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Here’s a typical blog comment on the subject of guns: “The constitution can’t be much clearer – you have a right to bear arms” Honestly I don’t argue that position – our forefathers were concerned about the fact that the British were confiscating their arms and they wanted to encode the right to overthrow a [...] A very close friend of mine who is rather more conservative than I am (and that perhaps is just a tad of an understatement) put me onto this movement: http://www.apportionment.us Basically they want to increase the number of representatives making up the federal House of Representatives (aka Congress). I can’t say I’ve fully [...] Take this chart from WikiPedia commons: U.S. GDP 1910 through 1960 What’s interesting about it is it would seem to put truth to the lie that it wasn’t the New Deal that ended the depression, but World War II. However if you look at the chart, you’ll see that essentially before WWII started, GDP [...] In regards to the ongoing Deepwater Horizon leak off the coast of Louisiana – what I don’t get is why there isn’t (wasn’t) a backup blowout preventer. Sure, they’re expensive, but so is paying off all the parties that BP is likely to be paying off now. All it takes is once – and I’m [...] Conservatives, but particularly those of a “Libertarian” or Ayn Rand ilk, tend to expound the virtues of “free markets” or “perfect markets” or “efficient markets“. The basic theme of all of these is a sort of “freshwater economics” view that the government should be completely hands off and non-interventionist (ie: “laissez-faire“) when it comes to [...] I’m putting this here mostly so I can find it when I need it. To quote the Downing Street memo: “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy” Yep, I know – old news, but it actually is oh so applicable as time goes on. What do I mean? I mean humans, me [...] You can tell accused killer George Huguely has a lawyer: [I] shook Love and her head repeatedly hit the wall. It’s “her head” that hit the wall, not him who “hit her head against” the wall. Perfect lawerspeak and a good metaphor for how modern generations (including my own) are unable to articulate simple responsibility [...] With oil rigs blowing up, Times Square car bombers, and SCOTUS nominees it’s easy to forget the biggest place we “stepped in it”, Iraq. However just today 99 Iraqis were killed and thousands injured in a stream of coordinated attacks around the country. When we talk about stupid kid trying to blow up an SUV [...] George Manbiot writes: There’s a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii that colonises the brains of rats, altering their behaviour to attract them to the scent of their predators. The rats seek out cats and get eaten, allowing the parasite to keep circulating. This is New Labour. It has colonised a movement that fought for social justice, [...] |
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