Har har
“An Orange County Republican Party official is defending an email she sent that portrays President Obama’s face superimposed on a chimpanzee with the words: ‘Now you know why — No birth certificate!’ “...
View ArticleDecisions, decisions
The Washington Post reports that State lawmakers are debating whether to designate a semiautomatic pistol as the official gun of Utah, despite protests from people who say they think it’s inappropriate...
View ArticleCorrection of the Week
The Guardian clarifies. This article was amended on 19 April 2011. The original referred to the Senator Jesse Helms as Jesse James. This has been corrected.
View ArticleBeware the danger that is the flat bedsheet!
Not very many people realize what dangers lurk in the quietly terrifying tool of death that is the flat bedsheet. Luckily, they have California Senator Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) to set them...
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Just a tad short on self-awareness?
A church north of Melbourne, Australia, is trying to broaden its appeal with a special service for fans of science fiction. The Reverend Avril Hannah-Jones said the service would “explore parallels...
View ArticleThe law is an ass. And so is Hakeem Jeffries.
The ire of little men in search of a big balcony: Mr. Jeffries’s outrage was set off by reports that real estate agents were using the name ProCro to peddle properties on the border of the Brooklyn...
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Tennessee criminalizes the Internet — with pics!
The Tennessee legislature just passed a law saying that posting images online can be a crime if they “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress.” The distress doesn’t have to be intended, or...
View ArticleA brief and unnecessary defense of Radley Balko
I want to be Radley Balko when I grow up, so it pains me when I check out how he’s doing at his new job with the Huffington Post and see partisan lunacy like this: Huffington Post needs to spend some...
View ArticleA hard line against a soft drink
Noted without comment: The Indiana State Police told a student working at the Statehouse on Tuesday that she could not bring a full can of Dr Pepper, packed in a lunch bag, into the building — despite...
View ArticleSOPA author is caught stealing someone else’s photo
Congressman Lamar Smith (R, TX) is the author of the awful SOPA copyright bill that is about to go down in defeat. Rep. Smith clearly cares a lot about creators’ copyrights, but not as much as he cares...
View ArticleMike Daisy lies about Foxconn, receives spanking
In late January, I wrote a riff on Foxconn, the Chinese parts supplier and assembler of iPhones, iPads, and other consumer technology. Everywhere, it seemed, tempers were flaring over Foxconn’s alleged...
View ArticleHow not to help the homeless
One of the common slurs against libertarianism is that we want poor people to suffer. Sure, we claim to be driven by principled opposition to the leviathan of government, but these critics see through...
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Ranaan Katz. Kinda rhymes with putz.
Miami Heat owner Ranaan Katz has enough money to buy laywers to do his bullying for him, including sending legal threats to bloggers who dare publish an unflattering photo of him (see below). Oh, and...
View ArticleWe’ve all gone mental, apparently
The new psychiatric “diagnostics bible,” the DSM 5, is about to be released, and it turns out we’re all patients now. Getting angry is evidence of Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder. Normal grief...
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