Santa Monica has banned smoking on public beaches — presumably because the risk of developing cancer from second-hand beachsmoke is of enormous concern to oil-slathered sun worshippers browning themselves on teflon mats like lumpy West Coast taco meat. “”It’s about health,’ said Mayor Pro Tem Kevin McKeown. “It’s time to clear the smoke.’ Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss said at the [March 24 City Council] meeting that a committee

Advantage Fat Guy.

For some finger-wagging partisan scolds, Rice’s public testimony is an opportunity for the Truth to Set Us Free!™ (allpowertothepeopleamen). But of course, this is nonsense, as Rice had already testified before the commission privately (and Richard Clarke, the catalyst for this latest dog-and-pony show, himself refused to testify publically in 1999, on the same principle of executive privilege the White House has been citing) — meaning all that’s really happening

A simple exercise in democracy, those Spanish elections, right? No more no less? Yeah. Whatever. Again.

Dude, you got so totally scammed. When I bought my demonic bathwater off this bass player I know, I shelled out maybe 15 bucks and half a warm Heineken. And mine has, like, a Beelzebubbian pubic hair still floating around in it. Which is really worth something, I’m pretty sure, because B’s like, a serious demon in the pantheon of evil. In case you’re wondering, I use the stuff to

“MERRILLVILLE, Ind. — Officials have banned pink clothing for the remainder of the school year out of concerns that the color has become associated with gang activity. Administrators last week told students at the city’s high school and two middle schools to avoid wearing pink clothing or accessories, said Michael Berta, associate superintendent in the Northwestern Indiana district. “There is no evidence of gang activity. But because of the growing

I have yet to weigh in publically on the issue of same-sex marriage, and I probably won’t start here, because I’m still thinking about it. My libertarian impulses are battling with ideas I have about the government’s role in safeguarding (and to a lesser extent promoting) established cultural paradigms — traditions, I suppose you can call them — so I reserve judgment for now, though I must say I’m leaning