Lara A. Bazelon, to whose comments about judge Alex Kozinski I responded here, has replied to me publicly in Monday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times. I was kindly offered the final word on the matter by the Times, which I declined (I feel the news cycle has moved on ...
Read MoreDefending Kozinski: Full Response to Lara A. Bazelon
This is the full-length version of my article that appeared in today’s Los Angeles Times (and thanks to the Los Angeles Times for publishing a shortened version of my response to Bazelon as today’s Blowback). —————– Alex Kozinski, the Chief Justice of the 9th Circuit Court whose private fileserver was ...
Read MoreDefending Kozinski: Dr. Marty Klein
Check it out, another great response to the Kozinski affair by Dr. Marty Klein at Sexual Intelligence. Read on for a great excerpt:
Read MoreDrilling in America: arguments
Gasoline prices have risen dramatically within the past number of months, and there seems no end in sight. Whose fault is it? More Americans than ever have come to the conclusion that the US government is responsible for allowing Americans to suffer high prices of gasoline, a sentiment echoed today ...
Read MoreMonday
My family are visiting from Belfast so we took the boat out on Lake Havasu, which we live beside (pictured), and spent the weekend in the water (which felt great considering the 115-degree temperatures)… I came back into work this morning, and saw these stories which interested me: James Kirchick ...
Read MoreGod Hates Ireland
This is an old one, but a good one: GodHatesIreland.com, brought to you by Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. Best quote: “Ireland is a land of vile, feces-eaters and anus lickers and those who have pleasure in them – all of whom are abominations to God and headed ...
Read MoreA standing ovation for the LA Times
An op-ed in today’s LA Times, the newspaper which broke the story that Judge Alex Kozinski has a stash of porn on his personal website, is one I could have written myself. I love it. It’s subtitle reads, “An apology from the 9th Circuit judge for his computer collection of ...
Read MoreObscenity trial on hold after judge’s website was found to contain… obscenity!
On Monday, I reported on an obscenity trial of a porn producer who is being prosecuted in federal court here in California. Now, this amazing turn of events: A closely watched obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court was suspended Wednesday after the judge acknowledged maintaining his own publicly accessible ...
Read MoreThe Promised Land
Apple’s iPhone 3G is stunning. It’s twice as fast at half the price, replacing your GPS, your PDA, your mobile phone, your iPod, even your laptop computer in many cases, with a ton of practical genius within the most beautiful package… and it’s coming to you for as little as ...
Read MoreMonday
A few things worth mentioning today: The FCC loves the idea of giving companies the frequencies in which to operate wireless internet services. They’d auction off the frequencies, like the good custodian of the public airwaves that a government agency in charge of those frequencies should. But the frequencies come ...
Read MoreSite access problems
If you can read this, congratulations: you’re one of the minority today! Our hosting server has been having problems this week as some of you have noticed and have let me know; I don’t have any timescales on a fix but I’m becoming increasingly irritated about it and will move ...
Read MoreThe case for marijuana legalization
Conservatives who oppose marijuana legalization typically hold similar reasons for their opposition: the fear that everyone will be potheads if the stuff is legalised, the ‘slippery-slope’ arguments, the grouping of marijuana with more dangerous drugs, the linking of drugs to crime, the linking of drugs to those who are society’s ...
Read MoreThe SUV: a thing of the past?
This is a tough time, economically, that’s for sure. An LA Times op-ed today asks if it’s the end of the road for SUVs, and quotes some data derived from Power Information Network and published in the Wall Street Journal, data which reports that 36% of those who tried to ...
Read MoreMonday
Welcome back, friends; June it is, and the first Monday thereof. Summer begins! The UK government has published yet more desperate plans of yet further efforts to try to curb binge drinking, part of which is advice they’ll give to parents on when they should allow their kids to drink ...
Read MoreBlog holiday
Friends, Thanks for checking back even as we take an unscheduled blogging hiatus for a few days. Sometimes life gets busy, news gets slow, our interest is occupied elsewhere; it seems so far this week we’ve been on blog vacation (which fits, given Memorial Day weekend and the holiday chaos ...
Read MoreHappy Memorial Day
This Monday is Memorial Day, a 3-day weekend which has come to mark the beginning of summer. Its status as a day to remember members of the armed forces killed in action protecting American freedoms isn’t lessened, in my opinion, by the fact that most Americans will use this weekend ...
Read MoreRadio host fired for expressing his opinion?
I’m so irritated by this story. You people living in the United Kingdom who are under the impression that you’re living in a free country are grossly mistaken. When I was in my mid-teens I’d already wanted to be in radio for a few years. I took great interest in ...
Read MoreDolly sues Howard?
This is a gem: “Dolly Parton is threatening to sue The Howard Stern Show for manipulating recordings from one of her audio books last week into seemingly racist and sexually graphic sound bites. ‘I have never been so shocked, hurt and humiliated in all my life,’ Parton says in the ...
Read MoreEnvironmentalist hypocrisy…
…is nothing new. Think Al Gore for a prime example, or Sheryl Crow. Now Paul McCartney is being accused of hypocrisy: “The former Beatle has long been an outspoken advocate of environmental causes and animal rights. He is a vegetarian who won’t even wear leather shoes. But now he’s being ...
Read MoreFree to eat what you want: a silly post
Penn Jillette has given an excellent response to a viewer on the issues of drugs and suicide, speaking as a ‘sensitive libertarian’ on the matter (watch it for yourself
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