See? Now here’s a violation of civil liberties….

“Radical vegans — who avoid any product that comes from animals — are now buzzing about the evils of honey. They claim its production uses the labor of oppressed worker bees, according to a Time magazine report on the growing numbers of American vegetarians. And kiss a carnivore? Never. The survey revealed that 29 percent of committed vegetarians would refuse to kiss someone who just wolfed down a meal containing

“The daughter of baseball great Ted Williams says she is fighting with her half-brother to keep her father’s body from being frozen in a cryonics lab. “Bobby-Jo Ferrell, Williams’ daughter with his first wife, said she plans to ‘rescue’ her father’s body from an Arizona cryonics company,” the AP reports. Ferrell said over the weekend that someone at Hooper’s Funeral Home in Inverness, Fla., told her that Williams’ body had

Here’s a snippet of conversation I overheard at one of the July 4th holiday cookouts I went to this weekend: First Guy: “If the U.S. really wanted to win this so-called war on terror, it’d begin by joining the I.C.C. and by signing that Kyoto whatchamacallit. The protocol.” Second Guy: “Does this pasta salad have cucumbers in it? Who puts cucumbers in a pasta salad?” First Guy: “And you can’t

Reader Randolph Addison sends along this Guardian story trumpeting a World Wildlife Fund study that predicts the depletion of earth’s natural resources by 2050. Not surprisingly, the Guardian reports this agitprop as though it were based on unassailable science and sober analysis: ‘Earth will expire by 2050’ Our planet is running out of room and resources. Modern man has plundered so much, a damning report claims this week, that outer

So I thought this Dan Perkins strip could do with a bit of a makeover. Not the drawings so much. To be honest, I kinda like the drawings. But the commentary needed a little bit of tweaking, that’s for sure… [link found via Walter in Denver, who writes of TT’s original strip: “I can’t decide if he’s really worried about the state of the country or if he just hates

Den Beste’s right: “No matter how many instances of the American flag they burn, or shoot holes in, or trample under foot, or tear to shreds, the American Flag will continue to exist. They can’t destroy the class ‘American Flag’ by destroying instances of it. Nor can they destroy the United States by burning flags. “It’s a symbolic act of anger and contempt and resentment. It’s a political statement.” To

Reader David Lonborg, who was very active in the lengthy debate over Washington state’s decision to pass legislation banning “Oriental” from public documents, sends along this related story from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin: According to the writer of ‘Kamehameha,’ starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, the upcoming film production is a train already on the tracks. But at least one Hawaiiana scholar is already working to derail it. Lilikala Kame’eleihiwa, director of

From retroCRUSH: “When Rock Stars Make Movies: The Good, the Bad, and the Just Plain Unwatchable” (Volume 1). Revisit the screen roles of some of your favorite songsters: Vanilla Ice! The Fat Boys! MC Hammer! Susanna Freakin’ Hoffs…! Here, for instance, is retroCRUSH’s review of that much ballyhooed 1988 Jeff Goldblum, Cyndi Lauper vehicle, Vibes: Ugh! A film featuring 3 hours of graphic butt sex between Carrot Top and Jm.

Pssssst! Wanna buy a ’97 Ford Crown Victoria? Low mileage, beefed-up engine, two-way radio. Gunrack… [Related: Pssssst! Wanna buy a coupla’ shotguns…?]