An Illinois man is suing a local police department for “desecrating” his daughter’s ashes during a traffic stop. Dartavius Barnes was pulled over in April 2016, and handcuffed while cops searched his vehicle “without consent, valid warrant, or probable cause,” the legal[...]
Archive for May 21st, 2021
May 21st, 2021 - 3:11 pm § in Law and Courts
Road rager kills boy
A 6-year-old boy riding in the back seat of his mother’s car was killed by gunfire on Friday, May 21, 2021, CNN reported (here). Police said they’re looking for a “white sedan” and hope someone caught the incident on a dashcam. According the Carsurance.com (here), Road rage i[...]
May 21st, 2021 - 1:31 pm § in Science
A scientist wonders, “How much time does humanity have left?”
That’s the question posed by a Scientific American article published on May 12, 2021 (read it here). The author adopts a statistical approach, which isn’t quite satisfying, because it doesn’t fully take into account the, well, human factor. Hard to tell, actually, because: “W[...]
May 21st, 2021 - 11:05 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Meet Liz Cheney’s child-raping primary challenger
“Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R), who’s challenging Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for her House seat, acknowledged … he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18,” the Casper Star-Tribune reported on Friday, May 21, 2021. (Read story here.) He says, “So, bottom lin[...]