Archives for the Month of May, 2005

The Old Lady and the Case of the Unpalatable Pizza

I’m already a fairly cranky man. Just ask my wife. However, some people are absolutely off the deep end when it comes to being ornery. Dorothy Densmore, of Charlotte, North Carolina, is this year’s prize winner. She called 911 20 times in 30 minutes because someone refused to deliver pizze to her house.
She told dispatchers [...]

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Arrested for filing nails?

Here’s a very factually incorrect story about a member of the Free State Project being arrested for practicing cosmetology without a license.

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James Sensenbrenner, totalitarian bastard, strikes again

H.R. 1528, cynically named “Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act,” would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, and even go undercover and wear a wire if needed. If a person resisted, he or she would face mandatory incarceration.
Hey Mr. Sensenbrenner - I knew you were a dirty [...]

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Possible good news from Iraq

Some days start off poorly and end on an up note.
I haven’t had access to news all day, so it was nice to return home to find that Abu Musab Al Zarqawi may be injured. I hope you are dying, Mr. Zarqawi, you human offal. I’m not normally one to celebrate the demise of human [...]

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FAA revokes pilot’s license for flying too near White House

The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday that it had issued an emergency revocation of Hayden L. Sheaffer’s pilot’s license because he ‘constitutes an unacceptable risk to safety in air commerce.’”
My only question: what about all those incompetent security screeners? Don’t they add up to an “unacceptable risk to safety in air commerce? I mean, come [...]

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