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No You Can’t (Featuring John Boehner)

It’s Pi day! And Albert Einstein’s birthday. —————————————————— All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. Great [...]

from @ebertchicago Front row: Associate Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Antonin G. Scalia, and Clarence Thomas. Back row: Associate Justices Samuel A. Alito, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor.

Matthew at  defectiveyeti.com is being brilliant again – excerpt from LDFCfPE The Lou Dobbs Fantasy Camp for Peevish Elders Each day we will run a poll of your choice, carefully worded to elicit an response overwhelming in its agreement with your views (E.g., “Do you believe Congress should give Obama the benefit of the doubt [...]

Kindle deletions pave way for digital book banning Posted: 21 Jul 2009 08:40 AM PDT If publishers can give Amazon orders, why not the courts? Why not government? The very existence of Amazon’s book-deleting system could be used to enforce libel judgments, execute injuctions, or simply to ban books at the state’s behest. Farhad Manjoo [...]

Mob of Britons blocks Google-cam Posted: 03 Apr 2009 02:33 PM PDT The thing that amazes me about my homeland isn’t its willingness to live under state surveillance, but the way we freak out whenever anyone else uses cameras in public. “I was determined to make a stand,” said one local, who helped block a [...]

This is from an encounter I had last May – I meant to post about it long ago and never quite finished it – I walked down the aisle to my assigned seat and it was occupied by a big, bulky young man. Body builder type in plain, clean clothes. I socked him in the [...]

on and off through the whole inaugural process today.  I’m simultaneously frightened and ridiculously cheered and charged up by all of it – frightened because now we’ll see what happens when the new President is really engaged – and OMFG what if he’s not as good as we hope?  Can anyone be that good, anyway? [...]

So what’s new? The late part, I mean.  This is for Nurse Myra’s T-Shirt Friday collection. This is leftover from my pre-election set of billboard t-shirts.  I’m feeling all patriotic for the inauguration. This is crunched up, so if you can’t read it, it says McCain 1908. I had one old man give me a [...]

One sunny day in January, 2009 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.” The Marine looked at the man and said, “Sir, [...]