February 2011
Judge uses Obama's words against him - Washington... →
In ruling against President Obama‘s health care law, federal JudgeRoger Vinson used Mr. Obama‘s own position from the 2008 campaign against him, arguing that there are other ways to tackle health care short of requiring every American to purchase insurance. “I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at...
The Science of Libertarian Morality - Reason... →
A social psychology study explores the formation of the libertarian personality.
Libertarians are often cast as amoral calculating rationalists with an unseemly hedonistic bent. Now new social science research upends that caricature. Libertarians are quite moral, the researchers argue—just not in the same way that conservatives and liberals are.
The University of Virginia social...
January 2011
Schools Giving Tickets, Not Detention Slips,... →
Court has become a deterrent instead of detention for some North Texas students.
The social and economic group Texas Appleseed collected five years worth of data from 22 districts across the state and found young students, including a six year old in Dallas, who received class C misdemeanor tickets for things like disrupting class, leaving school early and school yard brawls that didn’t include...
Bruins Tim Thomas battles back to be NHL’s No. 1 →
It may not always seem that way as he nightly performs miracles of athleticism in front of the Bruins [team stats] net, but Tim Thomas[stats] is human, and thus subject to the same frailties and uncertainties as anyone else.
And when you’re 36 years old in a young man’s game, you’ve lost your job to a 23-year-old rising star the previous season and you’ve undergone major offseason left hip...
who else can't sleep?
comeseeinsidemybones:
:’(
There really is no reason for me to be awake this early….
I feel all porny this morning.
Taco Bell fights back on beef lawsuit with ad push... →
Taco Bell is launching an advertising campaign Friday to fight back against a lawsuit charging its taco filling isn’t beef.
The fast-food chain is placing full-page print ads in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times and other papers as well as online ads to “set the record straight”. The print ads say, in huge letters, “Thank you for suing us. Here’s the...
The Mechanic - Reason Magazine →
Jason Statham steps up
Jason Statham movies are often dismissed as brain-dead action trash. The delirious Crank andTransporter films would never be mistaken for one of the Bourne pictures, and the dreadful/hilariousDeath Race couldn’t even be mistaken for Crank. Still, Statham, who started out as an athlete (a member of the British national diving team), is a natural action star. His range as...
How Hulu Lost Its Place in a Netflix World |... →
Hulu is a terrific service. Who could argue with free, current episodes of prime-time TV on your computer? But for months now, Netflix has been eating Hulu’s lunch. And Hulu’s plan to fight backsounds more like a swan song.
According to the WSJ, Hulu’s role in the future might not be as an archive of network television at all. Instead, faced with splintering commitment from its partners and...