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Saturday, December 10th, 2011

Your WTF of the day.
Occupy Wall Street protesters crash the set of a Law & Order taping. City revokes the show’s permit in response.
New study debunks much-hyped study claiming a “viral” component to obesity. New study will get 1/100th of the coverage the original study received.
This sounds great. Provide it works as advertised. Disposable razors are such a ripoff.
The latest nasty bit of censorship masquerading as “campaign finance reform.” Expect newspaper editorials to demand an an amendment to protect their right to editorialize before an election—and then endorse the restrictions for everyone else.
Puppycide.
The “freakiest ads of 2011.”
U.S. citizen gets 2 1/2 years for insulting Thailand’s king on the Internet. The State Department is outraged, and rightly so. But as I’ve pointed out before, it’s no different than our arrest and imprisonment of online gambling executives.

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Saturday Links

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Photos of abandoned water parks.
Boston bans e-cigarettes in public spaces.
Kudos to Pinellas County, Florida, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, who is teaching his deputies that there are other ways to deal with aggressive animals than filling them with bullets.
NeverWet!
Photos of elderly animals.
Man receives summons for refusing to tell a law enforcement officer his country of origin. The prosecutor wants jail time.

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Morning Links

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Innocence no defense against Virginia’s sex offender list. Once you’re on these things, it’s damn near impossible to get removed.
FDA considering mandatory salt reductions. Remember when everyone said not to worry, all this talk about reducing salt in food would be voluntary? Good times.
California police captain voids police lieutenant’s ticket for causing an accident, says doing so was “in the interest of justice.”
Headline of the day.
Nutty, Tea-Party-backed senator proposes crazy-ass amendment to limit the federal government’s power.

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Morning Links

Monday, October 31st, 2011

William Niskanen, RIP.
Robbing the cradle.
What could possibly go wrong?
Winner of this week’s “Get Over Yourself” award.
Runner-up.
Bovine-cide.
“Because this was a gathering of people invited to our farm for dinner, I had no idea that the Health Department would become involved.”
Best “We the People” petition yet.
Dog tucks himself in.

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Morning Links

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Police raid suspected meth lab . . . that turns out to be a guy making his own beer.
Colorado man makes last-ditch effort to overturn his 145-year sentence for a sex crime his alleged victim says never took place.
The Milky Way, taken near the North Sea.
Wisconsin judge says you have no right to drink the milk from your own cow.
The FTC goes after Four Loko again, this time for packaging the drink in cans that are apparently too large.
CBS reporter says White House “screamed” at her over Fast & Furious story.
Speaking of which, the Obama administration apparently thinks it’s fine to sell guns to murderous Mexican drug cartels, but they draw the line at pot-smoking cancer patients.

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Afternoon Links

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

This is a good thing. Not the killing, but that it was captured on camera.
The New Professionalism, Clayton County, Georgia edition.
A brief history of branding.
Michael Bloomberg says government’s highest priority is to stop you from making bad decisions. Like, say, voting for Michael Bloomberg.
Man convicted by Texas DA and Perry forensics commission appointee John Bradley freed after 25 years in prison.
How the FDA is killing people.

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Saturday Links

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Massachusetts high court okays a $70 administrative fee to fight a $100 traffic ticket.
Steven Pinker: “Why Violence Is Vanishing.”
After a half million wrongful arrests, NYPD commissioner tells cops to stop tricking pot smokers into breaking the law.
How state lawmakers pump up their own pensions.
Girl cuts herself. School makes her sign a pledge she isn’t cutting herself.
Man with Down Syndrome beaten by cops, who apparently were concerned about a bulge in his waistband. It was a colostomy bag.

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Morning Links

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Interesting study on power and corruption.
Libertarianism happens to people: foodie edition.
Why pro-death penalty and anti-government are incompatible.
Ugandans beaten, forcibly removed from land to make way for carbon credit forests.
“Professional courtesy” in Houston. Nice to see the meting out of some discipline, though.
And here’s another example of a police chief showing some courage.
Interview with a man who did 18 years for a crime he didn’t commit.

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Morning Links

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

The state of Georgia executed Troy Davis last night. Here’s a rundown of the witnesses who recanted. I honestly didn’t think they’d go through with it. Which only goes to show that however low your expectations of government may be, they probably aren’t low enough.
California city is demanding couple purchase a permit to host Bible study sessions.
The cops who beat University of Maryland student John McKenna have been indicted. This would never have happened were it not for social media and cell phone video.
Telling stats on marijuana arrests.
The McGurk Effect.
Cops in the Kelly Thomas case charged with murder, manslaughter.
RAND study: No connection between medical pot dispensaries, crime.
Here’s a delightful shredding of Thomas Friedman.
Government paternalism and overreaction trumped by government in competence.

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Morning Links

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

The war on e-cigarettes. I’ve written this before, but because e-cigarettes are harmless, and because they can help people quit actual cigarettes, these attempts to prohibit them are an excellent example of paternalistic regulations that actually kill people.
Connecticut Supreme Court justice apologizes to Suzette Kelo for ruling against her.
Given the numerous times a story I first reported was re-reported by a bigger news outlet without credit (something that also happens pretty frequently to other bloggers, and especially to alt weeklies), I find it kind of amusing that reporters at larger news outlets are now complaining when it happens to them.
L.A. Times: Here are two statistics that have nothing to do with one another. But we’re going to juxtapose them anyway.
David Rittgers: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security.
Man gets life sentence for shoplifting.
New Jersey cop attacks woman who was filming him at a DWI checkpoint.

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