“U.S. Senate candidate Milton Wolf posted a collection of gruesome X-ray images of gunshot fatalities and medical injuries to his Facebook page and participated in online commentary layered with macabre jokes and descriptions of carnage.” http://cjonline.com/news/state/2014-02-22/doctors[...]
Posts Tagged ‘commentary by Roger Rabbit’
February 13th, 2014 - 2:51 am § in Uncategorized
Test Tube Fusion
Fusion energy research has reached a significant milestone, Nature magazine reported Wednesday. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory have achieved “fusion fuel gains exceeding unity on the US National Ignition Facility using a ‘high-foot’ implosion method.” In plain English,[...]
February 12th, 2014 - 2:23 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Was Shirley Temple A Communist?
Spoiler Alert: No! Absolutely not! Emphatically … no! Shirley Temple died yesterday. As we pause to remember her unique contributions to American culture, let us not forget that rightwing charlatans hell-bent on rooting communists out of Hollywood dragged her before a congressional star chambe[...]
Gov. Inslee Orders Moratorium On Executions
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has joined the growing list of governors who have imposed moratoriums on executions. Inslee did not commute the death sentences of any of the 9 men on Washington’s death row; his moratorium only gives them a reprieve while he is in office, so they’re not perman[...]
How Commercial Interests Are Turning Scholarly Publishing Into A Racket
“The monopoly on information is increasingly an issue for the scientific community; an issue to which making journals open access seems to be the only solution.” I don’t want to write a long article about this; that’s already been done. See, e.g., the links below. To summariz[...]
February 6th, 2014 - 8:02 pm § in Misc.
CSI: Huskies
According to news reports in several local media outlets: Incident #1: A man walking with his girlfriend near campus alleges he was beaten up by two men who got out of a car, asked him if he’s a Seahawks fan, and attacked him when he told them he is. Incident #2: A woman alleges she […][...]
February 6th, 2014 - 6:31 pm § in Misc.
Tulalips Get Authority To Prosecute Non-Indian Domestic Violence Perpetrators In Tribal Courts
Back in 1978, the Supreme Court ruled tribes can’t prosecute non-Indians for crimes committed on reservations, but also said Congress could give tribes such authority. (Oliphant v. Suquamish Tribe) Congress did exactly that in the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, which gives[...]
Flushing Out The NSA, The Old Fashioned Way
Back in the good old days before gunpowder, if you didn’t like your neighbor, the easiest way to get rid of him was to surround his castle and then wait for him to run out of food and water. Laying siege was much easier than storming battlements, not to mention more economical of human resourc[...]
December 21st, 2013 - 5:59 pm § in Misc.
Proposed Revisions To UW Faculty Code.
HOW WELL DOES THE UW FACULTY CODE PROTECT ACADEMIC DREEDOM? A proposal (see document) has been sent to the UW faculty to revise our Code to address protections for Faculty Free Speech. My own opinion is that the proposal is weak and may even decrease faculty rights. The UW faculty do not ha[...]
‘Does This Mean I Won’t Get A Nobel Peace Prize?’
Vladimir Putin is among the 278 individuals and organizations nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, according to CNBC. I’m not sure who nominated him, or what their motive was. I suppose you could argue that merely grabbing Crimea instead of nuking the whole of Ukraine in retaliation for o[...]