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Well, following that statement to its logical conclusion, any laws would be, by their nature, as fundamentally flawed as gun laws, so why bother passing them at all? I'm not saying that recent gun legislation hasn't been deeply ridiculous, and I'm not saying that better enforcement of existing...

Isn't this the way most laws work?

Trust me, if I'd meant "black," "redneck," "cracker," "yellow," "brown," etc., that's what I would have said. Or have you found me timid and afraid to speak my mind in the past?

So, if you see blatant lies being published repeatedly and passed along as truth, you're comfortable in "just moving on to another paper" and not trying to correct the lies or rectify the situation? It's okay for our press to be used as a personal mouthpiece to smear the political opposition...

Well, the paper was founded and is owned by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who "established The Washington Times to fulfill God's desperate desire to save this world" and has since "devoted [him]self to raising up The Washington Times, hoping that this blessed land of America would fulfill its...

Always take the Moonie Times with a grain of salt. 1. It was actually the House Sergeant at Arms who told Pelosi that Speaker Hastert had had access to an Air Force plane "for security and communications purposes following September 11, 2001." He offered to call the Air Force and DoD himself...

You kind of have to wonder if there wasn't at least one guy on the bomb squad who said, "Hey, that looks like those guys from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Y'know, the... On a Lite Brite. It looks like... Hey, guys? Guys, I don't think... Whatever."

No, in fact, if Tombstone is a female, it's still her decision. When you were assuming s/he was a male, nobody said, "Well, have you asked your wife if she's okay with you going off on deployment? I hear there are lots of opportunities to stray, and them womens loves the white uniforms. Let's...

The fact that we keep killing them, but their numbers don't go down any?

You make me sad.

Hot damn. I'd cross the aisle for that guy if I thought he had a chance. :) (Except in the sense that his complete lack of foreign policy experience would be a disaster waiting to happen.)

One little, tiny, nitpicky correction: His father was an atheist, his stepfather was a non-practicing Muslim, his mother is an atheist, he spent as much time in a Muslim school as he did in a Catholic school while in Indonesia, and he's been a member of the UCC for more than a decade. The...

No smileys? No limes? My heart, she breaks.

Lieberman is a god within his own party, because he's the sole member of the Connecticut for Lieberman party. (He's also a client.) I like Obama, but I don't think he has enough foreign policy experience. I could be talked into a slate with him as vice president, but it depends, of course...

Because it helps to ease back into real, miserable reality from the pleasant, easy quasi-reality that is a lovely weekend at the river. :)

Wow. This is what happens when I leave a comment and take off for the weekend. For the record, my comment wasn't excusing anything. It was merely explaining why some people might wig out just a bit seeing a guy with an M-16 wandering around a college campus, for reasons other than Evil...

Sure. Because no one has ever been shot from, say, a clocktower on a college campus. It's that demmed liberal indoctrination that's made people wary of firearms in places where a firearm serves no logical purpose.

That doesn't seem a terribly reliable method of tracking someone. As the article pointed out, it is the sort of thing that wouldn't seem out of place if you found it in your pocket or briefcase, but it's also the sort of thing that could be used to buy a newspaper. I see a future full of spies...

If you're referring to the "go to war with the army you have, not the army you want" incident with Rumsfeld, it does bear pointing out that said soldier was fed the question by a reporter. That having been said, he did willingly ask it, and Rumsfeld did personally step in it. And maybe it's...

Not really. I mean, a creepy old guy might, despite his creepiness, have something in the way of income or influence. A creepy young guy has nothing going for him but his youth, and what good is that to me?

When was the last time a GM assembly line was manned by anything but robots? Apples and oranges. You're looking for an identical response, but a) that was more than half a century ago, and b) this war isn't that war. Think comparable.

Lawman - But you did see that, right after Sept. 11. Plenty of people were running down to their local recruiting offices to see what they could do to get involved; Pat Tillman gave up a hefty football contract to do just that. But volunteers who signed up immediately following Pearl Harbor...

I think that entirely depends on your choice of attendants. That's what they're there for, after all; either to plant a foot on the back of your dress if you try to do a runner, or to run interception for you if you need to make a clean getaway. You pick them depending on whether you're going...

No limb. On a very basic level, it was easy to pull all of the Asian-lookin' folks out of society and put them in camps; a number of non-Japanese immigrants ended up detained because they "looked Japanese." Some Germans and Italians were detained following the attack on Pearl Harbor, but it...

Nobody really wanted to see an OSU-UM rematch. What would be the point of replaying a game that had been played just a few weeks before? Either OSU would win, proving that they could beat Michigan, which we already knew, or Michigan would win, proving nothing, since they'd already lost to OSU...

