Nassim Taleb is right: The economy isn’t going to get better; it’s going to get worse, a lot worse.

Chief Justice Roberts has worked his wiles on Justice Kennedy.

This is fishy:

Officers then went to the Rainbow Lounge, which had opened about a week ago. They encountered two drunk people who made “sexually explicit movements” toward officers and another who grabbed a TABC agent’s groin, according to the police report.

That sounds like the unimaginative fabrication of prole males in need of a fast excuse. But here’s the giveaway:

No one was arrested for assault but about half a dozen people were arrested on charges of public intoxication, according to police records.

Uh, no. If you so much as lay a hand on a law enforcement agent, much less grab at his crotch, in what state do you not get charged with assault?

Chad Gibson, the alleged grabber, is in the hospital with a brain hemorrhage:

Police Chief Jeff Halstead said Gibson was the patron who grabbed at the agent’s groin. Gibson was so drunk he was vomiting and struck his head when he fell, the chief said.

So, on the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the police raid a gay bar where they encounter a man who was not only audacious, but also vomitive. What an unusual confluence of events! (I know that when I happen upon people who are hurling chunks, I like to stand close enough to them that they can grab my crotch! Don’t you?)

We all know that people can drink themselves sick. But as an RN, I’ll tell you what else vomiting is a sign of: a hemorrhage that results from blunt force trauma to the head.

I don’t know what happened in that bar. I just know the cops’ story is suspicious.

Happily, a Democratic congressman says the Senate will flush it — it being the cap-and-trade bill.

Althouse is running a poll.

Michele Catalano says we’re not mouring the loss of an alleged pedophile. We’re mouring the loss of our youth.

The cure or treatment that goes undiscovered might be the one you need:

The U.S. is unique because it alone is the source of half of world-wide profits that provide the payoff for the complex, lengthy, and expensive process of developing new treatments. When other nations construct their health-care systems, they ignore the impact of their pricing policies on R&D incentives. As the dominant R&D funding wellhead, we do not have that option.

Mark Steyn explains.

Guess who’s planning to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects? Oh yeah.

Justice Alito says it’s time to press 1 for English.

If all you’re looking for is a garden-variety pain killer, then no: You may not rummage through a teenager’s underwear — especially not when the teen is still in them. I would have thought that, of all people, principals knew this. Don’t they work at a school?