis in the courts in future.” A […]
What Are The Chances Of War With China?
By the year 2012, or 2017, or 2022, what are the chances China’s military engages US forces? Difficult question. But one which is better than asking the title question—because nobody goes to […]
Occupy Wall Street — Guest Post by William James Briggs
W.J. Briggs is your host’s number one son. He ventured among the perpetually dissatisfied yesterday and files this report. A man poured a small bag of marijuana into half of an old […]
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