While I think the economic stimulus is a terrible idea, if the government’s going to be handling out money, I want my twelve hundred dollars, damnit. Besides, we’ve already spent it on lawn furniture and a garden that the dogs… Continue Reading
With our economic stimulus payment from the government set to arrive this week, The Wife and I decided to go get our anniversary present to ourselves a little bit early, so that we’d have time to enjoy it. Our stimulus… Continue Reading
The outgoing government officials in Italy seem to have a penchant for spite. Or an extraordinary lack of common sense, or a warped idea of how to balance individual privacy against openness about government activity. Or maybe it’s just an… Continue Reading
A question that sometimes people like me get asked is: “Churches do a lot of good works out there. What are atheists doing that is so good in the world?” Another question is, “The past is dead, so why study… Continue Reading
…And the Best Summary of a Recent Appellate Case Posted on the Internets in Recent Memory award goes to USD law professor Shaun Martin, author of the California Appellate Report, for his succinct, understandable, and highly amusing summary of today’s… Continue Reading
You can learn the official amount of national debt, to the penny, directly from the government. For instance. On April 13, 2007 (a Friday), the national debt was not quite 8.9 trillion dollars ($8,893,052,024.975.38). As of April 14, 2008 (Monday),… Continue Reading
Italy’s famous instability in government has been caused, in no small part, by the multiplicity of political parties competing for seats in the Parliament, as well as a Constitution that by design gives parties proportional representation based on their votes.… Continue Reading
Okay, all you law school people out there. Finals are coming up soon. Here’s the law, District of Columbia Statute 22-1321: Whoever, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or under circumstances such that a breach of the… Continue Reading
After excoriating atheist politician Rob Sherman over, well, being an atheist, Illinois State Representative Monique Davis offers a private apology to the effect that she had learned of a student in a Chicago school who had been killed that day,… Continue Reading
Imagine if this exchange took place in a state legislature between a legislator and a Christian minister who was testifying about what should be taught in a science class: Legislator: I’m trying to understand this so-called “Christian philosophy” that you… Continue Reading