New Rul's for Tuesday, June 10th 2008


Stop being lazy and do your job


... or get a new job. The TSA announced that they will be installing body scanners in the 10 biggest United States airports. This gives TSA agents a black and white (but detailed) image of your body and everything on your body. Maybe while they're checking everything out they can make sure I'm cancer free and in generally good health. They protect your privacy by "blurring people's faces", but it's really not the face I'm concerned about. I'm not wearing pants over my face. It just seems like the TSA is getting lazier and lazier, and with a sexy distraction like full body scanners I can see this hurting aviation security more than helping it.




Don't pay for your munchies with marijuana


Some genius in New Zealand had this brilliant idea when he was at a gas station and realized he had no money when it was time to pay. So instead, he offered the clerk some marijuana to pay for his munchies. Even better, this guy was so high he didn't even realize there was a police officer standing right behind him, and he was immediately arrested. Listen up dude, if you're so broke you have to pay for munchies with pot, and so high you don't see the cop standing right next to you, it's time to put down the pipe and get a job.


Free speech is number one for a reason


In a recent trial in Kansas City, the judge told a woman who was raped, that she wasn't allowed say the word “rape” or “sexual assault” in front of the jury. The judge's reason was that the defendant's right to a fair trial and presumption of innocence trumps the accuser's first amendment right to free speech. I don't think it should be up to the judge to tell this woman whether or not she was raped. It might be one thing if she was lying about being raped, but telling a rape victim she can't say the word "rape" deprives her of the words intended meaning, and of pleading her case properly to the jury. It's not a coincidence that our founding fathers chose to make the first amendment free speech.