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Archive for October 5th, 2009

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Olympics

By Thoreau
BDB writes:
I find the whole debacle especially hilarious because it’s really not that great to host the Olympics, aside from being able to watch it live if it’s held in your time zone.
The Olympics is nothing but a glorified sports welfare scheme wrapped in uber-chauvinist nationalism.
Sure, but it’s absolutely fascinating to watch the teams [...]

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Smells like improbable cause

By Thoreau
You know how a cop can search any car/person/house/apartment/boat/plane/train/automobile/blimp/etc. he wants if he claims that a dog did something to suggest that it  might smell drugs?  Well, a couple  of bloodhounds in Texas reacted to the smell of a deputy sheriff during a murder investigation, and the guy spent 5 months under suspicion before [...]

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Alternate-Worlds SF

From supergee and Dean Baker.