December 22, 2015
- Grand jury decides not to indict anyone in the case of Sandra Bland.
- CBS edits debate focus-group footage to exclude Muslim-American commentary critical of American militarism.
- Are Shkreli’s antics—not far from Big Pharma’s usual practices—enough to bring the industry to heel?
- T-shirts already available to celebrate the Fed's recent interest-rate hike.
- Gas is at its cheapest since the Great Recession, thanks to Saudi commitment to more oil and lower prices.
- Related: Dare we say...cold fusion?
- We should aim for no carbon by 2100—simple, more inspiring, and soberly realistic.
- From Campaign Zero's year-end report: 1,152 Americans were killed by police in 2015.
- Comparing networks was mathematically intractable until last week.
- Greeting people with "Merry Christmas" bothers liberals because "it's perhaps the single most blatant reminder of just how religious America is."
- Year's best basketball dunk was performed in a nearly empty Ontario gym by a 23-year-old Canadian.
- Fungal highlights of 2015.
- The grime experience is inseparable from the pirate radio experience.
- Moving, sad radio story about a man completing a voluntary mission begun by his brother, the dental student killed this year in Chapel Hill, NC.
- Lenny Kravitz is in trouble for helping American dentists do charitable (but unlicensed) work abroad.
- Behind the scenes of Home Alone’s iconic (fake) gangster film, “Angels With Filthy Souls.”
- The Raffi article you never knew you needed; e.g., he doesn't like “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” because people are naughty and nice.
- The most Texan Texas lawyer commercial ever made.