When they kick at your front door How you gonna come? With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your gun I recently ran across the above lyric somewhere on the web that I can no longer remember. You might think, as I did, that it sounds like a piece of gangsta rap about some gangbanger deciding between surrendering to the police or trying to shoot it out. In other … [Read more...] about Guns of Brixton
Non-Braking and Entering
My wife and I were at a friend's house Saturday night. Just us. Certainly not the friend who owned the house. A few weeks ago, our Tivo missed taping a double episode of 24, but our friend had it and had made a tape of it for us on Friday. She lives far out in the Chicago suburbs, and she told us the house was never locked. She'd leave the tape just inside the door so we … [Read more...] about Non-Braking and Entering
Fun With the TSA
Tired of all the tedium of going through airport security? Then set your laptop up so that when they ask you to open it, it shows this. (Created by Michael Solomon, referred by Philipp Lenssen.) P.S. For God's sake, don't really do this. You will be charged with a crime. … [Read more...] about Fun With the TSA
Justice for the Young and Attractive
The story of Julia Diaco is bouncing around the legal blogosphere. She's an attractive young white college girl who was caught dealing drugs on the NYU campus. She could have been sentenced to as much as 25 years, but instead received a slap-on-the-wrist sentence of 5-years probation. A New York Post story, "Pot Hottie Breathes Freedom" (really), contrasts that sentence with … [Read more...] about Justice for the Young and Attractive
Fly Away
Lenny Kravitz's album 5 has been out for a few years now. I remember especially enjoying its hit single "Fly Away" which had an energetic video to go with it. You can hear "Fly Away" on Lenny Kravitz's MySpace page (you'll have to click the song yourself, I can't figure out how to link to it). Meanwhile, however, I'd like to discuss these lyrics: Oh I want to get away. I … [Read more...] about Fly Away