You Wanna Live Forever?
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Buttinskis
When I was in high school, I was actively recruited by the Army. I mean ACTIVELY. Captain Whatsisname was over at my parents house multiple times, grilled mercilessly by my father each time and yet still coming back. It was that test we took Junior year, I’m pretty sure my results exhibited a certain…flexible morality [...]
Tags: earn it
What it Means
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Decision Eh, Liberating Liberty, Public Servants?, The Constitution
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. This means exactly what it says. No further explanation required. [...]
Tags: 2008 election, earn it, social responsibility, where is the outrage?
The Politicians We Deserve
Posted by Mycroft Holmes | Filed under Decision Eh
It occurs to me that the prevalence in US political circles toward weaselly, blame-avoiding, platitude-spewing empty suits has more than a little to do with the way they are vilified to the point where they are forced to resign after the slightest slip of the tongue. Spitzer, Ferraro, the “macaca” guy (whatever one of those [...]
Tags: 2008 election, earn it
Elected, Not Anointed
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Plain Old Hypocrisy
You know, I really don’t give a fat damn what Joe Private Citizen does with his free time. But then I’m one of those people who think prostitution should be legalized, regulated and overseen by a Guild. Crazy and irrational, I know. I’m a cruel, heartless bitch to consider putting crack-whores and HIV-carriers out of [...]
Tags: earn it, kill all the lawyers
What Makes Us Different
Posted by Mad Rocket Scientist | Filed under Guest Authors, Liberating Liberty
(Guest blogger: Mad Rocket Scientist from Afternoons With the Mad Rocket Scientist) My friends M & A were visiting The Wife and I this weekend, and before they came up to The Secret Lair, they spent a day in Seattle. M & A are both well educated and have traveled across Europe quite extensively. They [...]
Tags: earn it, patriotism
The Outer Limits
Posted by Joan of Argghh | Filed under Do It Yourself, Guest Authors, Nostalgia
(Guest blogger: Joan of Arggh! from Primordial Slack) Once upon a time, we lived outside the U.S. for almost five years. As a family, we fully adopted our alien land, learned its language, loved its people, hated its traffic, but always understood that we were guests in an amazing, overcrowded, ancient city. We also learned [...]
Tags: earn it, How-To, self-reliance, use your head
