behaving badly

Montel Williams: Newspaper Interns Are Dangerous, Must Be Eliminated [Bomb Scares]

Over the weekend, multiple sclerosis victim and talkshow host Montel Williams threatened a teenage newspaper intern who asked him a question at a press event. "Don't look at me like that," he said to...

The Problem Is, I Don't Trust Chicago Cops

You see, the Chicago Police Department has as history of behaving badly. So when a Congressman alleges racial profiling I believe the Congressman, and I don't believe the cops.U.S. Rep. Danny Davis...

Children behaving badly

Children who behave badly in kindergarten aren’t doomed to academic failure, writes Ann Hulbert at Slate, reporting on several studies that “brought welcome news for young hellions and...

Men (and women) behaving badly

The Book of Time Outs: A Mostly True History of the World's Biggest Troublemakers by Deb Lucke Simon & Schuster The adage "well-behaved women seldom make history" apparently holds true for men too,...

Stupid Agent Tricks

We've blogged before about Agents Behaving Badly©, but here's a new twit, er, twist:"Mississippi Insurance agent Ken Nowlin is objecting to a pre-sentence report that suggests he may have to pay...

WHOIS On First?

Right now, anyone can look up the real name of the owner of a website on the WHOIS database. You can see, for example, that this site is owned by the Reason Foundation (surprise!). This is a handy...

Teachers Behaving Badly, States Ignoring The Problem

Between last week's report from the Small Newspaper Group (see chart) and today's AP story, we've got a glut of information about teachers behaving badly. According to last week's story, only...

HEALTH PLANS: Health Plans Behaving Badly

I spent Monday lecturing a bunch of health plans about their bad behavior and how that had to change or they’d eventually be put out of business. So how might that not play out? Here’s my best guess...

Raising A Society of Spoiled Brats

First off, let me just say that I have two children.  My children have lots of friends, many of them are brats.  They are not just the typical brat but the spoiled rotten brat!  What are parents...

Cops Behaving Badly - Video Evidence Division

View From The Porch: Serving and Protecting. There is an interesting (or disturbing) video at Tam's showing a mostly out-of-control cops. You question why he is harassing questioning you and he...