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Archive for April 10th, 2009

Friday, April 10th, 2009

UPDATE:Great Cast in New Film Depicting Actual Drug War Abomination

By Mona
UPDATE: [These cities/theatres are, so far, where this Samuel Goldwyn film is scheduled to play -- not exactly nationwide. I intend to call the major South Bend, Indiana theaters (the closest "metropolis" to me), and ask for it. Please do same wherever you may live.]
Via Pete Guither ar Drug War Rant we learn [...]

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Desperately searching for one more sucker

By Thoreau
A bubble continues as long as there’s a sucker willing to buy.  Given that Bill Kristol is still alive (well, alive under definitions that don’t take brain death into account), any bubble would seem to last forever, except that even Bill Kristol has his limits.  But via IOZ, I learn that the federal government [...]

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Science Reading Roundup

By Thoreau
First, there’s a good discussion of Ph.D. over-production at DrugMonkey.
Second, Julian Sanchez has a nice post on appealing to “expert opinion.”
And here’s the first thing that came up on YouTube when I searched for “monkey physics.”  Just because.