Author Archives: Oscar Gordon

Bonus pay for teachers does not raise student scores. Interesting

who practice “reasoned discourse”

Are some things still worth dying for? Is the American idea one such thing? Are you up for a thought experiment? What if we chose to regard the 2,973 innocents killed in the atrocities of 9/11 not as victims but … Continue reading →

Interesting Thesis: (RTWT) Second – what about video games? This thought just struck me today – but looking at these charts, crime has been steadily decreasing since 1990 – about the time when video games were going mainstream and video … Continue reading →

Some deal with guns

Here a bit more here

Images of nuclear explosions – awesome, fascinating, and terrifying

on an industrial scale This works much better than PV cells since the fuel can be stored much more effectively than electricity can

At a gun store, go figure.

Regarding State Secrets privilege will hopefully be headed to the SCOTUS. More.  I like seeing Obama cheerleaders falling away.