A cement mixer has collided with a prison bus on the interstate. Police are on the lookout for hardened criminals.

I tried to persuade a fashion model to read a book on epistemology, but she was too clothes minded.

La potencia del fentanilo lo ha cambiado todo. También que sea barato fabricar y difícil de incautar. Su letalidad pinta un futuro sombrío.

Keith Humphreys recuerda: 'Las epidemias acaban solo cuando se previenen nuevos casos'

#EPFentanilo ahora mismo en La 2 y RTVE Play

'I don't favor going back to Prohibition. But letting the industry persuade us that alcohol is not a drug we need to worry about, and that we should tax it lightly and not constrain its promotion are bad policies.' — Keith Humphreys on Ray Suarez ow.ly/R3ti50RhlHP

Powerful Spanish television documentary on fentanyl in San Francisco features an interview with T Wolf 🌁
youtube.com/watch?v=EOiP3u…

A man was found dead in a vat full of falafel condiments. Police are treating it as a hummuscide.

Down with lettuce!

Many people vote to express themselves and to be a valued member of their group, not because they expect to have an effect on the larger world (i.e., they know one vote won't decide an election). A lot of political behavior is like this, including many protests.

I had great fun talking with Celeste Headlee about how we made a hash of marijuana legalization (also, she convinces me to be more anti-lettuce!).
slate.com/podcasts/hearm…

Been a long time since I read anything this beautiful. Well done Jeremy B. Jones

Good to talk with Ray Suarez about the rise of heavy drinking among older Americans.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boo…

'What Ray Harrell had was a reliable tractor and a fiery woman.He had a pat of cornbread waiting at noon dinner and an RC Cola every night before bed.He had kids and grandkids and great-grandkids enough to fill the house every Christmas. & that was plenty'
bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/o…

Anti-expert sentiment is less about denial of expertise in technical matters (e.g., jet passengers aren't asking the pilot to step aside and let them fly) and more about experts trying to cloak their preferences for how people should live as unassailable facts.

Happy 65th birthday to Dame Emma Thompson. Because of her dramatic chops, it's easy to underestimate how funny she can be. I love her as a daffy Duchess in Impromptu; review at link.
allgoodmovies.com/2020/07/04/wee…

Stopped at a red light in SF last month and the cars behind me just swerved around me and blithely drove through the intersection. It takes time after non-enforcement starts, but eventually people figure out that anything goes, and accidents, injuries, and death follow.

Some may see these findings as disappointing. We want to believe that sentencing reforms could take more credit for narrowing racial, ethnic and gender disparities in imprisonment.

But they are illuminating--and should help focus reform energy where it will have greatest impact.

I decided to memorize all the words in a random section of the dictionary.

So far, I have learned Next to Nothing.

I was raised as an only child, which really annoyed my sister.

Study of dentists find they say 'open wide' an average of 78.5 times a day. Jaw dropping finding.