Not that I’ve given it a whole lot of thought, but my first reaction is to say no, of course not, why would there be—particularly if it leads to some sort of consensual group nudity?  But—and more to the point—why do you even ask? **** update:  GET OFF MY LAWN!

So asks Jacob Sullum over the House Agricultural Committee’s Eminent Domain Reform Bill: Yesterday the House Agriculture Committee approved a bill that would deny federal economic development grants to projects that involve the use of eminent domain “to obtain property for private commercial development.” Unlike the Bond Amendment, which Congress approved in 2005, this bill, known as the Strengthening the Ownership of Private Property Act of 2007, seems to have

“What those bourgeois puppets braying for my blood forget is that it is people like us and our supporters— those who stand in ethnic and epistemological opposition to the Land Owning class that ‘founded’ this country on rationalist arrogance and an ‘Enlightenment’ presumptuousness that left no space for the artful grace of magical thinking, thanks to a world view that privileged process over result, —against whom our detractors define themselves

And you thought Jimmy Carter was a dust-burping relic: An Indonesian fisherman hooked a rare coelacanth, a species once thought as extinct as dinosaurs, and briefly kept the “living fossil” alive in a quarantined pool. Justinus Lahama caught the four-foot, 110-pound fish early Saturday off Sulawesi island near Bunaken National Marine Park […]. The fish died 17 hours later, an extraordinary survival time, marine biologist Lucky Lumingas said Sunday. “The

Good start.  Now if they could just find a way to get him into a home for the ubiquitously tedious: In a biting rebuke to Carter calling the Bush administration the “worst in history,” the White House on Sunday dismissed Carter as “increasingly irrelevant.” Carter was quoted Saturday in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette as saying “I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this