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Re: “Photo essay: A hog farm for the Buffalo River watershed”
Am I the only one who notices the irony of this story juxtaposed with this week's cover story? If you're going to sponsor a pork festival, you can't really criticize an expansion of the pork industry. Yes, you can be upset with where they're planning to put THIS particular farm, but you cannot deny that you're supporting an entire industry that is generally VERY hard on the environment. So... the ham calling the chittlin' bacon?
Re: “Backyard tar sands: Attention to Mayflower continues”
In the "Ever wonder what's under your house?" category, the Arkansas Oil & Gas Commission webpage below has a link to a Google Earth function called "Arkansas Pipeline Map" that shows the Pegasus route through the Lake Maumelle watershed and lots more (including gas lines and "product" lines, whatever THAT is! Hair gel for David Sanders?)
http://www.aogc.state.ar.us/Fay_Shale_GIS_…
(I hope this works the second time. Is there a trick to getting URLs embedded properly?)
Re: “A note in passing on the great Bob Lancaster”
I'll have to go check out that OK City Bombing piece, but it's hard to imagine that it beats Bob's "Jesus would turn the other cheek" column after 9-11. That was perhaps the single most impressive and incisive combination of words I've ever seen printed to paper. Check it out too.
Re: “UPDATE: Committee endorses Charlie Collins' bill to allow guns on campus”
@Steven E: I really don't see your point in citing that WA state shooting. Did this Creed fellow invade a *college dormitory*?
(I know the *band* Creed did-- to the detriment of good music everywhere-- several years ago, but I don't think any students or faculty were brave enough to carry out their duty to stop them with deadly force.)
Re: “UPDATE: Committee endorses Charlie Collins' bill to allow guns on campus”
"Opposition from colleges is near universal at the administrative level, though faculty members and students appeared today to support the idea."
Nope-- word I get from Fayetteville is that the UA student government association laid down at least three different votes that repudiated the bill. Likely, they know their fellow students too well to trust them with implements of destruction during the next kegger.
Re: “Fact: Guns don't make homes or women safer”
Kellermann has also been criticized because his dataset focused on high-crime areas (see other comments in this thread) or didn't consider whether the gun used in the incident was the one owned by the victim or instead brought in by an intruder. Here is a tidbit that addresses those points:
"Among those living alone at the time of death, there was no association between the presence of a firearm in the home and method of homicide. However, for persons living with others at the time of death, there was a significant association between the presence of a firearm in the home and risk of a firearm homicide among those aged 35 years or older (adjusted odds ratio = 16.4)." [Dahlberg et al., 2004, Am J Epidemiol. 2004 160:929-936]
That odds ratio means that for those of you who have a roomie or a family member in the house you are about FIFTEEN TIMES more likely to die of a gunshot wound than by any other means if there's a gun there! The lack of correlation for those living alone means that you're not very likely to accidentally kill yourself with your own gun, and visitors are not really likely to kill you with it either. It also means that people who own guns are not being killed by a violent intruder's gun any more than non-gun owners, so that can't account for all of Kellermann's effect.
Finally, I don't have data on this, but I think it would something of a stretch to claim that fewer people live alone in high-crime areas. One survey in Pennsylvania found many more single-resident households in big cities (Pittsburgh, Philly) than in smaller towns and suburbs.
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Re: Pissaladiere, the acceptable early morning pizza
We made an agreement, I'm stealing one of Roberts' favorites next week.
- on May 18, 2013
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Re: UPDATE: FBI confirms State Treasurer Martha Shoffner's arrest, apparently for official misconduct
Corruption, venality are bipartisan. Until recently, it went with the D party in Ark. Maybe…
- on May 18, 2013
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Re: UPDATE: FBI confirms State Treasurer Martha Shoffner's arrest, apparently for official misconduct
Another embarrassment for the Dem
Party. Sure wish they made a better effort to recruit…-
on May 18, 2013
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Re: “UPDATE: Nate Bell shoots from lip on Boston violence; Speaker Carter apologizes for him; Bell apologizes for 'timing'”
I, for one, am willing to cut Nate some slack by agreeing that it was simply bad timing: He obviously tweeted that comment AFTER his nightly snootful of hooch.
Careful there, Rep. Bell-- when you tilt the bottle, political correctness and other forms of dishonest couth tend to slide right out the window.