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. […]
Via Drudge, there’s this news clip: about a cop deciding just to kill a family’s dog.
And people wonder why I, in general, believe that only people with a great propensity for evil become armed agents of the state. Honestly, fuck this cop and may he be mauled by a thousand dogs. And fuck […]
I’ve openly admitted before that my early and somewhat enthusiastic support for the Bush Administration’s post-9/11 terror policy was a mistake. I didn’t think PATRIOT was that big a deal, and I even got behind the Iraq thing, which was regrettable. To paint as charitable picture of myself as possible, I did think […]
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 Transportation Safety Administration (AKA the Full Employment For Illiterate Half-Wits Department) is now wetting its pants over possible “terrorist dry runs” at US airports. I suppose this is one of Chertoff’s “gut feelings” with little to no basis in reality.
I travel frequently, mostly around Texas for work, but to other parts of the […]
Rogier Von Bakel points out exactly why I won’t be voting for Guiliani should he get the GOP nomination:
“Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.”
Yes, that’s exactly what freedom is, you authoritarian jackass. Exactly. Read the […]
Quick, somebody call Dan Riehl! It’s another sensationalized story about a missing white woman!
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 […]
So long, long ago when I was a freshman in college I took a course at the UO from a mildly obnoxious professor. It was a course in the Psychology Department, it was called PSY 330: Thinking, and I didn’t get that much out of it really. From what I vaguely remember the […]
At least nobody here is proposing death certificates for fetuses.
Rep. Stacey Campfield, a Republican, said his bill would provide a way to track how many abortions are performed. He predicted it would pass in the Republican-controlled Senate but would have a hard time making it through the Democratic House.
First of all, I simply […]
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