Originalist Sin 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock skewers the sophistry of “Constitutional Originalist.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” chooses to be polite to our furry four-legged friends.
It would seem that, in gun nut world, “SPCA” stands for the “Society for Pointing Carbines at Animals.”
We are a broken society.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At my local rag, columnist David Hall writes eloquently of an incident of racist name-calling at a college basketball game. I commend his article to your attention.
This bit, in particular, caught my eye:
Methinks he has a point.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Devolution 0
AL.com’s John Archibald charts the regress.
“I Know You Are But What Am I,” Reprise 0
The Rude One analyzes the Republican game plan. (Warning: Rudeness.)
QOTD 0
Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:
The real victims of war are people who live at ground zero, cannon fodder for failed leaders.
Aside:
In normal times, whatever they are, I like would not have cited this, but it seemed somehow quite a propos.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
Methinks the Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini is onto something.
Courting Disaster 0
Gene Collier, writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, fears that the current Supreme Supremacist Court is forsaking the rule of law for the rule of flaw. A snippet:
Follow the link to see why he said that.










