Apparently, in these troubled times of terrorists, school shootings and general mayhem, writing a webcomic about buying a gun can get you fired.   Writing another webcomic about getting fired can get you a visit from the police for terroristic threats.
R Stevens puts it much more succinctly than I could, so I’ll just link over to […]

It scares me a little when I find a rant that pinpoints the way that I feel (at least most of the time) about “The World”. I was trolling Warren Ellis’ forums today, and found this gem:
“I find myself pretending I’m more ignorant than I am these days. I know, I’m a weak, […]

This from Korean War vet and Princeton University Professor Emeritus Walter F. Murphy:
“”I presented my credentials from the Marine Corps to a very polite clerk for American Airlines. One of the two people to whom I talked asked a question and offered a frightening comment: “Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a […]

Members of Mennonite sects that permit driving but not “graven images” (e.g., driver’s license photos) are being told that the no-photo-required religious exemption once offered by Missouri is being revoked as part of the War On Terror.    Because, ya know, Al Qaeda has Missouri as its #1 target.
The Mennonites are being told to basically violate […]

Well, at least according to the USDA:
The federal government has decided to drop the word “hunger” from its vocabulary, according to a new report released by the USDA. The reason? USDA sociologist Mark Nord, the author of the report, claims that the term “hungry” is “not a scientifically accurate term for the specific phenomenon being […]

From Boing Boing:
UK security experts have cracked the sooper sekure new UK biometric passports. It took 48 hours. With £174 worth of sniffer hardware, attackers can read all the personal information off of any of the three million new UK passports in circulation — and if combined with demonstrated hacks for reading RFIDs at a […]

The one that you can’t get out of there? Don’t whistle it out loud.
A 73-year-old bar manager who illegally performed copyrighted tunes by the Beatles and other artists on the harmonica was arrested Thursday on suspicion of violating the Copyright Law, police said.
Arrested was Masami Toyoda, of Tokyo’s Nerima-ku. He has reportedly […]