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About a month ago, I wrote a post about a school principal who ordered a strip-search of a 13-year-old girl accused of possessing prescription-strength ibuprofen. I thought it was outrageous, and I made the point that if any other adults had asked for a look at the girl's private parts they would have been rightly arrested for some sort of sex offense. To emphasize this angle, … [Read more...] about This Is Not a Good Sign

Two people have now asked me about the John McCain ads appearing in the left-hand column. Yeah. I've been noticing those too. Especially the big animated banner ad. It's not me. That's the Google ads area. For some reason Google has decided that my readers will want to see McCain ads. Or else Google has noticed that people will click on them to drain money away from the McCain … [Read more...] about About the McCain Ads

I've been reviewing what Windypundit was all about this year, and it turns out 2007 was the year in which I backdated my 2006 year-in-review posting to make it look like I posted at the last minute on New Year's Eve when I really posted it around 11:15 on January first. A mysterious object crashed to earth. The Windypundit Media Empire expanded. Slightly. The War on Drugs … [Read more...] about 2007 In Review

Looking through the server logs for Windypundit, I noticed that my bandwidth usage was up to 40 gigabytes this month, which is pretty high. A little investigation showed that just over half the bandwidth consisted of this stock photo from last year: That photo was served to the web 170,000 times this month. Since Windypundit didn't have anywhere near that many visits this … [Read more...] about Sex Sells