Year: 2013
TRAVEL DEPT.
Coastal Dash 2012 Travelogue – Part 1
I’m getting ready to start planning my next summer road trip, but I realized I never got around to posting anything about last summer’s road trip. The trip started the same as any trip from Chicago must start: Stuck in traffic. I left home around 6pm on Friday, so I caught the tail end of… Read more
TERRORISM DEPT.
Illicit Transfer of Cookery
Who didn’t see this coming? America has already started detaining and arresting people for the obviously suspicious act of moving a pressure cooker from one location to another. I feel safer already. I suppose the real question is when will we finally come to our senses and outlaw doing science in pressure cookers? Read more
GUNS DEPT.
A Few Reasons for Opposing Background Checks For Gun Purchases
I see lots of political and policy commentary go by on Facebook, and I’d like to respond to some of it, but Facebook is a very annoying place for that kind of give-and-take. People don’t write articles or blog posts on Facebook, they post images with text in them, and the only response you can… Read more
CONSCRIPTION DEPT.
The Unreal Liberal Argument for Conscription
I’ll always have a warm spot in my heart for the liberal/progressive mindset because I grew up in the immediate aftermath of the 1960’s. The era brought lots of changes for the better — the free speech movement, the expansion of civil rights, Miranda and Gideon — but the one that most vividly affected me… Read more
FREEDOM DEPT.
Join the Mobile Infantry and save the world. Service guarantees citizenship!
Chris Hallquist intrigued me with a recent post about the number of crazy people who think an armed revolution will be needed in the US in the next few years. I’ll ignore the horrible infographic he used at the start of the post for now since I’m currently more interested in his attitude toward such… Read more
