Bwahahahahaha!!
Just whom do they think they are kidding?!
Pompous pretentious prattling from the efete elite, again. Since they’re only psuedo-humans, they have to make pronouncements like this to make themselves feel better, having nothing in their own lives that will satisfy the urge to be real humans.
One must pity them as well as laugh at them. Apparently their rationale for living is all people must exist in states of miserableness, worshipping only the prolongation of said existence to the total suppression of anything remotely resembling real living: pleasures, pain, and all else that tells us we are alive.
1 commentSyria running Iraqi terror attacks
A Kuwaiti newspaper states that Syria is behind “Iraqi opposition”. This is hardly surprising and will come as another blow to left-of-centre defenders of Syria and its allies. It seems that those nasty neocons are not the only ones who believe that Iraqi WMDs ended up in Syria after all.
Comments are off for this postRadley on Prohibition
“Different drugs come in and out of vogue, but the percentage of the populace using them has largely remained the same for 30 years. The only difference is, as we make access to those drugs more and more difficult, the drugs become more expensive, making the drug trade more and more lucrative, meaning pushers will go to greater lengths and take greater risks because users will pay more money to get them. The drug war has made war zones of some urban areas in much the same way Prohibition famously turned sections of Chicago into public shooting galleries.” (12/04/03)
Radley once again puts his finger on it. Prohibition only ever seems to help organised crime get stronger and does not do much in preventing people getting whatever is banned. They just have to become more resourceful.
Of course, anyone who has read my ramblings here or my book Statism Sucks! Ver 2.0 will know I am an advocate of drug legalisation. It is the only real way of getting criminals out of the picture and allowing responsible adults to self-medicate in whatever way they wish.
Via: Rational Review
Comments are off for this postA setback for parental choice in Colorado
“A state judge declared Colorado’s new school voucher law unconstitutional Wednesday, saying it illegally strips local school boards of control over education. Denver District Judge Joseph Meyer issued an injunction barring implementation of the voucher law, the first in the nation since the U.S. Supreme Court said last year that voucher programs were acceptable. ... The Colorado law required $4,500 vouchers to be offered to children in kindergarten through 12th grade to help offset private school tuition.” (12/04/03)
This bit of bad news comes from Rational Review. No doubt the judge involved is a Democrat with links to the teacher’s unions as the ruling is silly in extremis. Surely letting parents having a say in their child’s education is more important than a power-play betwixt local school boards?
1 comment(I wanna be) Elected
I despise and abjure all awards. How dare they reduce artistic accomplishment to a . . . a popularity contest. It’s an insult and a calumny . . . what’s this?
Woo-hoo! Matthew Stinson ’s nominated me for the Best Crawly Amphibian Blog
(the Crawly Amphibian refers to my [pitiful] Ecosystem ranking) in Wizbang’s 2003 Weblog Awards! And my mother said I’d never amount to anything! In yer face, Ma!
Er, this is assuming I make the final cut. The nominations aren’t closed yet in that category, and polling won’t start until tomorrow.
So I am sure you’re going to rush on over to Wizbang and vote for your favorite Crawly Amphibian blog, yes? the blog quebecois, yes?
No? You hold other Crawly Amphibian blogs before me?
Well then maybe you could do me a favor and instead drift on by and vote for Matthew, who’s up for a well-deserved shot as Best New Blog of 2003. Matthew is sort of like me except that he seems to be a serious adult with grown-up ideas, boundless energy, and professional webpage smarts.
(Matthew: Sorry, man, it’s the best I can do. It’s like herding cats, given the legendary stubbornness of my readers.
How stubborn are they?
They are so stubborn that they return day after day to the blog quebecois, expecting something funny — hell, something — to happen.
And as a practical matter, even if I could deliver them en bloc, the best possible impact would be the equivalent of Dennis Kucinich releasing his delegate(s) to the floor.
But hey.)
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