It was so nice of her to wait until she could guarantee a GOP replacement (via appointment by Abbott), since it was very possible a Dem would be elected to replace her had she resigned just a few weeks ago.

The French don’t go after nuns who continue to wear full body religious wear at the beach, also because their faith says that they should not be seen/show skin.

Legally, presidents are not required to put any of their stock in trust. The laws do not apply to presidents at all.

The data science behind it could be amazing (particularly looking at disparities between judges and jurisdictions, etc). As a data scientist, it makes me sad that so much data science is being locked up for profit.

It has also been reported that they made a Muslim woman wearing a competition swimsuit (like what the Olympic swimmers wear), because she was also wearing a bathing cap to cover her hair.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve seen the police clear away all sorts of protesters in a variety of ways. Perhaps the reason it appears to be selectively enforced is that when you tell most handbill hander-outers to bugger off, they do without needing the police.

It get’s worse. According to the NYT article, one Muslim woman “was wearing an actual competition bathing suit, like they wear in the Olympics, and a bathing cap, and she was taken off the beach.”

We’ll have to see. I would expect it to be launched under the Fusion brand, but the current Fusion site seems a bit to niche to meet that.

Gizmodo posted about the Earthquake a bit ago.

It is my understanding that in 2007 one EpiPen cost $57 and in 2016 two EpiPen cost $600, since they are now only sold in pairs, so that is why it is usually reported as a 400% increase, not 10x.

I read that they expect Teva to enter the market in the next year or two (and there are a few others working on auto-injectors), so they are increasing the price now to capture as much as they can before that happens.

This is one of the big reasons that inequality has grown so much. American workers are (though a mix of technology and “culture”) more and more productive each year, earning companies more and more money, but their pay rate has not increased to match these improvements in productivity, so the money moves to the top.…

Ryan Lochte tells people about being robbed, many people automatically assumes he is accurate and any discrepancies are defensible. His being drunk is used as an excuse for not knowing exactly what happened, but not as a defense for the robber. Is not blamed for not going to the police. Police are assumed corrupt.

Rape victims are expected to remember and be 100% consistent in their stories and are often automatically disbelieved. Ryan Lochte may or may not have made up being robbed, but is instantly believed and any inconsistencies are automatically defensible.

I think the implication is that with most crimes, the police start with the presumption that the victim is indeed a victim and that a crime was indeed committed. In many cases, victims of rape are dismissed by the police out of hand, and by the legal system as a whole. Even when there is an acknowledged assault, it…

From another case in Boulder (about 6 months ago)... adjudicated by a women that gave a guy even less: “I lack the mitigating circumstances of remorse on your part in this case, despite all that, I find that you have many redeemable qualities that could still permit you to be a functioning member of society in a…