Fatty Foods Prohibition

Rumblings, The Human Condition

What with the food banning proposed in NYC and lawsuits elsewhere, I’m thinking that we’ll soon see ‘speak easies’ for fatty fried foods such as the eternally evil McDonald’s french fries. I can see it now– the dark alley and back door entrance.  The soft knock and murmured password.  The hooded, hidden figure shows you to your

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Video Piracy is Suffering From Good PR

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Before watching Fantastic Four last night (I’ll blog a review later), we were shown a little clip intending to discourage video/dvd piracy.  The clip flashed with scenes of someone’s purse being stolen, then another theft (a car?) and tables where bootlegged dvds were being sold. Now, let me quickly say that I have never knowingly used ripped-off or bootlegged copies of videos

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Suspicion of guilty money

Rumblings

Here’s an interesting link, Federal Appeals Court: Driving With Money is a Crime, that ought to get the attention of every person who uses an atm.  I am not saying I know exactly what was going on in this situation, but I do know: Our laws hold that a person is innocent until proven guilty.  This is fundamental

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On man and native

Rumblings

I’ve been thinking how interesting it is that we label the efforts of certain hunters as ‘apropriate’ and ‘acceptable’, while the efforts of those same hunters would be disgraceful to most civilized populations if you changed the tool in his hands.  Rather than set off some war amongst the factions, I’ll avoid using modern day

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