Benedikt could lecture you until the cows came home about your moral obligation to public schooling, but you still wouldn’t leave your kids in a school where the teachers were being set on fire.
Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
Quote of the Day
Friday, August 30th, 2013Blogroll Addition: Legal Insurrection
Thursday, August 29th, 2013I’ll be wearing my science fiction hat a lot this week, so expect light posting through Labor Day (and maybe a little beyond).
So instead of Actual Content, I’m going to highlight some new additions to the Blogroll.
First up: Legal Insurrection (or Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, to use the full, “Hell no I’m not going to type that every time” name), which I’ve linked the occasional tidbit from forever, but only just added to the blogroll. Run by Cornell Law Professor William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection covers a wide variety of political topics, legal and otherwise. And he was kind enough to add a link to my post on the #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen tag to his own post.
He posts frequently on interesting topics, so go over and take a look when you get a chance.
This Day Eaten By Locusts BlueHost
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
BlueHost was down for most of the day, so no blogging.
Expect your normally scheduled political rants to resume on Monday.
Happy Bastille Day
Sunday, July 14th, 2013Today is Bastille Day, so here’s a memorial by Rush:
Every year Jerry Pournelle puts up an informative blurb on Bastille Day:
On July 14, 1789, the Paris revolutionaries with aid of the local militia stormed the Bastille, a fortress in downtown Paris which was similar in purpose to the Tower of London. The revolutionaries freed all the prisoners held in the Bastille on royal warrants. They were all aristocrats: four forgers, two madmen, and a young man who had challenged the best swordsman in Paris to a duel, and whose father had him locked up so that the duel could not take place. The garrison consisted largely of invalid and retired French soldiers. After the surrender much of the garrison was slaughtered and their heads paraded on pikes. The four forgers vanished. The two madmen were sent to the common madhouse where they much missed the special treatment they’d had in the Bastille. The final freed prisoner joined the Revolution, became Citizen Egalite, and was later killed by guillotine in the Place de la Concorde for joining the wrong faction.
Eventually, the death toll from the French Revolution’s “Reign of Terror” would range in “the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine…and another 25,000 in summary executions across France.”
There are many, many reasons the American Revolution was different from the French Revolution…
Perry Will Not Run for Reelection in 2014
Monday, July 8th, 2013The longest-serving governor in Texas history is stepping down.
This clears the way for Texas Attorney General to run, where he’ll be an overwhelming favorite.
More later.
PETA: People Killing Healthy Animals
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013Via Slashdot we now learn that PETA, the supposed animal rights group, sucks at keeping animals, you know, alive.
In 2011, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) behaved in a regrettably consistent manner: it euthanized the overwhelming majority (PDF) of dogs and cats that it accepted into its shelters. Out of 760 dogs impounded, they killed 713, arranged for 19 to be adopted, and farmed out 36 to other shelters (not necessarily “no kill” ones). As for cats, they impounded 1,211, euthanized 1,198, transferred eight, and found homes for a grand total of five. PETA also took in 58 other companion animals — including rabbits. It killed 54 of them…its adoption rate in 2011 was 2.5 percent for dogs and 0.4 for cats.
For exactly what PETA does to the animals in it’s care, see here. (Warning: Graphic photos of dead animals.)
You would do better, much much better, dumping your pet in a box on a random street corner with a “take me” sign on it.
Not only does PETA not operate “no kill” shelters, they seem to operate “all kill” shelters.
PETA Is not an “animal rights”group, they’re a radical anti-meat group. Handing over your dog or cat to them is tantamount to murdering them.
LinkSwarm for May 24, 2013
Friday, May 24th, 2013A LinkSwarm for a very wet Friday in Austin:
News Flash: Colt Firearms Moving to Texas
Monday, April 8th, 2013Details later, since blogging from an iPhone sucks. Link.
Iran Plays “Make Believe Airplane”
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013Iran has unveiled an advanced new stealth fighter plane.
And by “an advanced new stealth fighter plane,” I mean “a large plastic RC aircraft that’s obviously not suited for combat, stealth, or actually carrying a pilot.”
So says many experts in military aviation from all around the world.
A few tidbits of analysis:
Maybe they should have left the fakery to their vaunted Al-Aqua Photoshop Martyrs Brigade