Best Posts of the Week of October 15, 2017

Another busy week here on Lex Anteinternet, but with out the spike in views that last week saw.

Blog Mirror: Gun statistics — Should they be tortured or gently cross-examined? by Miguel A. Faria, MD | Hacienda Publishing

I don't know who Dr. Faria is, but his look at the statistics, and behind them, was very well done and very worth reading.  Statistics tell the truth, or lie, depending. . . .

My. . . that is a lot of hats. Second Liberty Load Drive, October 19, 1917. New York City.

Enough hats to make a hat vender cry. 

Yes, we have a thing for hats here. . . it's pretty clear.

Vietnam: Could we have avoided it?

 

We hear all the time that "we shouldn't have gone into Vietnam", but like a lot of things that "shouldn't" have happened, would it really have been possible to avoid?

The Army considers a new uniform fabric made out of that super high tech substance. . . .

wool.

Baaaa . . .

A Mid Week At Work Query: What is the meaning of your job, (or does it have one)?

Disturbingly, nobody came in and repoted the meaning of their occupation.

No place for boys. . .

or at least no officially sanctioned ones, anyway.  There will still be groups of boys organized without girls, probably largely self organized, and that's a problem.

 

The radical campaign against masculinity extends down to the Boy Scouts. . . and I wonder if it will end them?

And so our prize for splitting the GOP vote in the primaries last Fall. . . .

We elected, really due to the first past the post system, a Virginian to Congress last election and now the carpet bags are being packed. . . .

Why Learning and Teaching History, Real History, is Really Important

 

 In which we're visited by the adherents of the Lost Cause.

An example of what's wrong with American tort law. The Las Vegas Shooting. . .let the tort cases begin.

Let the lawsuits begin.

Lex Anteinternet: The Miracle of the Sun, October 13, 1917.

Perhaps the only really significant post of the past week.