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provides an answer:
The NFL Films tape didn’t show the collision and didn’t show the ball striking either player. But by slowing the tape, Fetkovich could see that the ball had already rebounded by the time the collision occurred.
“That’s critical,” he said, because if the two collided before the ball hit, they would have already exchanged [...]

Halfway There – Alan Sullivan allows that, No, Iraq War Phases III and IV haven’t made the US safer “Yet,” but asserts
But Iraq is. The number dying there in the current unrest is a miniscule fraction of the number who died under Saddam. There were no cameras in Abu Ghraib, then.
I suspect he’s doing something [...]

New Tagline – Great idea, Gene!

Cavett Emptor – Gary Farber has a very good, fair-minded and rational analysis of the famous John Kerry-John O’Neill debate on the Dick Cavett Show in 1971. I understand there’s some interest in that kind of thing.

Dept. of Ne’er So Well-Express’d – The Putinization of American Life. Pass it on.

The Iron Dream – Another monument in Utopia:
The aide said that guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ”That’s not [...]

is the finest movie ever made. You have been notified.

boomer-heavy. U2 managed to slip one in at Number 10.

A Decent Respect for the Opinions of Mankind – I think the final degradation of our politics would be for some Republican, maybe Lynne Cheney herself, to respond that, Oh yeah? Well Jefferson owned slaves!
More Unamerican “global test” nonsense here.

Origins of Speciousness – Moira Breen continues to be your source for regular coverage of NAGPRA-related inanities. As Moira points out tirelessly, what’s happening is an attempt to legislate away scientific inquiry that would tend to undermine a particular set of foundational myths. It’s nothing but official creationism for American tribal religions. Anyone who opposes [...]