This Needs Fixin'

This Needs Fixin'

some things just ain't right

  • Home
  • About
  • Profile
  • Contact

Category: Politics

While everything is political, these things are more so.

Trumpian Follies: Continent-sized Missile Defense Is Fools Gold

arkady2025-05-21Politics Technology

Donald Trump has … a thing … about nuclear war; it’s clear that the Cold War left a lasting impression on his psyche. And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! – Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor…

Read More

Actually Obscene: The State Should Not Be Legislating Obscenity

arkady2025-05-19Law Politics

The State should not be regulating obscenity. In general, the State should not be regulating speech. That is, after all, one of the main points of the 1st Amendment: Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech…

Read More

Spreading It Around: One Person, One Job

arkady2025-05-13Law Politics

I discussed this problem before during what was at the time the worst and most corrupt Presidency in this country’s long and distinguished history of terrible Presidencies. But of course it’s back again. There was a whole presidential term in…

Read More

Mind The Gap: The Are No Actual Guardrails

arkady2025-05-12Law Politics

The U.S. government was created by a bunch of comfortably-well-off dudes who never really thought it’d be controlled by people who seriously disagreed with them. That’s why it has no real blocks to serious abuses of power. Sure, they figured…

Read More

Identity Politics: They’re All Doing It

arkady2025-05-05Culture Politics

There’s been a lot of whinging about “identity politics” lately. From both major parties. The Democrats complain about how white, male, rural, evangelical christian the rhetoric of the Republicans is. Which is true, they do do that. And the Republicans…

Read More

Getting REAL: I Don’t Care About Showing ID To Vote

arkady2025-04-28Law Politics

Honestly, I’m kinda in favor of the U.S. having a national ID card and of requiring it to vote and whatever else. Heck, even Costco has a membership card. There’s a better argument for requiring an ID to vote than…

Read More

Dueling Sovereigns: The Feds Are Arresting State Judges

arkady2025-04-25Law Politics

Well, this wasn’t what I’d intended to write about today. Oh, well. You go to blog with the jackbooted fascist thuggery you have, not the reasoned discussion of political philosophy you want to have. You should read that linked article,…

Read More

Framing Religion: Freedom vs. Exemptions

arkady2025-04-23Law Politics

I said yesterday that Jonathan Larsen, of “The Fucking News”, is a better writer than I am. And this is true. He can usually get at the core of an issue more elegantly than I ever could, and structure his…

Read More

Ukraine & Friends: We Have Some Issues Of Our Own To Work Through Right Now

arkady2025-04-21Culture Politics

It must be really frustrating to see the U.S. switching sides in the middle of a war for your country’s survival. I realize this doesn’t help, but it’s frustrating for us too. The best y’all can do now is to…

Read More

The Partial Veto: Wisconsin Hits The Bottom Of A Slippery Slope

arkady2025-04-18Law Politics

The partial, or line-item, veto idea was one of those inexplicably popular fads that you see everywhere for a while then never hear about again till the nostalgia sets in and it gets another day in the sun. It’s come…

Read More

Posts pagination

1 2 … 10 Next

some things just ain’t right

Here are some thoughts on how to fix them.

N0 PH34R

Support this site at N0 PH34R.

Site Controls

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Archives

Categories

Recent Posts

  • Tax Everyone: No More Religious Exemptions
  • You Should Read This: The Era Of The Business Idiot
  • Trumpian Follies: Continent-sized Missile Defense Is Fools Gold
  • “History And Tradition”: If We’re Changing Legal Interpretation, Let’s Not Make It Worse
  • Actually Obscene: The State Should Not Be Legislating Obscenity

Recent Comments

  • No Confidence: The Vote Of Last Resort – This Needs Fixin' on Freedom & Consent: There Are No Legitimate States
  • No Confidence: The Vote Of Last Resort – This Needs Fixin' on Hugo Voting: For Once We Should Pay Attention To An Industry Award
  • Weak Sauce: Due Process Is No Guarantee – This Needs Fixin' on Due Process: No, I Don’t Trust you Bro
  • Taking the 4th: Privacy And The Subcontracting State – This Needs Fixin' on No Delegation: The State Should Do Its Own Work
  • Taking the 4th: Privacy And The Subcontracting State – This Needs Fixin' on Showing Their Work: Laws Should Be Version-Controlled

Popular Posts

Copyright © All rights reserved. Maya Blog by Karuna Themes