A Swedish main emails the FBI, telling them that his son-in-law is meeting Al Quaeda contacts in the US. The son-in-law arrives, is arrested, jailed, interrogated and sent back to Sweden ( Read more... )

Forget about the salacious and gossipy facts for a minute. There are some very interesting consequences to the litigation described below:

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/ciollilawsuit.pdf

We were watching "Don't Forget The Lyrics" the other night. In the middle of it, Little T2, five, noted: "Dad, you're not so good at this game. In fact, I don't think you could get the lyrics to 'Fly, Robin Fly."

Ouch.

While in London for the tail half of the spring semester, Mrs. T and I are planning to homeschool the Little Ts. Based on the reactions of most people to whom I tell this point, I'm more than a little sympathetic to the following:http://www.familyhack.com/2007/11/09

So, you're a policeman and you have an old guy shackled to a wheelchair. He's already been stabbed, not by you. He's uncooperative and abusive.

So what do you do?

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/750776,CST-NWS-cop21.article

83% Fred Thompson
81% Mitt Romney
76% Mike Huckabee
72% Ron Paul
70% Tom Tancredo
68% John McCain
58% Rudy Giuliani
36% Bill Richardson
26% Hillary Clinton
26% John Edwards
25% Chris Dodd
24% Mike Gravel
23% Barack Obama
21% Joe Biden
19% Dennis Kucinich

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching QuizI think my numbers on Paul are actually higher than this -- although ( Read more... )

So I checked in on ZJ for the first time in a few weeks a couple of days back and I see that he's deep in the Bellagio $5K -- in third or so with two tables to go. Today, I get home, and find ( Read more... )

There's a really interesting 2p2 discussion about a guy who shot two guys robbing his neighbors' house. What's interesting is the 911 tape of the whole affair.

Link here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&

This is an absolutely horrible ruling.  I thought the Bong Hits For Jesus case was a lousy ruling, although it made marginally more sense than this one.  But this really suggests a significant impingement on a student's ability to express, even in a nonpublic and nonthreatening way:

http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/06/06-50709-CV0.wpd.pdf

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Email's Friendly Fire ( Read more... )