The biggest screw-up in family law in a generation was corrected by the California Supreme Court yesterday, in the Marriage of LaMusga case. The court ruled that a long-distance moveaway by a custodial parent may not be in the child’s best interests, depending on all the circumstances. Now this doesn’t sound like much (it’s pretty [...]
Since you can’t smoke on airplanes any more, we don’t need “No-smoking” lights. Why not make them ready to roll lights, for situations like this one:
A plane carrying sexy Broadway star Rachel York back to New York was forced down in Salt Lake City Tuesday after an agitated Egyptian man started flicking a butane lighter.
Quick-thinking [...]
From The Australian:
Documents found in Iraq’s old ministry of oil reveal that hundreds of prominent individuals received vouchers to buy Iraqi oil at cut-rate prices and sell it on the open market — at tremendous, often seven-figure, profits.
Those named include not just Sevan but a vast array of Russian politicians, close friends of French [...]
A reader emailed this to me:
API Report
The Associated Press reports that New York junior Senator Hillary Clinton narrowly escaped injury in the aircraft that she was piloting when she was forced to make an emergency landing in Southern Texas because of bad weather.
National Transportation Safety Board officials have issued a preliminary determination [...]
The evil California Prison Guards’ union has invented a new form of comment spamming. See the comment by Jeff DiCello of Santa Rosa, CA on Patio Pundit: Jill responds and Mossback’s Progress: Everybody’s an expert and Preston Line Staff’s voice.
I say we give him the chair.
The original is here, and DiCello apparently stole it.
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George Monbiot has written a delightfully hysterical account of the religious right’s influence on American foreign policy, standard issue for the muesli-eating snobs who go to Guardian breakfasts to bask in their supremacy to cowboy America, but I much prefer Mark Steyn’s account of the influence of bonker-mindedeness on the Left:
In 1968, in his best-selling [...]
Having completely struck-out in their attempts to undermine copyrights and to weaken America’s national security by attacking the PATRIOT Act, the mischievous little elves at the EFF want to attack one of the major foundations of the technology business, the patent system. They claim widespread abuse of the patent system has had a “chilling effect” [...]
Anaheim’s slow-witted right-fielder faced Tim Hudson for the first time Friday, and here’s what happened:
Facing Guerrero with two out in the first inning Friday, Hudson delivered his first pitch high, hard and tight, sending Guerrero spinning out of the way. Five pitches later, Guerrero answered with a smash right to second baseman Marco Scutaro for [...]
I was deeply impressed by the quality of the reasoning in
While the Mariners may well be the suckiest team in Major League Baseball, Seattle residents needn’t be forlorn, as they have in their midst America’s hottest Curling team, headed for the World Championships in Sweden:
“I think we have a good chance,” said Jason Larway, whose rink upset the defending U.S. champions from Minnesota last month. [...]
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