The National Transportation Safety Board has a proposal: Reduce the legal blood alcohol limit from the current value of .08% to a newly proposed limit of .05%—and save half the roughly 10,000 people killed annually by drunk driving on U.S.…
Month: May 2013
Too big, too small, and just right (maybe)
For some reason—who knows why; does free will even exist?—I made three exercise related new year resolutions this year: Run 800 miles Walk 200 miles Do a single run of at least 8 miles Too big: As of today I’ve…
Separation of church and state?
No; not here in Jesusland. On Wednesday, lawmakers in Washington turned the capitol into a house of prayer. Speakers included Newt Gingrich, Christian author Eric Metaxas, and one of our favorite crazy ladies, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota). Here’s some of…
Moderately Newsworthy: 19 Wounded in New Orleans Shooting
I just stumbled across a story in the New York Times about a shooting yesterday at a Mother’s Day parade in a New Orleans neighborhood. There was a time when such a story would be been BIG news. But not…
John Oliver on Gun Control
The Daily Show’s John Oliver did a brilliant three-part series on gun control in Australia and what we, here in the U. S., can do to ignore their results. John Oliver Investigates Gun Control in Australia—Part 1 John Oliver…
Coming Soon?
I’m in in the process of moving my FAS Talk blog from http://faseidl.com to this new http://talk.faseidl.com sub-domain. I’m also experimenting with using Facebook commenting for this new blogsite, so please feel free to leave comments! 😉 Also visit me…