To this. Except you can’t. No selfie you will ever take can trump what Steven Keating achieved: [Warning: not (to me) gross stuff in the video below. But graphic. Front row seats and all that.] I love the utter commitment to the prinicple that more knowledge — even tough truths — is always better than …
On The Unbearable Lightness Of David Brooks
I know I’ve been mostly absent, and will continue to be so. (At least until this makes it through copy editing.)* I know as well that there’s too much to be talked about to waste much time on the utterly predictable. And I also know that what I’m about to point out is far less …
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong…
When a non-crazy parent — Alice Dreger — sits in on her son’s sex-ed class, taught by someone who thinks sex is, well… Read it and weep. A taste: The lesson Jerry wanted to impart? This: “You’ll find a good girl. If you find one who says ‘no,’ that’s the one you want.” He …
The War At Home
Via Vox, this information and chart on death-by-cop: A huge majority of the more than 5,600 deaths on the map are from gunshots, which is hardly surprising given that guns are so deadly compared to other tools used by police. There are also a lot of noticeable fatalities from vehicle crashes, stun guns, and asphyxiations. …
Appomattox Day
On which that genteel butcher Bobby Lee, surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant. Grant’s terms have generally been regarded as generous, to the point that the military leaders of the rebellion were spared the threat of criminal trials for the actions in defiance of properly constituted Federal authority. Looking forward, not back, …
Life Without Parole
So, as noted below, Dzokhar Tsarnaev has been convicted on all thirty counts in the Boston Marathon Bombing and (closer still to home), the murder of MIT police officer Sean Collier. Good. Now for sentencing, in which the grotesquely termed “Death Qualified Jury”™ will decide between execution and life without parole. Like an overwhelming majority …
So You Want To Win A Nobel Prize?
Excellent advice from one who did. Rule number two in this list of ten commandments goes beyond the needed snark (and the first principle, which might be called the Tao of science: the only way to achieve Nobelity is not to strive for it). This second principle actually says something dead on point on where …