There’s been lots of doings transpiring at stately Von Ottomatic manor lately. You may recall that I entered into an unwanted period of funemployment a few months back. Rather than hop right into a job search I took the opportunity to invest a little time, along with some severance and my two plus months of [...]
Why does the U.S. have immigration laws? I ask not over exasperation that a Senate gang-of-eight is once again considering a blanket amnesty for people who have been living in the U.S. illegally as part of comprehensive immigration reform, but from a purely practical perspective. It stands to reason our immigration laws are there as [...]
Gay marriage is sure popping up all over the place these days, isn’t it? Not actual gay marriages as it were but the push to normalize gay marriage. I guess it’s a very important issue. America is just a cruel, heartless place until gays are permitted the same joy of acrimonious divorce proceedings and bitter [...]
As a general rule I try to avoid commenting on things about which I am ignorant and have no knowledge. To do so often makes one look like a fool. There have been many shining examples lately as media types have chimed in on guns. Having gone to great lengths to completely insulate themselves from [...]
Yet again life imitates The Simpsons. Supposedly serious minded people have suggested Obama could circumvent congress and negotiating the debt ceiling by commissioning the Treasury Department to mint platinum coins in one trillion dollar denominations and depositing them to the Federal Reserve. Presto! Crisis averted. Setting aside questions of legality or wisdom, why a $1 [...]
This from Andy Sullivan via Reuters in his article titled, Analysis: Budget constraints limit Obama’s second-term agenda, comes this unintentionally hilarious howler: Since taking office in 2009, Obama has tried to balance his belief in an active government with concerns that the nation’s finances are on an unsustainable course. Classic. I assume the hilarity is [...]
So sayeth New York Governor Andrew “Son of Mario” Cuomo in his State of the State speech today as he railed against the semi-automatic rifles with a detachable magazine politicians refer to as assault weapons and high-capacity magazines used in said assault weapons and many modern handguns. As much as I hate to agree with [...]
As the debates over gun control have escalated one thing I’ve mentioned several times is that alcohol is responsible for far more overall fatalities as well as more children’s lives cut short than firearms. I don’t honestly believe alcohol prohibition is a good idea, but if the government is going to arbitrarily ban certain objects [...]
It’s interesting where wisdom turns up these days. I imagine most people are by now aware of a reality TV phenomenon by the name of Honey Boo Boo. Reality TV isn’t my cup of tea, but as a human on Earth with Internet access I am familiar with the basic premise of the show – [...]
…it is because she stands on the shoulders of giants. Forcing the law-abiding to present themselves and be registered by government agents has long been a staple of freedom-loving rulers. Why even today we see shining beacons of freedom taking the common sense measure of passing laws to register lawful users of an inanimate object [...]
Lots of arguments flying back and forth on gun control these days, and I came across and interesting piece from the other side. Other side of the globe, that is. From the glorious pages of Pravda comes this editorial from Stanislav Michin, reprinted from his blog Mat Rodina. I did a little editing to clean [...]
In a shameless rush to use the murders at Sandy Hook as a soapbox from which to show her ass to the law-abiding gun owners in America, perennial gun-grabber and all-around lackwit Dianne Feinstein (D, California) has released an outline of the gun control legislation she intends to introduce to the Senate in 2013. Drawing [...]
You think you know where I’m going with this but you better sit down and buckle up your chinstrap. This is one of those stories that I could never understand if I lived for a million years and read a billion law books. Judge: State must pay more than $700,000 in legal fees to attorneys [...]
As we struggle with the tragically short lives viciously ended in Newtown last week, emotions and anger are running high. So it should be when unspeakable acts like that occur. As grief and shock subside, the inevitable calls to do something will reach a fever pitch. But what can we realistically do to make sure [...]
Lots of speculation in the media about motives, and like everything else we’ve seen so far this should be taken with a grain of caution. Fox News is reporting the madman in Newtown snapped over his mother’s attempts to have him committed to a mental facility against his will and targeted the school because he [...]
So yesterday we discussed the chorus of vapid calls for Washington to “Do something!” in the wake of a demented murderers actions in Newtown. It’s expected from the usual suspects and I should have expected it when I clicked the link, but under his non-football thoughts in his weekly Monday Morning Quarterback column Sports Illustrated [...]
Rampage killings always bring out the best in people who wish to leverage one maladjusted person’s craven cowardice to enact laws for which they’ve always clamored. When 20 of the victims are children gunned down in classrooms at an elementary school in a sleepy Connecticut town we can expect the very best empty rhetoric and [...]
Well it looks like this month’s unemployment figures will tick up by at least one person. I was informed this week that my position has been eliminated effective immediately. Another victim of the Obama economy. Let the funemployment begin! Y’all better settle in, this is going to be a rather long rant. As a legal [...]
For the second week in a row an NFL player has senselessly died in an off-the-field incident. Dallas Cowboys linebacker Jerry Brown was killed while riding in a 2007 Mercedes with teammate Josh Brent, who was intoxicated and speeding when he lost control and flipped the vehicle. Brent was previously convicted of DWI in 2009. [...]
I’ll admit I may have bagged it for most of the term, but I learned through osmosis by showing up every day and there’s still the final exam left for me to pull out a C – at least. My memory isn’t clear enough to recall exactly which class I was speaking about at the [...]
Funny how one week can change the dynamics of an election. A mere seven days ago at the DNC Barack Obama* was slyly opining to chortles from the crowd, “My opponent and his running mate are…new…to foreign policy, but from all that we’ve seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era [...]
Conventional wisdom and a million media voices have told us Barack Obama is a very likeable guy. It’s supposedly the reason he’s even got a shot at re-election while unemployment hovers around 8% and America is languishing through the slowest economic recovery in its history. Or quite possibly heading towards double dip land. By all [...]
From the mouths of babes, huh? Well, not babes in the literal sense. Nor physical sense. I don’t know in what sense at all, actually. What do you want from me on the first college football Saturday of the year and opening day of dove season? An 82-year-old woman with a rap sheet dating back [...]
Ever since puberty I’ve spent what is probably an unhealthy amount of time thinking about vaginas. At times, thinking about vaginas consumed my every waking moment. I’m never gotten around to curing cancer or walking on the moon or finishing that first great novel in part because vaginas have always been on my brain. Yet [...]
Political football that is. A Monday night partay! The preseason ends Monday when Mitt Romney is officially nominated by the Republican Party as their presidential candidate. Preseason is a apt metaphor, hopefully, the Romney campaign hasn’t showed much yet. I’ve been telling myself Romney’s keeping his powder dry for the stretch run. Being officially nominated [...]
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