Fox News is reporting that a Washington state court recently ruled that teachers can not be prosecuted for sleeping with their 18-year-old students. Default response:…
According to CNN, ex-Bay Area Rrapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle has been arrested in connection with the shooting of Oscar Grant.
The day Oscar…
You’ve probably heard by now, but in Oakland, 22-year-old Oscar Grant of Hayward, California was shot and killed by a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)…
The Bay Area has been roiled by the shooting of an unarmed man by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer and the resulting protests…
Remember in late 2006, when an Islamist group named the Islamic Courts Union took over large swathes of Somalia and brought the first functioning (albeit…
The Economist has a fascinating article on some experiments that appear to bolster the “broken windows” theory of crime:
A PLACE that is covered in…
This doesn’t make any sense:
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State elections officials have identified the person responsible for a phony election flier that told Republicans…
Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) on being convicted on charges of violating federal ethics laws: “I have not been convicted of anything.”
You tell ‘em, Teddy!…
Following up on my last post, the FBI’s recently released hate crime data confirm that while hate crimes were down overall for 2007, anti-gay crimes…
I wanted to respond to Ned’s post about Governor Charlie Crist of Florida’s decision to extend early voting in his state by pointing out that…
Yes, it is home to some of the Internet’s most Neanderthal-like denizens. Yes, it allows people who shouldn’t be allowed in the same state as…
Today, apparently, is Global Anti-Piracy Day, at least according to Microsoft. (Why, it seems like just yesterday was GAPD ‘07, doesn’t it?)
Sez Gizmodo:
They’ve…
Maybe I was out of line when I argued last week that only non-white folks are ever saddled with the “terrorist” label. It turns out…
A life-size effigy of Barack Obama was found hanging from a tree Tuesday morning on the Oregon campus of George Fox University. The cardboard cut-out…
I consider myself relatively well-informed on what those darn kids are doing nowadays, but I hadn’t even heard of salvia until a few weeks ago,…
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