Is it too good to be true? Is it too true to be good? Watch out for Blake’s 7: The Next Generation — well okay it’s really called A Rebellion Reborn.)

Illinois Overhauls Death Penalty Law

[Governor] Blagojevich vetoed a section that would allow a police officer to lose his badge if a review board found he had committed perjury in a homicide case.

Why is this even a question? Why aren’t there more cops in prison for perjury (in homicide cases or otherwise), let alone disbadged?

Daniel Kurtzman: Learning to love Big Brother / George W. Bush channels George Orwell

Chris Leithiser writes:

I want someone to start a free-condom-distribution program outside or near most major high schools, with the President’s slogan emblazoned on each package: “Leave no child behind.” That is what he meant, right?

Do you ever get curious about changing fashions in junkmail? I haven’t had “we’ll submit your website to 312 search engines for $39.95” in years; on another hand, suddenly here’s a flood apparently intended for insurance agents.

Tuesday: In about one day I’ve had three advertisements for a paranoid website:

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Weee-yurd.

On the Straight Dope site: Semantic and geographic wanderings, over the past two centuries, of the words fag, faggot.

View from high above a neighborhood where I spent quite a lot of time between 1971 and 1981; much has changed since then.

Elsewhere: Dad’s house, which is new, is not visible – I can’t even identify his street. 2004: The source pictures have been updated, and it’s there now.