Year: 2009
What Shepherds Do When They’re Bored. Also, An Interesting Approach to Drawing Cartoons
What Shepherds Do When They’re Bored: (No, it’s not dirty.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3qvJgY9XQI (Hat tip: Lindsay) An Interesting Way to Draw Cartoons: (Yes, it’s dirty.) Read more
No Offense
All of this political correctness is making me ill. Now we have to refer to the flu pandemic as H1N1 so we don’t offend the pig farmers, the National Pork Board, or God forbid the pigs.The hell with that. From now on, I’m calling it FFKAS or the “Flu Formerly Known as Swine”. Read more
The Ventris Interview and a Nomination for the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court’s decision in Kansas v. Ventris is one of the strangest things I’ve seen from them in a long time. I’m not a lawyer, but as I understand the law, it has been normal procedure for many years that once a defendant invokes his right to a lawyer, the cops have to stop questioning… Read more
Obama at 100 Days: Meet the New Boss…
Shortly before President Obama took office, I posted a freedom scorecard by which I could judge his presidency. Although it was hardly a formal assessment document, it’s a nice framework for a post reviewing Obama’s first 100 days. I started with a list of some discrete things Obama could do to make us more free:… Read more
How Much Government Should We Have?
Jamie Spencer has a question about the size of government: But the big “L” libertarians often use a certain phrase that I just don’t understand. For example, my friend and Dallas criminal defense lawyer Robert Guest uses it in a post about tea parties: As a libertarian I’m for anything that reduces the size and… Read more