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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Your latest Hollywood-colluding-with-government copyright outrage.
Amazing photos from an abandoned New York leper colony.
British court rules that composing a photo the way someone else has could be a violation of copyright.
Here is a dog jumping on a trampoline.
Red State founder and CNN commenter tells radio audience that watching someone he disagrees with politically writhe in pain until the guy requires hospitalization is “made of awesome.”
Despite promises from politicians, NYC continues with its ridiculous pot arrests.
“Why more than a dozen teenage girls are exhibiting Tourette’s-like symptoms.”
Headline of the day.
Dahlia Lithwich on how Illinois awful recording cops law might affect this year’s G8 summit in Chicago.
Good post on leash law Tasering: “‘Protect and Serve’ does not mean “you have to win every argument ever.’”

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Sunday Links

Sunday, December 11th, 2011

Here’s a preview of the new Best Sex Writing of 2011 anthology. I have an article in the collection. I’m so good at it, they asked me to write about it. (Okay, so maybe that’s not why my piece was included.)
Another minor is attacked by a police dog. Of course, since officer safety wasn’t threatened, the dog didn’t get the puppycide treatment.
More indications that drones are become a part of domestic law enforcement.
Scientists find a black hole the size of 21 billion suns.
Oddly compelling photo series of suitcases left at an old New York psychiatric hospital. More explanation here.
NIH paid a communications firm $1 million in stimulus money to promote how well NIH is spending stimulus money.
From the archives of Newt Gingrich mendacity.
Also, hipster Newt Gingrich.
Aerial photos of the democracy protests in Russia.
The International Development Ryan Gosling Tumblr.

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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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Sunday Links

Sunday, November 20th, 2011

Good question.
Chicago journalism professor records an arrest in progress. Police threaten him, seize his camera, and delete the video. If he was using sound, it’s still illegal to record anyone in Illinois without their permission, in which case the police destroyed evidence of a crime. If he wasn’t using sound, they illegally confiscated his camera and destroyed his property.
Cabin porn. (Link is SFW.)
An interview with the great John Prine.
Government announces plan to make citizens safer by devoting more resources to harassing and threatening them.
Mitt Romney demonstrates one of the most important qualifications to be president.
Finally, something heartwarming. The first paragraph is really all you need.

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Morning Links

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Colorado offers $500 million in corporate welfare for Nashville-based to build a hotel.
Things I’m apparently good at: Predicting that Nancy Grace’s nipple will appear on television. I haven’t yet figured out how to use this talent. But I promise it will be for good, not evil.
Cops eat man’s pot brownies, boast about it.
Fascinating photo set from North Korea.
Threatening blog comment traced to North Miami Beach police computer.
Cracked takes aim at the criminal justice system.
Here’s a petition that might be of interest to Agitator readers.
Good catch by Dave Weigel: How Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin is trying to force a reality where Rick Santorum matters.
Ah, the glories of central planning. It’s an odd worldview that could hail a man who forcibly sterilized poor women as “a hero with women’s reproductive rights.”

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Saturday Links

Saturday, August 20th, 2011

Internet thread of the week. (Warning: Not for the squeamish.)
The world’s most desolate countries.
Michele Bachman seems to be uncertain of her own biography.
Smoke a joint, lose your kid.
Photos of people napping around the world.
“Green jobs” initiative is a massive flop.
Washington State Supreme Court orders that police misconduct investigations be made public. We need this in more places.
Anderson Cooper makes poop joke, can’t stop giggling about it. Stepjen Colbert pounces. Hilariously. (Yes, that’s the second poop-related link this morning. What can I say? I’m 10.)
Zombie newlywed photos.
Kabul Rock City: Afghan teens fight corruption, violence with heavy metal.

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Morning Links

Friday, June 17th, 2011

Good Dahlia Lithwick piece on the role of empathy in Supreme Court decisions.
Why is this woman facing criminal charges? (MORE: Looks like they’ve decided not to press charges, and the story is more complicated than the prior linked article conveys.)
Noted without comment.
Former spy says Bush administration tried to dig up personal dirt on critic Juan Cole.
“Ghost Ships of the Mothball Fleet”
Interesting discussion of libertarianism and parental rights.
It isn’t officially summer until the first petty bureaucrat shuts down a kids’ lemonade stand.
Jimmy Carter: Call off the global drug war. Hey, this is the man we can thank for good beer.

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Morning Links

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

I think this is kind of genius. Frightening, hairy genius. But still genius.
Photos of abandoned commie monuments.
California could cut its prison population by 30,000 by releasing nonviolent drug offenders.
The Economist on the sad state of the Fourth Amendment.
The Washington Post’s strange way of describing how police slammed a man in a wheelchair into the sidewalk.
So remember that nonsense in which whiny hipsters were protesting Whole Foods opening a store in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood? The state senator who represents the neighborhood weighed in last month. She’s demanding the store hire a quota of local residents and, more absurdly, that it endow “a fund that could buy available property in the Hyde/Jackson area with a commitment to keeping it affordable”.
Awesome Icelandic volcano porn.

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Morning Links

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Amazing color photographs from the Great Depression.
Smoke or deal pot, and the SWAT team will violently break into your home in the middle of the night. But beat a man within an inch of his life, then run from the law, and the SWAT team will come for you in broad daylight, surround your house, make several announcements over a bullhorn, and give you the opportunity to surrender peacefully.
Lawmakers, regulators take aim at prepaid credit cards. Because of the drugs.
Have no idea if this actually happened. But I hope it did.
New York City cracks down on “illegal hotels“, basically making it impossible for a non-profit, private home or apartment owner, or any other party to rent a room to out-of-towners without getting all the proper and prohibitively expensive hotel permits. Great example of how regulation often protects big businesses, and screws over just about everyone else.
Time lapse puppy-to-adult video.

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Sunday Links

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Research team claims they’ve found Atlantis.
Read this terrific Baylen Linnekin Reason piece on New York’s “lobstah pushah” and the regulation of food trucks.
How to respond to a public insult.
Something isn’t right, here.
Some stunning, heart-wrenching photos from Japan.
Fox Business Network, meet the Broken Window Fallacy.
Alabama man shot by police who raided his house by mistake gets a $500,000 settlement.
More questions about James O’Keefe’s editing decisions, raised this time by the news site started by Glenn Beck.
http://ifyouwatchitbackwards.com/

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