Thursday, January 26, 2012
What if the Government Ordered the Human Rights Campaign to Cover Conversion Therapy for Gays?
A thought experiment, thanks to TOTM.
Labels: catholic, contraception, politics, religion
Hatefest? You decide
With regards to the March for Life
From LGF:
And from AA:
Nothing more hateful and fanatical than talking about your regrets in life and how you wish others wouldn't make the same mistakes. I mean, they're practically burning witches at the stake down there.
From LGF:
On his way to a religious fanatic anti-abortion hatefest, Sen. Rand Paul was detained today by TSA agents at Reagan National after a scanner went off, and he then refused a pat down.
And from AA:
Alveda King speaks of her abortion regret. She's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s niece. She doesn't celebrate her birthday--which is January 22nd too--except by being at the March For Life every year... Seriously, go watch her speak on this webpage.
Nothing more hateful and fanatical than talking about your regrets in life and how you wish others wouldn't make the same mistakes. I mean, they're practically burning witches at the stake down there.
Labels: prolife
I was against Reagan before I was for Reagan
Thank you Mr. Newt for my morning chuckle.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Happy Lunar New Year
Corporations and Speech
So, to critics of Citizens United, I have a question: should those business entities have had a right to engage in SOPA/PIPA protests like they did? If so, what is the source of that right, and by what mechanism is it vindicated?
Indeed.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Are humans herbivores?
Turns out, no.
I feel like I'm arguing that the Pope is Catholic. To clarify a point that eluded many who wrote me about this: the issue is not whether vegetarianism is healthier, better for the planet, etc., than the standard U.S. diet. I don't doubt it is. It's whether humans are naturally vegetarians.
Here it seems to me the best evidence is our history as a species.
The best SOPA protest page in the universe
Thursday, January 19, 2012
On my day without Wikipedia . . .
I finally set up a Tor relay node. Great fun, you get to help people in China evade secret police, and there is only a small possibility that the FBI will send a paramilitary unit to kill you. If you want a higher chance of paramilitary encounter, I would recommend an exit node. Or, you know, you can run one at a commercial facility, but that's no fun.
Labels: politics, technology
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Importance of the Oxford comma
You don't want to be left with just JFK and Stalin.
Do note that the link is to Memebase.
Do note that the link is to Memebase.
Labels: literature, nonplussed and friends
Santorum - all for killing scientists
Our country is not at war and the Iranian scientist who just got offed was not a combatant. He was a murder victim–which Santorum thinks is wonderful.
Gross.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Drug raids
An excuse for the government to kill the innocent!
Or, if you use marijuana, and have a small amount of marijuana in your home, you may get shot to death by police during a raid. In fact, marijuana is so dangerous that police may shoot you when they raid your home if they just think you may have it. And it goes without saying that marijuana is dangerous to your dog, who may get shot during a raid.
SOPA in a nutshell
As Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian explained, PIPA and SOPA are “the equivalent of being angry and trying to take action against Ford just because a Mustang was used in a bank robbery.”
Labels: humor, politics, public service announcement, trends
Monday, January 09, 2012
I am not bewildered by chestnuts
And I do not know what this sentence means:
Apart from roasted chestnuts on the streets of New York City in the winter and a cameo appearance in Thanksgiving stuffing, Americans seem a little nonplussed about chestnuts, which have at times been a major source of sustenance here at home and abroad.
Labels: nonplussed and friends
Sunday, January 08, 2012
Krugman declares self to be an idiot
Good thing no one keeps old newspapers or anything like that.
A brief guide to indefinite detention
Hostilities forever!
And remember that I may very well be a terrorist. Maybe you are too!
You're here because someone in the U.S. government determined that you work for al-Qaeda or the Taliban. Or that you substantially supported them, or an associated group, or whatever and whatnot.
And remember that I may very well be a terrorist. Maybe you are too!
Both ways
I was a bit confused by this sentence
Followed by this sentence
So that would suggest that Pennsylvania having laws in line with the federal Constitution is hateful and bigoted? Or is the Constitution itself hateful and bigoted for not allowing Sharia law to be used? I mean, when the Feds outlaw some civil rights violation, one usually doesn't get angry at states harmonizing their laws with the one passed by Congress.
Once again, Republican politicians are pandering to the lowest, most bigoted element of society with an unnecessary, clearly discriminatory bill that would ban shariah law from Pennsylvania courts.
Followed by this sentence
Shariah law is not currently being used by Pennsylvania courts, and in fact the US Constitution specifically bans such a thing and has for centuries. But when you're pandering to haters and bigots, logic goes right out the window.
So that would suggest that Pennsylvania having laws in line with the federal Constitution is hateful and bigoted? Or is the Constitution itself hateful and bigoted for not allowing Sharia law to be used? I mean, when the Feds outlaw some civil rights violation, one usually doesn't get angry at states harmonizing their laws with the one passed by Congress.
