Rather than actually making this a friendlier port for foreign visitors we’ve decided to have them view a friendly Disney video prior to their strip search, imprisonment and potential involuntary vacation in Cuba or other points abroad.

Also, although the damage was severe we managed to survive the 5.6 San Jose earthquake.

A very good Reason Magazine article on the rise of the neoprohibitionists. These are the nutsos that, quite simply, want to prevent anyone from drinking at all, regardless of the reason or cost. It’s the next logical step in the War On (some) Drugs. They’ll just expand it to all drugs!

Think of it, instead, as the War On Fun. Because Fun == Bad. Perhaps even evil – who knows?

I wonder how many of the current crop of funkillers^W neoprohibitionists have children with drinking problems. Probably a lot of them, as it seems that Europe doesn’t have these problems (despite junk science from the DOJ that says otherwise.)

A nice article about what has become one of our favorite shows.

I just wish I had the control that would allow me to do this to a telemarketer.

It’s the one thing you cannot defeat.

A little story about what can happen if you do:

Spontaneous Discharge of a Firearm in an MR Imaging Environment—Beitia et al. 178 (5): 1092—American Journal of Roentgenology

but TechnoViking threatened me. So, here you go:

But, apparently, it leads one to interview all of the big names of theater and Hollywood!