Mitch sent this link, along with a comment: You can't make this stuff up.
When the 2008 charter season begins next month, U.S. citizens paying to fish on Lake Erie will have to bring either a passport or two other IDs if they plan to cross the northern border's invisible watery line.
Our tax dollars at work:
First Amendment tomfoolery:
AUSTIN, Texas - A $5-per-customer fee on strip club patrons dubbed the "pole tax" has been declared unconstitutional.
A state district judge ruled that clubs can't collect the fee. The charge went into effect in January and was expected to raise about $44 million for sexual assault prevention programs and health care for the uninsured.
Another piece of cherished conventional wisdom shot down:
It should come as no great shock that people are starting to talk about the breakup of the GOP-libertarian coalition:
It should come as no great shock that people are starting to talk about the breakup of the GOP-libertarian coalition:
Much has been written in the past couple of days about Charlton Heston's acting career and politics. This pretty much sums up both of them:
Writing in The New York Times nearly 30 years afterward, when the film was re-released for a brief run, Vincent Canby called it “a gaudy, grandiloquent Hollywood classic” and suggested there was more than a touch of “the rugged American frontiersman of myth” in Mr. Heston's Moses.
The law of unintended consequences:
Enacting city smoking bans appears to increase drunken driving, a study of arrests conducted by Wisconsin researchers asserts.
A national study to be released by the Journal of Public Economics found an increase of fatal accidents involving alcohol after communities prohibited smoking, compared to arrests in communities without a ban.
As Nancy Nall might say, I have "well-documented" issues with Jane Fonda. But she was smart enough to leave Ted Turner, which should count for something:
Failure to address global warming will have us all dead or eating each other by mid-century.
So says Ted Turner, the restaurateur, environmentalist and former media mogul whose controversial comments have earned him the nickname "Mouth of the South."
