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Because advancing freedom means more laws and regulations, California lawmakers have been busy and you're gonna need to watch yourself in 2006. My favorite new law is this one: BODY PIERCING - Makes performing body piercing on a minor punishable by a $250 fine, unless the minor's parent gives approval. Of course, this is in […]

My New Year's resolution: Never again allow my condo to reach "Pigsty Level 5." That would be the number of trash bags I just took to the dumpster.

I took Advanced Placement U.S. History in high school, but not from my father. Nope, my instructor was a Gloria Steinem-ish feminist named Mrs. Lee. The course was taught like a college course -- we bought our textbooks and marked them up over the course of the year. One of those book was a pretty […]

This I really love. ABC News finally finds a "Constitutional scholar" who believes that the NSA's surveillance of international communications between al Qaeda agents overseas and people in the United States are illegal. The guy's name is David Cole. (Nope, I'd never heard of him either.) He's certainly no Lawrence Tribe or Cass Sunstein. What's […]

OK, here's another Bandy Canyon picture. I'm hoping to get out on Monday to take some more pictures.

It looks like New York Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen are going to be spending some time in the inside of a jail cell. Risen and Lichtblau are the two reporters whose bylines were atop the article revealing a code-word National Security Agency surveillance of al Qaeda. Now, Lichtblau and Risen can't be […]

The best 30 names in Div I college basketball.

Actually, this one is a combination of culture and religion. Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family's "honor" -- a crime that shocked Pakistan. The 40-year old laborer, speaking to The Associated Press in […]

Videogames are not the same as real life. Follow the link for an amusing video of an older gamer discovering that just because you can do a lap a Laguna Seca in an Acura NSX in 1:41 in a video game doesn't mean that you can do the same thing in real life.

Last week over at OpinionJournal.com's "Best of the Web Today," James Taranto took note of an unfortunate choice of words on the Carl Zeiss Web site. Advertising Slogans German Companies Should Avoid "The final solution will be revealed on 01/18/06."--Carl Zeiss AG Web site On a photography message board I frequent, there was a post […]