Have you ever been riding on a bus or train and someone starts talking on a cell phone? Its the one-sided conversation that gets me. For example one day recently It started like this, “Hello. Fran? Hey, its me. Did I tell you about Matt this guy I used to date? Well first we met [...]

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Sheriff Joe “The Boss” Arpaio faces allegations of responsibility for another death in his jail. Arpaio for more then a decade the most powerful and popular elected official in Arizona. Faces allegations inmates died while in his custody after being strapped into a restraint chair. The sheriff has claimed in the past inmates died due [...]

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By David Schussler In the news again today, and for over two decades now, there has been a lot of exposure of the use of steroids by both amateur and professional athletes. Steroids have mostly been used to enhance their physique and competitive performances. Even with all of the warnings from the medical profession, anabolic [...]

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The Army, facing another tough recruiting season, launched a $200 million-a-year advertising campaign this month and unveiled a new slogan: “Army Strong.” The campaign’s core message is that the Army builds not only physical but also mental and emotional strength in recruits, bonding them into a powerful, close-knit team. “There’s strong, and then there’s Army [...]

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I listened to the Hong Kong Consul General give a talk recently on how generous America was about giving visas to Chinese citizens. He went on to say that even in the wake of 9-11 the US cut no student visa programs, they were simply bogged down temporarily. I asked about a letter I received [...]

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Richard Dawkins has now defended Eugenics. Not, of course, the terrible eugenics of Hitler, but the idea that” “if you can breed cattle for milk yield, horses for running speed, and dogs for herding skill, why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical, musical or athletic ability? Objections such as “these [...]

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The erstwhile Managing Director of GAMTEL Omar Ndow has been arrested and thrown into jail by the NIA, unimpeachable sources hinted today. Mr.Ndow was picked up by NIA operatives, shortly after his unceremonious sacking earlier this week. The circumstances surrounding his arrest are unclear at this hour, but sources say it might have to do [...]

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Woman Testifies Against Warren Jeffs When I was first posted to Hill AFB, Utah fifteen years ago, I heard all the jokes about the relative position of women in the closest thing the USA has to a theocratic state; that women had fled Utah and gone to Iran, seeking political and sexual freedom. And then [...]

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News Item: Lottery tickets demote Corzine New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine was renamed ‘acting’ governor today by the State Lottery Commission.  Printed on each lottery ticket sold in the state is a listing of state and lottery officials.  Somehow 5 million tickets got printed, and distributed, listing Corzine as the acting governor rather than [...]

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COOKS can control the Thanksgiving menu, but when the dishes leave the kitchen, things can unravel fast. Family grudges buried by time and distance resurface. New girlfriends meet ex-husbands. Prius drivers make small talk with S.U.V. owners. And vegans spend the meal defending themselves.It’s enough to break a cook’s heart. We seek the culture of [...]

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A new California court decision is good, but it’s totally inconsistent with established law. Some background. In print, you can be held liable for re-printing others’ slanderous statements (at this point it becomes libel, or printed defamation). I always thought this was stupid. If I print “so-and-so 1 said so-and-so 2 engages in sick behavior [...]

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Fresh perspectives on today’s news by: Whymrhymer Forty-three years ago today the entire nation went into shock! This was the kind of shock reserved for the most treacherous of occasions such as an attack on an American landmark or the assassination of an American idol. Forty-three years ago today a sitting American president, John Fitzgerald [...]

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Whether by hacking databases, or placing skimming devices on point-of-sale systems, debit/credit card fraud is raising it’s ugly head, worldwide. After finishing my most recent post about skimming devices placed on BP point-of-sale systems in the UK, I read an article in Computer World about what might be the latest large data breach. Jaikumar Vijayan [...]

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Regular readers of this blog (or of Reason, or of the Northwestern Chronicle) know I’m pretty much your stereotypical deer-hunting redneck who hates gun control. It may surprise some, then, that I don’t have much of a problem with this law. I just think it’s an illogical reaction to the case that inspired it, and [...]

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Das war klar (we knew this one was coming). Some sad, misguided and neglected kid easily organizes some high-powered weapons in the land of gun control and decides to commit suicide at the place he hated best. But what’s the first reaction that comes out of Berlin? Violent computer games must be behind all of [...]

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I fully expect that Senator Joseph Lieberman, re-elected as an ‘Independent’ Democratic Senator in Connecticut, will at some opportune moment during the next two years shift alliance to the Republicans, thus, restoring the Senate to Republican control.  Lest it be forgotten, Lieberman was originally elected to the Senate in 1988 over a moderate Republican, Lowell [...]

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