PU Grad - The demographics aren't comparable. If you could find statistics for, say, healthy men and women ages 18-50 in the US, your statistics might apply. Right now, you've got one group of reasonably healthy, reasonably young men and women whose most immediate threat is death in combat...

The movie was hilarious, but I think that one scene lasted way too long. You know which one I'm talking about. It's the one that lasted way too long. The one that you were sitting there watching and thinking, "Wow, I wish I could see less of this."

People always complain that we "didn't get" Saddam back in 1991. Right now, we can actually see what happens when you "get" Saddam without sufficient resources or prior planning. Planning extensively to "get" Saddam as part of the larger campaign in 1991 may or may not have worked. Taking him...

The problem with the Powell doctrine in re: Iraq is just as pourts said. It's not that we didn't go in with sufficient force; it's that we weren't prepared for what came next. If you consider that the enemy at the time of the initial invasion was Saddam Hussein et al, they were routed fairly...

Or maybe you're just Googling furiously, trying to find some way, any way, that you prove me wrong. ;)

Y'all The People voted on our current president, who was pretty much determined to go into Iraq sooner or later. Aside from that, though, we end up choosing from the lesser of two evils because we don't expect politicians to be honest, so we don't hold them to any kind of standard. They do...

I disagree. Paying your taxes is like leaving a big bucket of money on on the sidewalk in front of your house. Anybody can walk by and dip into it for any purpose. When you vote, you get to bring that bucket inside, and you get to decide how much money goes in the bucket, who gets that money...

We in Mountain Brook do not understand this concept of a "joke." It must be some kind of Yankee concept you carpetbaggers dragged in following the Waw of Nawth'n Aggression.

The movie has been all over the news here in Birmingham because several seriously southern, fairly uptight Mountain Brookers were the butt of one of his jokes (the dinner party where he brought a prostitute? That's the one). A couple of them have managed to find the humor, but most of them are...

No, it was just a poorly-told joke. He was trying to indicate that, by not "doing his homework" and by being "intellectually lazy" about the situation in the Middle East, President Bush got us stuck in Iraq. It's a joke at the expense of the president, it followed a joke at the expense of the...

According to the Kerry camp (so grains of salt all around, if so desired), Kerry's prepared remarks for that speech said: "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush."...

Not necessarily...

Just watch her eyes. Those eyes are going to give me nightmares. But if we must look on the bright side, consider what a uniting force she could be. Jew and Gentile, fundamentalist and progressive, conservative and liberal, all can agree: Thems is crazy as a crackhouse rat.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Haha. Ahrem. :D

Well, with recruiting numbers like they are, an "Army of One" was probably hitting too close to home for the DoD.

Actually, Keillor's wrong on one point; the text of the bill doesn't require that an enemy combatant be a foreign national. The original version had it that way, but the "compromise" version added provisions for the president or secretary of defense to declare anyone an enemy combatant. But...

Yawn. Sigh. Is it time to just consider this one a re-post and close it up before we get into another "women are dream-killers" "love doesn't follow a schedule" "it's not all choker whites and dining outs" man-vs.-woman steel-cage death match?

But what if they - Well, no. Except if - I mean, there's - Back in - Well... Okay, I completely agree with you.

If you have contacts, you should probably actually see opthalmologist and optometrist at least once a year, just to make sure your eyes are still healthy and there haven't been any changes you need to know about. My own (fancy, awesome, expert) optometrist recently discovered that I've got...

Yeah, DH, SO, DB... Y'all sit there and hate, and tell us to use your abbreviations instead of our abbreviations, 'cause it's so hard to keep two sets of abbreviations in your middle memory, but I'd say you're SOL, AFAIK. And go ahead, Fly. As you said, a few people on here know your...

(cough)Saber rattling(cough)

10 myths about school shootings An interesting read, certainly. When I lived in Atlanta, I worked in one of the buildings where the Buckhead Day Trader Massacre took place ("Two Securities Centre;" irony, anyone?). When I got there, I didn't know that that was the building that got shot up...

Well, there is some truth to the thought that a sect that meets in a one-room clapboard schoolhouse with gas lanterns is going to have a tough time finding a place to plug in the metal detector, and that a sect devoted to principles of nonviolence and nonresistance will be unlikely to post an...

Dunno. Since both of the recent shootings have ended with the shooter killing himself, I don't know that "getting attention" is a real priority for them. "Sending a message" is probably more like it, which is a completely different motivation. Outside of, of course, the motivation of being...