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On Misuse Of Powerpoint
If this isn’t exactly right I don’t know what else is. A good powerpoint presentation is the exact opposite of reading the slides out loud. Yet again and again I find myself in presentations where people do exactly that. It’s… Continue Reading
Taking Avatar Way Too Seriously
Apparently, there are people who have become genuinely depressed that the real world is not more like the world depicted in the movie Avatar. They want to live in a world of pristine beauty with a simple way of life… Continue Reading
Christopher Maloney is a Cowardly Quack (UPDATED)
It’s never a sign of the strength of your scientific idea when you have to resort to censorship to prevent criticism of it. Which is the first clue that perhaps elderberries do not actually provide any material protection against the… Continue Reading
Legal Xenophobia In Arizona
From Eugene Volokh, I see an interesting and highly questionable piece of legislation pending in Arizona: A. A court shall not use, implement, refer to or incorporate A tenet of any body of religious sectarian law into any decision, finding… Continue Reading
Wielding The Power Of Life And Death
Plenty of people, myself included, got upset when the Bush Administration reserved for itself the right to unilaterally engage in a warrantless wiretap. I thought it was an affront to the Constitution that the President, acting on his authority alone,… Continue Reading
Morning Reading
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi uses military airplanes to shuttle her family around the country without even bothering to go with them or providing any substantial tissue of even political necessity. Millions of public dollars used to provide for… Continue Reading
We’re Not Doing This To Make Money
San Francisco, 1981: Money quote: “It takes two hours at $5.00 per hour to get the newspaper, so the online newspaper isn’t going to be much competition for the twenty-cent version you can buy on the street.” That sentence seems… Continue Reading
Perhaps Not The Most Compelling Of All Reasons To Avoid Prison
In an opinion that demonstrates just how astonishingly deferential the “rational basis” standard for governmental actions can be, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has permitted a Wisconsin prison to ban inmates from playing Dungeons and Dragons or possessing any… Continue Reading
Barbarism
I’ve little more to add to the Unreligious Right than is already there — giving a sixteen-year-old rape victim 101 lashes with a whip for the crime of becoming pregnant as a result of the rape, and acquitting the rapist… Continue Reading