ONE FOR THE ROAD The Kerry, Ireland, county council voted in January to let some people drive drunk. The councillors reasoned that in the county’s isolated regions, some seniors live alone and need the camaraderie of the pub, but fear a DUI arrest on the way home. The councillors thus empowered police to issue DUI permits to those targeted drivers. Besides, reasoned the … [Read more...] about Great TSA Finds and Redneck Chronicles and Tax Dodging Tax Collectors
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Artful Dodgers And Gambling Junkies And Too Silly To Be True
ARTFUL DODGERS The head of the Perse School in Cambridge, England, recently instituted a “10-Second Rule” for minor disciplinary infractions: Students could avoid punishment if they quickly produced a clever explanation for their misbehavior. “Getting children to talk their way out of a tight corner in a very short period of time” said Ed Elliott, encourages creativity and … [Read more...] about Artful Dodgers And Gambling Junkies And Too Silly To Be True
Modern Warfare and Fungus and the Perils of a Compelling Booty
MODERN WARFARE China, Japan and Taiwan each claim ownership of the uninhabited South China Sea islands of Senkaku (or Diaoyu), and the controversy heightened in September when Japan announced that it had formally “purchased” the islands from a private company that reputedly owned them. China countered by “launching” its first-ever aircraft carrier (a vessel junked in 1998 by … [Read more...] about Modern Warfare and Fungus and the Perils of a Compelling Booty