Ignorantia Juris

The BBC has an excellent short article on the success Montana has at reducing the number of meth users.  The man with the plan was a software millionaire who described it thusly:
“We viewed it as a consumer product, researched it as a consumer product and marketed it… or un-marketed it as a consumer product.”
I love that term, “un-marketing.”  They didn’t step up seizures, searches, on penalties.  Instead they showed people that doing meth was a damn-fool idea.  And low and behold, people stopped doing something that would kill them.  We could un-market a lot of things, and we’d … Continue Reading

Following last week’s cyanide mystery and Monday’s mailbox that shouldn’t be there, today we have:

Bomb Squad responds to Suspicious Package.

McCain’s Office in Colorado receives threat (and powder).

Do I think anything is going to happen?  No.

Do I think that there are going to be a series of low grade panics?  Oh, you betcha.

UPDATE

And they were both false alarms.

McCain now says Western water pact should stand (the Denver Post).

Not unexpected.  When politicians of every stripe bust out some variation of “over my cold dead carcass” you may have misspoke.

Oh, come on! If you want to people to be upset about waterboarding, don’t demonstrate it on lawyers.

Via Instapundit.

I seldom watch television news, but this evening I ended up doing so.  And what do mine eyes see?  A segment on how the FAA has banned all model airplanes within a 30 mile radius of the DNC for the duration.

Of course, no credible threat is mentioned.  And commercial airplanes can still take off and land.  But small pieces of plastic with about a quarter mile control range, those are a threat.

The highpoint of the segment was the statement from an FAA official to the effect of how we have to put up with some inconvenience for security.  … Continue Reading

The FBI does not have Tesla’s death ray.

The Alien Property Office, on the other hand . . .

A local radio host has referred to Obama as Bill Clinton and John Kerry in “Blackface.”

Way to go Denver Rightwingers.  Stay classy.

Esquire has an article about the mystery numbers that are broadcast on shortwave.

I remember hearing about this, years ago.  I’d like to know what they are, but the thought of one of the mysteries getting filled in is a little sad.

Heirs to the Knights Templar have filed suit against the Pope.

via Charles Stross.

Denver police investigate a 4-year-old’s threat.