“An Epidemic of ‘Isolated Incidents’”
Radley Balko has finished and published his report, Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America.
The only effective treatment for Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s narcolepsy is no longer available, thanks to the risk-averse regulatory establishment.
You know what they say: if a regulation can save just one life (in six years) — who cares how many others it wrecks?
I took a cold shower a few minutes ago and now the water dripping in my hair is hot. Any more of this and the chemo-kids are welcome to my amber waves!
Seriously, do you know of any organization around here that collects hair for charity?
Will Wilkinson debunks the notion that private charity would be better spent to “leverage” government spending — in other words, in rent-seeking.
It’s well known that a vampire exposed to sunlight will catch fire. But what if there’s no free oxygen about?
One episode of Murder in Suburbia involves a mate-swapping club of four couples. (In this case, sex provides the opportunity but not the motive.) It occurred to me in my insomnia that, instead of drawing names from a hat, for a small fixed group it would be efficient to prepare a set of cards for the 24 permutations (or the nine derangements). Any of the participants could then veto a potential partner by removing six (or three) of the cards.