Conan Doyle’s Poison Pen and “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot”

Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot,” published in 1910, pivots on a fictional poisonous plant, radix pedis diaboli. As a third-year medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Doyle embarked on his own experiment with a toxic root, gelsemium.
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Award-Winning Teacher Fired for Reading an Allen Ginsberg Poem

Defenders of Connecticut teacher David Olio say one mistake shouldn’t have cost him his job. But why is the work of a towering figure of 20th-century American poetry out of bounds?
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Michael Jackson's Former Neverland Ranch up for Sale at $100 Million

Neverland, the onetime ranch of international superstar Michael Jackson in Los Olivos, is up for sale at $100 million.
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Mexican taxis promise to 'hunt down' Uber drivers

Uber, beware: Mexican taxi drivers will hunt you down. A leader of Mexico State's taxi drivers said as much. "We are not going to leave (Uber cars) alone. We are tracking these colleagues and hunting them down," Esteban Meza, who represents about 13,000 cabbies, told the country's top-selling newspaper, El Universal.
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Ted Cruz adopts a new posture on disaster aid

When Hurricane Sandy devastated the Northeast, Ted Cruz opposed emergency relief. In the wake of Texas flooding, however, he's found a new position.
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Stop Calling the TPP a Trade Agreement – It Isn’t

Trade is a good thing. But enabling companies to move $30/hour jobs to countries with $.60/hour wages so a few billionaires can pocket the difference is not trade.
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The Conservatives Who Gutted the Voting Rights Act Are Now Challenging ‘One Person, One Vote’

The newest challenge to voting rights would be a dramatic powergrab for the GOP. 
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