Author: Mark Draughn

  • Giving Rush Limbaugh a Hard Time

    Rush Limbaugh had another run-in with the drug police: Rush Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at Palm Beach International Airport after authorities said they found a bottle of Viagra in his possession without a prescription. It’s a perfectly legal drug. Who really cares whether or not he has a prescription? Assholes… Read more

  • Jeff Fest 2006

    Jeff Fest I stopped in at the Jeff Fest (a.k.a. The Jefferson Park Community Festival) on the northwest side today. It’s one of the many festivals going on this summer in Chicago. (My photos can also be seen as a slideshow without the commentary.) Getting a Ride Here’s Chicago’s most famous Elvis impersonator: Rick Saucedo… Read more

  • From the Halls of LAX…

    This happened back in April, but it’s worth telling, because you just can’t make up this kind of stupidity. At Los Angeles International Airport, employees of the Transportation Security Administration discovered that passenger Daniel Brown was on the no-fly list, so they grabbed him before he boarded his plane and interrogated him, despite the fact… Read more

  • Opening the Floodgates

    One year ago today, the U.S. Supreme court ruled on the Kelo decision, confirming that governments could use their eminent domain powers to take private property and hand it over to private developers for private use. All that was needed was the thinnest of public use justifications, such as that the new owners would use… Read more

  • Sex Over The Phone

    Thoughts upon viewing the video for “Sex Over The Phone” by The Village People: I hope string ties never become trendy again. (Although, for all I know, they already are.) Production values for music videos have come a long way. Those guys have some serious mustaches. Did phone sex lines really have to take your… Read more