How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. - Johnny Cash
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You don’t have to hear it from me to know that things have gone south for the reasonable among us in the month or so since I left you. The last, despairing cries of my undergraduate career are echoing in the halls of the clean, ill-lighted place my days have become.
By that, I in no [...]
On February 17th, Sensenbrenner and a few of his pals introduced this legislation:
109th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. J. RES. 24
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 17, 2005
Mr. HOYER (for himself, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. SABO, and Mr. PALLONE) introduced the [...]
Or perhaps, what is and is not actually news. Or even, the halflife of news.
We’ve been inundated with the Pope for the last week. The Pope is still dead everytime I turn on my TV. I think airing his funeral was fine - he is, after all, an historic figure and as such deserves [...]
Via Under The Same Sun, the Washington Post had the audacity to carry a story in which an objector to American detainee torture policy was shipped home restrained to a backboard. The punchline is that the objector was a California National Guard Sergeant serving in Army Intelligence and the guy who stripped him of his [...]