Pat H

Pat H

TSA: your theater review for the week

Over at the TSA, another week, another edition of what they’re now calling Week in Review. Here’s what was discovered during the period between March 2nd and 8th, 2012: Firearms: 24 loaded; 4 unloaded 2 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints Over at the TSA…

The market speaks: advertisers say good-bye to Limbaugh (and others)

From last Friday: Premiere Networks is circulating a list of 98 advertisers who want to avoid “environments likely to stir negative sentiments.” The list includes carmakers (Ford, GM, Toyota), insurance companies (Allstate, Geico, Prudential, State Farm) and restaurants (McDonald’s, Subway).…

TSA: yes, again (or still)

X-Ray Photo, 1896. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. ) Another week’s finds straight from TSA’s homepage (for the period between February 24th and March 1st (otherwise known as St. David’s Day), 2012: Firearms: 21 loaded; 4 unloaded 3 artfully concealed…

Along came a spider…

A team led by Xinwei Wang, an Iowa State associate professor of mechanical engineering, has been doing some exacting research into the heat-conducting properties of spider silk. They have found that, unlike most other organic materials, spider silk is a very…

Oh, the places you’ll go*

We all have blogs we visit which have become a part of our daily lives (besides this one, of course). Here are several of mine: Lawyers, Guns and Money and Balkinization are two of my favorite legal sites. Dead Confederates…