"No one pretends that better laws would prevent all tragedies, but if that were the standard, then we wouldn't pass any laws at all."

On NPR last evening, the topic was the Aurora movie-theater murders, and the NPR host, Robert Siegel, invited WaPo's E.J. Dionne to comm...

"The first symptom is... this tingling sensation at the site of the wound."

"Like, you didn't have it before, all that time that rabies was crawling up to the brain. Usually the wound has even healed at this...

"Skunk that bit person at Maryland restaurant was rabid."

Oh, good lord. And I was just reading some Zagat article called "Worst Meal Ever: 21 Tales of Disastrous Dinners. " Most were abou...

"More than six years ago, John and Ann Giese stood at their daughter's hospital bed as saliva flooded her mouth and the rabies virus progressed toward its end."

"In every case to that point, if you got the virus without prompt vaccination, you died - usually within seven days of the first sympto...

Rabid.

If one of these things... ... flies in your window, while you're napping and brushes against you, don't just catch it in a towel and...

About killing that mockingbird.

Jeremy Freese is taking a poll about whether Truman Capote wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird." And I promise you I wrote that sentence...

Three signs.

Today started out lively with a two-hour class about the political question doctrine--with a room assignment screw-up to cut the seriousness...