is going through some variable scope rage at the moment. PHP 5.4, seriously, wtf?

Direct action gets the goods.

Direct action gets the goods.

Your lunchtime linguistics: singular “they,” bound variables and the papacy http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4475

Public Safety (cont’d) “. . . The subjects in [No More Hesitation] targets were chosen in order to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training. I found while speaking with officers and trainers in the law enforcement community that there is a hesitation on the part of cops when deadly force is required on subjects with atypical age, frailty or condition (one officer explaining that he enlarged photos of his own kids to use as targets so that he would not be caught off guard with such a drastically new experience while on duty). This hesitation time may be only seconds but that is not acceptable when officers are losing their lives in these same situations. . . .” http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/19/is-your-local-police-department-using-pi Police officers put your life on the line every day in order to keep themselves safe — by making themselves ready to open fire, without hesitation, on children, pregnant women and “subjects with atypical … frailty.”

To-day at the Fair Use Repository: “Conjugal Bliss” by Miriam Daniell, in LIBERTY IX.4 (Sep. 24, 1892).

Book review by Shawn P. Wilbur for Reason: “A classic history of American cranks and radicals comes back into print.”

The latest Data-less Trend Story from the New York Times has made the astounding discovery that when a subcultural demographic is identified, partly, by the fact that they are young, then eventually they will get old. And when they get older, especially when they have kids, some people move out of the big city and into the suburbs. And when people move to the suburbs, they take their fashions with them. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/fashion/creating-hipsturbia-in-the-suburbs-of-new-york.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

is soon to be the proud owner of X-Factor #24, one of the greatest “oh, shit” moments in comic history.