When I heard about the proposed Egyptian “reform” which would legalize sex with corpses (of recently deceased spouses, although of course multiple spouses might mean multiple corpses), my initial reaction was “Talk about stiff!” Nyuk nyuk. But maybe I shouldn’t have been so flippant. After all, this is a serious legal reform in a supposedly progressive, [...]

One of my computers has been behaving erratically. Not erotically, mind you, although it does get plenty “hot.” What will happen is that suddenly, for no apparent reason, the screen will go black, and at exactly the same time the CPU fan (or the case fan or some loud fan) will just explode in a [...]

M. Simon sent me a link to a report about an Occupy rally which has me puzzled: Multiple speakers preached explicit violence at the Occupy The Justice Department rally in Washington DC Tuesday.  Speeches at this event were focused on Trayvon Martin and freedom for radical journalist and convicted cop killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal. Typical leftie fringe. Nothing surprising [...]

This sort of thing has become all too typical of the Obama administration: “Kids may be banned from even the most simplest of farm related tasks and experiences“: The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from [...]

A million dollars is a lot of money to pay someone for “proof” of someone else’s non-virginity, but that’s what’s considered a hot news item today. Apparently, a lot of people are so irritated over the claim that football star Tim Tebow is a virgin, that disproving it has become some sort of cause. While [...]

Is hiring a gay spokesman “not conservative“? I don’t know. Some self appointed spokesmen for conservatism seem to think that it isn’t. And some of them are screaming loudly that Romney should be made to atone. So what is “conservative”? As a libertarian, am I supposed to care? Should I be battling to be able to [...]

I’m not feeling especially creative right now. The one cup of coffee I have had did little more to inspire me to click on a news site, and I chose the SF Chronicle only because earlier I perused Joel Kotkin’s WSJ piece about the “The Great California Exodus,” so as the Chuck Berry line goes, [...]

In celebration of a dishonest and manipulative occasion for a “day,”  here’s the “If I Wanted America to Fail” video. I agree with Roger L. Simon that it deserves to go viral. Aren’t environmentalists lovely?

This morning I read that a woman was arrested in San Francisco for biting another woman in a dispute over a parking place: San Francisco police arrested Sara Gillan, accusing her of biting another woman over a parking spot around 6 p.m. Tuesday on Jennings Street in The Bayview. Police said the fight began when [...]

This is sad. San Francisco’s legendary Sam Wo restaurant (which I’ve written about before and which was home to the “world’s rudest, worst, most insulting waiter” — the famed Edsel Ford Fong) is closing. It’s 106 years old and the main reason it is being closed is because it would cost too much to bring it up [...]

While I’ve got better stuff to do with my life than call giant unaccountable corporations and get lost in their user-unfriendly maze of rerecorded promptings and customer “service” voice mail dead-ends  asking me to leave messages, I was so annoyed by the post Glenn Reynolds linked earlier that it’s what I wasted at least a [...]

I’m so sorry to see that Dick Clark died. The man was a giant as well as a family friend. I grew up in Philadelphia and I was thrilled to meet him when I was a kid and he was doing the American Bandstand thing. Some of my fondest memories are from when I was [...]

As regular readers know, I don’t like the war on drugs, and I don’t like the welfare system. Both seem intractably embedded in our national psyche, though, and getting rid of either is politically impossible. All attempts at reform are, it seems, doomed to perpetual failure. What worries me is the way dislike of the [...]

Regular commenter Frank just emailed me about the latest in what has become all too standard police practice in America. Shooting the family dog. On Saturday afternoon, a passerby called 911 around 4:30 to report a domestic disturbance. What the responding officer, APD Officer Thomas Griffin, didn’t know when he arrived minutes later is that the 911 caller mistakenly gave [...]

Oh darn. I hate it when I miss details, but late last night when I discussed the Secret Service prostitution scandal, and I failed to mention the evil root cause of their behavior. Those damn homos! It’s all their fault! They forced the president into repealing don’t ask don’t tell, and by extension, the president’s [...]

I’m having trouble keeping track of our, um, gummint offishuls. A few days ago, I complained that President Obama would probably ignore the growing clamor among Latin American heads of state to consider legalizing drugs. Which he did. President Obama and his administration and the Democrats are adamantly opposed to that, as are most Republicans. [...]

There’s an old expression that you can’t put the genie back into the bottle (or the toothpaste back into the tube). Governments around the world are working willy-nilly to prove that old expression wrong. So says Sergey Brin, as he explains why Web freedom faces the greatest threat ever: In an interview with the Guardian, Brin [...]

This headline got my attention. Naked Vermont governor almost eaten by bears At least, he says he was. No politician in his right mind would make up such a story. Speaking to the editorial board of Valley News in Vermont, the first-term Democrat said he noticed the bears in the back yard late at night, [...]

Fear of numbers is a fascinating thing, and it seems to permeate many cultures in different forms. A friend sent me a compendium of helpful hints the other day, and it included this:   I don’t think the information is accurate, nor do a lot of online skeptics.  But what’s more interesting than that is [...]

Via Reason, I just learned that a number of Central and South American leaders have had it with the war on drugs, and want to call it quits. Nice snarky headline too! You Are Now (Almost) Free to Discuss Ending the War on DrugsLatin American leaders talk drug legalization. Will Obama join in? On Friday [...]