unknown outcomes

Today I learned that the local paper put together one of those long, Sunday-morning articles about whether illegal immigrants clog up our justice system. I think what I learned is that no one really has any data that isn't anecdotal, so anybody who claims much of anything is full of it. Also, it appears to take the punch out of an article if all you can report is resounding cluelessness.

In other news, David Blaine has volunteered to see if he can make himself blind.