sometimes I don't know whether to laugh at my country or cry:The City Council of Greenleaf, Idaho, passed an ordinance in November to require nearly all residents to keep a gun at home in case the town becomes overrun by people relocating after Gulf Coast storms. Also in November, a report from the Missouri House's Special Committee on Immigration ( Read more... )

( oh, those crazy, CRAZY Texans! )

I know one of my friends on here got through college without a high-school diploma, and did a kickass job in college, and got all sorts of academic honors, and is now a full time academic.

But Pataki tried to fuck with that happening for other people, by refusing financial aid to college students who have not graduated from high school.

And he ( Read more... )

remember this?

yeah, so um....SCARY!!!!!

Basically, the internet's about to go to shit ( Read more... )

"The more people grow accustomed to a listening environment in which the ear of Big Brother is assumed to be behind every wall, behind every e-mail, and invisibly present in every electronic communication, telephonic or otherwise, the Constitution will be mummified ( Read more... )

SPIEGEL: In methodical Germany, a major debate is currently underway in Berlin over whether to rebuild or start from scratch. Is tearing down the Palace of the Republic the right thing to do, and should the reconstructed Hohenzollern palace (which East German authorities demolished in 1950) really be erected in its place?

Koolhaas: I think tearing ( Read more... )

I'm tryin' rellay hard to remember the last time I went a whole day without reading something that scares me.

But, the American strike plans do not appear to have international support. Jack Straw, the British foreign minister, called the plans "completely nuts" in a Sunday interview with the BBC.

Reading a NYT article about risks associated with RU-486:The drug has been used in more than 560,000 abortions in this country, so the reported risk of death is a bit more than one in 100,000. Some deaths may have gone unreported, meaning the real risk may be even higher ( Read more... )