What to read now that you’ve read Watchmen. Louisiana State University gets its very own SWAT team (but they won’t call it that). Yet another reason why I’ll never understand religion. These people get excommunicated, while pedophile priests get protected? U.S. attorneys in medical...

Because I have way too many browser tabs open. Mexican drug lord hit men dress up like a SWAT team to carry out an execution in Phoenix. The rest of the story is just damned scary. But remember, the violence means we’re winning! Photos of a long-shuttered child development center in Maryland. ...

Literal treatment of Billy Idol’s “White Wedding.” Median home price in Detroit falls to $7,500. No, that isn’t a typo. It’s a deal! Ryan Grim has more on Eric Holder and medical marijuana raids. The Wire’s creator and former Baltimore Sun crime reporter David Sim...

Coming soon to the United States? The U.S. State Dept has issued a Travel Alert for Mexico . While millions of U.S. citizens safely visit Mexico each year (including thousands who cross the land border every day for study, tourism or business), violence in the country has increased recently. It is i...

My compliments to Rob Kampia for withstanding Glenn Beck for the entire interview.  Jumpin’ Jesus, that guy’s a douche....

One of my favorite guilty pleasures is the Dateline DEA newsletter, the Drug Enforcement Agency's a "bi-weekly email informant." The DD is drug war news you can use. This week's edition is especially juicy. We learn that the DEA helped arrest 750 alleged members of the Sinaloa drug cartel after 21-m...

British authorities remove kids from parents because of one boy’s leg fractures that “could only have been caused by physical abuse.” Child later determined to have rare form of scurvy; no abuse. Court says, “Oops. Sorry. But it’s too late. We already gave your kids to ...

Sorry, but I’m having a hard time conjuring up any sympathy for these guys. They’re due to be sentenced this week. To put it into perspective, all three are expected to receive about the same sentence as Ryan Frederick. That ain’t justice. I will say, however, that evil and inexcus...

Pot is more popular than Republicans: The first poll, conducted last week by Rasmussen Reports, has 40 percent of Americans in support of legalizing the drug and 46 percent opposed. The second, conducted in January by CBS News, has 41 percent in favor of legalization and 52 percent against. And a th...

San Quentin Prison from Mt Tamalpias Photo by: 1Flatworld California prisons like San Quentin hold twice as many inmates as they were designed to accommodate. In the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's annual report of 2007 (PDF) we learn that as of 31 Dec 2007 there were 171,4...