Vol. 39 No. 8, January 2008
Index
- Free to move.
- The 4 Boneheaded Biases of Stupid Voters.
- Gone Fishin'.
- Let's All Give Money to the Rich Man.
- Reason news.
- Tuning Out the World.
- 35 years ago in reason.
- Book check.
- Buzz kill.
- Clean cameras.
- Bad touch.
- Bloomberg's folly.
- Quotes.
- All the news that's unfit.
- Home again.
- Swiss, please.
- Verification nation.
- Britain's National Health Service has told Olive Beal it will take 18 months to get her the hearing aid she needs.
- Defrocked eMinisters.
- Fifty years ago, a San Francisco Municipal Court judge ruled that Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" was not obscene.
- Firefighters in Braintree, Massachusetts, needed practice, so they drove to a vacant house, cut holes in the roof and the walls, and busted out the windows.
- Florida's Oswego High School suspended two students and forced about 50 others to turn their shirts inside out after they all wore anti-drunk driving T-shirts to school.
- In Sampson County, North Carolina, officials at Hobbton High School refused to let students wear clothing with images of the American flag to mark the anniversary of 9/11.
- Michael Martin is only 7, but he's old enough to have been mistaken for a terrorist three times when he tried to board a plane.
- Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park, Illinois, has banned students from hugging inside the building.
- Police in Tampa, Florida, arrested Donnie James White for violating the state's flag desecration law after several witnesses saw him dragging and stomping an American flag.
- The Chinese media praised Jiang Yanyong when he broke government secrecy to reveal the true extent of Beijing's 2003 outbreak of SARS.
- High risk.
- Pants police.
- Al Qaeda's forerunner.
- Starvation diet.
- Bonds for babies: democrats discover the ownership society.
- Where's the beef? Thank McDonald's for keeping you thin.
- Burn the rich: is it "apartheid" to pay for extra fire protection?
- Guests in the machine: guest worker programs mean legal inequality, tight government controls, and sometimes terrible abuses. They are also the best hope many of the world's poorest people have for improving their lot in life.
- Remembering 'the forgotten man'.
- Big box panic: Americans have been afraid of chain stores for nearly a century, but independent outlets keep thriving.
- A code is born: how catholic crusaders and New Deal regulators created the most intrusive censorship regime in Hollywood history.
- The real untold story: what the Anna Nicole Smith case tells us about the legal system.
- Secrets of weight loss revealed! A little is easy, a lot is hard, and results may vary.
- The Amateurs' hour: is the internet destroying our culture, or is it just annoying our snobs?
- Inverview with the vampire expert: Eric Nuzum on censorship, panics, and bloodsucking fiends.
- TSA-inspired art.