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Month: March 2010

Divorce Court

March 31, 2010Burt Likko 1 Comment

While waiting to get called back at my doctor’s office I was treated to some afternoon television:  Divorce Court.  Man, was it bad. The judge was mugging for the camera whenever the shot was on her, and the bailiff wasn’t… Continue Reading →

Generalized Gripe, Law

Ten Rules For Dealing With The Police

March 31, 2010Burt Likko 2 Comments

Watch this. Especially if you are an innocent, law-abiding person. The introductory remarks are about five minutes long. And as noted before, you don’t have to offer information to the police, and when you do offer information, you’re taking a… Continue Reading →

Constitutional Law, Crime and Punishment

Why An Office Is Necessary For Productivity

March 31, 2010Burt Likko
Weirdness

The Sixty Second Patriot #6

March 30, 2010Burt Likko 3 Comments

The Liberty Bell was originally ordered to for use in the provincial government building of Pennsylvania in 1751.  Its inscription reads:  “Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof ,” which is a quote from the Book… Continue Reading →

History, Sixty Second Patriot

More Junk Science

March 30, 2010Burt Likko

I’m glad I don’t have a neighbor like Arthur Fristenberg.  I use dimmer switches, cellular phones, laptop computers, and wireless internet routers too.  Fortunately, my neighbors on the one side use all the same things, and my neighbor on my… Continue Reading →

Law, Link Love, Technology, Weirdness

Random Thought About Demographics

March 30, 2010Burt Likko 1 Comment

Kentucky and Modesto — powerful symbols of the nation we have become. It’s interesting to note that the country the Framers were trying to govern was very rural, very thinly populated, and very difficult to spread news through efficiently.  In… Continue Reading →

History, Link Love

Talk About Diminishing Personal Freedom!

March 30, 2010Burt Likko 1 Comment

Oh, what’s the world coming to when a young Republican can’t even take out some friends to an afterparty at a lesbian bondage themed strip club anymore? It was only two thousand dollars they dropped at Voyeur! Creeping totalitarianism, that’s… Continue Reading →

Really Bad Ideas, Scandal, Sex

Project Reason Video Winner

March 30, 2010Burt Likko
Atheism, Domestic Politics, Ethics and Morality, History, Law

Yes, A Call For Calm Applies All Around

March 27, 2010Burt Likko 4 Comments

Mainstream media has not yet picked up this story, so the only place I can find it this morning is on conservative blogs and the Washington Times.  Make of that what you will.  However, it’s utterly obnoxious. Our speaker here… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics, News

Calm Down Already

March 26, 2010Burt Likko 2 Comments

The rhetoric has become too shrill.  Even bloggers I normally like, respect, and find intellectually resonant have reverted to fear and hysteria.  And, if one reverses the ideological polarity, there is a remarkable resemblance to the ideological panic of 2002.… Continue Reading →

Crime and Punishment, Domestic Politics, Lighting Our Money On Fire, News, Terrorism

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