Journal entry: March 2, 2002 (age 32) — St. Patrick’s Month This week a friend from college called me, and at some point in the conversation he asked what I would be up to this weekend. “Oh,” I replied, “I’ll be going to the St. [more...]
Mar 122013
Feb 092013
An acquaintance of mine posted the following on facebook:
”Re-Post if Your Home Is NOT a Gun-Free Zone”
Allow me to make myself clear: If you plan on co…
Jan 052013
No doubt you had a lot on you mind in December — the dancing of sugar plum fairies, America stumbling toward the fiscal cliff, the outcome of the classic Beef O’Brady’s Bowl game and whatnot — so you might have missed this bit of big [more...]
Aug 192012
The Police in Sherman Heights, California were alerted when a construction worker spotted a suspicious looking object in a construction site near Interstate 5. The ten inch metal tube with both ends capped resembled a pipe bomb, causing …
Jul 292012
Ah, it’s almost August — time for another quadrennial flowering of America’s glorious democratic process, otherwise known as the presidential nominating conventions! This grand testimonial of our citizens’ rights and liberties will begin with the Republicans in Tampa, Fla. Flags are being mounted, majestic music [more...]
Jul 122012
Seen & Heard on the Web: Man refuses to “show his papers” at check points No, these check points are not even in Arizona. He’s on westbound I-8 in Southern California (an East-West highway that never intersects the international border). Although police legally need probable [more...]
Jul 042012
The ACLU of New Jersey has launched an app for the Android, with an i-Phone compatible app in the works, that enables the user to discreetly record police stops. Once the appropriate button is pressed the screen clears so that if you are…
Apr 302012
The London Metropolitan Police admitted there had been no complaints, but none the less they took a dim view of Derrick Santini’s modern rendering of Zeus ravishing Leda, the myth of the conception of Helen of Troy.
An officer took exception as…
Mar 112012
I was watching one of the myriad mindless “police action” dramas on TV is a moment of boredom. In one particular program I saw two peace officers flee and scale a high fence when confronted by two barking German shepherds.
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