Legal recognition of same-sex marriage, and the change of the laws permitting the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples, will not be the end of the fight for marriage equality. Opponents of SSM will, and are even now beginning to, set up the next… Continue Reading
Charlie Whittington owns the Kwik Kar Lube & Service in Plano, Texas, and he circulated a coupon giving any customer who recites John 3:16 a discount on an oil change. Marshall Wei, although aware of the discount, declined to recite the bible verse… Continue Reading
By January 31, 2012, one-tenth of the nation’s primary votes in the Presidential nomination will have been cast. The largest of the anticipated swing states, Florida, has now advanced its primary to that date, sacrificing delegates at the convention in… Continue Reading
It appears that as part of what used to be called the Global War On Terror and now our permanent state of selective war, an American citizen who we may safely presume was both a member of al-Qaeda and not personally… Continue Reading
Eugene Volokh asks a trivia question I wish I’d have thought of. And gets a better answer than he had come up with on his own.
At his other blog, my co-blogger Will Truman links to a video from the Reason Foundation concerning zoning and building code enforcement very near my own hometown in north Los Angeles County. Too modestly, in my opinion, he has failed to… Continue Reading
If you are convicted of a misdemeanor in Baldwin County, Alabama (that’s on the east side of Mobile Bay, bordering Florida, with a county seat in the I’m-sure-it’s-lovely city of Bay Minette), the judges will give you a choice — serve… Continue Reading
As a follow-up to a (mostly) deliciously peaceful week in Lake Tahoe, a friend who is a Disneyphile and his wife invited The Wife and I to a double-date at Disneyland. It was during the week but it included lunch… Continue Reading
India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Thailand, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Myanmar are the ten largest (by population) member nations of the UN that have yet to find enough people to do what?
Hi there everyone. I’m on vacation this week. I may do some writing but with limited internet access I’m not going to be posting a lot from my phone. So look for more material next week. Cheers!