Vol. 43 No. 2, June - June 2011
Index
- Shine on, you crazy diamond: reason founder Lanny Friedlander, 1947-2011.
- The 19 percent solution.
- The breakthrough that wasn't.
- Mitch Daniels' pot luck: the Indiana governor's escape from prison taught him the importance of being tough on drug users.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Search everyone: the widest net.
- Your brain on MDMA: cognitive Ecstasy.
- Quotes.
- Tamper tantrum: criminal pamphleteering.
- Thought police: judge goes mental.
- Weed Hurler: soldiers bust pot catapult.
- Billions wasted: improper Medicare spending.
- Chemical conviction: 10th Amendment challenge.
- Defending Charlie Sheen.
- Gun gap: D.C. firearm rules.
- A judge in Queensland, Australia, had Thomas John Collins briefly jailed.
- In Georgia, Gainesville State College President Martha Nesbitt ordered a painting removed from a campus art exhibit after a "Southern heritage" group threatened to protest it.
- Neil Strauss is the author of The Game, which details the secrets of pick-up artists.
- Officials at Sacramento's Mesa Verde High School suspended sophomore Danny Tobolski after he wrote a Facebook status update that described his biology teacher as fat.
- Police in Pakistan have arrested Muhammad Samiulla, 17, for blasphemy.
- Steve Malfatto was ticketed for not wearing a helmet inside an Ocean City, California, skate park, even though he wasn't skating.
- The British Health Service Ombudsman has blasted the National Health Service for its care of elderly patients.
- The federal General Services Administration has provided its workers with identity theft insurance and paid to enroll them in a service that monitors their credit reports.
- The Harrison School District in Colorado has barred a student from attending classes if he takes medicine to control his seizures.
- The Pinal County, Arizona, sheriff's office fired Deputy Raul Alvarado for torturing a frog by Tasering it.
- Web of libel: DHS seizes domains.
- Zimbabwean police have arrested and beaten 46 human rights activists and union leaders.
- Flicks nixed: no more movie subsidies.
- Pop democracy in the Middle East.
- Unaffordable parking: off-street mandates.
- The re-constitution of liberty.
- Radar love: the changing status of the radar detector in a hyper-surveilled world.
- Ugly modeling: will spending cuts ruin or improve America's economy?
- The governor who cut government: Puerto Rico's Luis Fortuno on the economic benefits of slashing the state.
- Dead kids make bad laws: New Jersey may soon repeal one of the most onerous driving restrictions in the country. That doesn't mean legislators have learned their lesson.
- What sub-Saharan Africa can teach San Francisco: mass transit doesn't have to mean massive government spending.
- The political economy of ending tyranny: will the Middle East uprisings succeed?
- Leviathan's lawyers: the Office of the Solicitor General has traditionally defended the government. But should it?
- The most interesting man in the Senate: Rand Paul reshapes the national debate.
- Reefer mildness.
- Fairly legal.
- Run this industry tonight.
- Pocket translator.
- Ventriloquists for the powerless: translating the revolutionary consciousness of voiceless animals is no more silly than doing the same for human beings.
- The birth of chaos.
- The Book on Mormons: a brilliant new musical from the creators of South Park both mocks and admires religion.
- Big trouble in little Hoover: why does the nonpartisan, good-government consensus sound so radical?
- The comics code goes cold.