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September 08, 2004
I Made This!

Looky what I did! Now do I get cookys?...

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September 22, 2002
Tattoo

This is about the last person I'd expect to see argue that tattooing is a form of protected First amendment speech. Even Massachusetts (headquarters of the blue laws!) allows tattooing now. You just don't know what funny is until you've seen the guests leave from an illicit tattoo party....

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September 20, 2002
Explicit Material Ahead

The government may not be compelled to provide sexually explicit materials for sale on DoD installations, but shouldn't they examine said materials for explicitness on an equal basis? While Playboy and Celebrity Skin are allowed (appealing primarily to men), Cosmopolitan is the only publication on the list that appeals primarily to women. Cosmo is a lot of things, but it's...

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August 30, 2002
Off with his head!

British police want to destroy a tell-all written by Princess Diana's former bodyguard. Apparently their legal "precedent" is the confiscation of profits from a book written by a serial killer. Somehow that gives them the right to confiscate and destroy all copies of a book that "may have revealed operational police details that could compromise future royal protection operations." Or,...

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