I would like to see something more done with this. I feel like we’re being told a lot more retail is on offer than we’re subsequently being shown, and that’s not fair.
While the plural of anecdote isn’t data, I think a key element missing here is that ‘animal rescue’ is not ‘animal supply’. The perverse incentive here (whether financial or emotional) is clearly that not giving away rescued animals increases the scale of rescued animal management – meaning more money, a bigger piece of ownership in [...]
If those parents really haven’t picked up a newspaper since the mid-80s they are about to learn some truly amazing stuff.
This stuff has parallels to race, I think: these parents comment upon how the school’s website has a special section on LGBT issues – missing the obvious point that, logically (and, indeed, probably actually), [...]
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik
The accelerating rate of incarceration over the past few decades is just as startling as the number of people jailed: in 1980, there were about two hundred and twenty people incarcerated for every hundred thousand Americans; by 2010, the number had more than tripled, to seven hundred and thirty-one. No [...]
Good fun.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor then writes, agreeing with Scalia’s trespass approach, but adding in a separate concurrence for herself alone, that actually anticipates being read by light bulb as opposed to flickering taper. Even though she’s looking forward and not backward, for Sotomayor, Scalia’s trespass-based approach is the better one: [...]
Clever.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/24/facebook-twitter-myspace-google-add-on
Facebook, Twitter and Myspace engineers have devised a software add-on for browsers which negates the effect of Google’s alteration of its search results to favour its own Google+ social network – with a piece of code they call “Don’t be evil”.
The move intensifies the increasingly bitter war of words [...]
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