Vol. 41 No. 2, June 2009
Index
- Obama loses his "cool"; with his glib dismissal of pot legalization, the president looks less like the man, and more like The Man.
- Gay by Force.
- Hate, 8, and the Golden State.
- Not One More Acre!(Letters) (Letter to the editor)
- Corrections.
- Birth of a cocaine factoid: a prohibition-friendly estimate of drug-related deaths turns out to be bogus.
- 35 years ago in reason.
- Sex shop scandal: zoning comeuppance.
- The truck stops here: driving while Mexican.
- Green money: global warming lobbyists.
- Hiking in Hoboken: revolting property taxes.
- Lawyers' war dance: tribal ritual = intellectual property?
- Quotes.
- Cell blocks for cell hacks: iPhone I.P.
- I.T. go home: skilled immigrant exodus.
- Scarlett green.
- Adolph J. Moreno was sentenced to two days in an Overland Park, Kansas, jail.
- An Iranian court has found a man identified as Majid guilty of blinding Ameneh Bahrami by throwing acid in her face after she spurned his advances.
- Chris and Mike Thompson weren't happy when they found that someone had stolen the wheels and tires from their Audi, which they had parked on the street in Washington, D.C.
- Katina Mitchell, a Loudon County, Virginia, school bus driver, got upset with two boys who were arguing on the bus, so she offered the other students $20 to throw snowballs at one of the boys and put snow down his shirt.
- Paula Anderson asked students in her communication course at Central Connecticut State University to make an oral presentation on a "relevant issue in the media.".
- Reforestation: trees grow on money.
- Roy and Val Worthington decided to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with a cowboy-themed party at their Leicestershire, England, home.
- Sgt. Steve Brody, an officer with the Morrisville State College University Police in upstate New York, used to stop each morning at a store that offers free coffee to cops.
- When a police helicopter's infrared cameras picked up a heat image from Colin Rowe's workshop in West Yorkshire, England, the cops were convinced he was growing marijuana there.
- Gutting D.C. School vouchers after they work as predicted.
- Price of prohibition: drug policy and Latin America.
- Trust fund: regulation and corruption.
- Warriors on drugs: gamers and ganja.
- What caused the crisis?
- Barter country: as the economy suffers, a nation turns toward cashless transactions.
- The age of debt: Barack Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility"--and delivers the opposite.
- It's alive! Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter.
- Electric intelligence: establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies.
- Energy futures.
- Nostalgianomics: liberal economists pine for days no liberal should want to revisit.
- Dangerous toys, strange bedfellows: hipster moms and conservative congressmen join forces against the regulatory state.
- The Internet saved my tongue: how I beat Canada's "human rights" censors.
- The freaky father of fitness.
- Blackbeard economics: the surprising--and surprisingly tame--self-organization of pirates.
- Life in the long tail.
- Information wants to be kindled.
- The calm before the storm.
- Mystery science reincarnation: a TV cult classic is reborn and multiplied online.
- Hired news: will P.R. pros take the baton of investigative journalism?
- The eyeborg.