Actually, from Saturday and Sunday both.
Olympics
- Race and achievement and false similarities – Is it meaningful to note that the winners of 100m sprints are nearly always black?
- A happy Olympic ending for Shin A-lam – Good for her.
Politics
- Why betting on the stock market is bad public policy – California being a new example of that. Social Security being the next target.
- Censorship through copyright? – Why is the US government using DMCA takedown notices?
- Your Tax Dollars at Work (according to Larry Craig) – Bathroom expenses included.
- Bad Bar Graph! Bad! No Pie for you! – And, not surprisingly, Fox News practices bad graphic design to, coincidentally, make a (false) point.
- Money talks – An amazing proportion of SuperPAC money is flowing into our political campaigns from a tiny handful of individuals. They certainly think it’s a good investment …
- Someone from across the Atlantic on the odd religious nature of American politics – It isn’t so much the religion as how distant it seems to be from what the religion is supposed to be all about.
- Reconsidering pot – It seems like it’s only judges that have the guts to do so.
- Retconning the Clinton budget surplus – The problems the GOP has with history.
- Honor the dead, not the living – I really hate it when places and things get named after living politicians. No matter who they are.
Fun stuff!
- Get your ass to Mars … and leave it there – On the prospects of a one-way manned trip to Mars.
- Because they’re EVIL! – Cats.
- Curled Cats – Ours, in fact.
- Posted as a proud Humanities (history) major from a Liberal Arts college – On recreating dinosaurs.
- Southpaw – The origin of this sinister term.
- Up Chucking – Chuck E. Cheese gets a new look.
- Congratulations, and welcome to Mars – I was a skeptic that the Curiosity‘s Rube Goldberg landing device would work. I’m pleased to be proven wrong.
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