Raconteur Report

First, H/T to the always excellent blog of WeaponsMan  , and in particular this post , for inspiring this follow-on riff. Read it first, or...

No word on when Texas will be training the French police on how to respond to these sorts of incidents, but the difference in outcomes there...

    As noted yesterday, Ebola is not, in fact, gone from any of the three most heavily impacted countries in West Africa. In fact, t...

Hi. Nice to be back. Fully and completely. I was going to spend my day off tomorrow coming back to re-visit the entire (and ongoing) ...

    Greetings, visitors and any faithful readers. Endless apologies for the continued delay in adding fresh content. Your patience w...

  Employment has resumed. With roughly four times the amount of grief, annoyance, and general PITA fucktardery as I experienced filli...

Over there someplace --->>> there should be a new addition to the blogroll: Hogwarts' School of Grid-Down Medicine . A...

Today's Lesson: Watch Your Step Fitness model, actor and reality TV star Greg Plitt was fatally struck by a Metrolink train in B...

My vacay was lovely. As will become apparent, I should have stayed there. (If you have the chance for two weeks on Maui, I highly recomm...

For the first time in two decades, I got the holidays off for personal vacation. (Seniority, or the gods of random fortune, thank you). ...

The real motivation for all that Ebola preparedness comes out: ( PORKVILLE ) - Senator Chuck Schumer on Monday called on U.S. secreta...

Kenema, Sierra Leone ( Al Jazeera )-  Massah Kamara sat patiently with her brother Momoh, her haunted eyes focused somewhere in the mid...

"Can I just get five more seconds in the spotlight? How about four? Okay then...three...? Speaking of Slow Learners, today...

GENEVA ( Reuters ) - The failure of Sierra Leone's strategy for fighting Ebola may be down to a missing ingredient: a big shock th...

Given the all but predictable info-dumps on the weekends, the latest: ( Reuters ) Liberia's elections have gone from on to off a...