Month: May 2011

Odds & Ends

It’s climbing season again on Mt. Everest. As you might remember, I’m kind of obsessed with reading about every death on Everest. It didn’t take long for a fatality to occur this year: An 82-year-old former...

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Stupid Republican, Stupid Democrats

What did Wall Street want to hear when Speaker Boehner appeared before the Economic Club of New York last night? According to Bloomberg, they wanted to hear that Boehner is going to raise the debt limit: “What Wall Street wants...

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Taser Int’l Funds Biased Taser Studies

I’ve long been suspicious of the numerous studies that claim tasers are a non-lethal, safe weapon, and that the numerous deaths of people against whom a taser was used had little to do with their fatal outcomes. Seems I...

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Women in the Tradition of Abram

. A very traditional view of women through orthodox doctrine of the Jewish faith … Hasidic Paper Removes Hillary Clinton From Situation Room Photo (Jezebel) – Der Tzitung cuts Hillary Clinton out of the iconic...

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