Archive for May, 2005
Coding Day
Today’s going to be a productive day. I’m working on a redevelopment of my wife’s website. My wife makes some beautiful jewelry, which you should go and buy (hint hint). My mother designed her website, and did a great job of it, back when she was getting her certificate in Internet Technology from our local [...]
George Lucas / John Kerry
George Lucas is generating a lot of words in the blogosphere, including a few here, because of his statements on politics, freedom, and Star Wars. Many see Episode III as an anti-Bush movie. I have no opinion on that, per se. I’m going to go see the movie, and I expect to enjoy it greatly. [...]
Arthur Chrenkoff on George Lucas
Arthur Chrenkoff has posted an open letter to George Lucas concerning his recent statements in Cannes. Lucas stated, “In terms of evil, one of the original concepts was how does a democracy turn itself into a dictatorship,” Lucas told a news conference at Cannes, where his final episode had its world premiere. “The parallels between [...]
Newsweek’s Bogus Koran Story
Newsweek reported, as many of you know, that interrogators destroyed a Koran as an interrogation method, eventually flushing it. As a result, riots have been taking place across the muslim world. At least 17 are dead and many more wounded. Now, Newsweek has come out and said that they can’t verify that the story was [...]
Semi-Open Thread – First Amendment and BOR Preamble
It’s comment time. I’d love to see what my readers have to say on the following topic. How do you interpret the First Amendment to the US Constitution in regards to the preamble of the Bill of Rights? Preamble to the Bill of Rights (relevant excerpt) The conventions of a number of the States having [...]
Border Patrol and the Minutemen
In today’s Washington Times is a report that US Border Patrol agents in the Tuscon Arizona area have been instructed by their superiors to make sure that arrests do not increase after the Minutemen protesters/neighborhood watch leaves the area. The Minutemen, though often misdescribed by pro-illegal-immigrant advocates, simply watched the border for illegal entries, contacting [...]
Huffington Post Day 2
No, this blog isn’t going to become a one-stop critique clearinghouse on the Huffington Post. With all the pre-launch publicity for Ariana “The Kook” Huffington’s effort to change the blogosphere, though, it behooves us bloggers to give our honest opinions on what she’s doing right. Unfortunately, she’s not doing much of anything right. It’s only [...]
Welcome to the Blogosphere, Huffington Post
It’s been weeks since it was first announced, so imagine my glee when celebrity nutcase Ariana Huffington’s new group blog finally launched. The Huffington Post is off to a start this morning. It isn’t really a good start, but most blogs take a little time to get running well. In fact, if I had to [...]
Rusty Humphries Slams Liberal Situational Ethics
Over at TownHall, Rusty Humphries has laid out one of the best explanations of liberal actions I’ve seen in a while. Liberals don’t care about judges. They don’t care about Senate rules. They don’t care about people, constitutional principle or precedent – and they especially don’t care about you. They only care about emotion, power [...]
Physics Teacher Fired for Insisting on Academics
Democracy Project tells the story of veteran physics teacher Larry Neace, who was fired from his job. His crime? He enforced a decade-old policy of penalizing students for wasting time in class. He had a student that slept in class during a class assignment, so he halved the grade on the assignment as he promised [...]