While condemning India for its nuclear testing, the U.S. government quietly funnels billions to research programs aimed at creating an ever-more-virulent nuclear arsenal
Gary, where'd you leave that laptop of yours?The toil of the Bay Area's laptop thieves used to be simple: Hang around parking lots and cafes, nab an unattended computer, and put ads on Craigslist.However, thanks to carelessness at an East Bay nuclear weapons lab, this workday has the potential to become much more tiring. Thanks to nuclear weapons workers' apparent habit of abandoning government laptops in public places, computer thieves may be now compelled to forgo Craigslist, and instead make
​Last month we wrote about how the San Francisco Police Department considered possession of a BB gun within city limits to be illegal -- even though the District Attorney and Public Defender acknowledged that the city's anti-BB gun ordinance has been obsolete since 2004. That's when a state law regarding BB gun possession took effect; interestingly, that '04 law was passed with the overt intention of doing away with odd, persnickety ordinances like San Francisco's. Well, there's the law and th