Arkansas cop beats up wife, uses government database to check up on ex-wife's boyfriend.

Meanwhile on Nanny Island . . .

Staten Island to fine businesses for opening their doors while running the air-conditioner.

Slate asks the same question I did.

How does the government know Americans are driving less?

The Button Police.

Good to know the Yuma school system doesn't have any real problems, freeing up personnel and time to count students' buttons.

This is news???

Actually seen on the bottom-screen crawl on CNN sometime in the past few days:

"The Pope sometimes wears a cape and a fur-trimmed hat."

Is the point of the new Burger King commercial campaign . . .

. . . that if you eat at Burger King, a deranged cow will stalk and murder you?

Because that doesn't seem like a very good selling point.

There's a minor ongoing theme in the movie Men In Black . . .

. . . that suggests the only news you should believe is the tabloids.

Life in Post-America Linkfest: 8-11-08.

Which is worse for society, people smoking pot or jackbooted thugs breaking down the doors of people they know are likely innocent and shooting their dogs?

Doctor secretly and without permission sterilizes patient, is neither arrested nor de-licensed. In my book, that's eugenics.

Stone arch collapses in Utah; park officials place the blame on gravity. Good to know the government thinks we're too stupid to know that gravity is what makes things fall down without them telling us.

Entire neighborhood in West Helena AR placed under house arrest without charge.



Yet another death from "nonlethal" Taser.

Jackson MS city councilman pushes ban on sale of guns at pawnshops.

For the second time I can remember . . .

. . . I voted in the Democrat primary yesterday.

The first time was so I could vote against Bill Clinton. (I voted for Jerry Brown, who had a brief moment of sanity and was advocating a flat income tax at the time. No snide comments, boos, or hisses from the peanut gallery; especially you, Mr. Whited, or I may have to mention Pat Deaton! :) )

Yesterday I did it to vote against Tim Ward.

Hey, Jeremiah, here's an ad idea.

You should start making commercials, playing the last few seconds of this Hulshof commercial . . .



. . . and contrasting that with every one of Hulshof's subsequent ads, all of which attacked his primary opponent Sarah Steelman, and none of which spent a single moment talking about Missouri's future.

Life In Post-America Linkfest: 8-6-08.

Englewood CO siccing the poop police on people who don't pick up the dog poop in their own yards within 72 hours.

So, in theory, your a-hole neighbor could wait until you're on vacation, turn his dog out to take a dump in your yard, then turn you in to the Poop Police if you don't clean it up.

SanFran institutes $1000 fine for "improper recycling," including not dumping your foodwaste into a compost heap, which is just what every apartment needs.
In St. Paul, Big Brother loves your trees. And the water bill you have to pay.

"Chicago, Chicago, That Nannystate Town . . ."

Jawbone Bluetooth gives a discount for getting caught breaking the law.

Shock Therapy is hip again!

Homeowner's Association stands in the way of teen Prime Mover's solution to the energy crisis.

Maryland H.O.A. also hates the earth.

Susana Tregobov dries clothes on a line behind her Maryland townhouse, saving energy and money. But now her homeowners association has ordered her to bring in the laundry. The crackdown came after a neighbor complained that the clothesline "makes our community look like Dundalk," a low-income part of Baltimore.

Tregobov and her husband plan to fight for their right to a clothesline, but the odds are against them. Although their state recently passed a law protecting homeowners' rights to erect solar panels for generating electricity, it is still legal in Maryland for communities to ban solar clothes-drying.

Can anyone claim Tasers are nonlethal force with a straight face anymore?

Answer: Jesus old.

The skeleton(s) found recently in Thayer may date to 500 B.C.

Which means the musketball presents us with an interesting enigma.

My three best explanations:

1. It's not a musketball, but something else. Maybe a petrified horse turd.
2. The native Americans had muskets before the Anglo-Saxon invasion, but somehow the technology was lost in the sands of time before Whitey arrived.
3. The musketball contaminated the scene later.

I am waiting patiently for the phone call asking me for suggestions on what to do with the remains of my ancestors.

I'll tell them to do a forensic analysis to confirm the skull has Native American features*, then make resin duplicates of the remains, place those duplicates in the Thayer Information Center with a respectful display, then make your best guess at what tribe(s) inhabited the area 2500 years ago, and return the remains to that tribe to do what they want with them.

And, of course, make a documentary film about the archaelogical dig and have the opening at the old theater in Thayer. Just don't put too much butter on the popmaize.


* - If it's not Native American, maybe the dating is a little off and it's Jesus. This would prove the Mormons right in their belief that Jesus came to the New World after his little experience in the Middle East. Or maybe, just maybe, it would prove that there were European-looking people here before the Native Americans, people who the Native Americans committed genocide upon, which would of course, on the grounds that they are pro-genocide, remove their moral standing to object to the genocide attempted upon them. Oh, wait. That already happened.

Life In Post-America Linkfest: 8-1-08.

South L.A. enacts one-year moratorium on new fast-food joints.

ILL-DEM State Legislator introduces bill banning Texting While Walking.

Big Brother Is Watching You Sit On Your Hog, Pretend To Hit The Throttle, and Go VROOM!VROOM!!!!

"Sous-veillance" is a retarded word, but a good idea. SOMEONE has to watch the watchers.

SanFran bans pharmacies from selling tobacco, on the theory that cigarettes are bad only if bought at Walgreens.

Cop pauses beating of PTSD vet to take a call on his celly; then resumes.

Cop shoves cyclist off his bike, blames victim, lies about it.

Long, of New Jersey, was charged with assault and resisting arrest after the cop insisted the cyclist had tried to run him over in a Critical Mass rally Friday in Times
Square.

A dramatic video starkly contradicted rookie Officer Patrick Pogan's statements. It shows the 22-year-old cop running toward Long and slamming him to the sidewalk.

Bush still planning to dance on the graves of the Tiananmen Dead.

Couplatoons for U.

Question.

Why is it that whenever I voice my opinion, the locals act as though I had blown up a busload of nuns with a missile launcher?

Hoffa old or Jesus old? Or maybe Adam old?

Flooding uncovers skeleton along Warm Fork River.

I note there's nothing in any report so far to suggest it was in a casket.

Our new chief of police described the skeleton as "very old." I'm wondering HOW old.

Life In Post-America Linkfest: 7-26-08.

Modern-day Poor Richards targeted by Memphis police director.

Jackbooted Thug Tasers Man Seven Times While He Was Alive, Then Two More After Death For Good Measure.

Cops who lost brutality lawsuits promoted for their "aggression."

Why don't we hear anything about the eminent domain dark side of media darling T. Boone Pickens' plan?

California Uber Alles.

Bexley OH considering ban on picketing in front of homes.

They must hate trees in Moorpark.

Minneapolis City Council rescinds ban on police compiling "political dossiers."

The Sun-Times hearts the Windy Nanny-City.

Perhaps I am missing the point.

Is the message behind this commercial . . .



... that Old Spice Double Impact will make your lower half smell like a horse?

Not arrested yet.