Officer identified in UCLA tasering
Officer Terrence Duren been the subject of other use-of-force complaints too, something which should probably come as no big, uh, shocker.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month November 2006
Sri Lanka rebels and a submarine filled with cocaine?
Asymptotic Life ponders what it could mean.
Life in the clogged lane
We’re remodeling the house, getting it fixed up to put on the market in January. In the middle of this chaos, I went to pick up my Prius after some body work was done. The paint job was stellar, the…
Corporate coffee
Starbucks is “opposing Ethiopia’s efforts to trademark the names of its most famous coffee regions Sidamo, Yirgacheffe and Harar.” Be thankful coffee doesn’t grow in California. Forget corporate coffee, roast your own beans instead. I’ve been doing it for a…
Borat write thesis. It niiiice
With apologies to the blog owner, here’s an alternative take on this Borat business from the Christian Science Monitor: Sacha Baron Cohen’s crude Kazakh journalist may have originated in a dissertation on the ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ in 1960s America.