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This issue seems to come up every so often — the Turks & Caicos islands joining Canada as the 11th province. (source) Some refer to the dream as “Canada’s Hawaii.” In fact, the idea has been bouncing around since World War I. In 1917, Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden first proposed Canadian Annexation of the archipelago. (source) However, Great Britain

Perhaps I sound like a neo-Luddite, but I think the time has come for a little bit of retrograde thinking when it comes to technology. We are in a bad relationship with a mistress made of silicon, and maybe it is time to break up with her. A recent story reported on a gentleman who made a wrong turn onto

Marc Randazza’s article on CNN regarding Google’s defeat in the European High Court, which requires it to remove links to outdated information that is not a matter of public interest when asked to do so by the subject of those links.

Apropos to this morning’s poast. Vice article on how common it is to arrest kids in America.

On May 10, Italian Carabinieri responded to a call Telse Terme, Italy (just inland from Naples) from a grocery store owner. Two women had just absconded with two packages of hamburger meat. The women explained that they stole the meat because they were broke, had four young children, and nothing to eat. The Carabinieri, after listening to the story, paid

If you try and keep a handle on your privacy online, that makes the NSA think you’re suspicious. (source)

I usually wouldn’t post a video of such a length. But, if you find yourself with 43 minutes to spare, you really should listen to this lecture by James Baldwin and Dick Gregory in 1969. Even if you disagree with what they have to say, your mind will be larger once you do watch/listen. H/T to Connolly for bringing this

Then click here.  

I think that is sorta the definition of a douchebag. Ok, or it is one of the definitions of a douchebag. You know, you look at two people who are totally into each other. They want to be happy and to just go get married or just fuck each other for fun, or whatever. Nobody is getting hurt. Everyone involved

Its not even porny. Totally G-rated, but fucking awesome. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h37xswCoY0#t=149] If you can watch this and not smile your ass off, then you and me are not much alike. Which is not the same as me saying I don’t like you, but you’re definitely the weird one.

This seems much more appropriate than the original. It conveys the fact that everything it once stood for is dead. Especially the “land of the free, home of the brave” line. We are neither. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_PtnvVQhqA]

Mason Michalec is a 15 year old in Needville, Texas.  He prefers not to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.  His principal decided to take him on and gave him in school suspension for not adhering to the required political orthodoxy. Michalec does not seem to be backing down.   That principal is going to get spanked if he pushes this.

It really makes it hard to be an Atheist when the Pope is so fucking awesome.  Maybe that’s the point.  Atheist or not, Pope Francis is one of my top living heroes.   Pope Francis called Friday for governments to redistribute wealth and benefits to the poor in a new spirit of generosity to help curb the “economy of exclusion” that

This article I wrote on CNN.com got a little bit of attention. Much more than I expected.

It sounds like oral arguments in Dirty World v. Jones went well for Mr. Nik Ritchie.  (source)  I certainly hope so, as my client was an amicus in that case.  (Amicus Brief)  

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Celebration, a master-planned community adjacent to Walt Disney World designed by Disney and intended to be a suburban utopia.  I remember reading about Celebration when it was announced and being vaguely creeped out by the idea of a suburb engineered by the Magic Kingdom.  Photos of the place didn’t help this perception, given that

Kashmir Hill at Forbes has a great piece on a guy I’m proud to call a friend.  

I generally can’t stand critical race / gender theorist types who whine about “privilege.”  Yeah, there are advantages to being whatever the fuck you are.  There’s a time and a place when being a transgendered Azerbaijani will come in handy (although probably less often than being a white guy in America).  Accordingly, I don’t subscribe to the views in this

In Taiwan, they have strippers at funerals.   I want strippers at my funeral.  If I don’t get them, I’m coming back to haunt you all.