Is it always wrong to steal, Uncle Immanuel?
Wednesday, February 11th, 2004Look, just like one of those goofy lifeboat-style examples from an Introduction to Ethics class: Elderly man says he robbed Gainesville bank to pay medical bills
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Look, just like one of those goofy lifeboat-style examples from an Introduction to Ethics class: Elderly man says he robbed Gainesville bank to pay medical bills
JFK will kick Shrub’s ass
Tuesday, February 10th, 2004Kerry is beating Bush by a good 5 points among likely voters at this point. (See, for example, the Newsweek Poll at here at the always useful PollingReport.com). And as even the (notoriously conservative-leaning) Gallup poll folk admit, "Gallup's historical polling shows it is rare for an incumbent ...
Court rejects “separate but equal”
Thursday, February 5th, 2004Go Massachusetts. Their Supreme Judicial Court says "What is this, fucking Alabama? No goddamn separate 'kind of like marriage' stuff for the coloreds -- I mean, gays. Rights is rights, muthafuckahs." Or something like that, in different words: Court ruling a U.S. first.
Bush is looking like the guy to be beat
Wednesday, January 21st, 2004Zogby has a poll with numbers I'm likin': "As Democrats Vote in Iowa and New Hampshire, President Bush Looks Vulnerable in Both His Re-Elect and Face-Off with Generic Democrat; Bush
Eternal recurrence
Wednesday, January 21st, 2004School's back. Why change? As I said last semester: "Back on the chain gang. Teaching again. Shirts with buttons. Cheap laughs from drug jokes. I push the rock of sedimented dogma weighing down their brains up the intellectual hill, one more time."
Hubble Trouble; or, how Bush’s idiocy undermines science again
Saturday, January 17th, 2004As the NYTimes headline says: NASA Cancels Trip to Supply Hubble, Sealing Early Doom. Why? Because Bush's "Hey, how about putting, like, people on Mars, like in that cool movie with Ice Cube, or maybe it was Ice T, and that chick from 'Species'? Yeah, that ...
Go, Teddy, go!
Thursday, January 15th, 2004Teddy Kennedy is really reaming out Bush for the Iraq war these days -- no mincing words. In Kennedy Hits Bush On War, the tasty parts include saying that Bush marketed the war on Iraq as a "political product" to influence the 2002 elections and is doing so again ...
Like you care
Tuesday, January 13th, 2004I fixed up the the misc links page so that both the blogrolling links and the random recent visits sections work right now.
Who are you?
Sunday, January 11th, 2004It's kind of fun: It's the World's Smallest Political Quiz. Here's a shocker: my "Personal Self-Government Score" (that is, how much of a civil libertarian I am) is 90%; my "Economic Self-Government Score" (that is, how much of a laizzes faire capitalist I am) is 20%. ...
A new toy
Saturday, January 10th, 2004Bought a new little toy that's cool: The SmartDisk PowerPlay Pro Presentation Remote w/32MB Flash Memory. Plugs in to any USB port, no drivers to install, lets you do your presentations on the computer with the remote control (about a 30-foot range), and carries 32MB of flash memory in ...
