Month: December 2004

Don’t know much about “rabbbits used vibrators,” but I’m learning. (Isn’t that both sic and sick? Not only was “rabbit” spelled wrong, there’s no apostrophe!) While Glenn Reynolds linked to the Amazon gift item, I’m all confused because he didn’t say anything about the intended users, only that used was refurbished or something and that…

I find it admirable that David Horowitz has published a long editorial from a liberal student who, among other things, is offended by Horowitz! I find most of David Horowitz’s right-wing views to be offensive. I lead an anti-war rally at Foothill College, and I voted against George W. Bush both times. That having been…

On election day this year my father gave me this FDR campaign button with the original ribbon. Neither one of us knows the value or rarity of the item, but I was hoping some of our readers might have a clue or point me in the right direction. Here it is:

If God is the source of law and government, and if law and government are the source of education, then logically, that means God is the source of the educational system which, um, teaches children how to, um, calculate and stuff. Right? With that in mind, I want to turn to an item accompanying this…

I want to get back to the “The Constitution Restoration Act,” because I have a couple of petty questions. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Supreme Court shall not have jurisdiction to review, by appeal, writ of certiorari, or otherwise, any matter to the extent that relief is sought against an element of…

I must run out, so I don’t have the time I like to spend listing my favorite posts from my favorite carnivals. I am sorry about that, because this week they’re all especially good. But anyway, be sure to check out this week’s Bonfire of the Vanities, hosted at feste a foolsblog. And, of course…

And now for something from someone I’d not ordinarily cite (and who probably wouldn’t like this blog) . . . Phyllis Schlafly has a fascinating piece reflecting on (among other things) gender proportionality in women’s sports: Gender quotas are created by the invention of an informal regulation called the “proportionality test,” which means that the…

You’ve probably seen this already, but I hadn’t, so here goes: Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a trio of drugs they believe can destroy HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to a published report. The drugs, called DAPYs, mimic the virus by changing shape, which enables them to interfere with the way HIV…

If the goal of locking up the obviously dangerous Martha Stewart was to “break” her, or harm her career (much less end it), the people behind it ought to think again. According to TV columnist Gail Shister, the prison stretch was the right career move at the right time: Life in the slammer will make…

Much as I hate to admit it, I’m beginning to see a practical (if fascistic) reason behind the Islamic prohibition on depictions of images. When the human image is rendered artificially, the result is often called art. Yet for murky cultural reasons, if the image is produced or created for commercial distribution on a large…

Was the Saddam Hussein William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library built with money derived from the Oil for Food Program? WASHINGTON ? Billionaire Marc Rich has emerged as a central figure in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal and is under investigation for brokering deals in which scores of international politicians and businessmen cashed in on sweetheart oil…

Heard the news? Everyone is talking about falling readership, including the Miami Herald Philadelphia Inquirer’s Leonard Pitts, Jr.: Dear colleagues: Have you had enough bad news? I don’t mean the bad news we report. No, I’m talking about the steady diet of doom and/or gloom that goes with working for a daily newspaper these days.…

The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush–sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to…

The Romans had a saying (voiced by Cicero) that in time of war the rules do not apply: Inter arma silent leges. Did Cicero mean to except rules about paying the taxes of a nanny hired by one’s wife? Am I alone in finding it more than a little ironic that Bernard Kerik — by…

I was browsing a depressing little book the other day, Sherwin Nuland’s”How We Die“. Interesting stuff, and helpful too. What I took away from the book was a simple insight. We don’t die all at once. In fact, the whole process is sometimes rather lengthy and complicated. I’m not referring to the prolonged and painful…

Is it time to “call the whole thing off” because Theo Van Gogh filmed kittens being mangled to death in a washing machine, and further because he thought that was funny? I’m having a bit of trouble with this logic, which derives from the following assertion by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph: A shrill provocateur,…

Yuschenko had 1000 times the normal level of dioxin in his system and doctors feel it was intentionally administered, adding it could easily have been ingested in a bowl of soup. If you’re wondering where you’ve heard dioxin before, think Agent Orange.

Last week I asked what I considered a sarcastic question: Are doctrines of Constitutional Law henceforth to be driven by network ratings? Now that question is looking less and less sarcastic, more and more serious, and more and more ugly. Beware of humor, folks; yesterday’s jokes have a way of becoming today’s law. As most…

It’s been some time since I’ve resorted to such juvenile antics, but I think it’s still my traditional (?) prerogative to celebrate Friday as Online Testing Day at Classical Values. I’ll start with a test of my political persuasion: You Are a “Don’t Tread On Me” Libertarian You distrust the government, are fiercely independent, and…

Liberal powerhouse MoveOn has a message for the “professional election losers” who run the Democratic Party: “We bought it, we own it, we’re going to take it back.” Read more creepiness via Yahoo.