You cannot be a good citizen without maintaining a reasonable level of awareness about what’s happening in your community and the world around it. It’s part of that famous cost of freedom we keep hearing about. And the world does…
Low Standards: Murder On The High Seas
The United States Navy is not covering itself with glory in dealing with the coup. What with all the obeying illegal orders to murder civilians and such. The last time I checked, the estimated count of illegal murders committed by…
Airports United: No Free Political Ads For Noem
So, most federal government web sites and even many federal employees’ personal email accounts’ out-of-office message are being used to display Republican party political ads. But not (some) airports. Airport facilities management is not really where I would have looked…
Just A Tip: Circumcision Does Not Cause Autism; Should Still Only Be For Adults
There’s a new entry among the very, very many things on the “well, that used to go without saying” list. Circumcision does not cause autism. Of course it doesn’t. There’s no evidence that it does, and there’s no plausible mechanism…
Plenary Power Rangers: Steven Miller Says The Quiet Part Loud Again
Stephen Miller said in a CNN interview this week that the President has “plenary authority” over military deployments. This comes as a surprise to no one. Mainly because the small number of people who knew what “plenary authority” means already…
Archive: Terrorism: Rights, Blame and Ethics
I still think that most of what I said here is correct, and needed to be said then. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Tue Sep 18th, 2001 at 09:28:04 PM EST”. Thousands of people died Tuesday when…
Bad Policing: Even “Qualified Immunity” Can’t Defend This One
Fine, let’s talk about that CBP raid in Chicago. TLDR: it was bad; very, very bad. Set aside for the moment the whole military cosplay aspect of it. That was ludicrous enough, but it’s not really the main point here;…
Police Action: That’s Not The Military’s Job
The U.S. has a long history of … misusing its military, but since 2001 this habit of using its military for things that it really shouldn’t get involved in has greatly accelerated. Things that are not the military’s job. The…
Failed Constitution Check: The Professoriat Weighs In
I think that I first used the word “coup” here to describe our current situation on January 31st of 2025, when the DOGE-lings deployed illegally across the federal bureaucracy to start the wrecking, but I first said that the Constitution…
Oh, Democrats: You’re Doing The Right Thing For The Wrong Reasons
There are lots of very good reasons to shut down the current U.S. government. I’ve mentioned many of them here. And preserving the health insurance subsidy for the 20 million people who depend on it and will lose it if…