Weekly Features Post
Issue XXVII We’ve passed the half year mark. Twenty-seven issues of the Weekly Features Post and still rambling. This WFP benefits from the three-day weekend. We’re often rushed to …
Month: May 2005
Fining the Parents
That’s like twenty minutes worth of work at a casino! Weary of poor grades and low graduation rates, Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation families are being fined if their kids …
The EU Would Take Care of These Problems!
A German man who was mugged in a night club was mugged two more times while waiting for the police. The first mugging took place in a bathroom, where …
A Pox on Higher Education
Great rant against higher education at Lew Rockwell this morning. Link. Excerpt: Here’s the most diabolical part of the deal: Taxpayers lavishly subsidize higher education even while students go …
While You’re at It, Install a Wet Bar . . .
Wales church installs wi-fi for easy surfing during the service.
Ah, Grasshopper, Much You Don’t Understand
Five Thai Buddhist monks have been defrocked and fined after a brawl with monks from a nearby temple, police and newspapers said Tuesday. The street fight was the culmination …
The Lost Art of Hospitality
A 46-year-old man allegedly set his own home on fire in order to get two visitors to leave, police said. Link. Richard Weaver warned that Americans were losing the …
It’s the High, Stupid
Michigan legislator wants to ban pot-flavored suckers.
Professor Against the University
Pretty good rant against the public university system.
Consumerism Comes to Thanatos
There’s a new “art” exhibit coming to the West Coast: Experience the Experience of Being Buried Alive. Link. Excerpt: The people present will have an opportunity to be buried …
Jouvenel Review
Excerpt from TAC review of biography of Bertrand de Jouvenal
What Are the Vegas Odds Going At?
The first telescope designed to search for alien life began operating this month from northern California. The state-of-the-art radio telescope, being operated by the SETI Institute, is still undergoing …