It now appears that internet porn lowers rates of rape and violent movies do the same with violent crime. You can and should read all about it in this article, but the upshot of it is that pornography acts acts as a sexual substitute for some would-be rapists; and people who are likely to commit [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Historian Michael Bess has a good essay in the L.A. Times today previewing his book immoral actions that took place on all sides during World War II. Bess summarizes his article–and in all likelihood his entire book–in one excellent paragraph: My underlying point here is straightforward. There is such a thing as a just war; [...]
I’m not one of those people who trolls through news stories looking for liberal bias in the “mainstream media”, but two lines from this story struck me as particularly egregious: The U.S. government believes Fidel Castro’s health is deteriorating and that the Cuban dictator is unlikely to live through 2007. That dire view was reinforced [...]
The only big disappointment for me on Tuesday night was in a stat election, but not Missouri’s. For the second time in four years, Nevada voters rejected a ballot initiative that would legalize possession of marijuana in the state. I didn’t really expect the initiative to pass, but I thought it had at least a [...]
This is the most pleased I’ve been with an election since 1994–although 2000 was infinitely more entertaining than either. The country has returned to the blessed state of gridlock, which will hopefully slow down the government behemoth. Here’s my breakdown of the races and changes I care most about. Hopefully, the actuality of Speaker Pelosi [...]
A couple of cops in New Mexico are suing Burger King because some employees put weed on their burgers. After they ate half of the burgers, these poontangs went to the hospital for medical evaluation, the kids who put the weed on there are being charged with aggravated battery of an officer. The only guy [...]
This poll claiming that 54% of Americans believe that the government “was trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses,” has been getting a lot of enthusiastic play on conservative and libertarian blogs. Allow me to throw some cold water on that excitement. Sure, most people think the government [...]
The web edition of Vanity Fair is teasing us with a preview of an article by Daniel Rose profiling the same neoconservatives he interviewed before the war began and who now exhibit “despair, and fury at the incompetence of the Bush administration….” Richard “Prince of Darkness” Perle now admits that if he were “delphic” he [...]
Apparently, some people in Britain do see a reason why the gunpowder treason should be forgot because this year the council in east London has decided to replace the bonfire of Guy Fawkes’ effigy with a fireworks display of a Bengali folk tale. I’m a relatively multicultural person–I drink tequila and cervezas on Cinco de [...]
