Massachusetts State Rep. James Fagan has an interesting proposal: Cut the state’s legal driving limit to a blood-alcohol level of .02, effectively creating a “no tolerance” law. Currently the legal limit is .08.
(For those of you playing at home, a 240-pound man nursing a beer over the course of an hour could blow a .02 on a breathalyzer.)
So, as Reason Magazine puts it:
It’s entirely coincidence, of course, that when Fagan isn’t thinking up ridiculous laws for the legislature, he’s a DWI attorney in private practice.
O rly? That is quite a coincidence. He should make friends with the star of this website.
Tina Fey dissed Jon Stewart, claiming he has to tell people when to clap because he’s not funny. What?
Fey tells Reader’s Digest she prefers it when audience members laugh rather than applaud because, “You can prompt applause with a sign.” She added, “My friend Seth Meyers coined the term ‘clapter,’ which is when you do a political joke and people go, ‘Woo-hoo.’ It means they sort of approve but didn’t really like it that much. You hear a lot of that on [whispers] ‘The Daily Show.’ “
So it’s not at all like when she was a writer for Saturday Night Live and could indicate when to cue the laugh track (or “audience-enhanced track”), right? Which, let’s be honest, had to be prompted constantly during Weekend Update.
Billionaire bad-boy and NBA team owner Mark Cuban recently made news in Dallas by banning bloggers from his team’s locker room. Well, actually, he just banned Tim McMahon, the only blogger who had been a regular post-game fixture with the players. This guy wasn’t just some random Jason Kidd-worshipper. McMahon was writing for the online Dallas Morning News. Right after McMahon blogged about a grassroots fan movement to convince Cuban to fire his head coach.
Cuban defended himself by writing:
“I am of the opinion that a blogger for one of the local newspapers is no better or worse than the blogger from the local high school, from the local huge Mavs fan, from an out of town blogger.”
Translation: All bloggers suck, so we won’t waste locker-room oxygen on them. Oh yeah — he wrote this on his own blog. And Cuban isn’t just an idle key-tapper. He’s considered such a serious celebrity blogger that he delivered the keynote address at BlogWorldExpo just five months ago.
Quoth the tantrum-prone Cuban in November:
“Blogging isn’t just about people getting things off their chest, it’s a way for ideas and the truth to come out.”
Here’s a slice of truth, courtesy of Slam Online: Doesn’t a blogger ban mean that Dallas Mavericks players won’t have to listen to Cuban (a blogger) whine in the locker room any more?
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