Is having amorous relations with a deceased ungulate a crime? Should it be?
The lawyer of a man accused of carnal activity with a dead deer says no, at least to the first question (registration may be required).
Hathaway called it a dead deer, Boughner said, not a carcass.
Glenn writes about a new book on traffic congestion
I’ve often thought that it is a massive economic waste. I also think that there are things that could be done about it that would be relatively low cost, and don’t involved construction of new highways or relaning the roads. As I’ve noted before, if I were king, I’d launch a massive public education campaign on lane discipline, and enforce it with tickets. I’d be harder on left lane hogs than on speeders.
Pete Fiutak thinks that Saturday’s game should be dubbed the national championship:
Not only have Ohio State and Michigan had the two best teams all year, there isn’t anyone else deserving to be in the picture. In the storied history of college football’s greatest rivalry, and it is college football’s greatest rivalry, this will be the biggest game ever played between the two. That makes this, arguably, the biggest regular season game in the history of the sport. So let this weekend be it. Crown the winner the national champion, and let’s get the talk about the 2007 season going. USC, Florida or Arkansas as the preseason No. 1 … discuss.
That’s the way it looks to me. The national championship is mythical anyway, might as well do what makes sense. But of course, that wouldn’t generate all the revenue that they’re expecting in Glendale in January. And of course, it’s easily conceivable that the computers will decide to do a rematch, anyway.
David Barash asks if we should be teaching evolutionary psychology.
Answer: yes, but carefully:
What to do? One possibility
Were nanotubes the secret of Damascus blades?
Now there’s a knife.
Now there’s a knife.
Now there’s a knife.
Contra Chris Mooney’s thesis
More than anything else, even the misrepresentations themselves, the collective willingness to overlook bad policy arguments unsupported (or even contradicted) by the current state of science while at the same time trumpeting the importance of scientific consensus is evidence of the comprehensive and pathological politicization of science in the policy debate over global warming. If climate scientists ever wonder why they are looked upon with suspicion among some people in society, they need look no further in their willingness to compromise their own intellectual standards in policy debate on the issue of disasters and climate change.