Use a Pellet Gun, Go To Jail
New Jersey resident Ryan Narciso could get three years in jail for having an air-powered pellet gun in his car, according to a story by Ken Serrano at MyCentralJersey.com: The gun, a Gamo P-23, was...
View ArticleWhen is a Sex Offender not a Sex Offender?
People are sometimes shocked that I’m wary of laws requiring sex offenders to register. How could I possibly object to alerting communities about rapists and child molesters? Because the laws are...
View Article“An honorable place to work”
Media mogul Ted Turner, being interviewed by Tom Brokaw: MR. BROKAW: You met Vladimir Putin when he was just an aide to the mayor of St. Petersburg. …most people see not in his eyes a soulful person,...
View ArticleRepublican Liberty Caucus FAIL
Radley Balko once again demonstrates his total awesomeness. Actually, Radley’s not all that awesome, it just that his opponent at the Republican Liberty Caucus of Illinois is incredibly stupid. He...
View ArticleA Warning From a Violent Man
Radley Balko points out that former president Bill Clinton has an ugly editorial in the New York Times. It’s the anniversary of the bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168...
View ArticleOf Whores and Holes
If you’ve ever spent time editing digital audio recordings, you know that they can become hard to understand when you compress them just a little too much… (The story follows a short commercial.)
View ArticleA Pleasant Alternative to the Things Unsaid
This bit of embarassment to my whole gender has already been shredded here and here and here, so let me just offer a constructive suggestion: Dear Anne, Congratulations on your wedding day. I wish you...
View ArticleI Am Not An FBI Agent
This is the seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, of which I am not an employee or representative: I am not trying to deceive you into thinking I am an agent or representative of the FBI, nor am...
View ArticleThree Badgelickers Explain Why You Shouldn’t Make Videos of Cops
Radley Balko has been covering the issue of citizens who take videos of cops and get arrested for it. It’s only illegal in a few states (including Maryland and Illinois) but that doesn’t mean you can’t...
View ArticleFive Half-Assed Ideas From Michael Moore
God, Michael Moore is such a partisan freak sometimes. Here are his “Five Ways the Democrats Can Avoid a Catastrophe and Pull Off the Mother of All Upsets”: 1. Immediate Wall-to-Wall TV Ads, Internet...
View ArticleIn Which the TSA Picks on Someone Smarter Than They Are
Jonathan Turley links to yet another story of TSA idiocy: The family was going through security when two TSA agents singled Drew Mandy out for a special pat down. Drew is severely mentally disabled....
View ArticleA Brief Note to Wayne LaPierre
Wayne LaPierreNational Rifle Association of America11250 Waples Mill RoadFairfax, VA 22030 Dear Wayne, I just received your letter of July 18, 2011 inviting me to your upcoming American Values...
View ArticlePow!
So, a six year old schoolboy makes the shooting gun gesture with his finger and the idiots at the Roscoe Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland decided to suspend him. They’ve now backed...
View ArticleICE Agents Got That Can’t-Throw-People-In-Jail Blues
My previous post on immigration discussed the Obama administration’s proposal for immigration reform. I wasn’t thrilled with it, and I laid much of the problem with the abusive use of power by the...
View ArticleBullys Beware!
The town of Monona, Wisconsin has had enough, and from now on, when kids are bullies, police will issues violations to their parents. As far as I know, most anti-bullying laws — even with the current...
View ArticleAnother Sign That the Anti-Bullying Police Force Might Not Work Out
A few days ago I pointed out that there is a certain irony in the fact that criminal anti-bullying laws would mean that the police are in charge of stopping bullying. Here’s another example of how well...
View ArticleStrange Anti-Bullying Messages
So bullying people into being anti-bullying…that’s a thing now? From Facebook: Yes, I realize this is not technically bullying. It’s more like wheedling or nagging or whining. But I thought the message...
View ArticleIn Which Bill Otis Laments That We’re So Soft On Crime
I should be finishing up the next part of my dissertation on Radley’s book, but for some reason I dropped in on the Crime and Consequences to see what Bill Otis was saying. He was on a rant: In a...
View ArticleIf Aliens Came…
Saw this on Facebook the other day: Well, yeah, we probably would declare the aliens persons and give them money if they also Generated all the energy we consume. Manufactured all the medical devices...
View ArticleDon’t Blame the TSA Shooting on TSA Critics
Saw this from Steve Marmel: Marmel’s contribution is these parts: Ginning up hate against the TSA and the government has consequences. Thanks, Tea Party. This blood is on your hands. Fuck you, Steve....
View ArticleGetting Important Information Out There
I don’t normally write about the blog marketing annoyances, but this one deserves a comment. Mark Bennett received a request from someone (I’m guessing this guy) asking for permission to repost some of...
View ArticleHow Should Ted Cruz Judge People?
I’m not going to try to defend Senator Ted Cruz, but… Because I hate unsearchable text in images, let me repeat that: “It’s interesting Ted Cruz is off to pay respect to the 1st South African black...
View ArticleYou Know Your Mayor Is a Whiny Little Bitch When…
He’s Peoria, Illinois mayor Jim Ardis, who is really thin skinned: PEORIA — Police searched a West Bluff house Tuesday and seized phones and computers in an effort to unmask the author of a parody...
View ArticleJim Ardis and the Abuse of Power
Via Radley Balko comes more narcissistic whining from Jim Ardis, the mayor of Peoria, Illinois, who is rapidly becoming famous for sending his pet cops to raid the house of someone who ran a parody...
View ArticleSelfish Billionaires
Divid Sirota at In These Times has a mind-boggling complaint about rich people: [...] Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced a $120 million donation to San Francisco-area schools. That donation came only...
View ArticleUndercover Colors Under Fire
Have you heard about the idea for nail polish called Undercover Colors that can be used to detect so-called “date rape drugs” in drinks? It seems to be just a concept for now, but the idea is that a...
View ArticleKirsten Gillibrand Put a Kitten In A Blender
I have decided I can no longer remain silent, and it’s time to come forward with my story: Last summer, on June 28th, I saw Arizona Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand place an 8-week old calico kitten in...
View ArticleProtests Are Not For the Police
It seems I’ve been taking a lot of shots lately at muddled thinking on the left, so I thought I’d try to balance things out. I often grab my craziest liberal nonsense from Addicting Info, and now I...
View ArticleA Brief and Admittedly Petulant Note to IFC Films and Dixon Knox at Brigade...
I just got an email that has begins with the following text in large centered print (only the last few lines matter for this post): IFC Films and The Fortune Academy Invite you to Join Former Inmates...
View ArticleEntire Brodhead High School Administration Eaten By Alligators
Here’s a stupid idea that just keeps popping back up, this time at Brodhead High School in Brodhead, Wisconsin:A small Wisconsin community is dealing with controversy over a lesson to teach students...
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