NYP: ALBANY - Call it an un-cover charge. A Brooklyn assemblyman introduced a bill yesterday that would require patrons to pay the state $10 every time they visit a strip club or topless joint. Felix Ortiz, a Democrat, said the flesh fee could raise as much as $500 million for victims of human traff...

Note: I’ll be having surgery on my leg tomorrow, so this will probably be the last article you will see from me for a few days while I recover. I can be reached via Twitter or e-mail while in the hospital. Sita Sings the Blues is an amazing animated feature created by Nina Paley. I first heard it ...

If you use WordPress for your blog, or you read a WordPress blog like this one, then you are aware of a recently-added feature, where WordPress creates links at the end of posts if you read the post in its individual URL (i.e. click the title of any post on this blog, and you’ll see a webpage ...

Raleigh News & Observer:  Tanning bed bursts into flames; man escapes With the tan of his life, no doubt. L.A. Daily News:  Arrest made in Burbank gun battle The guns battled, so hopefully they arrested a gun. Slashdot:  Mississippi Bill Would Tax Software Sales Remember, those of you who dow...

Two stories on Catholicism today: (1)  The Nutbar State strikes again.  They say that Missouri and Illinois rank low in terms of mental health?  Hell, ConnetiNUT must be in last place.  The state is pondering a bill that would take the power of the purse away from the Priesthood and give to to c...

Open borders rabble in Morristown, N.J. doesn’t want the City’s Finest to get 287-g authorization.  They give some cock-and-bull excuse about “creating rifts” and “making immigrants reluctant to report crimes” (even though every jurisdiction that matters has anon...

Is there no place in this country with more than 10,000 people 2 of them black that the NAACP doesn’t want to screw up by having a chapter there?  Not only does Paducah have an NAACP chapter, it’s evidently strong enough and the city government pandering enough such that it has influenc...

Recently I’ve been playing with linking to specific parts of a video and incorporating YouTube subtitles. Then I realized that you could do a neat trick. YouTube allows you to create closed captioning with a simple text file that looks like this: 00:00:07.000 Hi everybody. Welcome back to anot...

1797 Thomas Jefferson presents a paper on the Megalonyx to the American Philosophical Society. It will be published as “A Memoir on the Discovery of Certain Bones of a Quadruped of the Clawed Kind in the Western Parts of Virginia,” Transactions of American Philosophical Society 4:255-256...

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Just because I have a blog, doesn’t mean I’m not active on Twitter. As a matter of fact, when I post a blog post, it automatically is tweeted out over my Twitter account. What if I wanted to notify people on Twitter anytime an act...