And I’m not referring to mechanical ones on my car.
Really, the news is filled with so many horrors every day, that when you think you’ve seen it all, something worse comes down the pike.
Three apparent sex workers (Xiaochung Peng, Xiaoqin Wu, and Ping Zhang) were arrested on charges involving maintaining a bawdy place, aiding prostitution, and using a vehicle in the commission of a crime.
— Reason | 10.14.2026 | Elizabeth Nolan Brown
1. “Maintaining a bawdy place” — is it too much to ask that they define “bawdy”? And, for that matter, “place”? Otherwise, at their discretion, IMAO could be considered one.
In which case, my defense would be based on “Babeas Corpus” — “You Have [Quite] the Bawdy.”
Next they’ll be outlawing “ornery speech.”
2. “Aiding Prostitution”: Am I not guilty of aiding it if I do nothing about it?
And where is this standard when it comes to illegal immigration, and sanctuary and welfare states?
3. “Using a vehicle in the commission of a crime”: Where did that come from? Using a pencil in commission of a crime? Using socks / shoes / a map in commission of a crime? Using a sofa in commission of a crime?
Perhaps in this case, one of the criminals brought the car in to a mechanic and said that it was making a kind of “Xiaochung Peng” sound, with an intermittent “Ping Zhang.”
Scientists estimate that there are more than three trillion trees on Earth—a number that even dwarfs the amount of stars in our galaxy.
— Yahoo News | June 11, 2026 | Susan Lahey

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California High Speed Rail to Nowhere Paid for Nightclub and Cigar Bar
frontpagemag.comDan Greenfield
The California High-Speed Rail to Nowhere started out with a $9.95 billion bond measure back in 2008 that was supposed to link up LA, San Francisco and the Central Coast by 2020, and is now up to… $231 billion.
Hopefully. At this rate, it’ll cost all the money in the world and still never exist.
So where is that money going? Here’s a hint.
Around the same time that the CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery after an appearance with Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrating the progress of the ‘train-to-nowhere’, Democrats were moving forward a bill to ban the public from getting crucial information about the project whose budget is more than 5 times that of NASA.
But at least someone’s been having fun.
California’s High Speed Rail Authority paid nearly $600,000 in unallowable travel expenses to “questionable locations that appear unrelated to state business,” including trips to gyms, a nightclub, an escape room, a tiki bar and a cigar lounge over a two-year period, according to an investigation released Tuesday by the inspector general that oversees the agency.
The report found that the agency routinely reimbursed consultants for trips that were unauthorized or poorly justified. Some consultants flew first-class and were reimbursed without questioning, in violation of contracts and state policies. One consultant flew his private plane from Washington, D.C. to California and was reimbursed for a premium fare.
Nothing to see here. Just business as usual.
Say, what do you think of our updated IMAO logo?

Well, for one thing, it gave me another word I can misspell.
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And it gave us a ton of reasons to create the nickname “the Dark Ages”:
The Council of Toulouse in 1229 prohibited laypeople in its jurisdiction from possessing Old and New Testament books and especially vernacular translations.
Utah Clears World’s First Autonomous Prescriptions Without Doctors
Ground | 10/06/2026On Monday, Utah regulators authorized New York-based startup Nolla Health to allow its AI to evaluate patients and issue initial acne prescriptions without prior human review, marking a significant test of autonomous medical decision-making in the U.S.
The program operates through the Nolla Derm app, where patients complete a 10- to 15-minute questionnaire and facial scan; it is part of a closely watched “AI sandbox” program that allows Utah’s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy to waive regulations.
Nolla Health will use a phased approach, starting with two physicians approving every prescription for the first 100 patients, then loosening oversight to retrospective weekly reviews. The system must hand cases to a doctor if it cannot “confidently select a treatment.”