As a rule, “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” works pretty well for keeping things peaceful in a community. But it’s not a good rule. It’s a very bad rule when someone horrible has died,…
On Charlie Kirk: 1st Amendment Actions Should Not Have 2nd Amendment Consequences
Charlie Kirk was married, and had two children; presumably his family loved him and will miss him. I know nothing about how he treated them or behaved in his personal relationships, but in public he was frankly a horrible person.…
Church And State: A Wall We Should Actually Build
The United States is not, and has never officially been, a religious nation. Seriously. That quote above from the english-language version of Treaty of Tripoli, from just seven years after the drafting of the Constitution, makes that very, very clear.…
The Kids Are Alright: Clicking “Like” For Nepal
I want to say that the kids in Nepal are showing the U.S. how its done; I mean, we have a fascist coup here in the U.S. and we’re still chanting and waving placards around but Nepal just banned some…
History And Tradition: Extra-Judicial Killing In The Name Of
The U.S. military has a long and ignoble tradition of illegal killings outside of wartime. A very, very long and very, very ignoble tradition. So last week’s destruction of a private boat in international waters by the U.S. Navy, under…
Archive: Press Freedom Conference
That was a good weekend. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Thu Apr 26th, 2001 at 02:57:54 PM EST”. As this year marks the 25th Anniversery of Project Censored, a well respected media monitoring organization which publishes an annual…
It’s Not Worth Keeping Anymore: Let The Federal Government Shut Down
I have said it before: just let the government shut down. It beats the alternative. Seriously. When all three branches of the U.S. government are engaged in a project to get rid of all the good things the government actually…
Posse Con Militatus: No Military Judges; Just, None At All
Mother Jones is reporting that the regime has started making plans to assign military lawyers as immigration court judges. And that’s more than just one step over the line. There are two important red lines that this crosses: These are…
You Should Read This: What Labor Means Today
Since I didn’t do a Labor Day post yesterday, because reasons, you should read Jonathan Larson‘s over at The Fucking News. What Labor Means Today. While I don’t agree with every little thing he says in it, it’s very good…
The Trump Strip: Abomination As Capstone To Atrocity
I had something else in mind to write this morning, revisiting the suggestion that corporate equity should only be available through labor. ‘Cause it’s Labor Day here in the U.S. And then I saw the artist rendering in the pitch…