So, a six year old schoolboy makes the shooting gun gesture with his finger and the idiots at the Roscoe Nix Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland decided to suspend him. They've now backed down, but there is apparently some controversy over whether he just pointed his finger or whether he also said "Pow!"Here's a question that will blow your mind: What if he'd said … [Read more...] about Pow!
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2012 in Review
Here at Windypundit, 2012 was the year in which:The inevitable drug war deaths remained inevitable. I spoke up for sex workers, although, really, it was just a bunch of links. I became a friend of whores. I explained why criminal violence against the police is not the best response to criminal violence by the police. I showed what it looks like when police are … [Read more...] about 2012 in Review
Libertarian Society/Socialist Society
Over at Popehat, Patrick is asking readers to come up with a response to this:Patrick's own response is pretty good:Popehat readers have stepped up in the comments and offered other suggestions, and this one from Erbo is pretty good:(For you young kids, the bottom one is a scene from Logan's Run.)For my own entry, I figured why go Sci-Fi? We have … [Read more...] about Libertarian Society/Socialist Society
Huckabee’s Nonsense
I wasn't planning to write anything about the shootings in Newton, Connecticut. It touches on a variety of issues that are of interest to me, but it just feels a little too soon for sober discussion.But then I came across this nonsense: Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R) weighed in on the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. on Friday, saying the … [Read more...] about Huckabee’s Nonsense
In Which Someone Mistakes Me For a Successful Business
This seems to have been the week for bashing marketers who send silly email messages in the legal blogosphere (although Brian and Scott don't really need a special week for that), and I need to exercise my brain on the new blogging software, so I think I'll do a little bashing of my own.I received an interestingly self-refuting email a few days ago from a salesman named … [Read more...] about In Which Someone Mistakes Me For a Successful Business