2. August, 2003 - mixed bag

Savage man pleads guilty to setting car afire during U hockey riot and was sentenced to four months in the workhouse, three years of probation, and had to pay $500 to a state reparations fund. Sounds about right, I guess, but I think he should have had to pay some money to the gal whose car he set on fire, too. [strib]
With new members, Grateful Dead look forward, not back, and they’re playing with Bob Dylan tomorrow at Float-Rite. Don’t think I’ll be going to it, but it’s good to see the boys on the road again. [strib]
How To Understand Statistics and the questions to ask about them. [jr]
Marriage is more complex than opponents of same-sex marriages think. The article focuses on things other than sex that are important to marriages. But the whole to-do about gay marriage would evaporate if there weren’t real economic benefits to marriage. Because the government has stacked the deck for marriage (you can bring a foreign spouse into the country a lot easier than you can bring in a friend, your spouse can get put on your health benefits, pays fewer taxes on your estate if you die, and married people pay a different tax rate), there are good reasons to get married rather than just shack up. Without those government-imposed reasons to want marriage, wouldn’t jumping over a sword together do just fine? Or am I spinning off into libertarian la-la land again? [strib]
Here’s a handy list of the Best Bar Moves. You probably already know some of these.[some gal]