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Close Readings: Our glorious satellite, the Moon 26 Aug 2013 | 08:53 pm
A chart of science My brother recently forwarded me a spam email wondering if he had yet made his decision re: the important lunar transit. “To be honest I was hoping for some kind of contact from yo...
Friday links! Modern times edition 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Early 20th-century heterosexual Charles Chaplin When does modernity begin? Is it with the emergence of nation-states in Europe, as my high school social studies teacher insisted? Perhaps modernity ar...
Police body cameras in Rialto reduce use of force by 60% 22 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm
A fun police dog According to the Times, the police department of Rialto, California randomly required half of its patrol officers to wear body cameras each week of last year. During that period, off...
Combat! blog observes animals, isn’t useful 21 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
A bison in high school, when he had that haircut My father’s whirlwind tour of western Montana continues today with a trip to the National Bison Range. The best time to view animals is early in the m...
Close Readings: Keith Vaz on detaining Glenn Greenwald’s boyfriend 20 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
Keith Vaz, chair of Parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee (artist’s conception) The good news is that the United States was not involved in any way with the UK’s decision to detain David Miranda...
Combat! blog tramps through woods, isn’t useful 19 Aug 2013 | 07:32 pm
The woods There is no Combat! blog today, because I am taking my dad up to Seeley to run him around in the woods. You have to tucker him out or he’ll bark at raccoons all night. While I misidentify w...
Friday links! Birthday edition 16 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
I never thought I would live to see it, but people all over the world can use an electronic network to view pictures of unsuccessful cakes. Today is my birthday. I am 36, which means my opinion is no ...
Sidewalk funding remains Missoula’s most divisive issue 15 Aug 2013 | 08:29 pm
Soup kitchens notwithstanding, the most allegorically significant debate in Missoula politics is sidewalk funding. It’s boring on the surface, but once you peel back the layers you find several fundam...
Missoula city council moves to prohibit new homeless shelters 14 Aug 2013 | 09:35 pm
Without a shelter, a Missoula man is forced to stop being homeless. This morning, the Missoula city council is discussing an emergency measure to “prohibit new homeless shelters, soup kitchens and si...
Plaintiffs in Facebook settlement get nothing , but their lawyers get $2.3M 13 Aug 2013 | 09:09 pm
A Facebook Adam Liptak at the New York Times alerts us to a possible Supreme Court review of the settlement in Lane v. Facebook, a class-action suit alleging that Facebook violated users’ privacy wit...
