Month: April 2012

I hang out at righty blogs. And what does my reading of the pulse tell me? They don’t like gangsta culture. Me either. I find the music especially grating. But there is a fundamental difference between me and them. I know history. Prohibitions engender gangst(a)(er) cultures. It is in 20th Century American History. I swan.…

Fool that I am, I forgot to do my usual April Fools blog fakery yesterday. What a pity. However, I was at least foolish enough to attend Ann Arbor’s Festifools event. Here  a few pictures. Why this man is riding a tiger, I do not know:   Perhaps he thought it would turn this blue…

For no reason I can fully explain, I found myself thinking of diaper changes today, and it occurred to me, “I sure dealt with a lot of poop.” Mind, you I still do, because we have four cats, one of whom is very fuzzy and hygiene impaired, meaning twice a month he had to be…

While the USA TODAY headline reads “Swing States Poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead,” if the poll is accurate, there is in fact a major political split between men and women, and it isn’t explained away by the latest, ridiculous, “Republican war on women” meme. It may come down to a basic,…

While the First Amendment protects free speech in all of its various forms, recent trends worry me. One is the attempt to create an exception for “bullying” speech — something impossible to define, which lends itself to arbitrary double standards.  The other is an attempt to unconstitutionally criminalize electronic speech which offends anyone. Eugene Volokh…

An interesting discussion of slang is going on at the link. I had heard of “tea” before. But skittles as used in the article is a new one. I did have a couple of crazy friends once who frequently applied the concept. But never used the term.     “If I had a son, he’d…

In a further effort to mainstream deviance (what kind of fun will it be if everyone is doing it?) A member of the DNC is calling for a rally of hoodlums. Or more exactly a “Hoodie rally”. You know. Republicans could put the hoods out of business by Legalizing. I’m personally a fan of deviance.…