Category Archives: news

From an AP news article that otherwise had nothing to do with government: The Spokane region and adjacent northern Idaho have had numerous incidents of anti-government and white supremacist activity during the past three decades.

Headline from the LA Times today: Obama urges Florida pastor to drop plan to burn Koran on 9/11 anniversary According to Obama, “This is a recruitment bonanza for Al Qaeda.” I can think of bigger bonanzas. Like bombing, invading, and indefinitely occupying their communities. He elaborates: “You could have serious violence in places like Pakistan [...]

If you’re about to work out, and you need to get really pissed off, try watching this first. Missouri cops serve a drug-related search warrant by sending a SWAT raid in the middle of the night. Cops dressed as soldiers bust in the door, shoot both family dogs in front of the suspect’s wife and [...]

The Supreme Court overturned much of the McCain-Feingold legislation today. I like that. I think people, and in this case groups of people, ought to be left unrestricted in their political expressions and financial donations. Five of our justices seem to agree with me. A line from the dissenting opinion, written by Justice John Paul [...]

Noooo! Sure, it was a shitty thing to do, but it was just the one judge. You think he represents all of Scotland any more than Sotomayor represents all of America? You think a single distillery had anything to do with this? Find a way to express your distaste, but please, not the scotch.

Our US Chamber of Commerce blog posted charts of what health care regulation looks like now, and how it looks in the current House bill. Mouseover and click. Weeee!

Prosecutors on Thursday charged three gravediggers and a manager in an elaborate scheme in which hundreds of corpses were dug up at a historic black cemetery near Chicago and strewn in a weeded area or reburied with other bodies so that plots could be resold, authorities said. Whole article. This makes me think. Who owns [...]

Japanese railway employees will soon undergo smile scans. I love news stories with “it has been claimed” in the sub-headline.

News sources keep yakking about Madoff’s greed, as if that were the real culprit. There are varying definitions of greed, which boil down to either excessive desire or unethical pursuit of desires. There is a crucial distinction between the two. I think the former is more widely accepted. That’s how I use it. I have [...]

My usual reaction to anything PETA is revulsion. But sometimes they take it so far that they’re just good for a light chuckle.