A brief follow-up to a story I blogged about last month: No charges will be filed against Tigger. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, Tiggers are a wonderful thing. On the other hand, I think we have to fight Tiggers there so that we don’t have to fight them here.
Astronaut Sex: Anyone In The 100 Mile High Club?
Well, the Nowak story seems to be the story of the day — both in the mainstream media and the blogosphere — presumably for it’s weirdness/entertainment value. CNN is now reporting that astronaut Lisa Nowak will face charges of attempted murder. That’s on top of her three other charges for battery, attempted kidnapping and attempted vehicle burglary with battery. For … Read More
Not The Right Stuff
They don’t make astronauts like they used to, I guess. Once the very definition of "hero", we now have astronauts that are one step above trailor trash. Yup, a mission specialist on a shuttle flight last summer is sitting in a Florida jail now, having been charged with plotting to kidnap a woman who was her rival for the heart … Read More
Free The Chattanooga Six
Look, I know it’s disturbing when teenagers talk about "killing" other people. We all remember Columbine. But sometimes, it’s just a joke. If some girls talk about "killing" their teachers and classmates, that’s one thing. But when they add Oprah, Tom Cruise, and the Energizer Bunny (which, last time I checked, was an inanimate/fictional non-human corporate mascot) to their list, … Read More
America’s Dumbest Criminals
I admit it — I love stories like these: GPS devices lead to suspects’ home LINDENHURST, N.Y. –Three thieves who allegedly stole 14 global positioning system devices didn’t get away with their crime for long. The devices led police right to their home. Town officials said the thieves didn’t even know what they had: they thought the GPS devices were … Read More
Hate Crimes and The Religious Right
"Hate crime" legislation is intended to increase penalties for people who commit felonies based on the victim’s race, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. Why are so many religious groups on the right threatened by it? Are these people intending to commit crimes?
Greenwald on FISA Oversight Of Wiretaps
(1) I’ll just let Greenwald speak for himself on the subject of GOP disillusionment with the sudden Bush reversal on FISA oversight: If you were a Bush follower, and you were told (and, of course, by definition, believed) that the President’s violations of FISA were not just legal but critical to our Survival and Ability to Defeat The Terrorists, and … Read More
A Remarkably Stupid (Or Dishonest) Attorney
UPDATE AND BIG BREAKING NEWS: Fortunately, breaking news suggests that the days of Bush’s secret and illegal surveillance may now be over. Bush now intends his surveillance program to be monitored and overseen by the "secret" FISA court, as the lawmakers who passed FISA originally intended. In other words, Bush caves. Victory for freedom and privacy lovers, but more importantly, … Read More
“I Always Feel Like …Somebody’s Watchin’ Me”
The Washington Post foloows one woman’s typical day and finds that because she used her credit card four times, paid eight electronic tolls, sent 20 e-mails and passed by at least 50 security cameras (that she wasn’t aware of), it’s possible to track her every movement in today’s digital world. Good reading.
Ann Coulter Fraud Investigation Update
From Bradblog (who has more documents):
Loony Rehnquist?
Interesting: The FBI’s file on former Chief Justice William Rehnquist — made public more than a year after his death — offers insight into hallucinations and other symptoms of withdrawal that Rehnquist suffered when he was taken off a prescription painkiller in 1981. A doctor was cited as saying that Rehnquist, an associate justice of the Supreme Court at the … Read More
You’ve Got Mail
The leader of Iraq has unilaterally declared that he has the right and the power to authorize government to open citizens’ mail whenever he so pleases. No warrants, no oversight, no checks-n’-balances, or anything like that. You may think — well, that’s horrible, but that’s Iraq — so why should I care? I don’t live in Iraq, which is obviously … Read More
Constitutional Crisis
The Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court says we are experiencing a "Constitutional crisis". That’s very very serious. The last time I heard that phrase was during Watergate. But what exactly is the constitutional crisis he’s talking about? This: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. made judicial pay the sole topic of his second annual report, issued on … Read More
Give The Kid An “A” In History; Fail The Teacher
Matthew LaClair is a student in public high school in Kearny, New Jersey. David Paszkiewicz is his 11th grade accelaerated history teacher. Paszkiewicz would often lace his classes with — well — historical inaccuracies, including telling the students that only Christians went to heaven, that the Big Bang and evolution were false, and — wait for it — that dinosaurs … Read More
Statutory Rape In Georgia
This is a sensitive subject, I know. But it seems to me that the judgment in this case is unduly harsh. It simply makes no sense. Honestly, should a seventeen year old kid be sent to prison for ten years because he had consensual (oral) sex with a fifteen your old girl? That’s what has happened. Now obviously, we don’t … Read More