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They got Mr. Polanski…

Polanski – Wiki Commons

I admit at one time I thought that Polanski should probably be left alone – I mean it had been over 30 years since his crime hadn’t it? It was just sex right? He’s a famous and fantastic director, non?

Except:

She was 13 years old damnit!
He drugged her up [...]

Bad Massachusetts, bad…

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

So today Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick named fellow Democrat Paul Kirk to serve out the remainder of Edward Kennedy’s term. The unseamly factor in this that hasn’t been well publicized, which Republicans have good reason to be angry at, is the Democratically controlled MA legislature removed the option from [...]

While I’m here – the answer to immorality…

While I’m on the subject of morality, what really is the answer to all the immorality in the world?

No I’m not talking watching “Real Sex” on HBO, nor for that matter mass murder, single murder, rape, or any of really horrible crimes that happen. Clearly the people who do those (excluding “Real Sex” watchers of [...]

Corporate “amoralism”…

A long, long time ago, but not so far away, I went to a “Howard Dean” rally when he was running for President. At the time, and unfortunately I don’t remember the exacts (so paraphrasing), he said:

Corporations are not good or evil, they’re “amoral”.

It was the first time I had heard it put that way [...]