Category: Political Rants

This story is outrageous! Security guards at a mall in New York asked customers to remove tshirts with peace slogans (“No War with Iraq” and “Give Peace a Chance”), and had one arrested when he refused. Even if you accept the mall’s argument that they can ban “unacceptable” clothing, what in the world is unacceptable… Continue reading Peace is ‘Unacceptable’?

Somebody just sent me another list of anti-war slogans. I’m not sure where they were collected, but they appear to be gathered from signs at some kind of protest. A few of them may be repeats from an earlier list, but most of them seemed new. Enjoy.

A Wired News article explains the issues causing civil liberties advocates to organize a boycott of the airline.

It was fairly common to hear central Kentucky residents describe the aftermath of our recent ice storm as being “like a war zone”. I didn’t give the expression much thought, but in a column in this morning’s Lexington Herald Leader, Shelly Slatin Hancock appropriately criticizes this comparison.

Is that an oxymoron? I’m sure somewhere in this blog, I’ve ranted about lawyers. And if I haven’t, I should have. But every once in a while, one redeems himself. I recently received this legal argument that even if the UN Security Council finds Iraq in material breach of Resolution 1441, war cannot be legal… Continue reading A Good Lawyer?

Still being lazy, and just passing along a couple of links I recently stumbled on. Fact Squad Radio presents a collection of informative and amusing MP3 clips relating to issues recently in the news. For the sake of the bandwidth-challenged (which includes me when I’m at home), I wish they could also provide text transcripts… Continue reading Quickie Links

Just a quickie; I had to post this link somebody sent me for an awesome duet from the world’s greatest warmongers, W and Tony. Unfortunately for those with slow connections, it’s a 5MB Quicktime file.

Yeah, I know, I’ve said that before. Unfortunately, I’m afraid upcoming world events will compel me to say it again fairly frequently from time to time. Actually, now that I’ve said that, I think the rest of this entry is going to be more thoughts on blogging than thoughts on war. When I originally started… Continue reading War Sucks

Being both a geek and a horse person, I have long known that duct tape is one of those essential items without which life as we know it would come to a halt. But I’m still amused by our Ministry of Paranoia suggesting that it will protect us from all the dangers of the Axis… Continue reading Duct Tape Wars?

A few interesting items dropped into my e-box today, and, although I don’t have much to add, I wanted to share them. One is Paul Krugman’s column in the NY Times about the questionable value of manned space travel. Adding humans increases the complexity and the expense of space missions by orders of magnitude while… Continue reading A few quickies