Monday Miscellany!

• How the War on Drugs shredded the Fourth Amendment long before the War on Terror came along.


• Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) explains that the surveillance state is absolutely as bad as Snowden says it is.


• "Be Strong, Be Wrong." Five people who did well by being absolutely wrong about the economy.


• Many ways you can tell that male privilege is a real thing. Save this for those who don't think it's so obvious.


• I somehow completely missed that Nate Silver (the statistics geek) is leaving the New York Times for a gig with ESPN. I'm guessing he'll show up on Keith Olbermann's show more than a few times.


• As you may have gathered from this post, I was at OSCON all last weekend. I'll write more on that later. First, I present to you the coolest presentation from last week, below. (This is what I wanted to work on for my doctorate, before depression basically shut me down.)
  
  

Gun control hasn't fixed Australia's gun problem

Gun control advocates will point to Australia as a model for gun control, pointing out that a Sandy Hook-style mass shootings haven't occurred since they pushed for mass confiscation of firearms and strict licensing of firearm owners.

That is true - so far.

However, these measures haven't done much to control Australia's out of control problem of gun violence between gang members. And I wouldn't expect them to work on America's gang violence problem, either, which, we must admit, is a much larger problem in terms of lives and treasure than the mass shooting problem.

So...now what?