The lack of appropriate zoning restrictions did not cause the fertilizer plant explosion in West, TX. It did, however, make the consequences of the explosion far more devastating than was necessary. You're welcome!
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As you may have heard, a fertilizer plant has exploded in the town of West, Texas. This town, the Czech cultural capital of Texas and home of a mighty fine.
Robin Williams can be annoying, but this is a wonderful reminiscence of the great Jonathan Winters.
Dear People Who Hold My Future in Your Hands, When you distanced yourself from this lowly history professor last fall for daring to use a violent metaphor against moral monster and NRA head Wayne LaPierre, this awful individual, one Glenn Reynolds, is the person who...
Even the highly popular, watered-down background check bill was killed by a Senate minority. I blame Obama's failure to use the bully pulpit.
And while I'm the subject of poor governance in WA, it occurs to me I haven't complained here about our new governor's terrible beer tax idea. I'm not an anti-tax.
This post addresses a strange and frustrating dynamic in WA state politics: the state legislature, in addition to providing zero dollars annually for public transit subsidies for King County Metro, routinely denies Seattle/King County the ability to tax itself for transit projects desperately wanted and...
Hmm, a nurse poisoned and killed a substantial number of patients. This proves that we need to end the scourge of intensive care "on demand"!
If somebody is trying to pull off a cut-rate imitation of the post-9/11 craziness, they seem to be succeeding. Of course it may well be a coincidence, and the kind.
Oh my: Twenty years ago, I paid a visit to Prof. Michael Broyde in his Emory University Law School office, to ask him to help me understand the Jewish legal doctrine of lashon hara–telling bad things about someone. I was interested in the relationship between...
Shorter Roger L. Simon: "Everything changed for me after the non-existent media blackout of the Gosnell case. I used to pretend to be pro-choice. Now, I believe that abortion is.
Amy Davidson on the creation of a "terrorist" "suspect": What happened next didn’t take long. “Investigators have a suspect—a Saudi Arabian national—in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has.