December 2008




Jesus Told Me to Ram that Car, Says Driver

A driver who rammed another car at high speed outside San Antonio last week told police that Jesus had told him to do so because the other motorist was not "driving like a Christian." In my experience, He is usually…


Harvard Professor Opines on Scalia’s “Gollywaddles”

Last month, Jay Wexler spoke to noted language expert Steven Pinker and asked him where Justice Scalia might have come up with the term "gollywaddles," which Scalia used during oral argument this term in FCC v. Fox Television Stations.  Wexler…



China Executes Fraudulent Ant-Breeder

In another reminder not to do anything at all wrong in China, state media reported last week that a businessman who had been convicted of fraud in connection with a "bogus ant-breeding scheme" had been executed. The Xinhua News Agency…