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Sci Fi Sausage, Beaker Bacon, Vat-Grown Veal, and Test Tube Tuna

In-Vitro Meat will be fashioned from any creature, not just domestics that were affordable to farm. Yes, ANY ANIMAL, even rare beasts like snow leopard, or Komodo Dragon. We will want to taste them all. Some researchers believe we will also be ...

From KATHERINE MANGU-WARD, Hit and Run,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Idi Amin

Torture!

reply to this Really? Because I would bet that just like Byrd, KMW did things sixty years ago that she now has come to regret. reply to this reply to this Only two comments. Let's try and get more. 'LOL, they should force the detainees to ...

From KATHERINE MANGU-WARD, Reason,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin

Stimulus Goes to the Dogs

At the top of that sign they should have put a dog pooping where the dude's shovel is. There's some job security. reply to this It was a shovel ready dog park. reply to this reply to this The sign says it's a tiger park, not a dog park, ...

From KATHERINE MANGU-WARD, Reason,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Eric Holder,  U.S. Congress

Infographic on Pot Tax Revenues

In May, Reason's own Nick Gillespie crunched some numbers (and perhaps a Cheeto or two) on the possible tax revenue from marijuana legalization. Now, some numbers along the same lines, in sexy infographic form! Try Reason's award-winning print ...

From KATHERINE MANGU-WARD, Reason,  17 Nov 2009

One Interactive Map "Created or Saved" by Stimulus

Observe! A map of all the news reports of miscounted, inflated, or otherwise non-jobs "created or saved" by the stimulus. Unlike the government jobs numbers, the full story behind each of the tacks in the map is available in a user-friendly ...

From KATHERINE MANGU-WARD, Hit and Run,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Wall Street Journal,  Boston Globe,  New York Times Company,  USA Today

The Ayn and Only

It's not hard to imagine Ayn Rand, author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, at the Tea Party rallies that swept the nation this summer. She'd be smoking, of course. Stalking around in a cape and sensible shoes, this avatar of individual ...

From KATHERINE MANGU-WARD, Reason,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ayn Rand,  U.S. Republican Party,  John Galt,  Cecil B. DeMille,  Whittaker Chambers

Warning: Vending Machine Snacks Have Calories

I ask this question rhetorically: DEAR GOD! WILL THEY FUCKING EVER STOP? reply to this reply to this More tyranny in the UK: According to an article in the Daily Mail, school authorities pretended a teacher had been attacked, let students ...

From KATHERINE MANGU-WARD, Hit and Run,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rachel Corrie,  Nancy Grace,  Thomas Sowell,  Burger King

Connecticut Politicians Play Solitaire, Talk Smack

Voters “expect their elected officials to represent their interests, not be preoccupied with putting the red five on the black six reply to this Kind of brings back memories of my schooldays. I sat in the back row, of course, so nobody could ...

From KATHERINE MANGU-WARD, Hit and Run,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party

Getting Virginia Off the Sauce

Ask an immigrant to tell you about her first impressions of America—especially someone who hails from a communist or socialist state—and eventually she’ll get to the part about the grocery store. After a lifetime of empty shelves, poor selection, ...

From KATHERINE MANGU-WARD, Reason,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company,  Safeway Inc.,  Kroger,  U.S. Republican Party,  Bob McDonnell

Americans Not Hopeful

A new Pew poll finds that Americans are feeling very "meh" about political goings-on these days. Says Pew: Two-thirds of the public is dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country. Fully nine-in-ten say that national economic ...

From KATHERINE MANGU-WARD, Hit and Run,  11 Nov 2009

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