Some counties in Colorado are unhappy with the state’s leadership and are doing something about it: If all goes well for the denizens of Weld County, Colo., come November, there will be an item on their ballots asking them to… Continue Reading
Oh my not-God. I love this recent judicial opinion so much it’s difficult to even describe. An excerpt, describing the subject of the case, a fine piece of modern literature entitled The Silver Crown (content below the jump debatably NSFW but mainly… Continue Reading
Perhaps it would be of interest to the ongoing discussion about NSA accumulation of phone use metadata to see how some math gets mixed with metadata in a relatively simple universe. Professor Kieran Healy does just that (found via memeorandum) using… Continue Reading
For its national holiday, Portugal has selected the birthday of Luis Vaz de Camões, the poet who wrote Os Lusíadas, the national epic celebrating the voyages of discovery. Like many great artists, Camões struggled financially during his lifetime but has emerged over… Continue Reading
A couple weeks ago, I linked to an article talking about the PPACA’s Exchanges – the mechanism by which those with pre-existing conditions will be insurable. Rick Ungar said: Upon reviewing the data, I was indeed shocked by the proposed… Continue Reading
A Midwest-focused puzzle this week, in honor of our recently-concluded Leaguefest: Iowa has 29.40%, putting it far ahead of North Carolina (13.77%) and Minnesota (11.92%). No other state reaches the double digits in terms of percentage. Single-digit percentages, in descending order,… Continue Reading
Patrick is almost exactly wrong about The-Government-Has-Been-Collecting-Information-On-All-Our-Phone-Calls-gate: Look, people, you don’t want this stuff going on any more? Look up your Congressional representatives’ voting records and act accordingly. Your Facebook memes are useless. Actually, your Facebook memes are probably the… Continue Reading
It’s a shame we have to leave Leaugefest 2013 early. But so it goes. We’ve taken a whole week and most of it was with family. Family time is important but not always relaxing. Neither, as it turns out, was… Continue Reading
“We show, and the NSA confirms, there are no nuclear devices on the Canadian border. There are no nuclear devices in Albania. Albania has no nuclear capacity. Our spy satellites show no secret training camps in the Albanian hinterlands. The… Continue Reading
So, a weird story out of Texas: The verdict came after almost 11 hours of deliberations that stretched over two days. The trial began May 17 but had a long hiatus after a juror unexpectedly had to leave town for… Continue Reading