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Oh baby, I’ll make the earth move for you!
Drop a burrowing bomb this big and it’s going to rattle the dishes 100 miles away.
Frankly, despite accusations of squishiness, given the ordnance we’ve expended already, I think Bush II is probably wise to start preparing people for the fact that we may never find the remains of OBL’s vaporized butt. But he’s got to be dead or we’d have gotten another tape by now.
Via His Unholiness, Incorrigible I, aka Stephen Green comes some unsurprising news: Harry Browne [Butt Weasel!] is at it again. Is there anyone left out there that doesn’t realize that this guy is a snake oil salesman of the first order?
Update: But please Stephen, don’t give up on the libertarian ideal. Harry Butt Weasel Browne doesn’t speak for all of us. He’s just a conman who’s hijacked a small part of the Party of Reason.
Yeah! The InstaPundit is weakening! ‘Senator Reynolds’ does trip right off the tongue..
Hmmm. I wonder if anyone’s told Tipper about what you hear when you play a CD backward?
The latest in PC
In this morning’s Red Star Tribune (no link to article) we have an article about the “Fightin’ Whites,” the UNC Greeley intramural basketball team. They’re now selling ‘Fightin’ Whites’ T-shirts! Cool, I think I’ll order one.
What’s so amusing? Well, here’s the original article, word for word with what the Star Tribune prints, except that somewhere between the original author, the AP, and my print addition, a slight spelling change has taken place. They’re actually the “Fightin’ Whities”! I've got to have one of those shirts.
Update: I notice in the article that they have to check the University guidelines before they can sell the shirts. I'll bet they're required to 'correct' the spelling..
Update II: Now I'm covered with embarrassment. It looks like this was the original article. Although it didn't appear in my google search it was linked at the bottom of the first article I linked, above. The article also states: "The intramural basketball team's official name is "Native Pride." But the team calls itself the "Fightin' Whites" - and is widely known by the more in-your-face "Fightin' Whities" - as a jab at nearby Eaton High School." So there's some question about the 'official' spelling of their unofficial name.
Gonzaga thought they got no respect before.. Chortle. Snigger. Guffa.
No one ever pleads permanent insanity, do they?
My first post on the Andrea Yates case was probably as incoherent as anything I’ve written, at least from my point of view. I stand by what I said, I think it’s all probably correct, but it was also entirely off the point of what I meant to say.
My original intent in writing the piece was to point out that we can never really get inside someone else’s mind. We can’t know for a fact what was going through Ms. Yates mind when she killed her children. In my humble opinion we shouldn’t care. While I think her behavior provides an operational definition of insanity, I think driving a jetliner into a crowded building is [almost] equally insane. So what?
I wouldn’t argue for the death penalty in either case, but I will argue that for the safety of all the rest of us, anyone who does something like this should be removed from society forever. For this reason, I really don’t believe in the insanity defense. Especially because it’s always ‘temporary’ insanity and often of the sort that’s already been ‘cured.’
I can see a place for an insanity plea in sentencing, as Ms. Yates would appear to belong in a rubber room. But that rubber room should have no exit to the outside world. Not ever.
From a can of spray solvent: “WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer.”
And we all know that the State of California is an authority on the subject.
Thursday, March 14, 2002- - -
Who cares who put it up, as long as they come down, that’s not my department ..
Dang! I’ve been so concerned with my computer ‘bombing’ that I almost forgot about the Google bombing!
The pissant pedant in me requires that I point out that although folks are crediting Megan McA