Absolutely sickening.

In a closely watched trial involving conflicting marijuana laws, a jury on Tuesday convicted the owner of a Morro Bay medical marijuana dispensary on five counts of violating federal drug laws ( Read more... )

In post-Soviet Russia, procreation harasses you:

A Russian advertising executive who sued her boss for sexual harassment lost her case after a judge ruled that employers were obliged to make passes at female staff to ensure the survival of the human race ( Read more... )

Developers of the popular Facebook game Scrabulous have blocked the game to U. S. and Canadian users following legal challenges from Hasbro, which owns Scrabble.

It's probably a coincidence that Hasbro's Scrabble client just became available on Facebook, albeit with fewer features and slow performance.  A great victory has been struck for

I've read speculation in more than a few places around the blogosphere that the Supreme Court's ruling in Heller, which struck down the District of Columbia's ban on handguns, should lead to lower murder rates in the nation's capital (and elsewhere, assuming similar bans can be successfully challenged ( Read more... )

Supreme Court affirms individual's right to bear armsThe 5-4 decision strikes down D. C.'s draconian gun law prohibiting residents from owning handguns or even keeping them in their home.  City officials claimed the ban was necessary to curb gun-related violence, although the 32-year-old law has had absolutely no effect on Washington's murder rate ( Read more... )

It would be disingenuous of me to say I hate lawyers; I'm married to one after all. But shit like this, involving a class-action suit against Creative Labs over the advertised capacity of their MP3 players, convinces me that some lawyers deserve to be shot in the face:

According to the settlement agreement, the lead plaintiffs, who filed their ( Read more... )

Teen allowed to forgo chemotherapyGood for him.  No one should be forced by a court to undergo medical treatment they don't want.  Even if the treatment this kid is pursuing amounts to little more than quackery, he and his parents should have the freedom to make that decision without nanny-state interference.  It's a no-brainer, right ( Read more... )

We haven't cracked double-digits in temperature along the Front Range, but it's been in the mid-30s up in the mountains.  Gotta love those temperature inversions.  I left early this morning to get a haircut, and it was -9°.  Now it's -2°.  It's downright balmy, I tell ya!

And the cold, combined with a natural gas shortage, resulted in rolling ( Read more... )

[cross-posted from libertarianism]

From David Friedman's blog:

How to Sue the National Security Agency

In order to sue, you have to show that your phone was tapped. If you send a Freedom Of Information Act query to the NSA asking for a list, they will surely reply that they have good reason not to release the information, since they do not want terrorists to ( Read more... )

[cross-posted from libertarianism]

QandO has an interesting bit on Roe v. Wade, quoting Richard Cohen's column from the Washington Post:

Conservatives-and some liberals-have long argued that the right to an abortion ought to be regulated by states. They have a point. My guess is that the more populous states would legalize it, the smaller ones would not, and ( Read more... )