Good news — the superintendent of the North Brookfield School District in Massachusetts has announced that students are again free to carry their own writing implements, ending a short-lived ban on that practice. He said the ban on this dangerous…
These guys are offering underwear with the text of the Fourth Amendment printed over your classified areas in metallic ink, so the creeps at the TSA have to at least glance at it when scanning you. It's a great idea,…
On November 17th, the Lincoln Tunnel was closed for nearly an hour while police chased a group of people dressed in camouflage who were seen running through the tunnel. Officers of the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force as well as…
It looks like my claim to "Trouser Search Administration" is safe, but as this video shows, there are so many other good alternatives I won't get too excited about that one in particular. Given some of the increasing number of…
Credit where credit is due: as I have said before, I think “Thousands Standing Around” is hilariously funny, but if nobody has suggested “Trouser Search Administration” yet I am hereby staking my claim to that one. This excellent post by Colin Samuels has…
While I was checking to make sure that toner cartridges and snow globes are still banned from airplanes (they are), I noticed that there are lots of other things that are also not allowed in your carry-on bags. In fact,…
Not sure which is worse: referring to one of these as a "rigid feminine pleasure device," or attacking a cop with one. The Chicago Tribune reported that the RFPD assault took place when an officer visited a woman's home to…
This is pretty far off-topic, but I got interested in it for possibly obvious reasons, so I will go ahead and mention it. The government has issued a statement saying that it doesn't know what this thing was, but that whatever it…
As I noted last week, one of the stranger outcomes of this year's midterm elections (not stranger than California rejecting Prop 19, but still) was the success of an Oklahoma ballot measure that makes it illegal for the state's courts…
Those who hate fun scored a victory on Tuesday, and not just those in the Republican Party. Way at the other end of the political spectrum, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 to ban the inclusion of toys…