Tag Archives: Law & Policy
Bad Vibrations
You have no constitutional right to vibrators (Yahoo News): The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a constitutional challenge to an Alabama law that makes it a crime to sell sex toys. The high court refused to hear an appeal by a group of individuals who regularly use sexual devices and by two vendors who […]
Cassini-Huygens: Titan
There is something plain thrilling about seeing a photograph of another planet. It makes imagining stepping onto that surface all the easier. There are so many important things we could be spending this money on instead of space exploration, but it is really hard to remember that when you see pictures like this one recently […]
Can’t blame the youth
Better make sure your kids don’t say anything “anti-American,” or you may be questioned as a potential terrorist: Loudoun County sheriffs investigate 11 year-old national security risk. Read through some of the comments there. Several of them suggest that it is completely appropriate to question the parents of a child who doesn’t like Marines, to […]
Insidious encroachment by men of zeal