Maybe Getting Into Drugs When You're Young Prevents You From Going Crazy WHen You're Old

Abstinence is best of all, it goes without saying. But in the absence of abstinence, soft drugs often have something to recommend them over alcohol. I'm not saying this as a partaker, but as an observer – asa person, say, who is trying to get from A toB at 11pm.

Why Copyright Laws Destroy Creative Freedom

In their zeal to rescue profit from a dying industry, the RIAA is pushing legislation that may lead to border control agents searching IPOD's for copyright content and even having the right to destroy them as they see fit.

Christopher Hithens gets waterboarded, says he was drowning

After volunteering to undergo waterboarding for an article he was writing, Christopher Hitchens said, "believe me, it's torture." Nightmares of being smothered have followed.

PETA ceram-wraps its interns in 80 degree heat.

Well, that will make me think twice before eating a burger.

42-day detention: the threat to our liberty

The Government's legislation to permit 42 days pre-charge detention brings to the fore the wider question of civil liberties. In their response to the security threat ministers have dragged us ever closer to a society in which ancient rights are seriously damaged.

Billboards That Look Back

The ad is equipped with a camera that gathers details on passers-by.

"A Man's Gotta Have a Code" Omar from The Wire

This is an obituary from Obit Magazine on the shotgun-toting, gay, trenchcoat-wearing vigilante stick-up boy character Omar from The Wire. This one character is hard to let go into celluloid history.

Don't Spy For Me

Liberal Orthodox Israeli Jew (phew!) Haim Waitzman, in the wake of allegations that a former US engineer gave away sensitive documents to Israeli sources, begs American Jews NOT to spy for Israel, or do any such "favors."

Obama's Mr. Wright

There are a number of problems with this. A glaring one, for me, was this passage -

College students still use yearbooks?

College students are neglecting yearbooks. Shocking, I know.

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