Starchild instrumental in putting prostitution decriminalization on the ballot

Press release posted on the LP Radicals yahoo group. Starchild has had various offices in the San Francisco and California LP, and is one of the spokespeople for this initiative. The San Francisco Department of Elections announced today that the measure prohibiting city officials from spending money arresting and prosecuting people for prostitution, and mandating [...]

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Troy King reported to be dating Troy University homecoming king

Back in November, I made the following comments at Loretta Nall Sends Troy King Appropriate Sex Toy: But reasonable people would not include the Alabama legislature, which in is great wisdom passed a law banning dildos, vibrators, and other weapons of mass stimulation. Not content with the law as it stands, Alabama Attorney General Troy [...]

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Cops Gone Wild: Vehicular Manslaughter Edition

In Ironton, Ohio last night, a pedestrian was hit and killed by a police cruiser, driven by a cop on his way to work. Unbelievably, the cruiser dragged the man for blocks, and the cop allegedly didn’t even realize he was dragging a human underneath his cruiser. In fact, he dragged the man all the [...]

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Legislators Gone Wild: Heywood Jablome Edition

I’m not exactly sure why someone who sits on a state legislature (where he represents about two and a half obscure rural counties out of 120 counties in the state) thinks that he can legislate what everyone in the world does, but Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting [...]

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Store clerk literally dodges bullet

A robber in Texas came into a convenience store, pointed his gun at the clerk’s head and fired. The clerk moved just in time to dodge the bullet, and emerged quickly from behind the counter with her own gun. You go, girl! A Longview clerk showed her mettle for the second time within a year [...]

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Controversial overdose rescue kit saves lives

Richard Knox, NPR “All Things Considered” 02 January 08: Every year, overdoses of heroin and opiates, such as Oxycontin, kill more drug users than AIDS, hepatitis or homicide. And the number of overdoses has gone up dramatically over the past decade. But now, public health workers from New York to Los Angeles, North Carolina to [...]

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