Archive for April 2006
My Slippery Slope is Lubricated by Mormon Sex Brigades
A dire warning about the dangers of gay marriage should give you all pause. But gay marriage and polygamy are only the beginning, because the dark road that begins with equal rights leads inexorably to the next terrifying step: legalized, state-sponsored robot sex! I love my iPod, but I don’t love my iPod. Yet. Yours…
Read MoreKnapp on Iran
Tom Knapp has a cool, dispassionate analysis of why it would be batshit fucking insane for us to attack Iran. Shithouse rat crazy doesn’t even begin to cover the state of mind required to entertain this kind of thing. Throw in the trial balloons about preemptive nuclear strikes — on a country bordering Russia —…
Read MoreWar on Jihadism
Jonathan Rauch has an excellent article at Reason that clarifies who and what we’re really fighting in the “War on Terror.” Jihadism is not a tactic, like terrorism, or a temperament, like radicalism or extremism. It is not a political pathology like Stalinism, a mental pathology like paranoia, or a social pathology like poverty. Rather,…
Read MoreToday is Inbox Zero Day
Fueled by coffee and the sweet electronica of Deep Dish, I’m implementing Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero today at work. Because 271 messages in my Inbox is 271 too many. Yours truly,Mr. X …clearing the decks…
Read MoreLegal Writing (and Doodles)
This divorce petition is a shining example of…umm…creative legal writing. Don’t miss the special guest appearance of General Relief on pp. 8. Hat tip: De Novo Yours truly,Mr. X …aspiring to greatness…
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