Pittsburgh Ice Cream Vendor Scuffles With 13 Year Old Because He's Too Fat; Blocks Another Vendor, Cusses and Threatens Her In Front of Customers, and Slashes Her TiresIn other news, I'm only in the house (the CBH) for another day or two. Then I'm staying with Greg for a few more days (maybe three or four) to get some things taken care of, and then ( Read more... )

I'm reading the news and since it's so late, the only thing on is Blind Date. And the first activity that they did on their date is go to couples counseling with Rabbi Shmuley, who is a bestselling author-- but you probably know him best from Shalom in the Home. Then he talked to them about how most women who have sex on the first date regret it, ( Read more... )

Watch this video (Go Skateboarding Day in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where a cop chokes a bunch of underage and barely legal kids for skateboarding against ordinance, includikng putting a 14-year-old girl in a chokehold and lifting her off of the ground by her neck):

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Now read this article: Askansas Cop Cleared of Choking Skateboarder.

Discuss.

So I've actually been thinking a pretty good deal about the whole "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" ruling debacle (here's a sign that the majority would obviously prefer). Because... well, here.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurrence that argued that students in public schools do not have a right to free speech and that Tinker should be overturned. He ( Read more... )

So you're driving along. The light turns green but the car in front of you stalls. You stop in time, but the car behind you rear-ends you. When you get out to look at the damage, the cops come by to arrest the other driver for drinking and driving, and they convince you to come hang out in a cruiser in a nearby parking lot while everything gets ( Read more... )

You want to know how I feel about life, politics and the perversion of discourse in this country? Read this speech. I'm not linking or LJ-cutting. That's how important I think it is. This commencement address was given to graduates of the Department of Rhetoric at Zellerbach Hall, University of California at Berkeley, on May 10, 2007 by Mark Danner ( Read more... )

So first, the Army said that its soldiers had to clear every blog post with their superiors. The actual wording goes thusly. Army personnel must:

"Consult with their immediate supervisor and their OPSEC Officer for an OPSEC review prior to publishing or posting information in a public forum ( Read more... )

Hehehehehehehehehehe.

They evacuated a college because of a suspicious package. That ended up being a 500-pack of condoms.

So apparently, after the Virginia Tech shooting, a bunch of papers published this photo, of a guy named Kevin Sterne, being carried out by EMTs. An Eagle Scout, he had the presence of mind to tie a tournequet around his leg when a bullet severed an artery in his leg. It appeared on the front page of 51 of the 565 newspapers archived by the Newseum ( Read more... )

This douchebag, Randall Tobias, the Deputy Secretary of State, just resigned because it was revealed that he was involved in the huge escort scandal (Jeane Palfrey is the woman's name, the one who was threatening to auction off her little black book to pay for her legal fees?) that's been enveloping Washington lately. And guess what!! He's the Bush ( Read more... )