A couple news items on Texas's murder of Cameron Todd Willingham. First, Chris Orr points us to this video of Willingham's prosecutor, John Jackson, reiterating his theory that although we no longer have any idea if a crime was committed we can be sure that...
Month: October 2009
Apologies for the light blogging -- buried in blue books and other work, and was also lucky enough to see Loudon Wainwright and Richard Thompson at the Egg tonight. Regular.
Slappy Rodriguez will never get a hit in a big game. As so many New York sportswriters informed us, the Yankees would be much better off with a nice Scott.
Via Plumer, Stephen Dubner's attempt to preempt the many critics of their global warming arguments contains two classic approaches:We have a chapter in SuperFreakonomics about global warming and it too will likely produce a lot of shouting, name-calling, and accusations ranging from idiocy to venality....
The latest tear-jerker from Glenn Beck will remind some readers of that drunken idiot who cornered you at the last reunion and wasted ten minutes of your life describing, with.
Elisha and Miriam meet a boy at a Halloween party...
Yes it's shameful to give this story another scintilla of bandwith. So sue me.Seriously, as a resident of Colorado (the damned thing practically landed in my backyard), I'm going to be mighty aggravated if Celebrity-Crazed Dad and his Zombie Cult Wife aren't arrested for filing...
Via B&P, if the new Red Dawn doesn't have a plot substantially similar to this, I'm going to cry: Americans, thoroughly disgusted with the socialistic programs that have been thrust.
They seem like good series. Let's hope so, as the wild card round had 3 dogs (although the individual games were often good.)LA v. PHI Very interesting series, with very.
Though alerted by both emailers and commenters about this, I was hoping to avoid it. But then, via Patterico (who deals with it well enough), I saw the followup, and...they pull me back in. First, let's consider this, when Saletan responds to commenters who noted...
Shorter Andy McCarthy: "In a genuinely post-racial America, someone who compared NFL players with gang members would be allowed to invest in the league without controversy. And, yes, I do.
People who consider the victim's (understandable) desire to put her sexual assault behind her a reason not to punish her rapist in the Roman Polanski case may wish to consider.