The Transportation Safety Administration (AKA the Full Employment For Illiterate Half-Wits Department) is now wetting its pants over possible “terrorist dry runs” at US airports. I suppose this is one of Chertoff’s “gut feelings” with little to no basis in reality.
I travel frequently, mostly around Texas for work, but to other parts of the […]
Local News Kens 5 reports that last night a man who was ranting to himself “died in police custody” after SAPD attempted to arrest him.
According to witness accounts the man was simply yelling late at night, and was severely beaten by police. The police admit the use of force, but claim the […]
We’re still a long way from actual primary voting, but it’s never too early for polling! In any case, Not Paul Begala at Blog, P.I directs our attention to the latest round of polling regarding the upcoming Democratic primary. He also puts up a handy chart (which I have shamelessly hot-linked):
As you can […]
The NYT reports on efforts by FCC Chair and Superdouche, Kevin J Martin, to persuade Congress that his regulatory agency needs even broader authority to regulate television content.
No longer content to dole-out bandwidth like a Dickensian gruel-meister and prosecute broadcast networks for daring to expose children to the horrors of the occasional breast, the FCC […]
Please explain to me, Senator, why on earth I should vote for you. After the abomination that is BiCRA and the continued push to regulate on-line political speech, I thought you’d gone as far as possible. Turns out I was wrong.
The proposal, which Sen. John McCain is planning to introduce on Wednesday, also […]
[Via Drudge] Yesterday LA County voted to look into following New York’s lead in banning Trans-fats from food in restaurants.
New York’s ban, the first in the country and to be expected from somebody like Bloomberg, took regulatory nannyism to an entirely new height. Banning trans-fats lacks even the “what about the workers” excuse that […]
First,I’d like to thank Timothy for hosting us Inactivists while our blog is inactive. If I ever get up some gumption or something I’ll go out and buy him a thank-you present. But I’m too inactive for that sort of thing. In the mean time, it’s only fitting that my first blog […]
Over at Inactivist, DA Ridgely has a pretty interesting post about grades and standardized testing. As a member of the (Smoke Free) Class of 2000 in Oregon I was one of the lucky sots used as an experimental rodentia for the CIM/CAM [warning: PDF]. The CIM/CAM was, and as far as I know […]
Radio silence broken, but only because this article from AFP via SEED is the kind of thing that really, really irritates me. The statement that the United States uses more than a quarter of the natural resources while only having 5% of the population sure does sound ominous when provided without any context, but […]
Every time one of my family members or friends teases me about my libertarian proclivities, which is often, I think of the UK. In particular, I think of their CCTV system. As now the telescreens are only in public places, but the new ability of CCTV monitors (who work for the state) to […]
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