Up next: The NASA sex tape?
Interesting new civil liberties projects by radio personality R.U. Sirius.
The Ratchet Effect: No, not Bob Higgs’ version. It’s a cool new game theory study, which paradoxically posits that consistently losing strategies can be stacked to become winning strategies.
Terrific (and really long) Rolling Stone piece on futility of the drug war. Long as it is, it still leaves quite a bit out. See also Jack Shafer’s endorsement of the piece.
I’ve been hard on Huckabee, so it’s worth pointing out when he says something agreeable. Or at least less disagreeable than what his opponents are saying.
Wired’s Chris Anderson dissects the inaccuracies and false promises advertised on one of my major pet peeves: blow-in magazine subscription cards. These things obviously work, or they wouldn’t be so ubiquitous. But I hate them. I believe I would subscribe on principle to any magazine that promised to take them out of copies sent to subscribers. No matter the content. Even if it were Giuliani Monthly.
And now…they’re coming for your salt. I was wrong. I’ve always predicted caffeine would be next. I’d still guess it’s in the offing. Maybe the public health crowd just isn’t quite ready to part with its Starbucks.
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My BS meter twitches on that NASA story. I just don’t think NASA could keep that sort of thing quiet. You know how those French authors make things up (see 9/11: The Big Lie).
I love the CSPI quotes from the salt article. People wash their salty foods down with beer, wine, or soda! And they add calories while doing so!
That’s the trouble with the people who look at cooking and eating as a science. In all their number crunching, it never occurs to them (or simply doesn’t matter) that people might enjoy a glass of wine with their dinner, and don’t care about a few hundred extra calories.
Does the ocular penetration act have intergalactic jurisdiction?
Here’s a fun game. Count the sexual innuendo in the NASA article, and then come up with new headlines for the piece.
Contemporary Prohibition…
Rolling Stone has your long pre-Repeal Day reading about how the Drug War has failed:
All told, the United States has spent an estimated $500 billion to fight drugs - with very little to show for it. Cocaine is now as cheap as it was when Escobar die…
My subscription copy of Fortune has not had blow-in cards for several years. I miss them, though, because I liked using the cards as bookmarks in the magazine.
That game theory study isn’t new; according to the Times website, that story is from January of 2000.