Vol. 38 No. 1, May 2006
Index
- America's Criminal Immigration Policy.
- An Echo Chamber of His Own.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Blame the nonvictim: hooking vs. trafficking.
- Suing the spooks: NSA wiretap blowback.
- Crude economics: cutting off oil bysteria.
- Quotes.
- Speed misreading: meth survey on crack.
- Steep streets: congestion pricing in the U.K.
- Accidental drug war: Medicare benefits that bankrupt.
- Australian work rules say an employee can't be exposed to sounds that average more than 85 decibels a day.
- In the last two years, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has spent $1 million trying to convince residents their tap water is not only safe to drink but high quality as well.
- Italy has imposed a 25 percent tax on hard-core porn.
- Nine months ago, the Honolulu Police Department put five officers on paid leave while the FBI investigated whether they had accepted money from illegal cockfighting operations.
- Police in Paterson, New Jersey, knocked in Michelle Clancy's door at 5:50 a.m.
- Some street alcoholics make dozens of trips a year to Seattle hospitals, and officials estimate they cost the city up to $100,000 a piece each year in jail stays, hospitalization, and emergency services.
- Three French newspapers have been fined between $950 and $1,180 for publishing photographs of Formula One drivers.
- Unfair food: obesity litigation twist.
- When Scottish developer Marcus Salter started to move a big rock in the middle of his development, neighbors in St. Fillans complained he would disturb the fairies that lived underneath it.
- Bad company.
- Cyber cafeteria.
- Domain win.
- Foul balling.
- Grounded notion.
- Patriot acts.
- Porn patrol.
- Searching questions.
- Times wasted.
- Toking ticket.
- Unfair use.
- Watching, waiting.
- Filing fee.
- Searching the searchers: the DOJ's indecent proposal.
- In defense of attack ads.
- The voting trap: cast a vote, build a bias?
- The shocking truth about Osama bin Laden: apparently, he reads our blogs.
- The great fellatio scare: is oral sex really the latest teen craze?
- Cartoons makes cowards of us all: American editors pine: "if we only had the nerve.".
- Peak oil panic: is the planet running out of gas? If it is, what should the Bush administration do about it?
- The strange case of Steve Wilson: how a fraudulent crusader snookered the left--and is threatening the First Amendment.
- Sin cities on a hill: how legalized gambling moved from the Strip to Main Street.
- The beast that will not die: trying to stop America's seemingly unstoppable "war on drugs".
- Blow for injustice: the scandal of Tulia is the scandal of the war on drugs.
- Separate but equal? Can science tell us anything about religion?
- When bigots become reformers: the Progressive Era's shameful record on race.
- Suffer the little children: the grim "fun" of highly partisan kid lit.
- Everything is not illuminated.