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I’m not too sure the outcome would be much better in my native Houston, Texas. Hope springs eternal. (And I realize the story is a bit dated, but I just now found it.) The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported and followed up on the case of a set of nude statues by artist Itzik Asher entitled [...] A recent Green Blog article comments on an unfortunate gaffe by Penn & Teller. In a recent episode of their TV show with a well-known and profane title often abbreviated to the letters “B.S.” in more polite circles, Penn and Teller question a so-called “food policy analyst expert” about organic food. (Not surprisingly, the YouTube [...] The Daily Mail reports on probably one of the most bizarre deportation hearings I’ve ever read about. An anonymous woman referred to in court only as “A” has been threatened with extradition because of a dispute over her sexual identity. In essence, the Home Office (a UK government agency which oversees immigration, the rough equivalent [...] According to this story in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald, a zoning-related entertainment permit rule intended to limit disorderly drunken conduct has had the odd and unintended consequence of squashing a monthly Shakespeare reading that has been going on for years at a bar in the Old Port section of Portland. From the article: The [...] Mashable reports on what at first glance appears to be a run-of-the-mill libel lawsuit. Horizon Realty is suing a former tenant, Amanda Bonnen, for US$50,000 over the one line: Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s okay. The alarming thing is that, according to the story, Amanda [...] The Guardian reports on yet more counterterrorism idiocy, regarding a woman who was merely trying to document what the police were doing: Lawyers for Gemma Atkinson, a 27-year-old who was detained after filming police officers conduct a routine stop and search on her boyfriend, believe her case is the latest example of how police are [...] And we Americans thought the IRS was clueless sometimes. This story from Sweden details the account of a couple versus what I dare call a recklessly obtuse Swedish Tax Agency: When their daughter Celina was born, Morten Schneider and Christina Cruz dutifully filled out the appropriate forms with their daughters name – Celina Cruz Schneider [...] In perhaps the most daft attack on blogging as free speech, the High Court in London (UK) has ruled bloggers have no right to anonymity, as reported by Yahoo! News UK. The basis of the ruling comes under the assertion that “blogging is essentially a public rather than a private activity.” I am horrified at [...] |
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