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The Wikipedia entries for politicians are a well-known battleground. Since so much of politics is attempting to define yourself in the best possible terms while simultaneously defining your opponent in the worst, the fact that reference materials are now "open source"...

I've got some daredevil in me - I've done a lot of things over my career that I look back at and wonder why I'm still upright & sucking oxygen. But this video frickin' terrifies me: This guy has to have gone over this course a dozen times before trying this; and...

I've got some daredevil in me - I've done a lot of things over my career that I look back at and wonder why I'm still upright & sucking oxygen. But this video frickin' terrifies me: This guy has to have gone over this course a dozen times before trying this; and...

This one comes courtesy of Dave Mitchell, at the tail end of another wide-ranging conversation. The article is "long as hell," but fascinating in that it describes how scientists are starting to focus in on how our inborn moral sense works. I had mentioned to Dave the...

This one comes courtesy of Dave Mitchell, at the tail end of another wide-ranging conversation. The article is "long as hell," but fascinating in that it describes how scientists are starting to focus in on how our inborn moral sense works. I had mentioned to Dave the...

As the L.A. Times seemingly stumbles towards an unmarked grave in journalistic Potter's Field, every once in a while it spits out something that reminds me why I will kinda miss the Left Coast Gray Lady when she's gone. Today's issue of the Times features a...