Fiction vs Reality
I'm about a third of the way into Atlas Shrugged, and I can't help but laugh when I see headlines about government stimulus packages and their intended benefits.
Topic
politics
A collection of 25 posts
May the Insanity Never End
A new week and a little bit of new insanity. This time it's called:
HR414: To require mobile phones containing digital cameras to make a sound when a photograph is taken.
We can thank Rep Peter T. King of New York (big surprise there) for this particular piece
Congressman Price....
I am writing regarding HR45 ("Blair Holt’s Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act of 2009"). I am a long-term resident of the state of Georgia (since 1996), I own a small software engineering business and I greatly value my 2nd Amendment rights.
Whenever the opportunity arrises,
The Nanny State
New York City, not wanting to be out-done by anyone, and certainly not wanting to let London (or England in general) keep the Nanny State title all to itself, requires apartment tenants to inform the city if they have children living in the apartment. If they do, the landlord must
"A substantial cache of arms"
So, I'm reading this article about the Indian Navy capturing some of the recently troublesome pirates we've been hearing about. The article goes on to say:
"Indian marine commandoes boarded the pirate boats and seized 'a substantial cache of arms and equipment,' including
Proposition 8
A friend of mine recently posted her thoughts on California's recent proposition 8, and tried to do so in such a way so as to not offend anyone. An impossible goal, I suspect. I applaud the effort. I don't have any such goal, because 1) this
Lead by Example
So, there's this relatively famous Obama quote:
"It's not that I want to punish your success.
I just want to make sure that everybody who
is behind you, that they've got a chance for
success too," Obama responded. "My attitude
is
One Sane Cop
So, yet another instance of a cop abusing his power with his taser. Instead of having to posses an even rudimentary ability to control a situation outside of brute force and physical violence, the cop tasers the kid for no justifiable reason. Some interesting viewer comments on the cop-car-cam video
Free Rice
This issue needs to be addressed. Presidential candidates should be taking a stance on this. Concerned citizens should be decrying it. The problem is freerice.com. By testing your vocabulary prowess, you can donate rice to feed the often-mentioned hungry people. It's an interesting idea. And if you&
Union Craziness
At this very moment my manager is packing up the contents of his desk into a box. He is moving. He is moving over two desks. In what should have come across as a blatant show of my opinion of his intelligence I asked why he is not simply carrying