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I’m nominating Travelwise42 for his “A Man for All Seasons reference, although honorable mention to Mike for “Weenie Tots”.
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* A poll shows that most Americans don’t think candidates from either party will do a good job as president. I think this is a step in the right direction. Usually in politics, we say one guy is great and the other guy is bad and the they’ll say their guy is great and our guy is bad. But can’t we compromise and agree they’re all awful? Treating all politicians with contempt is the first steps towards a smaller government, because when you hate and distrust them all, you realize how imperative it is to give them as little power as possible.
* Q. What do you call someone who thinks it’s a bad idea to sell guns to Mexican drug cartels? A. A racist.
I think it’s safe to say that racism has replaced patriotism as the most popular last refuge of a scoundrel. But really, what does Holder have left? This Fast & Furious thing is so awful to the point of being cartoonish. Unless he wants to do the right thing and resign in disgrace, what’s he got left other than to throw any charge he can think of out there? Certainly not dignity.
* New one from Biden: “Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.” They’re just sort of tyrannical, backwards, violent people we’ve been fighting for the last decade, but no one should take that as meaning we don’t like them and don’t want to be friends.
* Apparently a couple people have used these things called “neti pots” and died from brain eating amoebas. To which my reaction is: THAT’S A THING?!!
Yes, apparently there are brain eating amoebas (well, they’re not technically “amoebas”) that just sit around in bodies of water waiting to get in through your nose and eat your brain. And if that happens, there’s a 98% mortality rate. It just rarely happens (it needs to be heated water), but apparently a neti pot can help if you use tap water because lots of tap water has BRAIN EATING AMOEBAS!
Somewhere near you right now is a body of water with little amoebas resting in it saying, “Brains! Brains!” WHY DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!
* Here’s a new one for my argument that atheism isn’t so much anti-religion as just itself an ill-defined and flighty religion. It’s from the New York Times arguing you can be good without God — and sure, you can do good things but the question is always “why” and once again I’m frustrated with how illogical the arguments are for that. She lists a number of moral judgments she says are “obviously true” but never expounds on why they’re obviously true — other than they feel really wrong. She doesn’t even attempt to make a logical argument. A lot of people feel homosexuality is wrong… so is that obviously immoral too or what sort of consensus do we need?
And what if you’re a sociopath and have no natural feelings of right or wrong — are you then not bound by morality? (this is something I explore in one of the novels I’m working on) To give it a more concrete case, let’s say you’re a sociopath who runs a country — like North Korea — and get a lot of benefit from the “obviously bad” things the author lists such as torture and slavery. Can you make a logical argument to this person not to be awful to people to his own benefit? Society sure didn’t stop Kim Jong Il, so I guess he had nothing to worry about.
The author of the piece objects to nihilist atheists because… I guess that just feels wrong again. But the nihilist seem to me more honest and more like they actually tried to logically think through their philosophy. To me, it seems clear the author believe in some sort of divinity to the drive to do good — that’s it’s not just some mindless directive from evolution — but for some reason she wants to leave her god ill-defined and unexamined and just uses lots of verbiage to dance around that fact.
* Apparently Harry Reid has been stealing ideas from Sunny:
Harry Reid, what a one man conviction of how awful our concept of government is in that we have people like him making decisions that actually affect other people.
* Wisdom of the Day: “It’s ‘New Year’s EVE,’ not ‘New Year’s STEVE.'” –Bill Corbett
* New Dark Knight trailer!
Looks like it gets political. Apparently Catwoman is a member of the Occupy movement. Ace has some commentary on what he considers the heavy-handed messaging in Nolan’s Batman films, to which I respond that Ace is a dumb stoopid and these movies are awesome. And if you’ve seen the Dark Knight, you have to agree I have the more reasoned argument.
There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy because it threatens U.S. interests.
Naturally, the White House issued a clarification. Oh, it seems they stood by Biden’s statements.
So, the Taliban isn’t our enemy. Then, who is?
Looking at the actions of the Obama administration, here are the likely candidates:
