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By Dave Hitt on Nov 23, 2007 in Nanny Nation, Political Correctness, Pop Culture | 3 Comments
When my kids were little I watched Sesame Street with them, and some of the jokes were obivously aimed at adults. I remember Cookie Monster, sitting in a big leather chair in a library, smoking a pipe and announcing, “This Is Alastair Cookie, bringing you Monster Piece Theater.” My kids didn’t know why I was […]
By Dave Hitt on Nov 15, 2007 in Nanny Nation, Poker, Politics, Pop Culture | 3 Comments
Yesterday, Annie Duke testified to the House Committee on the Judiciary about playing poker on line: Why it should be legal, why the whining nannies lament about compulsive gambling is ridiculous, why the “for the chillllllllllldreeeeen” bleat is sensless, how poker is a game of skill, not luck, and quite a few other related issues. […]
By Dave Hitt on Nov 13, 2007 in Big Brother, Junk Science, Nanny Nation | 2 Comments
Mothers Against Drunk Driving is suing Mothers Against Illegal Aliens for using “Mothers Against” in their name. Their C&D letter said “MADD cannot be associated with your organization and the use of “Mothers Against” gives a strong implication of a relationship with MADD.” Not really. As the writer of this blog discovered, a quick Google […]
By Dave Hitt on Nov 1, 2007 in Cigars, Nanny Nation | 6 Comments
The Great American Smokeout is November 16th, and we’re making plans to participate. I’ll be getting together with several cigar smoking buddies and we’ll smoke…out. We’ll start with a round of cigars, filling the air with thick tobacco smoke and light conversation. Then we’ll all have a very nice, very unhealthy dinner, followed by even […]
By Dave Hitt on Oct 20, 2007 in Big Brother, Nanny Nation, Police State, Political Correctness | 1 Comment
When Michael Graham took his daughter to the pediatrician for a routine checkup, he wasn’t expecting that she’d be grilled about his drinking. He didn’t expect the doctor would ask his kid if he and his wife got along well, or if either of them used drugs, or of he made his daughter “feel uncomfortable”, […]
By Dave Hitt on Oct 10, 2007 in Big Brother, Junk Science, Nanny Nation, Political Correctness | 34 Comments
In a semi-free country like the US it’s difficult to impose tyranny in one fell swoop. It has to be done slowly, little by little, baby step by baby step. And it’s important that those first few steps seem reasonable. The first anti-smoker law was passed in the sixties. It demanded smoking and non-smoking sections […]
By Dave Hitt on Sep 25, 2007 in Nanny Nation | 1 Comment
A friend of mine fell in love with a woman from across the pond, so he packed up and moved a few thousand miles. Since then he’s been publishing an amusing blog about being an American in the UK. Here’s his latest offering: “Our town has a pleasingly diminutive shopping mall in its center. This […]