Assuming they’re both guilty of what the rumors say they’ve done, the upside is that they aren’t as stupid as they sound. The downside is that they’re even bigger scumbags than I’ve been assuming they are, if that’s even possible. And if the Clinton campaign’s denials are true, well, that means in addition to being [...]
Category Archives: hang 'em high
Probably not enough British comic authors on the list, either
February 1, 2008 – 1:51 pm
I didn’t follow the link, but I’m pretty confident in the accuracy of my post title.
Things I did not know this morning
January 22, 2008 – 6:24 pm
It was a long time ago, sure - but still.
Interesting statistic
January 8, 2008 – 9:43 pm
kamangir.net:
One of the high-commanders of the Police force stated a few days ago that in 63% of cases of murder with a female victim, women are killed by a family member and that “the Police cannot intervene in these cases”
I’ve read in more than one Robert Kaplan book that violence and crime are far less [...]
MEMO: ultra-violent overthrow of government scheduled for Saturday (raindate Sunday)
January 8, 2008 – 8:04 pm
Daring SWAT team saves child from headache:
NEW CASTLE, Colo. — A tactical law enforcement team broke into Tom Shiflett’s home and took his 11-year-old son to hospital for court-ordered medical treatment for a minor head injury.
Garfield County’s All Hazards Response Team raided the home Friday night, a day after Jon Shiflett fell after grabbing the [...]
Finally something I’m qualified for
December 11, 2007 – 6:43 pm
Skeptical Scientists Urge World To ‘Have the Courage to Do Nothing’ At UN Conference:
BALI, Indonesia - An international team of scientists skeptical of man-made climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore, descended on Bali this week to urge the world to “have the courage to do nothing” in response to [...]
Cowboy up, Catholics!
August 29, 2007 – 12:31 pm
Editor & Publisher:
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (CLRCR) issued a statement today criticizing newspapers for dropping cartoons that might offend Muslims while running cartoons that might offend Catholics.
CLRCR was reacting to the news that at least 25 of the 200 or so “Opus” clients planned not to publish the Aug. 26 and [...]
Long drop
August 24, 2007 – 2:15 am
Via Chuck, Alex Tabarrok’s So You Think You Can Be President? game show proposal:
Our system for choosing presidents doesn’t work very well. Voters are woefully uninformed on the most basic of issues and many end up voting on whim. I don’t think restricting the franchise is a good solution, however. A better [...]
Never again! (unless I can get some votes out of it)
July 23, 2007 – 12:08 pm
What an asshole:
SUNAPEE, N.H. - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.
“Well, look, if that’s the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment [...]
How can they champion victim’s-rights without first making sure there are victims?
July 19, 2007 – 3:38 pm
Via Instapundit, a fashionable TASER, delivered right to your door! Better-looking than the iPhone, and probably more fun to use… But alas, the fact that
In field uses by law enforcement against dangerous suspects, TASER technology has among the lowest injury rates of any force option.
makes no difference to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which cares more [...]
Fucking NSTAR motherfuckers
June 27, 2007 – 9:38 pm
I’ve lost power three FOUR times in the past 22 hours.
“Extreme heat” my sweaty ass. You’d think there’d never been a fucking summer before, and they’ve been taken totally by surprise. Also, NSTAR, congratulations on your notification system that calls folks to give them your best estimate about when their power will be back on [...]
My fair lady
June 27, 2007 – 1:05 pm
“Get your hands off our talk radio”:
Feinstein says she is “looking at” reviving the Fairness Doctrine to counteract the decidedly conservative bent of talk radio. Former President Reagan and a Democratic Congress repealed the Fairness Doctrine in 1987.
She wants to bring it back because she thinks “one-sided programming” pushes the American people into “extreme views” [...]
A modest proposal
June 21, 2007 – 4:22 pm
Tammy Bruce observes that polls show Congress’ approval rating at an all-time low, and makes a suggestion:
I suggest we pass legislation (or change the Constitution if necessary) which would require the ‘firing’ of all members of Congress in the event their approval rating dips below 15%. In other words, if 85% of the American people [...]
Send Lawyers, guns and… fuck it, just send guns and money
June 4, 2007 – 2:30 pm
Our legislators are idiots who couldn’t lawyer their way out of a paper bag*:
Omar Ahmed Khadr, a Canadian national, faced murder charges for killing an American soldier in Afghanistan with a hand grenade when he was 15-years-old. In a surprise ruling, the presiding judge at the war crimes tribunal Monday, said he does not have [...]
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
May 30, 2007 – 12:49 am
We call it Riding the Gravy Train:
I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian government to estimate carbon emissions from land use change and forestry. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty conclusive, but since then new evidence has weakened that [...]
More cognitive diss on the left?
May 5, 2007 – 2:31 pm
After listening (accidentally!) to one of those social justice loons on college radio this morning, a question occurs to me: how is it that any steps the federal government takes to protect the public from people who are merely suspected of some sort of terrorism-related activity are “fascist, man, totally fascist” and will lead immediately [...]
Dear John
March 25, 2007 – 2:06 pm
In an (unsolicited) letter, John McCain writes:
I have always considered service to my country the greatest duty and highest honor. [...] For some time now I have said that I would make a decision about whether or not (sic) to run for President of the United States and actively compete in the 2008 campaign after [...]