GrokInFullness

I see traffic from Russia, Sweden, Brazil, France, Germany, and lots of other countries. Don't worry, I don't see IP addresses or an...

I recently read the book Ensuring America's Health by Christy Ford Chapin. Listen to her interview with Russ Roberts on Econtalk to ge...

I wanted to do a little back-of-the-envelope calculation to show how much drug users are "paying" for their habit. One of the risk...

The private prison industry * and public sector prison guard unions tend to lobby for stricter drug laws and fight efforts to relax those d...

It's always interesting to see the reaction to various news events, like the recent Neo-Nazi demonstration and counter-demonstrations in...

I was going to write a post making a philosophical point about what it means for something to "cause" something else. It is very h...

In a recent discussion group at work, we were discussing predictive modeling and the “ false positives vs false negatives ” trade-off. As I...