Brooksville, Florida is apparently being run by fascists: According to the proposed ordinance, a vehicle owner must pay a parking fine within 72 hours if a meter maid claims his automobile was improperly parked, incurring tickets worth between $5 and $250. Failure to pay this amount results in the assessment of a fifty-percent "late fee." After seven days, the city will place … [Read more...] about Stay Away From Brooksville!
Creeping Totalitarianism
Just Let Me Take a Peek…
Hey gentle readers. As a new part of the terms and conditions for reading my blog, I'm now requiring every visitor to please pull out your digital camera (cellphone cameras will do just fine), strip naked, take a full-body picture of yourself, and email it to me. I promise I'll only look at it once, I'll be the only person to look at it, and I'll delete it as soon as I'm … [Read more...] about Just Let Me Take a Peek…
Exciting Ideas From the Democrats: Slavery!
Republicans have long made a big deal of the fact that they're the party of Lincoln, that they're the party that ended slavery. It's pure nonsense, of course, to try to rest on the moral superiority of what your party did almost 150 years ago. It's not as if the Democrats are the pro-slavery party. Or so I used to think befire I read this: Americans would have to sign up … [Read more...] about Exciting Ideas From the Democrats: Slavery!
The New Tax Collectors
[Update: At the request of a member of the family described in the included news story, I've replaced their names with generic references to keep this story from coming up in searches for their names.]You know how in the Bible the lowest of the low are the tax collectors? I'm no theologian, but I'm pretty sure that's because tax collectors at the time weren't the dreary … [Read more...] about The New Tax Collectors
From Nail Clippers to Secret Fines
Jennifer continues her one-woman jihad against safe air travel. … [Read more...] about From Nail Clippers to Secret Fines