Big Bill Of Rights news today, as the Illinois Police and the Supreme Court pile another rock on the chest of the Fourth Amendment, hoping this time to crush it to death. (Metaphor courtesy of Bryan Gates at I respectfully dissent.) The court's ruling in Illinois v. Caballes says that police can use a drug dog to search a vehicle without any individualized suspicion. The … [Read more...] about Frightening Decision
Digital Immortality
Glenn Reynolds says: Digital images are potentially immortal, so long as they get recopied from time to time onto fresh media, but reality being what it is, hardcopy in a shoebox is probably likely to outlast things that require actual human effort. What effort? Hard drive technology improves so fast that every time I get a new computer I just copy the entire … [Read more...] about Digital Immortality
“A pastor walks into a bar…”
Is it? Could it be? Oh my God, it is! It's Lutheran-Themed Humor! The last time I saw this was when Woody on Cheers was getting married! Hey, that consubstantiation stuff is pretty important, but dead elvis has a point: I spent 13 years in the Lutheran school system, learning about Lutheran history and doctrine, and sometimes it was all about kicking the Catholic church's … [Read more...] about “A pastor walks into a bar…”
The Wealth Un-Race
Over on Left2Right, Don Herzog is talking about equal opportunity, using a race as an analogy. Not that I object to his conclusion, but I've never liked the race analogy because it can be misleading. Wealth is not a race, or at least not a normal one. A race is about more than just a race, it's about winning the prizes at the end. When it comes to personal financial … [Read more...] about The Wealth Un-Race
Gleeful Battering
The Gleeful Extremist is bitching about the fact that federal employees leaving work are perfect mugging victims because everyone knows they're not allowed to bring weapons to work. I think I have a solution. After 9/11 a lot of people realized that disarming airplane passengers had a bigger downside than previously believed. But what weapons to allow the passengers for … [Read more...] about Gleeful Battering