News: Snoop Dogg and some modern idiocy

These are collapsible batons. They are telescoping rods of metal that were originally designed to replace the traditional billy club or truncheon for law enforcement officers in confined spaces (squad cars, motorcycles, etc.). They are undoubtedly capable of deadly force (just watch "Silent Hill" for a pretty cool depiction of their use), but, then again, so is a baseball bat and a kitchen knife.

Snoop Dogg is now being booked for a felony weapons charge in (where else?) California. Now, I'm not the biggest Snoop Dogg fan, and I'm not one to hold celebrities to a different standard, but man, this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. When we have other celebs actually, you know, shoot at each other in nightclubs and crash into people with their SUVs, I just find it hard to put Snoop in prison for simply having a stupid baton. When we have Congresscritters and sheriffs "mistakenly" attempting to bring their guns onto planes and then getting off scot-free, I'm starting to think the world is getting a bit topsy-turvy.