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NO COMMENT IT Penal Reform Philip Weber, Republican counsel to the Illinois state senate and a member of the Illinois Bar Association's prison reform committee, has come up with two plans for...
...John Gregorio of Tampa, Florida, who led a group called Taxpayers Against Kiddy Smut which crusades against sex education books in public libraries, has pleaded no contest to charges of sexual misconduct with an eight-year-old girl and a teen-age boy...
...Next Issue: Louis XVI on People Power The cover of National Review's October 30 issue advertises, "Ian Smith on the Future of Zimbabwe...
...I'm serious," Weber says Nothing but Good News Two headlines from the front page of the Los Alamos (New Mexico) Monitor for Sunday, September 20, 1981: "Laser Weapons: Potential's Great, but Still in Future," and "Blast Results Mixed, but Mostly Good...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...You can take it with you...
...Crime and Punishment Rockwell International and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration were found at fault in the deaths of two technicians who were asphyxiated when they entered a nitrogen-filled compartment of the Columbia space shuttle during a practice count-down last March...
...Rockwell was fined $420...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies, indicating name and date of publication...
...Frontiers of Free Enterprise The American Bankers Insurance Company of Miami, Florida, is selling mugging insurance at an annual premium of $79 for city dwellers...
...Senate, says it may take a "good military coup" to save the country if Congress fails to enact President Reagan's program...
...Fun and Morals The Burger Chef chain is suing two other franchise enterprises, Burger King and Wendy's, for infringing patents by using the word "fun" for packaged children's meals...
...And the Reverend Jerry Falwell is suing a Hawaii group for calling itself the Moral Majority of Hawaii...
...The Iron Heel California State Senator John Schmitz, a John Birch Society member and prospective candidate for the U.S...
...NO COMMENT IT Penal Reform Philip Weber, Republican counsel to the Illinois state senate and a member of the Illinois Bar Association's prison reform committee, has come up with two plans for relieving prison crowding and making streets safer: (1) put violent criminals into a drug-induced coma for the duration of their terms, and (2) release nonviolent offenders into the community, provided they wear day-glo orange uniforms and shaved heads...
...Readers are invited to submit appropriately foolish "No Comment" items as well as candidates for the Neutron Bomb Award...
...A Hot Time in the Old Town The fire department in Canton, Connecticut, sold 170 tickets at $6.50 each to raffle off a prostitute at a fund-raising "men's night...
...For about the same amount, the Early American Coffin Guild of San Francisco will sell you a plain pine box suitable for use as a cocktail table or storage chest...
...Among eleven arrested was the police commissioner, who said it was just "a social gathering...
...Who Watches the Watchmen...
Vol. 45 • December 1981 • No. 12
