Saturday, December 06, 2003

From Best of The Web Today:
(December 5th)

Meanwhile in Georgia, three students at Conyers Middle School--two 13-year-olds and a 12-year-old--"have been accused of violating the state Controlled Substances Act after a plastic bag filled with parsley was found at the school," another AP dispatch reports. "We believe, because of the way the parsley was packaged, at least two of the students believed it was marijuana," Rockdale County Sheriffs Deputy Myra Pearrell tells the AP. The sheriffs department says this constitutes a violation of a law banning "possession of a counterfeit substance, a felony."

And in Louisiana, the Shreveport Times reports that "a student expelled from Parkway High for a year for having Advil, an over-the-counter pain reliever, will not be allowed to return to the school." The headline: "Bossier School Board Upholds Advil Expulsion." Too bad they didn't leave it up to the less bossy one.


While it's really great to see the Wall Street Journal finally taking aim at Drug War craziness, when you say the words "Police State" to your friends they still think you're exaggerating...maybe so, maybe not...

Friday, December 05, 2003

The penis is 425 million years old, says study
ANI


Happy Birthday!

(via Google News)

Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Some people just need to be shot. Here's one:

Commonwealth snub of Mugabe a good start on regime change

By Robert I. Rotberg

Tuesday, December 02, 2003

It's windy under the sea
DAVE BARRY


The definitive work on the herring flatulence phenomena.