I'm not sure if the jury, the crazy legislation, the prosecution or some combination is responsible for the travesty that is the Trayvon Martin case. If it's just the legislation, I wonder if George Zimmerman is going to be able to rest easy knowing that he now lives in a place where armed men may confront people in the street, armed or unarmed, ( Read more... )

I enjoy good beer and wine, but I think those who obsess about such things and/or are willing to spend huge sums of money on a particular beer or wine are a bit addled. That's okay, we're all addled in different ways.  But what's irksome is the superiority they assume because of their addled conditions. The pretentious airs they put on are ( Read more... )

This debt ceiling debate phenomenon is a really amazing piece of political spect one that reveals the deep disconnect, ignorance and even lack of critical thinking skills in the public at large.

Consider, on the one hand, the words of Martin Wolf, chief economics editor at the Financial Times, no financial slouch him, "These are dangerous times. ( Read more... )

Just stumbled across an article at "Cafe Hayek", where I find myself enthusiastically agreeing or saying, "are you kidding me, you really believe this?"

I had an example of the latter today. In a short post about whether or not bin Laden's murder vindicates American civilization, Don Boudreaux asserts:

"Our civilization is vindicated by our ( Read more... )

Seems to me that LJ is in some sort of death spiral, hope I'm wrong. I was reflecting this morning, tweeted about it, (ironic, I suppose),  on how much I like it as a tool for social networking and information sharing. Unfortunately, that sentiment is uncommon, so as is so often the way in the market, shit like FB and Twitter float and good solid ( Read more... )

Dear local (website-less) business proprietor ( Read more... )

I've seen and heard and read a lot of anti-soccer/football ranting over the last week or two.  (The most ironic, perhaps, being Glenn Beck asking that the world stop trying to shove it down America's throat.  (You know things are getting extreme at Fox News when Bill O'Reilly is starting to sound like the voice of reason and objectivity.))   I ( Read more... )

Sally Jenkins has an angry diatribe against the NFL about the fact that they're likely to allow Michael Vick to be reinstated.  I'm glad people are concerned about the welfare of dogs but in light of the kinds of suspensions that the NFL doles out to people who've committed offenses against humans and in light of the kinds of treatment society ( Read more... )

Today I was reading FML  and realized I was spending my time reading posts by people too stupid to understand what 'Today' means:

Today, I went to a fast-food joint and ordered off of the $1.00 menu to save money. Five hours later I go to the hospital with food-poisoning. After 36 hours of not eating, crapping, puking, having tests, and an bunch of ( Read more... )

I'm sort of fascinated by the amazed excitement that we see about Susan Boyle and, some time ago, about Paul Potts.  Is it because we've all been influenced by the media to assume that it's almost impossible to have singing ability unless you're really attractive?