Rough Ol' Boy

While Mexico decriminalizes basically all drugs, Justin Boron, a reporter for a Georgia newspaper, calls for the execution of all drug users. Don’t worry though, when it comes to “juveniles and marginal offenders that don’t necessarily deserve death” he will merely banish them to a desolate island. What Mister Boron is advocating would be many [...]

Mexico is set to become a far more civilized country than the United States in the near future….at least as far as drug policy is concerned. The Mexican Congress has passed–and President Fox is expected to sign–a bill that will decriminalize the possession of small amounts of pot, acid, shrooms, peyote, amphetamines, opium, coke, and [...]

Yesterday, a Senate committee recommended that FEMA, the federal agency that caused more harm than good during the Katrina crisis, should be abolished….only to be replaced by another federal agency, except with more power. From CNN: [Maine Republican Senator Susan] Collins said the new emergency organization “would be, like the Coast Guard, an independent agency [...]

In California, some motorists are intentionally running out of gas to save money. “How’s that work?” you might ask, “After running out of gas wouldn’t you have to pay for a tow truck?” Not if you run out of gas on a California freeway because the state has commissioned a fleet of tow trucks to [...]

For any who are interested, tonight at 10 Eastern, 11 Central Adult Swim will air what in my opinion is the touchstone television episode of my generation. We’ve witnessed some great televison in our days: Jerry, George, and Elaine waited in a Chinese restaurant for an entire episode of Seinfeld; Dave Chappelle played a black [...]

tis a remorseless hitting machine. That’s right I’m talking about Albert Pujols. Tonight he became only the twentieth major league player to hit homeruns in four straight plate appearances, and after that he hit a double. Also, he is now only two hits away from an even thousand, meaning that he has averaged almost 200 [...]

As regular viewers of South Park know, in the conclusion of a two part episode about the Mohammed cartoon controversy when Mohammed was set to be shown a black screen appeared with some text saying that Comedy Central had pussed out. Apparently, that wasn’t a joke. What’s more, as David Weigel at Hit and Run [...]

Yep, Iraq’s looking more like a Western democracy everyday, and that’s why Iraq’s beauty queen was forced to resign because of death threats only four days into her reign. From ABC News: Iraq’s newly crowned beauty queen, Tamar Goregian, has decided to step down — just four days after her election, making this the shortest [...]

This may be the best news for humanity since the elimination of Smallpox. Thanks to a $43 million grant from Bill Gates’ foundation, Univesrity of California at Berkeley’s Jay Keasling has “genetically engineered a species of yeast to produce artemisinic acid, a chemical cousin to a powerful anti-malaria drug.” In time, this could cut the [...]

If you’re like me, then you remember spending every Saturday morning when you were little glued to the TV, wondering if Charles Xavier and his band of mutants–least of all being that pussy Cyclops–would triumph over their almost endless array of evil foes. If so, you will certainly enjoy this video featuring the Juggernaut. Hat [...]