There's a funny line in Newsweek's cover story about Facebook:
Facebook does complicate the pleasure of gently losing touch with people you're tired of.
I don't send cards these days, but when I was married, my wife and I did. Neglecting to send a Christmas card to someone whose been on the list for a few years is a great way to start that "gently losing touch" process.
Jack McClellan has been arrested, and his case is a striking example of how we can so screw up the law. He's the spooky dirtbag who has operated a Web site that told pedophiles where to find young kids, how to stalk them, how to avoid detection. But that's not what he was charged with. After gaining notoriety in Washington for his Web site, he relocated to California, where a judge issued a ridiculous restraining order against him: Never be within 30 feet of a child in this state.
The major effect of the digital revolution is the gradual disappearance of the middlemen. We no longer need retail stores when we can order anything online. We don't need, alas, newspapers or other paper products when we can read everything on the Internet. Goodybe, too, to libraries and movie theaters. Today's disappearing act: not just CDs, but the record companies that produce them:
I was first drawn to this story just because the headline -- "Rules on Women Unclear -- seemed perfect for a snide retort -- yeah, to me, too! But the story below the headline is quite serious:
The Army is following Pentagon policy barring the assignment of women to units whose primary mission is ground combat, but the policies are difficult to understand, according to new study of the issue.
Another sign that I am getting old is that I think this is a very reasonable question: "Nightclubs are hell. What's cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots?"
Come on, guys, you're embarrassing me:
Lawsuits could be putting "Ladies' Nights" at bars and clubs across the country on the rocks.
In about two dozen cases, plaintiffs contend these drink and admission deals for women constitute discrimination against men and should be banned.
Get real, and get a life. While the ladies are out enjoying their cheap drinks, that gives us one night a week to play with our remote controls in peace.
If only it were this easy -- get rid of the word, get rid of everything associated with it:
DETROIT - There was no mourning at this funeral. Hundreds of onlookers cheered Monday afternoon as the NAACP put to rest a long-standing expression of racism by holding a public burial for the N-word during its annual convention.
The redistributionists have always promoted the idea that the way to solve poverty is to just give poor people money. But few of them have been as brazen as this:
Some brave San Franciscans risk being labeled bigots by worrying about THOSE people moving in:
To walk down San Francisco's Castro Street -- where men casually embrace on sidewalks in the shadow of an enormous rainbow flag -- the neighborhood's status as "gay Mecca" seems obvious.
So, taunting someone about religion is perfectly OK, but taunting someone about sexuality is hate speech?
When a few classmates razzed Rebekah Rice about her Mormon upbringing with questions such as, "Do you have 10 moms?" she shot back: "That's so gay."
