The same governor who vetoed a law requiring kids to wear helmets when they ski, saying “Not every human problem deserves a law”, has just signed a law banning teens from tanning salons. Wait, is this a nanny state or not?… Continue Reading
Ray Bradbury, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Thomas Pynchon, Jules Verne, and Kurt Vonnegut all wrote novels that have what in common?
I’ve been watching the Green Bay Packers every week with friends. Sitting through commercials on TV makes me aware of products I do not own and really can’t afford. Before, when I was ignorant, I was happier.
A reversal of policy like this has to have come from either Holder or Obama. And it hasto be motivated by the fact that November 6, 2012, is less than 400 days away. It’s bad policy (leaning on the landlords… Continue Reading
Suitable for a Mindless Diversions post — some friends have asked me to gamemaster a tabletop RPG to see if they’d like it, and I agreed to do it. For a small group only of friends who saw their kids… Continue Reading
A calculus teacher named Bradley Johnson at a public high school in Poway, California decorated his classroom with posters described as: …two large banners, each about seven-feet wide and two feet tall, hung on the wall. … One had red,… Continue Reading
Just saw a note on my phone that Amanda Knox was acquitted in Italy. Good. Can’t comment extensively now but I thought I’d throw out a quick squib and invite another set of train wreck comments like the last time… Continue Reading
Over the past several days I have put three posts up on the front page. The first, a critical takedown of a policy of sending misdemeanor convicts to church instead of jail. I thought this was a sexy issue, I… Continue Reading
I give you ten years. Now, I’m thinking of ten different events that took place, one in each of those ten years I give you. Although these were different sorts of events (some of which are somewhat similar to others),… Continue Reading