There really isn’t a way to humanely execute someone, so maybe we should stop trying.
Critiquing the rationality of public policy, ruminating on modern life,
and exposing my inner nerd.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
One Execution Botched, Oklahoma Delays the Next - NYTimes.com
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Where the G.O.P. Gets It Right
Republicans may seem like ultimate Scrooges. Many want to slash food stamps, unemployment benefits and just about any program that helps the needy. So they know nothing about poverty, right? via Pocket
Fresh looks at 'creeping ecological disaster' of U.S. grassland conversions
From the American Prospect comes a fine piece of enterprise journalism on the shocking rates at which native grasslands are being converted to row crops in a region stretching from western Minnesota across the Dakotas, Nebraska and Iowa. “Plowed Under,” written by Jocelyn C. via Pocket
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Monday, April 07, 2014
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
CIA's role in the arrest of Nelson Mandela
When Nelson Mandela died in December, I paid a lot of attention to the coverage. There was a lot about his long imprisonment by the South Afrrican apartheid regime. via Pocket