Was Alcohol Involved?

This guy had to be either severely over, or undermedicated:

Fik, 33, cut off his own p3nis during a Northwest Side rampage Wednesday morning. When confronted by police, Fik hurled several knives and his severed organ at the officers, police said. Officers stunned him with a Taser and took him into custody.

Let the japery commence!

Exposing The Lies

Barbara Stock writes about a very courageous Arab woman:

Within Islam, there is no greater sin than to question the teachings of Islam or Mohammed, and to do so is considered heresy and blasphemy and is punishable by death. Dr. Sultan is now a marked woman and no one is more aware of this than she. She now receives daily death threats but takes them all in stride. She is a woman at peace with her decision to speak out.

As she put forth one accusation after another, the two Islamic scholars had no answers. Their only response was that they didn

The Unexamined Space Program

Jon Goff writes:

If space transportation was as free and healthy of a market as most other markets, I don’t think anyone would care about robots vs humans. It would be so obvious that the answer is “depends on what you want to do” that nobody would even ask the question. The saddest thing about the mainstream robots vs humans debate is that it isn’t really a robots vs humans debate at all, but merely people arguing over who gets the pork.

Yes. Unfortunately, we continue to fail to ask that fundamental question: what do we want to do in space?

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