Notes of interest, July 31st: Jan Brewer and Mark Steyn

A few things I thought were worth briefly noting.

1) Erik Kain at Forbes.com on the mom who was charged - although the charges have now been dropped - after boarding a school bus to check on her son.

2) William R. Toler at Indieregister on Mark Schmidter, a Florida man who has been fined and sentenced to almost a year in jail for pamphleteering outside the court-house during the Casey Anthony trial. Bonus outrage: Schmidter was sentenced by the same judge who laid the charges against him in the first place. Can you say conflict of interest?

3) Jacob Sullum at Reason's Hit & Run on Jan Brewer's cowardly approach to marijuana reform.

4) Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing on forced ISP snitching, one big asshole of a security guard, the balls on the Czech Pirate Party, and reporting anarchists to the police.

5) Jonathon Narvey at The Propagandist on why Anders Behring Breivik doesn't matter in the war on terror.

6) A. Barton Hinkle at Reason Magazine on food nannies.

7) If you grow pot, your kids might be healthier for it.

8) Why Mark Steyn is the root of all evil:

9) Finally, Honduran authorities - with help from the States - have nabbed 2.7 tons of cocaine from a "narcosubmarine." What a waste of good cocaine.