Why Americans Believe Weird Things

February, 2007

FROM AN EX­PLANATION in the Detroit Free Press of why the Troy, Michigan city council denied a liquor license to a proposed Hooters: "The council shot down the transfer because, for some council , members, the res­taurant's image is not one they want to project along the Big Beaver corridor."FROM A COMPLAINT by Ronald S. Guralnick, a Florida lawyer who special­izes in forfeiture, about the reinstatement of a Bradenton police policy that allows officers to seize money and property from...