Penalty Flaggers

Nobody suggested that he ever pointed the B.B. gun at anyone, nor that he waved it or flourished it in an ostentatious or angry manner (referring to dictionary definitions of "brandish").  But he was then arrested for two counts of "assault by intimidation" and two counts of brandishing, purely because the two workers said they were afraid. [More]

I've recalled before how I had more freedom as a boy in the Shah's Iran than my boys had growing up in the land of the Second Amendment.

I saw some flaggers for pothole fillers a while back and one of them had a hammer and sickle sticker on his hard hat.

[Via cydl]