Wince and Nod

How To Develop A Political Grassroots Movement

2009-05-16T21:22:00.001-05:00

I know this article is about software, but I think it can be applied to other problems.

An Important Decision

2009-05-09T19:15:00.002-05:00

Here's something anyone who drives a car should know: The Truth About Hiring a Criminal Defense Lawyer.

Look Out, Janet!

2009-04-14T15:18:00.007-05:00

Persistence Is Good

2009-05-05T22:26:00.001-05:00

Read how the rare application of hard work leads to success.

An Old Comment Thread...

2007-08-11T15:35:00.001-05:00

on an idea for a Constitutional Amendment.

Joe Huffman's The Jews in the Attic Test

2007-08-11T15:26:00.000-05:00

It also works for slaves in the Barn. The test is:

Will this law make it difficult or impossible to protect innocent life from a government intent on their imprisonment or death?

More here.

Cracking a Bottle

2007-08-03T19:05:00.000-05:00

Artificial Wombs?

"We call it cracking a bottle back home."

Read Mass Producing Babies--Toward an Artificial Womb.

Global Cooling On The Way?

2007-08-03T19:00:00.000-05:00

Read Eternal Mindshine of the Spotless Sun.

Orson Scott Card on Global Warming

2007-07-29T00:30:00.000-05:00

It's worth reading.

In fact, what we have right now, while we are not yet as warm as the peak of the Medieval Warming (a fact that Mann and others have tried to deny or obscure), is a superb climate that is making life better for people all over the world. It's the cold periods that cause famines and population drops, and promote plagues and floods.

We should be grateful.

Instead we are being hit with dire warnings, every one of which is either false or a normal part of the Earth's history; our business should be to adapt to the unavoidable solar-caused warming, not to destroy the worldwide economy in order to prevent something that human activity is not causing.

41 Years a Marine

2007-03-31T22:10:00.000-05:00

We didn't quite make it to the ceremony, as we had a conflict, but Master Gunnery Sgt. Kendall Phelps was honored today at the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City. So we visited the memorial and it's WWI museum instead. I highly recommend it.

A Sad Day for the ACLU

2007-02-25T00:49:00.000-06:00

... ACLU chapter ex-president charged in child-porn case ...

Fox News has video.

O'Reilly says Charles Rust-Tierney had videos showing "pre-pubescent girls being violently raped", and that he coached youth sports teams.

How horrible. How tragic. God weeps for those little girls.

Let justice be swiftly done.

Update: I added the word chapter above, noted by the bold. Thanks, shep.

Equalizer

2006-09-26T00:38:00.000-05:00

Mary Katharine Ham points out that women have a right to defend themselves. I have a wife and three daughters. I agree.

The Problem Is Bigotry

2006-09-19T02:22:00.000-05:00

I think perhaps we need to recast some this opprobrium towards Muslims in a different mold. The analogy I wish to draw is between rampant bigotry among Muslims towards Christian and Jewish minorities living in their midst and rampant bigotry not so long ago among white Americans towards black American minorities in living in their midst.

The rampant bigotry among Muslims even leads to uppity Christians being lynched.

In this light, Muslims who justify their bigotry and their behavior by referring to the Koran are no different than white Christian who abused the Bible in the same way.

So - all those Muslims who responded to the Pope with violent protests? Miserable bigots, the lot of them. Do you fight bigotry by moderating your criticism of it?

There were plenty of white Americans who did little but quietly say to their kids, "We don't act like that." There were plenty of white American leaders who did nothing effective to fight bigotry for decades after the Civil War.

Take a deep breath here and consider this historical parallel. Change could be a long time coming.

Inspiration from Dean's World and Meryl Yourish.

Well Spent

2006-08-29T02:14:00.000-05:00

Be a Boy Scout (prepared) at five dollars a whack.

Not Dames and Gumshoes

2006-07-23T22:16:00.000-05:00

The Army is becoming the world's largest detective agency. See Strategy Page on "Police Intelligence Operations," Field Manual 3-19.5.

Porkbusters

2006-07-02T19:23:00.000-05:00

I like the Porkbusters. Earmarks? Get rid of them.

Morocco Begins With M

2006-05-10T08:41:00.000-05:00

As do Moderate and Muslim.

Care and Feeding...

2006-05-09T23:27:00.000-05:00

of SayUncle Â» Bullies. Thanks, SayUncle.

An Islamic Argument...

2006-04-04T00:32:00.000-05:00

...For Freedom of Religion.

Loving Muslims...

2006-04-04T00:31:00.000-05:00

...Hating Islam.

A Credit To Her Uniform

2006-03-26T13:11:00.000-06:00

Thanks for your service, Sgt. Amanda Pinson.

Via Dean Esmay.

Total Solar Ecilpses Aren't Rare

2006-03-26T03:38:00.000-06:00

On average there's one every 18 months, according to SPACE.com, but they are only visible on a very small portion of the earth's surface each time.

The News Is Like A Snickers Bar

2006-03-26T03:31:00.000-06:00

There's some nutrition, but it's really mind candy.

Via Dean Esmay.

This Is Why I Don't Buy The Paper, Anymore...

2006-03-25T09:05:00.000-06:00

They don't print the stories of heroes, like this one.

Be a Pirate!

2006-03-25T00:32:00.000-06:00

Even as a kid I never wanted to be a pirate. With me it was always a knight, or an inventor. But with this fleet, and these rules, I'm thinking of hoisting the Jolly Roger.