2015 archive
CSI: Reality 0
Even though CSI’s Gil Grissom kept saying, “Follow the science,” science has little or nothing to do with forensic evidence. Matthew T. Mangino reports:
Your doctor is telling you, let’s use this treatment, but “neither I — nor anyone else — knows if it works.” No way — the FDA, the Medical Society, even the National Academy of Sciences would never let that happen.
Unfortunately, no one is preventing it from happening on a regular basis in America’s courtrooms. The use of inadequately tested or assessed courtroom evidence results in offenders being locked away for years — in some cases for life.
Follow the link to follow the evidence.
It Was a Tesseract of God 0
In Wingnut World, there is no such time as “yesterday.”
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors . . . 0
. . . unless the fences are bamboo.
I once knew a fellow who bought a house with a stand of bamboo in the back yard. He grew to hate the stuff.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Pump-action politeness:
The customer claimed the item–which police identified as a penis pump–did not work as advertised. However, the store clerk declined the return request “because [the pump] had been used,” cops noted.
After being rebuffed by the employee, “the suspect pulled out a black handgun and threatened the clerk” before fleeing from the business (without a new penis pump).
The fellow still has his ammosex toy.
And Now for Something Completely Different 0
I once heard Gene Kelly quoted as saying that the difference between him and Fred Astaire was that Astaire made everything look easy, whereas he (Kelly) made it look hard. Unfortunately, I cannot provide a citation.
Immunity Impunity
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The Grand Jury decision not to indict in the Tamir Rice case in Cleveland is, as best as I can tell, a perfect storm of excuses.
Blowback 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
“Like an Invisible Plastic Shield” 0
One of the things about privilege is that those who have it don’t notice it.
Twits on Twitter 0
Twitter promises to deal with trolls. A snippet:
Twitter reportedly plans to introduce measures that spell out to trolls that their undesirable communications have an effect in the offline world, as well as on the internet. By making it clear that trolls’ actions exist “in the real world” and encouraging victims to expose their abusers by publishing their names, it hopes to eradicate trolling and improve its brand.
Little boy. Thumb. Dike.
“Sinks of Iniquity” 0
Frederick Neuman tries to figure out what goes on ladies’ rooms to give Donald Trump a case of the wobbling willies. A bit:
“Getting Your Goat” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Kirby Farrell muses about scapegoating as a political and social force. Take a look at his article and consider whether anything he says applies to our political discourse.
I bet you find that it does.
Great Moments in Tech Support 0
You don’t have to make this stuff up.
