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I. Earlier this year, I recommended Lawrence Rosenblum's See What I'm Saying , which explores the lesser-known aspects of sensatio...

The Washington State Senate has passed a bill re-legalizing indoor smoking-- in select locations. The plan would permit up to 100 cigar l...

Re-reading The Scarlet Letter means re-reading " The Custom-House ," its windy (in both pronunciations) preface. (If you skipped ...

Via Robert Whitlock at Olyblog, an interesting quiz by the ACLU on Washington's marijuana laws. I wish it were longer, and had includ...

In perhaps my favorite exchange from O Brother Where Art Thou, the Hogwallop child, after ensuring that our vagrant heroes aren't ...

Q: What if delivery people ran the world? A: 1984 , plus a few dings, dents, and scratches.

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Here's a perfect example of the potential for petty vigilantism in the Affirmative world of the March / April resolution : A man poses a...

A couple folks complained about an Oly Hempfest ad on the side of an Intercity Transit bus. The agency isn't backing down, though; the...

Enterprising prosecutors are now trolling MySpace and Facebook for embarrassing photos that might, say, prove that you weren't exactly r...

Today's news: 1. A car flips over in Puyallup. Two die. 2. Left-lane slowpokes, your time has come. 3. In Bellingham, the pedicab. 4. A...

The Olympian is still optimistic, now that the cash is about to flow from Lacey's red light cameras. Cameras have become a necessity gi...

"Chicago sleepwalks into the surveillance society with 'intelligent' networked cameras." "We are sleepwalking into a ...

Man talking on cell phone refuses to hang up. Signal fouls up plane's avionics, causing tragic crash. Not exactly : Joe David Jones, 50...

Could we cut crime without resort to drama, political posturing, or needless injury and death? Cue mathematics [sub. req.]: One of the earl...

At the intersection of Sleater-Kinney and Pacific: A City Council committee gave final approval Friday to activate the systems, after direc...

Stories like this are going to become more and more common, as more people are empowered to use technology to aid the authorities or simply...

One of the best summaries of the red light camera debate is available from MSNBC today : Last week, Dallas officials reviewed the numbers an...

My skepticism about red light cameras only grows. A careful study of multiple datasets reveals a painful truth : Rather than improving motor...

If a certain legislator has his way, anonymous posting on a website--in Kentucky, however that works-- will be against the law . The bill w...