Rough Ol' Boy

Most people try to post something upbeat on Fridays, which I could do, but I’m not gonna. Today, New York City released several hours of 911 tapes from September 11. Callers’ voices were cut from the tapes as they were deemed to personal to be released without the permission of the family, but the content [...]

You know the Truth ads–the ones where a bunch of really self-righteous kids put on elaborate anti-tobacco shows in public and are indirectly funded by the tobacco companies? Yeah, I fucking hate those commercials. I frequently entertain the idea that if I get some kind of disease from smoking I will sue the people who [...]

Check out this page for descriptions and awesome pictures of the world’s best skylines. My only beef with the list: No Vegas!? What the fuck? Via Catallarchy.

One of the frequently voiced arguments for the war in Iraq is that democracies do not go to war against each other, and that therefore a democratic Iraq will be peaceful. The view that democracies don’t attack each other is commonly referred to as Democratic Peace Theory, and its most renowned proponent is probably political [...]

Stephen Glass, call your office; you now have a conservative counterpart. Ben Domenech, co-founder of RedState, was recently hired by the Washington Post to write a conservative blog. Unfortunately for Domenech, it seems that he plagiarized much of his material. So this is how it’s gonna be, Domenech: you are finished as a journalist at [...]

From Reuters: Relations between the U.S. military and Iraqi police in the mainly Sunni area north of Baghdad — where many including police are sympathetic to the insurgency — are strained, with police accusing U.S. troops of killing civilians and the military questioning the credibility of the police. The military has launched an investigation into [...]

So I saw V for Vendetta on opening night, and unlike many of my fellow libertarians, I was underwhelmed. Don’t get me wrong though, it was a good movie; it just didn’t come close to living up to the comic book. (I know, I know, it’s a total nerd complaint, but I don’t care because [...]

If you can stomach the sight, click here for a map showing your tax dollars at work. When I look at it, my mind goes into a kind of shock, and I am unable to process the enormity of it all. Then it hits me: no organization, anywhere, ever should have this much power. With [...]

This is a bike safety video from 1963, and it is straight fucked up. It’s the sort of thing that if you watched it after taking a ten strip, you’d spend the rest of your life in a mental institute muttering about Phil Floogle and Trigby Fipps. They just don’t make safety videos like this [...]

A Texas judge recently cited Billy Madison in dismissing a defendant’s motion. Guess which line he quotes. Via The Corner, for some reason.