Explaining ADD Meds

I made a Storify about Elon James White‘s excellent explanation of ADD meds: Continue reading

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Who Watches the Watchmen Watching the Watched?

Think about it.

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Is an Attack of Newly-Evolved Winged Wolves Likely to Occur Before the Weekend?

Read this Storify to learn the utterly mundane truth!!!

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Ebola Quarantine in Dallas

You should not panic over the first reported case of Ebola in the United States, specifically right here in Texas (albeit in Dallas, but that’s still Texas.)

State health officials have reportedly enacted quarantine procedures for members of the person’s family. This could lead to our other favorite subject for freak-outs, some sort of shadowy government takeover under the guise of a communicable disease quarantine, or total government incompetence, or some inexplicable combination of the two. I did a Storify to explain why you shouldn’t worry about that, either.

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About that Whole “Rape Prevention Nail Polish” Thing

These guys invented a nail polish that can supposedly detect date rape drugs. Some people were critical of it. I made a Storify about it.

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Greg Abbott isn’t saying much, and that can only help him

I made a Storify about Greg Abbott’s campaign strategy (major h/t to Andrea Grimes), which involves not saying much and doing a bit of gaslighting. Continue reading

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A Prosecutor Learns About Jail, Hopes We All Appreciate His Epiphany

As near as I can tell, Bobby Constantino means very well. The former Boston-area prosecutor has some efforts to his name aimed at facilitating people’s exit from the big house, he reached out to the classmates of a Boston Marathon bombing victim, and he went to some rather extreme lengths to protest the initial handling of the George Zimmerman case. His recent piece in The Atlantic, however, is basically the epiphany of someone who spent years sending people to jail, but only just now figured out that jail sucks. I Storified some good tweets about it (if you can’t see it embedded below, go here):

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