Simon Bar Sinister

he and his wife are doing this: http://www.howtodestroyangels.com

how about an abandoned amusement/theme park? http://io9.com/5525873/michigans-abandoned-dinosaur-amusement-park-is-way-creepy/gallery/

while I'm at it...

how hard can that be? some fish are about to do that.

"Original Sin(live)" - INXS

just got an e-mail from a friend about this: Canadian legends D.O.A. are playing Mac's in Lansing on June 24! :D

50 years ago next month, "the Pill" was approved for contraceptive use; it had already been approved for some other use a few years before that, but whatever. Anyway, it's hard to think of anything in the last 50 years that changed our society as much.

1. suspension with pay 2. for a first offense, no. habitual problem, yes. 3. for a first or second offense, no. suspension w/o pay on the third, dismissal on the sixth. 4. no. 5. no one is above the law; no one should be below it. 6. not unless the officer is facing dismissal. 7. a trial in the court of public opinion can hurt the officer even if innocent. 8. neither is necessary; that sounds more like an internal matter to me. 9. not unless there's cause. 10. no. "No reasonable cause" applies to everyone. real name to follow in a pm. update: word added to answer #7. it should make more sense now.

this can only end badly. :(

The ban in Michigan was a loooong time coming - hell, this isn't even the 1st thread I started on the topic. That would be this one: http://www.detroitgothic.net/index.php?showtopic=23598&st=0 Your "smokers have friends" comment shines a light on exactly what I never saw happen here...and I'd been following this issue for 2 or 3 months when I started that first thread. I never thought a ban would pass here because I expected an organized resistance that never arose. Maybe our legislators would've tried to sneak it by in the middle of a late-night session...but the point is that they never had to. Nightgaunt: saying that some proponents of the ban are "regressing mentally to the level of eight-year-olds" before asking if I make snarky comments to someone who loses a loved one to lung cancer...not the best lead-in there. Anyway, I openly admitted I was gloating back on page 1. As far as the "losing our freedom" argument that has been raised over and over again in this thread...80+% of us are now free of having to put up with the smoke produced by the (at most) other 20% when we want to enjoy a night out. Or doesn't that count for anything? Is our freedom somehow less important because we didn't take up the habit?

psilocybin, yes. keep the rookies away from th peyote, though.

sentencing: http://io9.com/5525647/sf-author-peter-watts-gets-a-fine-instead-of-prison-time

Did any of you complaining about this ban ever organize or join a protest campaign? Find out if your state rep was for or against? Contribute money and/or time to their campaigns if they were with you, or work against them if they weren't? Did you work for or against a candidate on either side back in 2008, when this bill was making its way through the legislature? Are you going to find and support candidates for this fall's election who will work to overturn the ban? If you can't find one, will you run yourselves? I'd bet big $$$ that the answer to those questions is no. What amazed me in all of this process is how little protest there appears to have been. Where were you guys protesting this, exactly? Yeah, you're only (depending on whose numbers you look at) 12-20% of the voting-eligible population, but a highly vocal and organized minority can fight way beyond their weight class.

has anyone here ever been to this place? how many people does it hold?

like some pad Thai is in my immediate future. :D

amazingly, the only thing I ever got arrested for was shoplifting when I was 15.

another day closer, bwahahahahahaha...

It's a takeoff on the title of the play Your Arms Too Short To Box With God. last match: Oh, Jesus! Pat Robertson or Pope Benedict XVI?

The would be the All Star Topless Bar on 8 Mile Rd., by the way: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36739088/ when I did a search for this story, there were links to a story about some club in Texas that got caught at the same thing.

If she's still doing this at this place, she won again!

chuck's arms too short to box with God! Angelina Jolie vs. Megan Fox?

ever see this?