Unqualified Offerings

Vino kicked out of the Tour for homologous blood doping – injecting yourself with somebody else’s red cells. Okay, if it happened, he probably had help, so “injecting yourself” isn’t strictly true. I’m not sure why you would use someone else’s red cells instead of saving your own up and injecting them, though there’s a [...]

By Thoreau
So, I was thinking about the fact that the Dems insist there’s nothing they can do without a two-thirds majority. There are two problems with that sort of talk:
1) Even if they can’t over-ride a veto, they could still just refuse to pass a spending bill for Iraq, NSA spying, and other [...]

The Weekly World News, tabloidiest of tabloids, will cease to publish. They ran my favorite-ever headline many years ago:
KILLER TREES STALK U.S.
That editor earned her pay and more. I’ll miss seeing the News at the checkout counter, but that’s creative destruction for you. It couldn’t compete in terms of sensationalism or production values with the [...]

By Thoreau
Oh, yes, he does.
We’ve now reached the point where a defense of Hillary Clinton can touch on profound and important truths.  We live in interesting times, as the Chinese might say.

Post by Neel
I hope you’re feeling inspired to give to charity by Jim’s last link, but first remember to let your consequentialist rationalist side have its say and take a look at the Charity Navigator website.

Bob Murphy at Crash Landing has a typically interesting consideration of not just why but how altruism benefits the practitioner.

And if you cross her, watch out!
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