As of today, if cops enter your home without being invited, and without a warrant, there’s nothing you can do. You have to let them in. At least in Indiana you do. Not India — Indiana. I thought Indiana was part of the United States of America. I also thought U.S. residents were protected from …
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Texas: Telling fish tales equals jail time
Texas legislators, who, like all politicians, despise fibbing, are coming down on a weighty issue: cheating in bass-fishing contests. Telling tall tales may be a matter of pride in Texas. But it may soon be against state law to tell one about a fish. A bill that would make it a misdemeanor — and in some cases …
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Smoking links
• “Don’t think of a giant blue baboon!” Too late. A picture of a giant blue baboon just flashed through your mind. Likewise, reminding smokers they may not light up inevitably makes them think of smoking, and increases their craving for tobacco, a study from Oxford University suggests. Money quote: [Researcher Brian] Earp hasn’t done …
Porn explodes. Rape Declines. Any questions?
Help! Violent porn fiends are everywhere! Fucker all your oripices (eek, spoonerism; I meant pucker all your orifices), ’cause these pervs want to forcibly act out their disgusting fantasies on you! Extreme sexual fantasies are being normalised because of the rise in deviant pornography on the internet, psychologists have warned. Researchers now believe there is a …
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Pretty much the definition of ‘sobering’
Do you know who was the last President that didn’t engage in overseas warfare? Hoover. The last 13 Presidents and 44 Congresses — with every permutation of Republicans and Democrats you can imagine — have all steadily cultivated the military-industrial complex that has shed the blood of innumerable innocent individuals that we blithely refer to as …
Law and lawlessness
Tommy Adams, who was the sheriff of Carter County, Missouri, for the past two years, …rarely met with community leaders or showed up at the office, where paperwork piled high on his desk. He delegated to his chief deputy, who worried about his strange behavior. Mr. Adams began spending conspicuously, buying cars, building a cabin and …
The week in banning
• Florida bans bath salts that may double as drugs. [link] • China bans smoking. Smokers unimpressed. [link] • Indianapolis bans texting while driving. [link] • Appeals court undoes ban on government money for embryonic cell stem research. [link] • White House bans “pen-and-pad” reporter Carla Marinucci from presidential access after she uses a cellphone camera to …
Linkavaganza
• A new court ruling makes it a federal crime for an employee to use a work computer in a manner that violates employer-authorized access. What’s that mean? Blogger and law professor Orin Kerr points out that the following common workplace behavior may now be subject to prosecution: The best employee in a larger company might …
Fanny got fingered
Faith healer inserts fingers into young believers’ vaginas to fight evil spirits. TSA screener inserts fingers into young traveler’s vagina to fight terrorists. Spot the differences.
Mark Ames and Yasha Levine, shit peddlers extraordinaire
They’re at it again. If there was a Pulitzer for patently despicable journalism that twists facts into statements that are nominally true but 100% intended to deceive, Mark Ames and Yasha Levine should receive a Pulitzer. In keeping with their very special brand of ethics, were they to ever quote from this blog, I’ll bet …
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Cables from Absurdistan U.S.A.
Beltway bureaucrats are powerful. How powerful are they? They are so powerful that they can create their own reality. Some foreigners applying for asylum in the United States have attached [Wikleaks] diplomatic cables printed from the Internet that describe repression in their native countries — requiring the Department of Homeland Security to store their applications …
Linkavaganza
• Donald Trump wants to see Obama’s report cards. • Glenn Greenwald and Wikileaks scratch Guantanamo’s putrid underbelly. • Can Ron Paul 2012 do better than Ron Paul 2008? The New York Times sums up half a dozen reasons why the answer is yes. • Pilot Patrick Smith, in Salon, finds the TSA’s ‘liquids and gels’ rules utterly …