Saturday, January 8th, a 22-year old man wlked into an event being hosted by an elected member of the United States government, shot said elected official in the head, and then proceed to shoot as many other people as he could before being subdued by individuals present at the event. He is now in federal custody ( Read more... )

"You know there's nothing to fear but fear itself... Yeah. That's called recursion, and that would lead to inifinite fear... so... thank you."
-Ze Frank, "The Show - Couldabin (02-22-07)In many ways, the terrorists have already won - not that they had to work that hard for it. We were only too happy to hand them the victory ( Read more... )

"All suspects are guilty. Otherwise they wouldn't be suspects, would they?" -Troops Announcer ( Read more... )

A friend of mine, who is admittedly extremely Conservative, did a piece on the Brown victory in Massachusetts. I highly recommend it to people who find politics interesting and can stomach someone who doesn't boisterously agree with them. It's an important reality-check for cocky, truck-driving conservatives and bitter liberals at risk of ( Read more... )

Perhaps some of you have seen this story as well. I got it from my dad, but it's a typical chain letter.

Dear Mr. Stromberg Boortz ( Read more... )

The other day, the BARGE list exploded with about sixty emails a day with the subject "Lipstick on a pig."

Not knowing the folk expression in question, and having ceased watching the news for election coverage for exactly this reason, I had NO idea that this was something out of Obama's mouth that had been turned into a campaign issue ( Read more... )

My hands are still shaking. By all rights I should be dead now, thrice over. I'm really thanking my parents taking me out to learn to drive in the middle of November in New England. Those skills are what kept me alive, plus a ton of luck ( Read more... )

The War on Drugs was designed to cut the drug flow into the nation, essentially to starve junkies of their drugs and force the nation to go cold turkey. Any rehab clinician can tell you what the success and relapse rates are for this manner of treatment, but Congress is the last group of people on earth who'd listen to people who know what they're ( Read more... )

Having established that a nation owes a moral benefit of the doubt to its neighbors, foreign policy becomes an interesting matter. On the one hand, that benefit of the doubt reduces the heightened expectation of imminent attack that one suffers from in the theoretical state of nature. On the other hand, however, there is a strong economic ( Read more... )

Earlier, I discussed the formation of the state by social contract. Perhaps the greatest weakness to social contract theory is that no such state exists as was created by those means. In fact all states exist by the same means - the aggregation of force in the body of officials that govern them. Force, in this sense, shall be taken to mean the ( Read more... )