Paddling is not abuse. It's correction. Fatherly and teacherly paddling probably kept a lot of people out of jail over the years.
Political tactics: Chris Dodd
All Federalists will find this fact deeply depressing. That means that the Feds own them.
Via Tiger: Countries that use their banking systems this way don't get good results.
Powerline:
Isn't there something in the Constitution that says a Supreme Court justice can't be a pathetic whiner?
Weather updates - 1. Illegal weather. 2. Government as a source of "rational climate and energy policy"? Ya gotta be kidding. 3. From Watts:
Albert Einstein once said, “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” Einstein’s words express a foundational principle of science intoned by the logician Karl Popper: Falsifiability. In order to verify a hypothesis there must be a test by which it can be proved false. A thousand observations may appear to verify a hypothesis, but one critical failure could result in its demise. The history of science is littered with such examples.
A hypothesis that cannot be falsified by empirical observations, is not science.
Academic fraud in college: Your kids' grades
UK's tax rate to 61%.
The Holier Than Thou effect
The origin of life as ordinary chemistry. American Scientist
Human nature and economics. Dr. Sanity
Shareholder maximization. If a biz doesn't want that, count me out as an investor.
Penn and Teller on the neuropsychology of magic
Are the Repubs really dead in the Northeast?
Music as torture? They are actually serious.
Would it be so (via Phi Beta Cons):
University of San Diego Law School professor Gail Heriot blogs on a recent conference at CUNY entitled "Understanding and Combating Contemporary Shifts to the Right."
