Sex with sleeping woman was not rape because she wasn’t married, says US court Man’s conviction overturned because an arcane law from 1872 doesn’t protect unmarried women in such cases[...]
Archive for March, 2013
March 4th, 2013 - 11:01 am § in Misc.
Help for the Repricans: How to raise some money without raising taxes
A Stealth Tax Subsidy for Business Faces New Scrutiny Tax-exempt bonds, targeted for elimination in the 1980s, have not only endured, but grown, in what amounts to a large corporate giveaway costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.[...]
March 3rd, 2013 - 12:10 pm § in Misc.
Slur of the Day: Why are Italians in the US called “white?”
Guinea, Ginzo A person of Italian birth or descent. Most likely derived from “Guinea Negro,” implying that Italians are dark or swarthy-skinned like the natives of Guinea. The diminutive “Ginzo” probably dates back to World War II and is derived from Australian slang picked u[...]
March 3rd, 2013 - 11:28 am § in Misc.
From the Intertubes: A Better Way To Control Guns
CAFE HAYAK: Should gun owners be required to buy liability insurance? by Russ Roberts on January 2, 2013 in Crime Planet Money asked Justin Wolfers, Robert Frank and me whether gun owners should be required to buy liability insurance. One of these is not like the other and sure enough, two wrote in [...]
March 3rd, 2013 - 11:15 am § in Misc.
Slur of the Day
Wop (North America and UK) a racial term for anyone of Italian descent, derived from the Italian dialectism, “guappo,” close to “dude, swaggerer” and other informal appellations, a greeting among male Neapolitans.[202] Although this is the term’s original origin,[...]
March 3rd, 2013 - 10:23 am § in UW
Happy Dinosaur Day
MARCH 3 … DInosaur Day In honor of this year’s Dino Day, meet the Burke’s terror bird. (All birds are dinosaurs, but not all dinosaurs are birds!) Paraphysornis brasiliensis The theme of Dino Day this year is “Predators and Prey”—and terror birds were[...]
March 3rd, 2013 - 10:01 am § in Misc.
CORPORATISM
Apple has a huge problem. Steve Jobs’ image made it possible for Apple to pretend it was not a mega corporation … North Korea has a similar problem, pretending that it is a democracy. Both pretenses are shallow. The letter left on the desk of new Apple hires reads as follows, accordi[...]
RATIONAL REPUBLICANS: Does Bobby Jindal Have A Conservative’s Solution to Birth Control?
Could it be that post Romney there are rational Republicans? Contrary to Faux news and Rush Limbaugh, Romney did not lose because he was a bumbling ass or spoiled rich guy, he lost because the collection of radical Republican stands is irrational. Hopefully, I am rational .. though not a Republican.[...]