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A Border Patrol agent tells a colleague that drug legalization would reduce violence in Mexico. That’s obviously true. But apparently the agent got fired for it. If that’s what really happened, it’s an outrage.
Archive for January, 2011
January 24th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
If intelligence, rather than culturally transmitted knowledge, is the key to the success of H. sapiens as a species, how come all those lost European exploratory teams died, in environments where
January 23rd, 2011
Category: Crime Control
A woman tape-records the efforts of the Internal Affairs Bureau of the Chicago Police Department to discourage her from filing a complaint about having been groped by a police officer. Result: the woman faces serious prison time under the Illinois anti-wiretapping statute. This looks like extremely bad behavior by the Cook County DA’s office.
January 23rd, 2011
Category: Crime Control, Feminism
The comment thread on this post is open to anyone who opposes abortion as murder on grounds that a fetus (at the stage it is performed) is a person. Please either (i) confirm that the correct response of society is to indict and prosecute the mother who arranges it for capital murder (premeditated) (if you [...]
January 23rd, 2011
Category: Journalism (Online and Otherwise)
This month, the first baby boomers turn age 65. Somewhere between 5,000 to 10,000 people a day are going to be entering retirement for the next 15 years. I think this should result in a change in press coverage that will reduce confusion and save valuable ink and paper. Current coverage: Congressman Alltalk today said [...]
January 23rd, 2011
Category: Humor
I just noticed that whoever made the category indicators for this site used the British spelling of humour. As the newest RBCer, I may have been falling down until now because the only funny things I have posted have been from the states. So, here goes, a hilarious Michael Caine impersonation contest (Warning: Has a [...]
January 21st, 2011
The 200 economists who think the Affordable Care Act would be a disaster lack a certain heft.
January 21st, 2011
Category: Personal moment, Technology and Society
Kindle is a wonderful thing. You can download books from almost anywhere, it has an inbuilt dictionary, and its saves paper too. But it doesn’t give me the two wonderful experiences I had the other day. A friend had recommended that I would enjoy Anthony Powell’s “A Dance to the Music of Time”. I enjoy [...]