Categories: Current Affairs, Legal Nonsense, Mainstream Media Narcolepsy, War on Christmas, Why my God is better than your God (or your non-God)
A great puzzle of our time
by Graham 
One thing I am struggling with is how a supposedly smart and highly successful person like Carly Fiorina is managing to run a Senate campaign in California without engaging in some basic fact-checking. Does this woman have no sensible informed people wor… more »
02/12/10 12:05:45 pm, Once in a while somebody in the mainstream media actually gets something right...
by Graham
As you may have noticed, I don't have much time for the mainstream media in the modern USA. I don't watch the network news programs, since they are tediously superficial and focussed on Stuff That Looks Interesting instead of Things That Are Actually Imp… more »
Asset forfeiture abuse - again
by Graham
Ridley Balko writes in Reason magazine about the egregious abuse of asset forfeiture laws in the modern USA. I previously blogged about one amazing abuse of the system in Tenaha TX. more »
I intend to boycott the SuperBowl
by Graham
...since CBS is clearly guilty of hypocrisy, by accepting an advocacy advert from Focus On The Family, when they refused to accept a similar advert 3 years ago from the United Church Of Christ.
Contrary to what some excitable individuals have written,… more »
The Supreme Court ruling on Corporate funding of political activity
by Graham
Glenn Greenwald, in his usual brisk style, has produced an excellent summary of the Supreme Court decision here. As he points out, most of the arguments being made over the judgement by both sides are unpersuasive:
Critics emphasize that the Court's rul… more »
Louisiana lowers the bar on the definition of "sex offender"
by Graham
In which one of the more regressive states in the Union decides to lower the bar on its jurisprudence still further:
New Orleans city police and the district attorney’s office are using a state law written for child molesters to charge hundreds of sex w… more »
The biggest threat to marriage...
by Graham
...is not homosexual people marrying, but heterosexual married people misbehaving. You only need to look at published divorce rates to realize this. Plus, the reality is that there are less likely to be children in a gay marriage situation, thus there is… more »
Justice system abuse gets even more egregious in TN
by Graham
From Ed Brayton's blog, yet another eye-popping case of judicial misconduct... more »
Interesting posting from a parent
by Graham
A parent has written an eloquent posting on the state of the US education system, explaining the system is deteriorating, which is going to negatively impact the competitiveness of the USA in the future.
My concern is that we are entering an era where… more »
The pathetic Sunday news show syndrome
by Graham
An article from Jay Rosen about the terrible state of the Sunday current affairs shows and what could be done to fix them. Of course, as he himself admits on Twitter, it will most likely never happen... more »