I've been reading President Obama's helpful guide to the things that sequestration will force the goverment to cut (the link is to the Illinois version) and I've realized that most of the cuts from sequestration fall into two categories:The first category consists of cuts that would be pretty damned awesome:...Illinois will lose about $587,000 in Justice Assistance … [Read more...] about Sequestration — Bring It On
Everything Seems Evil When You Add Sex To It
One of the lessons I've learned from reading Maggie McNeill's Honest Courtesan blog for the last couple of years is that opponents of sex work will try to make even the most routine business practices sound evil. I just finished a three-part think piece about some aspects of that, and already Maggie has pointed me to another.I remember years ago reading some feminist … [Read more...] about Everything Seems Evil When You Add Sex To It
Alarming Asteroid News…If It Were True
Yesterday, Roger Ebert tweeted: Bad luck. The asteroid that came so close to Earth is coming baaaaak. dld.bz/chPtq Well, of course. It's a known near-Earth object. They do that by definition. But the linked article by Andrew Malcolm at Investor's Business Daily was a little more alarming than that, at least until I realized he was making stuff up: Now, about that other bad … [Read more...] about Alarming Asteroid News…If It Were True
The Outrageous Park Doctrine
For some reason, the folks at Public Citizen sent me a hardcopy of their Health Letter, and at the back they have a feature titled "Outrage of the Month!" This month's example titled "More About Drug Industry Lawlessness" by Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D. is about regulatory violations by pharmaceutical companies, and it's definitely outrageous, but not for the reason he thinks. Eric … [Read more...] about The Outrageous Park Doctrine
The State of the Union in 2013
The official Whitehouse web page on the State of the Union speech asks as to give our responses, so as is the tradition at Windypundit, I have a few thoughts. In a break from tradition, however, instead of posting the whole speech, I'll just post a few excerpts Tonight, thanks to the grit and determination of the American people, there is much progress to report. After a … [Read more...] about The State of the Union in 2013