NEW ORLEANS – It’s a groundbreaking court decision that legal experts say will affect everyone: Police officers in Louisiana no longer need a search or arrest warrant to conduct a brief search of your home or business.
Leaders in law enforcement say it will keep officers safe, but […]

Former Notre Dame great Paul Hornung has apologized for controversial comments he made on how the Fighting Irish can improve their football fortunes.
Hornung told Detroit’s AM-1270 The Sports Station, an ESPN radio affiliate, on Tuesday that Notre Dame must ease up on its academic restrictions because “we […]

(LA Times article, requires registration. Here’s the workaround.)
Word spread quickly through the school. When [Ron Fanelle, a Camarillo middle school teacher] got to his classroom that day, his students asked him about the rumor.
“The kids walked in and there was a buzz about it,” Fanelle said. “They […]

[…] On Tuesday Schau and his colleagues attached an engine to a dead pig and used the animal as a boat. The pig was filled with floating materials before they attached the engine and put the “boat” at sea. […]
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Flash adventures.
The Mystery of Time and Space
The Crimson Room
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Now this is some good game design. No instructions. Barely an interface. Perfect sound. Mind-numbingly entrancing.
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(CNN) – FBI documents about FBI surveillance of John Kerry in the early 1970s have been stolen, according to their owner, a historian who lives near San Francisco, California.
Gerald Nicosia, who spent more than a decade collecting the information, said three of 14 boxes of documents plus […]

Long post. Good stuff. Blog belongs to a feminist nearly-teacher.
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Lots of crap on the sidebar. I don’t remember where I found any of this.