- An armed teenaged girl runs an intruder out of her family home. (H/T PT)
- Another scientific detective story, this one involving a volcano and an ancient European famine.
- Could it be that some of those very expensive pharmaceutical drugs that get tossed out every year aren’t really expired — and might still be good for decades?
- New Hampshire becomes the 22nd state to decriminalize marijuana. Not legalize. But after all these decades of Reefer Madness they finally figured out all those pot-possession arrests weren’t worth it.
- Pecksniffian insanity strikes at Johns Hopkins. Will this doctrinaire nuttery end before academia is completely gutted?
- Ha ha ha. Not enough women and people of color at Dunkirk. (Via Joel)
- Okay, then. If Mars is so tricky to colonize, how ’bout Saturn’s moon, Titan? As I recall, that one’s been talked about as a possibility since I was a pup.
- Former drug addict and thief returns stolen money five years later.
- “Zombies R Us.” This long piece by John W. Whitehead may not tell you anything you didn’t already know in broad outline. But it may give you some details that’ll chill those zombie bones of yours.
- Okay, since you guys are so insistent that I blog that sweet video of the dog rescuing the fawn from Long Island Sound, here you go. (H/T MtK and jc2k) My initial response was that the dog might have motives other than lifesaving heroism.
There were claims that man has been planning to put life on Mars for some time. I read Watkins’ book quite a while ago. I don’t have enough information to say it’s not true. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_15?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=alternative+three&sprefix=Alternative+thr%2Caps%2C193&crid=28814AEVSPGDO
Where do we go from here? If 22 states have now decriminalized marijuana, what happens if or when all 50 states (or even over half the states) decriminalize it?
Can the DEA continue to fight every state on this? Can the cops continue to search – and for what? I wonder if the expansion of “opioid” (whatever that is) drugs is not devised to take the place of marijuana eventually, as in dog-sniffing, home-busting, search-and-seize eminent domain situations.
I had come to the conclusion that the dog was acting on an instinctual drive to retrieve (being a retriever and all), but most people will tend to give a dog the benefit of the doubt in these types of situations.
Apparently, the body cameras police wear record from thirty seconds BEFORE they push the record button (clearly, these cops didn’t know that): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XMdJWhDfMs
The movies were right all along; the solution for “We the people” lies in attaining some brains!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcYH7G63yvA
Per the only infectious disease specialist in SW Washington. Antibiotics in pill form never expire.
Isn’t “Night of the Living Brain Dead” about a joint session of Congress?
BTW, it is not necessary to terraform Mars in order to colonize it.
The teen who chased an intruder out of the house needs some serious additional training. She was actually doing very well until she chased the guy out of the house and then fired a round into the ground. I’d be very surprised if she wasn’t charged with the last one, at the least. She actually endangered her own life and that of others by this behavior.
The story there doesn’t make it clear, but it seems she put the gun under her pillow (a bad idea) and didn’t bother to lock the doors… Another seriously bad idea.
And the blood thirsty comments at that guns.com site are why I don’t read anything there these days.