Mexicans Smuggling in the Metric System

Hopefully, they will also bring us the secret of Celsius too, but until then we Americans must stand in solidarity with Liberia and Burma in our Coalition of the Unmetriculated! We must not be metricked into being crucified on a decimal of gold.

The Smoking Gun’s mug shot collection may well be the first to give us some warning of the impending switch to a system of rational measurements:

Wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin (real name: Steve Williams) pleaded no contest in November 2002 to a misdemeanor charge of assaulting his wife during a domestic dispute. The numbers on the wall apparently indicate the metric system used by the Bexar County (Texas) Sheriff's office. Austin is about 6' 3", or 1.93 meters.

And everyone’s favorite mugshot of my namesake (sad, but true), Nick Nolte, who was booked for “driving under the influence”—undoubtedly, his neo-Ho look will sweep the nation (maybe not this nation, but I bet it will be a metric one…