Man Burned by Burning Man Can’t Sue Festival
“The risk of injury to those who voluntarily decide to partake in the commemorative ritual at Burning Man is self-evident,” Justice Ignazio Ruvolo wrote.
…”if there ever was a case to apply the assumption of risk doctrine, this is it. This is person who was a well-educated man and experienced with the festival and appreciated the danger, who voluntarily exposed himself to a much higher degree of risk by walking into the Burning Man.”
Using mind control techniques developed on his home planet, Obama has unleashed an army of seductresses in order to eliminate the men who stand in the way of his reelection in 2012. Based on the timing of the Sanford and Ensign affairs, it appears he launched the offensive before the first primary of 2008.
I know this seems like a far-fetched theory, but it will seem a lot more plausible should Huckabee or Pawlenty ever hold the confessional press conference.
Physics discussion ends in skateboard attack
A homeless man is on trial in San Mateo County on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics, authorities said Wednesday.
From Bad Astronomy, where Phil Plait and his commenters are having fun.
The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna.
By trying to help dolphins, groups like Greenpeace caused one of the worst marine ecological disasters of all time.
This post took 2nd place in the Three Quarks Daily 2009 Prize in Science, with the comment
It’s a fine example of one of what I consider to be one of the most important lessons of science: that emotional moralization can lead to outcomes that are morally worse than those based on hard-headed analyses.
