StrangeSox

Vandelay's work was much better imo

Any sort of sexual or racial harassment could easily fall under that type of circumstance.

How often is there a document, photograph or video of a crime? How often is a crime mostly "he said, she said" and reliant on the credibility of the witnesses? The idea that rape, beyond the evidence that some sexual act took place, is often "he said, she said" is marshaled out in defense of low rape conviction/prosecution rates but I don't see it as any different from a whole lot of other crimes which rely on the exact same sort of evidence. I put the scare quotes there for that reason, because it's brought up as a problem for rape prosecution but not other crimes. As I'm sure you remember, I do have my own larger issues with eye-witness testimony and why it's problematic, but given that most rapes are by someone known to the victim, those concerns are diminished.

good find, jake

It's going to be a long, long time before that's widely available and in all markets in the dozens of countries they sell games.

Slate links to RAINN's data, but I have no idea what data Enliven was using.

I read that, but I wonder where the enliven project's data came from? The Slate article says where they got theirs, but not where Enliven's comes from or why it's inferior.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 04:13 PM) I think you should substitute "historic" with "nice". You can find some nice houses in Oak Park for 450,000 or less, you might just be away from the center. Of the size that a typical Wright home is though? He was building mansions for rich people for the most part.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 04:07 PM) The Martin house is so much better looking than the Gale house, Rock I'm hoping you were looking at the Martin one the Gale house is pretty much straight-up classic Victorian, it was the 1890's before he really started on the Prairie Style in about 1900. There's an excellent, recently-restored example of the first of his prairie-style homes in Kankakee, the Bradley House. It was a restaurant for decades, became an architectural firm's office which ironically let it fall into disrepair, and was opened as a museum a couple of years ago.

there's a couple listed here: http://savewright.org/index.php?page=33 His stuff usually goes for 1M+. Considering the sizes of the homes, where they're located (e.g. Oak Park, Hinsdale), and that he's probably the most well-known architect, it's not surprising. One of my coworker's parents' own one of his homes.

A lot of crimes come down to "he said, she said." It only really seems to be a 'problem' when it comes to rape.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 02:52 PM) The problem is that the basis for doing so is completely ludicrous, as is the case here. We see great examples of this all the bloody time, usually by one party (in fact, often led by McCain) of finding spending items that, when taken out of context, sound hilarious. Studying pig farts! Smokey the Bear on a balloon! This is one that drives me nuts, because they love finding research that NSF funds (based on highly competitive grant processes) and then complaining about them because they sound funny. If you want to conduct an integrated advertising campaign, you put your ad in all sorts of places. Do you think that the sort of people who would be interested in ballooning would tend to be outdoor enthusiasts? I sure do. Compared to running a couple dozen more TV spots, this seems like it's liable to be as effective, or perhaps more effective, than other types of directed advertising. The US Army sponsored a vehicle in NASCAR for a decade, much of which it struggled to meet its recruiting quotas. This is how you conduct an integrated campaign, find what the people you want to reach are doing, and then make sure that they see the ads in as many places as you can. The Majority leader isn't arguing that this ad campaign is ineffective, he's not arguing that he has suggestions for better fire prevention programs, he's not arguing any of those. You don't see any evidence given in that link or statement. He's arguing that this program sounds hilarious and thus must therefore be wasteful. McConnell is the minority leader in the Senate, but, yes, exactly that. This wasn't a good-faith criticism of a program on the merits.

A (long) HLR article examining the Roberts' Court's distrust of the democratic processes http://www.harvardlawreview.org/media/pdf/vol126_karlan.pdf It does a really good job of linking the ruling upholding Indiana's Voter ID laws, which was based on speculative feelings about how the electorate in general might lose confidence in the system, with Kennedy's equally speculative statement in Citizens United that no amount of money would give rise to the appearance or existence of corruption in politics.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 01:51 PM) None of this is related to whether smoky the bear is doing anything to reduce future wild fires. Which is unrelated to McConnell's rhetoric, which was to complain about seemingly silly government spending that is essentially irrelevant in the context of the size of the federal budget because they will continue to demand that Obama make their spending cut proposals for them.

Father hires people to kill his son's video game character: http://kotaku.com/5972406/father-hires-in+...on-from-playing

well wikipedia disagrees!!!! they called it the "International Style" but I don't know too much about architectural art history so maybe that's just a subset of mid-20th century modern style.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 12:14 PM) I'm guessing with Chicago winters, there aren't a lot of places like that in this area of the country, no? There's the Farnsworth House in Plano edit: It's not MCM but it's pretty much all glass

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 11:53 AM) It is broad, when I think of it I'm usually imagining the clean angles, metallic frames and big windows more likely to be found where you are talking about. When seeing homes that style in suburbs it's a little jarring. I like the prairie home style from FLW much more in the Chicago area. FLW owns

fair point, that is another way of looking at the signals.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 10:57 AM) That's about the salary for park employees. I think the point stands. Just because it may be a miniscule part of the budget doesn't mean you don't need to question whether it's best served elsewhere. In the context of "we need to cut the deficit," it's absolutely stupid to talk about programs costing $30k a year while you're failing to offer anything really meaningful and specific that you want to cut. Sure, program efficacy should always be evaluated, but that's not what McConnell is doing here. He's talking about wasteful government spending in the context of the looming debt ceiling and offering up a program that's 0.0000000081% of the budget that no one will care about.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 09:48 AM) Well, I doubt we know about the efficacy of the program. Man-created wild fires are a problem in the western us. Is starting awareness as children more helpful than shifting the 200k to signage at parks? Would the 4-5 park salaries you hire provide more assistance in wildfire prevention? It's been $200k over the course of several years. That's one person making about $30k a year if that's the trade-off you're looking for.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 09:39 AM) While I think he's being ridiculous, he has a point if you look at the big picture instead of nitpicking his highlighted point. You merely mirrored him by doing the exact opposite in this ongoing game of reductio ad absurdum, because when you say 30,000$ a year, you'd be right if you only looked at that ONE thing. While he was pointing to that one thing, he was using it as an example of one of many, and you know that...and combined, they actually WOULD make a difference. Now, who gets to say what's worth spending money on and what isn't when it comes to their importance? I don't know. Maybe Smokey the Bear isn't important to you, but he might be to me. It all comes down to what's important. IMO, if you have starving kids in the country, and you're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on things like this, maybe your priorities are out of whack. Why he and the rest of the GOP deserve to be mocked is because it's only this little piddly bulls*** ($30k a year? seriously?) that they advocate cutting. they don't have the balls to start openly and strongly advocating for the trillion dollars in spending cuts they say they want because that would involve talking about cutting programs an awful lot of people like and depend on. So they focus on stuff that seems frivolous on it's face but is usually actually something meaningful once someone bothers to check what they're actually talking about. Volcano monitoring, anyone?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 09:54 AM) Perhaps it's because I've never really gone without (humblebrag!), but it's just sex. I could never get to the point where I needed it so badly I'd be willing to force myself onto someone. In high school/college was I pushy trying to persuade a girl? Sure. But never physically. I don't understand how you can get to that point. It's not really about getting the sex, it's about power and control.

Singletary to interview for the Bears job. Why?

New threat to America's budget: Smokey the Bear! http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/politics/gop-...key-balloon-cut Almost $30,000 a year! That's like half-way to eliminating the deficit, right?