On my morning and afternoon commutes today, I heard a somewhat befuddling radio advertisement. It was a recruitment spot for the Border Patrol, and the major selling point seemed to be that by simply passing an exam and undergoing a 30 day training seminar, anyone could start a REWARDING CAREER in the border patrol. […]
The title is shamelessly lifted from my friend Thoreau at Unqualified Offerings. Yesterday, the lot of cowardly bed-wetters we’ve elected to carry out the farcical puppet show we call governance decided to grant the unpopular Bush administration carte blanch to violate whatever natural and Constitutionally guaranteed rights they damn well please. From the […]
The NYT reports on efforts by FCC Chair and Superdouche, Kevin J Martin, to persuade Congress that his regulatory agency needs even broader authority to regulate television content.
No longer content to dole-out bandwidth like a Dickensian gruel-meister and prosecute broadcast networks for daring to expose children to the horrors of the occasional breast, the FCC […]
…shall stop Dubya from reading the US mail.
Now, far be it from me to discourage a learning-disabled person from trying to read more, but I’d rather that he not read MY private mail. However, Bush has decided to attach a signing statement to a postal reform bill affirming his right to open mail […]
This seals it. I am not going to vote for any sitting Republican for the forseeable future, except to make sure that one party does not control both elected branches of government, but I will express this will in only the presidential election because I’m okay with a (D) Congress and an (R) Executive.
It […]
Radley Balko at The Agitator points to this incredibly powerful video from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, a 5,000 member organization of former law-enforcement personel who are now against the War on Drugs. He’s trying to get a blog-burst going to get these guys some much needed attention. Maybe if this group of former […]
Congratulations to the Oregon State Beavers NCAA Division 1 Men’s Baseball Champions! WHOO!
This is post #100 here at The One-Handed Economist. Thanks to the one guy still reading for hanging around during my impromptu nearly month-long break.
In any case, Don Luskin points to this post by Jim Glass over at Scrivener about the Federal Excise Tax. That’s the annoying few dollar charge on your phone […]
Sullivan gives a virus update, and has this to say about “BigPharma” (as it is known, in accordance with prophesy):
I guess I should add that these not atypical results show that although basic scientific research must be funded by government, the “evil” pharmaceutical companies are, in fact, among the most beneficent organizations in the history […]
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