Watchingpolitics
LIVING LONGER
Statistical Abstract of the United States for 2007 published by the U.S. Census Bureau. All data for this post from this source. 985 pages of friendly reading easily available at most local garage sales for a dime. All speculation in the last paragraph are by Yours Truly.
Changes in life expectancies at [...]
Watchingpolitics
As regular readers of this blog know, I have been critical of Obama's health care proposals because he has been ...
The Supreme Court law clerk hiring season has begun. It is a pricey mating dance in which hiring bonuses for ...
bloat, Bloat. BLOAT. Going to work for Obama can be fun. i count 59 people ...
Last year, Gregory Craig made $1.8 million for his "work" at the Williams & Connolly law firm. Starting ...
Wired Magazine picks its favorite prison breaks of all time. Ordered chronologically. Tower of London (1597) Catholic dissenter John ...
Africa
SEX ADDICTION? NO SUCH THINGAllAfrica.com……………..Convicted serial rapist and ex-naval seaman Tsediso Letsoenya is a dangerous man with strong psychopathic traits.
This was the view of psychiatrist Dr Larissa Panieri-Peter, who told the Western Cape High Court yesterday that the 38-year-old married father saw himself not as a criminal, but as a victim of sexual addiction.
She told the court that sex [...]
Europe
TROUBLE AHEAD BECAUSE THINGS WILL STAY THE SAME, GET WORSE OR GET BETTERIn Spain, faced with plunging orders, merchants across this recession-wracked country are starting to do something that many of them have never done: cut retail prices. It prices stay as they are, things will stay terrible. If prices rise, more people will not be able to afford the ordinary goods that sustain [...]
