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Unintended Consequences
An unintended consequence of of having a nation with a requirement for legal due process during a severe economic downturn is that sometimes states can discover that capital punishment is just too damn expensive. Three states legislatures have done cost analysis capital punishment and discovered that the penalty is a luxury that they can do ( Read more... ) -
You know...
You know that your connection may be a bit slow when a download says that it will take 7,563,289,142,589 minutes and 28 seconds to complete (that is around 14 Million years). I think I will go get some coffee while I wait. -
Gift Horses
Over the weekend Gov. Sonny Purdue (Sonny is not his real name, he just prefers to be called it because because it makes him feel justified in acting like petulant child or some thing) announced that he might reject part of the stimulus money going to Georgia ( Read more... ) -
Mark Your Calendar
February 18th 2009, Hell froze over.
"It may be necessary to temporarily nationalize some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring."
-Alan Greenspan in an interview with the Financial Times. -
Sickness of Rabid Partisanship
James Adkisson was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of murder in his shooting spree at a Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee last July. Here are some interesting excerpts from his "suicide note". They require no commentary.
"Know this if nothing else: This was a hate crime. I hate the damn left- ( Read more... ) -
A couple of interesting news items
First, since there are a number of friends out there with tykes.Data Linking MMR Vaccination to Autism was FixedTHE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Another viral video for the lead up to "The Watchmen"
I am becoming more and more excited about this one now. -
An observation
Last night all of the Republicans in the House voted against an economic stimulus package that had been altered and watered down seven ways to Sunday in order to make them happy. The Senate Republicans are are likely to do something similar; I seriously doubt that they are going to attempt to filibuster it, but few if any of them are going to vote ( Read more... ) -
Daily Writing
Not sure if this can be called plagiarism, it is a story idea that my old roommate Greg-the-Druggy told me one day that I recalled recently because it is so funny. But without further pause ( Read more... )
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