All Stories published by The Awl on January 06, 2011

Drug Dogs Usually Wrong, Also Hate Mexicans

Apparently the drug dogs that sniff your car and get all excited when they smell your dope are not so good. Or maybe too good? “A Tribune analysis of three years of data for suburban departments found that only 44 percent of those alerts by the dogs led…


Blustery New Jersey Governor Outlaws Himself

You can’t make it up: “Gov. Chris Christie has signed a bill advocates say gives New Jersey the toughest anti-bullying law in the nation.”


On Louis Prima

Will Friedwald has a nice appreciation of the late Louis Prima in the Wall Street Journal. Prima, born a hundred years ago last month, had one of those great voices that, much like his fellow New Orleanian Louis Armstrong, contained within it so much joy that it is almost impossible to hear without…


Yay, More Snow! (Work With Me)

There’s more snow on the way! A winter storm watch is in effect until Saturday, Jan 8, 6:00 AM. Estimates…

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