Daily Archives: January 12, 2011

The Tucson shooting

I have deliberately waited several days before commenting on the events last Friday in Tucson Arizona.  My reasons for waiting were manifestly simple; I wanted to have more information. The earliest reports are always the most sketchy and the least reliable. Eye witness testimony is notoriously untrustworthy. (Consider that for decades we though the RMS Titanic was one piece because eye-witness testimony said is did not break up and sink, but merely sank.) Continue reading

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