Here’s a comprehensive list from Google of the top searches of 2005: Janet Jackson Hurricane Katrina tsunami xbox 360 Brad Pitt Michael Jackson American Idol Britney Spears Angelina Jolie Harry Potter According to Lycos, which nobody actually uses, these were the top searches of 2005,...

A special pre-trial dormitory for gay and transgender prisoners on Rikers Island, New York, is set to close, according to the Associated Press. Corrections department plans call for a new protective custody system that would be available to prisoners who feel threatened, regardless of their sexual orientation....

According to an Editor & Publisher interview, Dave Barry’s hiatus from his Miami Herald humor column has become a permanent retirement.

The ACLU recently purchased a full page ad in the New York Times comparing President Bush to Richard Nixon and calling for a congressional investigation into the NSA wiretap program.

Jeans with an anti-Christian logo are apparently all the rage in Sweden. Cheap Monday Jeans, which sell for $50 U.S., sport a skull with a cross turned upside down on its forehead. While some may be tempted to laugh this off as another Christian “hissy fit” (like the anti-Abercrombie campaign),...

This is for every 20- or 30-something guy out there. Playoffs start next week, so get to practicing!

Predictions for 2006….

The BBC provides all the gory details: A study by the Pew Internet Project found that roughly the same percentage of men and women in the US are serious internet users. But the research found that men value the net for the freedom it gives them to try new ways of doing things. By contrast women like...

Reuters reports that President George Bush “is spending part of his Christmas holiday reading about the post-presidential years of Theodore Roosevelt and the lives of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.” The two books he’s reading: When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt...

In the legal blogosphere’s subculture there’s been an interesting discussion revolving around Yale Law Review’s publication of a law review article (Control Mechanisms for Quasipublic Executives: The Intersection of Corporate and Constitutional Law) by Kiwi Alejandro Danao Camara....