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The decline and fall of Righthaven
Ars Technica has what should be the final legal chapter in the Righthaven saga: Looks like it’s time to turn out the lights on Righthaven. The US Marshal for the District of Nevada has just been...
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Benghazi was a symptom of a deeper problem
Mark Steyn almost forgets the humour in this week’s column: So, on a highly symbolic date, mobs storm American diplomatic facilities and drag the corpse of a U.S. ambassador through the streets. Then...
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Early betting line implies Vikings have gotten worse since 2012 playoffs
This is the sort of thing that gets pinned up on the locker room wall. Last season, the Vikings were a playoff team with a 10-6 record, including a win over the Green Bay Packers in week 17 that...
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Accused “SWATter” arrested in Las Vegas
In the Chicago Sun-Times, LeeAnn Shelton reports on an arrest in Las Vegas for computer-related crimes and (effectively) attempted murder by falsely reporting a serious crime at another address to get...
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Las Vegas, home to “the country’s most developed surveillance state”
Megan McArdle recently visited Las Vegas and her reactions were recorded pretty much everywhere she went: So this weekend, I went to Las Vegas for the first time. I’m not much of a gambler — I quit...
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A graphic novelization of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson’s iconic book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas has been re-imagined in Troy Little’s graphic novel: Related posts: QotD: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Accused “SWATter” arrested in...
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The sporting editors had also given me $300 in cash, most of which was already spent on extremely dangerous drugs. The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of...
View ArticleThis is how conspiracy theories begin and persist
In the latest Libertarian Enterprise, L. Neil Smith handily illustrates how conspiracy theories get started and why they can last for so long (the use of the term “false flag” is a definite tell): This...
View ArticleHotel security theatre meets DEF CON attendees in Las Vegas
Las Vegas hotels have a clear duty to be more vigilant about their security procedures, but the folks at the most recent DEF CON gathering were perhaps not the best-chosen group to try out a new...
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Las Vegas marks a significant loss
In Saturday’s NP Platformed newsletter, Colby Cosh notes the death of Siegfried Fischbacher, better known as half of the stage magic team Siegfried & Roy: … Las Vegas, as we all know, is a special...
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Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I first read Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in the late 1970s and being as callow and inexperienced as most teenagers, I took it for a mostly factual exploit (along with many older readers who didn’t...
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Gambling machines have come a long way from the “one-armed bandit” days
This is another reader book review for Scott Alexander’s Astral Codex Ten, looking at Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll. I’m incredibly risk-averse, so I’ve never...
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