Reports this week said that police in Nigeria have begun cracking down on taxi passengers who refuse to wear helmets as a new law requires. The helmets are required for passengers of what the article described as the hordes of "erratic…
In the November issue of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg offers more evidence that airport security is mostly to make it seem like somebody is doing something, and is not in fact protecting you much: [B]ecause I have a fair amount…
Mathias Guerrand-Hermès, described as the "heir to French fashion house Hermès" and a "transatlantic polo organizer and financier," whatever that means, was arrested for air rage on October 16 after a drunken mid-air brawl. The fight ended with Guerrand-Hermès cuffed…
Stephen Shoemaker was so determined to get to the courthouse in order to be sentenced for a drunk-driving conviction that, when his brother didn’t show up to give him a ride, he says he just started walking. That does show…
With the Beijing Olympics just a couple of months away, the government’s excitement and paranoia are almost tangible. This week, Reuters reported that the government has posted on its official Olympic website an extensive list of things that foreigners are…
Numerous sources reported recently on a lawsuit filed by Gokhan Mutlu, a gentleman who alleges that Jet Blue employees deprived him of his original seat during a cross-country flight and forced him to use the lavatory toilet seat instead. Pro:…
Let’s take a short break from mourning for the shattered dream of a Romney presidency and remember another casualty of Super Tuesday: the Alcatraz proposal on the San Francisco ballot. Proposition C would have changed city policy towards the island,…
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that two men’s restrooms at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, including the one made famous as the scene of Senator Larry Craig’s alleged foot-tapping, will be remodeled. Specifically, the stalls are to be fitted with longer dividers…
Having finally contracted carpal tunnel syndrome from writing endless legal documents and posts for this blog, in addition to all the browsing and mousing activity that entails, my doctor is insisting that I take a one-week vacation from the keyboard. …
The bald men among you who have been thinking about moving to the German province of Rhineland-Palatinate in order to take advantage of liberal health-care coverage to get free hairpieces should think again. A court there ruled last week that…