Vol. 46 No. 6, November - November 2014
Index
- From Lincoln to LBJ to Frank Underwood: metaphors for the Obama presidency have gone from heroic to homicidal.
- Correction.
- Reaction.
- The Sultan of Sewers.
- You can never drive.
- 25 Years ago in reason.
- Forget the fudge.
- Sext offenders.
- Dollars, displayed.
- Quotes.
- Spy guide.
- Young dopes.
- Brew free or die.
- Firearm folly.
- Jail email.
- The state vs. MMA.
- A French judge has ordered blogger Caroline Doudet to pay 2,500 euros to a restaurant she gave a bad review to and ordered her to change the title of that blog post.
- A passenger from Wayne, New Jersey.
- Baby steps backward.
- Charter trouble.
- Former Independence, Kansas, police chief Kenneth Parker entered Alford pleas to perjury, official misconduct, misuse of public funds, and theft of property valued at more than $25,000.
- Jeffrey Duck went to a Veterans Administration (V.A.) clinic in Orange City, Florida, one day as a walk-in patient.
- Members of the Greene County, Tennessee, Industrial Development Board weren't using microphones.
- Some students enrolled at the University of Central Florida this fall have discovered a tiny problem with their housing assignments: they have been assigned to live in bathrooms and closets.
- The San Diego district attorney's office admits it keeps a list of law enforcement officers that it considers unreliable as witnesses in criminal cases.
- U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte has banned lawyers from using the word Redskins.
- Cabs uncapped.
- Guns anywhere.
- Term limits unlimited.
- Undocumented ads.
- Why capitalism?
- Must conservatives be cop lovers? Rand Paul challenges fellow Republicans to rethink their reflexive support of law enforcement.
- Government failure is baked in: welcome to a world of bird flu, corrupt contractors, and glitchy websites.
- Let's play God! Gene drives could be a powerful new tool to manage wild ecosystems.
- Smartphones vs. taxi drivers: regulators and entrenched interests scramble to cope with the e-hailing revolution.
- Colorado's shadow tourist boom: visitors can openly buy marijuana, but they still have to consume it on the sly.
- The lingering black market: illegal pot dealers still undersell licensed marijuana merchants in Colorado, but their advantage may be fading.
- My marijuana overdose: edibles are tricky, but consumers are not as helpless as Maureen Dowd implies.
- Video's Gutenberg moment: how the VX1000 camera revolutionized news, documentaries, and porn.
- The rise and fall of Aeroe: a Supreme Court squashes one possible future of television.
- The new presidential propaganda: imagery of the chief executive is more tightly controlled and carefully considered than ever.
- The new face of television: how murder, treachery, and mayhem made TV a 'vast wasteland' no more.
- Reconstructing the civil war.
- Post-halo libertarian paradise?
- Amber waves.
- Naomi Klein changes nothing: the laws of nature do not mandate a progressive paradise.
- Record holders.
- Cop or criminal?
- High frequency, fat target: Michael Lewis misses the competitive benefits of computerized Wall Street trading.
- Avant-GIFs: turning online animations into high art.
- The surprising power of subtitles: from Jesus on a bed sheet in Tagalog to Rasputin rapping in Ukrainian.
- Who armed Ferguson's warrior cops?