Should children have the right to ask for their own deaths?
The known odds of something — or someone — living far, far away from Earth improved beyond astronomers’ boldest dreams on Monday.
The known odds of something — or someone — living far, far away from Earth improved beyond astronomers’ boldest dreams on Monday.
Well, that was an interesting coincidence, or a bit of fortuitous timing, or something. I came across this post when I started cruising the web at work this morning:
The rhetorical ground is already being set, with these two races its supposed proofs: look at how well Chris Christie did in a blue state! Look at how Cuccineli’s extremism lost us Virginia!
An excellent question at Forbes magazine:
All of which begs the question: if electronic devices are OK now, why have we been getting yelled at to turn them off for so long?
The answer is that we've been governed by regulations written back in 1976, when the dangers were more real:
She is, alas, destined to be disappointed by reality:
First Lady Michelle Obama held a news conference last night, where she predicted that one day, children would go out on Halloween and beg for healthy food instead of candy.
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USA Today recruits a Rutgers professor to parrot the moderate/progressive opinion that poor Marco Rubio got in trouble because he decided to be reasonable about immigration reform and thus pissed off the Republican base of rightwing whack jobs, and had to back off to appease them:
Should children have the right to ask for their own deaths?
Daylight Saving Time kicks in this weekend, so here's something to fret about:
It was just yesterday when I wrote about the "I know what's best for you" syndrome that tempts us all occasionally. Now comes a woman who could be the poster girl for the malady:
A Fargo, N.D., woman says she will give trick-or-treaters that she deems "moderately obese" a letter instead of candy this Halloween.
George Will: Obamacare is applied Bloomberg-ism:
The Indianapolis Business Journal has a long and interesting piece about the not-quite-dead-yet movement to shrink local government in Indiana, noting that Mitch Daniels, chief cheerleader for the cause, is still weighing in on the subjext:
Today's report from the Institute for the Obvious:
he eyes don't lie: Men really do look at women's bodies more than their faces, according to a new study that used eye-tracking technology to prove what many women have long observed.
But it's not just men who do it -- the study found that women look at other women's bodies, too.
How the all knowing and all powerful compassionate federal government is saving our children from the dangers of . . . postage stamps:
Well, we know at least one way they're compatible:
An Indiana woman who made a promise to donate one of her kidneys to a stranger has married him three years after his successful transplant surgery.
That extremist rightwing rag the New York Times says the Obamacare disaster might -- gasp! -- undermine faith in government:
Poynter explores a case of journalistic malpractice:
All suicides are tragic and complicated. And teen suicides are particularly devastating because as adults we recognize all that lost potential.
Police have had dashboard cameras to document their activities for some time. Now some have body-mounted cameras that can document even more:
Critics say the fact that the cameras have on and off switches raises concerns.
“Police officers might be able to turn them off when their behavior is questionable,” said Cheryl Distaso with the Fort Collins Community Action Network.
Some of the commentariat are giving Kathleen Sebelius a hard time for her "people who I don't work for" comment:
Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius responded moments ago to questions about whether she will resign in the wake of the Affordable Care Act’s problematic rollout. Her response is raising some eyebrows.
