Commenter John Spragge, at Obsidian Wings: Frontier settlers needed guns to protect them from Indians the way people making unauthorized bank withdrawals today need guns to protect themselves from guards, tellers, and police officers. Heh!
Archive for June, 2008
Quote of the Day, 2008-06-30
Posted in Flame Bait on June 30, 2008 | 70 Comments »
Clark Is Correct: McCain's Service Is Not Relevant to the Position
Posted in General on June 30, 2008 | 25 Comments »
The right wng is going to go after General Clark very hard because of this: SCHIEFFER: Can I just interrupt you? I have to say, Barack Obama hasn’t had any of these experiences either, nor has he ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down. CLARK: I don’t think getting in a fighter plane [...]
Heller Open Thread
Posted in Legal Issues, News & Current Events on June 26, 2008 | 58 Comments »
Since much of the blogosphere is talking about Heller, and I’m more or less indifferent to it, I figured the least I could do is leave an open thread for discussion. Here it is. If you’re interested in the Happy-about-this constituency, Uncle’s all atwitter. As for an Unhappy-about-this constituency, well, none of the (very few) [...]
I Don't See Many Movies
Posted in Bloggin, I do too have a life on June 25, 2008 | 10 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, I went out and saw Iron Man. I loved it. But it occurred to me that I don’t go to the movies, or even watch movies, anywhere near as often as I used to. As a teenager and into my early 20′s, I would see, on average, a movie a [...]
Ice On Mars
Posted in General, Science on June 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Very Cool: Scientists believe NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arctic, the mission’s principal investigator said Thursday. Trenches excavated by the lander’s robotic arm have turned up white material mixed in with the reddish dirt. Trenches excavated by the lander’s robotic arm [...]
Wordle
Posted in General, Writing on June 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Mindless fun. This one of my blog posts turned into a work of art. Click on the picture for the larger view. Via Justine Larbalestier
Democrats Cave on Telcom Immunity
Posted in General on June 19, 2008 | 10 Comments »
The government can now outsource abuse, becasue now its is a bedrock principle of our political class that no one who violates your rights can be held to account for that if the President asked them to violate your rights. If the President tells a company it’s legal, it’s legal. The reports say that conservative [...]
General In Charge of Torture Investigation Accuses Bush WH of War Crimes
Posted in General on June 19, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Must be a kooky, DFH: The new report, he writes, “tells the largely untold human story of what happened to detainees in our custody when the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture. This story is not only written in words: It is scrawled for the rest of these individual’s lives [...]
Bush Admin War Criminals
Posted in General, Legal Issues, Terrorism on June 18, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Send them to the Haugue: The framework under which detainees were imprisoned for years without charges at Guantanamo and in many cases abused in Afghanistan wasn’t the product of American military policy or the fault of a few rogue soldiers. It was largely the work of five White House, Pentagon and Justice Department lawyers who, [...]
Fifty-Five Years
Posted in Culture, General, Legal Issues on June 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It is long overdue: The lesbian couple were the first to participate in a 2004 challenge of California laws against same-sex marriage, exchanging wedding vows only to see the ceremony voided later. But on Monday, Martin, 87, and Lyon, 84, exchanged vows again. This time, California law — at least for now — was on [...]
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