Posted 1/09/2003 02:10:00 PM by Douglas

What in the heck is this shit all about? You can't get drunk in a bar anymore? Since when did a bar, which is private property, become a public place, anyway?

Police said the holiday raids, first reported in the Reston Times, were born of a community policing goal of discouraging crime before it occurs.

Does it make sense to arrest people before they shoplift or before they commit murder? I would say that this is rediciliously stupid, but I'm not so sure anymore.

One man who was arrested during one of the police raids acknowledged having several drinks during the course of the afternoon, but said he was not driving or acting unruly as he sat at a table with several work colleagues. He had just finished singing "Jingle Bell Rock" on the karaoke machine when an officer asked him to step outside. He failed a breath test and was taken in a van to jail.

OK, we can all see that sometimes drunk guys with the karaoke machine can be a menace to society, but if we start filling our jails with this kind of crap, they will be overflowing before we even lock up all the drunk guys doing Elvis songs.

Posted 1/09/2003 02:10:00 PM by Douglas

This is a great piece comparing the end of the Apollo program to the beginning of Groundhog Day.

Good stuff, really, and an excellent photo of EVA 3 from Apollo 17.

Posted 1/04/2003 06:14:00 PM by Douglas

Your War on Drugs at work here. The link's from Houston Chronicle, which will go away in about 72 hours, and the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram wants $2.95 for the article, greedy bastards, but it's still worth noting:
$20 of Crack, and some young, dumb cop gets shot in the armpit. As we learned from the League City story, I don't like reaching for my money too quickly in these stores. And to think that anyone would run in with a hood on wielding a gun and think that the clerk isn't going to return fire.

It's tragic that someone got shot for $20 of crack, but where's the tragedy here? The guy that made the $20, or the jack-booted thug that got capped because they made (several) bad choices?

Posted 1/04/2003 02:26:00 AM by Douglas

Been a while since I've linked a Joe Bob article. This one's keeper. Teen-age sex. How can you lose?

There's an "expected standard" for sex? Expected by, of course, THE STATE! There may be a more Soviet sentence written by an American bureaucrat, but I've never seen it.

Read the whole thing

Posted 1/01/2003 03:21:00 PM by Douglas

God Bless League City.