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And if you are born with them? Too bad. Female US cop caught on tape giving two women body cavity search during routine traffic stop… and ‘using the SAME gloves on both’. Their suspected offense? Littering. Throwing a cigarette butt out the window. But the police officer suspects it is not an ordinary butt (evidently…

Damn, I’ve been so busy I almost forgot about the end of the world. I could have saved money on Christmas. What the hell is wrong with me anyway? Why do I always forget important dates? I mean, it’s not as if these ends-of-the-worlds are unimportant. I went to a huge party to watch the…

Across the political spectrum, and across the country, people want answers.  They say they want to know why Adam Lanza shot all of those children. And even though the incident is over and the shooter is dead, they say they want something done.  Then when they don’t get the answers they want, they supply their…

What the hell is going on? Is there some new sort of war against Christmas? I mean, just as I was getting ready to kick back and maybe relax and enjoy the season for a bit, it seems that an all out war against the Second Amendment is being declared. I’m not sure I’m in…

Overheard in the comments at Reason Magazine. ultimately we are still dependent on looting wealth from mother earth. Holy fuck you’re stupid. We loot from the SUN, you moron.

Richard Feldman sends me e-mails. One he sent me today links to this piece (read the whole thing it is really good) which asks: …school shootings, such as the nauseating and heartbreaking spectacle we saw yesterday, are seemingly on the rise — as are other mass shootings, such as that which afflicted Aurora, Colo. earlier…

Last Wednesday (while not looking for anything in particular), I stumbled onto a YouTube video showing a very cute animal eating a grape: My immediate impulse was to want one of these cute animals, and I wondered how Coco would feel about having one join her family. The slow loris is at the lowest rung…

Now that another psycho has flipped out and killed a bunch of people, there is a predictable groundswell of emotion with people blaming everything they can think of — from guns, to society itself, to video games, to a failure to have made the child victims pray — everything and the kitchen sink with the…

Think that’s the punishment for people convicted of first degree murder? Think again. In modern America, it has become a routine punishment for people convicted of certain victimless crimes. And judges have no discretion over whether to impose it, like this federal judge in Florida: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Stephanie George and Judge Roger Vinson had…

Warning. This is one of those posts which has left me more confused after I finished it than I was when I started it, so please be warned. I simply cannot follow the logic of either the gun control activists or the thought processes of those who get to decide who gets to be a victim…

A lot of the focus on yesterday’s union thuggery involves the attack on Steven Crowder and the AFP tent. But I just saw this disturbing headline: ‘Union Thugs’ Destroy Hot Dog Stand of Alleged Romney Supporter During Protest and Taunt Him With Racial Slurs. Going after a man who operates a hot dog cart is about…

This AP report on the passage of Michigan’s right-to-work law reads like a union activist screed lambasting Republicans for tampering with venerated laws of nature: LANSING, Mich. – For generations, Michigan was the ultimate labor stronghold – a state built by factory workers for whom a high school diploma and a union card were the…

The government can mint two platinum coins, declare they are worth $1 trillion each, deposit them at the Fed, and then move the money directly into Treasury accounts. Don’t laugh! Economists are actually endorsing this harebrained idea: …the U.S. Mint would produce (say) a pair of trillion-dollar platinum coins. The president orders the coins to…

It really is. Nothing like setting up the mike in front of Phil Lesh’s speakers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABCBE5N3Tio “Brother Esau” had a haunting quality when the Dead first started playing it, and it still does. I think the lyrics are good in their own right. However, they are typically subject to interpretation. (As typically as the long…

I grew up liking the American idea of the melting pot. At least in theory, people of all kinds of races, religions and backgrounds could come here and become assimilated Americans. Obviously, it didn’t work out for everyone, and institutionalized racial segregation and bigotry was an appalling example. But I always thought the theory —…

It’s December 7, the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and I’m glad to see it is being remembered. Recent events have caused me to worry that this country has still not learned the lessons of World War II, or 9/11. It’s hard to believe Pearl Harbor was that long ago, as the…

This speaks for itself, really: Hundreds gathered at Seattle Center for a New Year’s Eve-style countdown to 12 a.m., when the legalization measure passed by voters last month took effect. When the clock struck, they cheered and sparked up in unison. … Officers will be advising people not to smoke in public, police spokesman Jonah…

Anti-pit bull bigotry both irritates and intrigues me. As a longtime pit bull owner, it pisses me off, and that’s not merely because I am biased. I actually worry. Once bigotry reaches the hysteria stage, it can have a way of invading the lives of people who try to ignore it. There are a number of…

Reason’s Ron Bailey has an article I found fascinating: Study Shows Smart Liberals, Conservatives, and Libertarians Are Easiest to Fool We reason to persuade, not to find truth. The above problem has long vexed me. ….both liberals and conservatives displayed ideological bias when assessing the validity of the cognitive reflection test. When climate change skeptics…

Interesting news from Zhongguo: Party leaders will no longer be greeted wherever they go with cheering crowds, banners, red carpets and elaborate flower displays, said a statement on Chinese state media after a meeting of the new 25-man Politburo. The updated rules also ban dull, long speeches and fawning write-ups in the state newspapers, as…