The World Has Gone Mad
I’ve been summoned for jury duty many times; I’ve never even gotten to voir dire.
Until now: Through some perversity of the Fates, I was actually impaneled yesterday.
A juror impaneled is like — is like a butterfly mounted. All day, every day for the rest of the week and perhaps even Monday or Tuesday [...]
Somber Christmas terror suspect pleads not guilty
Wearing a T-shirt, khaki-style pants and a chain at his ankles, a somber-looking Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas said he understood the charges against him, triggering the defense of a criminal case that could lead to life in prison.
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Addendum to "The Party of Mandatory Assent"
In our immediately preceding post, The Party of Mandatory Assent, we concluded that:
What weaves all these threads together is a common theme of “winning” debate — legislative, administrative, judicial, and academic — by gagging the opposition, by mandating assent, by locking out dissenters, and by throwing freedom of speech under the bus of the permanent [...]
"I Reject Your Reality…"
“…And substitute my own!”
So reads a t-shirt often worn by Adam Savage, one of the two original starts of the Discovery Channel’s series Mythbusters, which I have slavishly watched since the very first episode (I think that was the episode where they busted the myth of the rocket-propelled car launching into the air).
The tee commemorates [...]
Blending in with the locals
It may not be the great Washington novel we’ve been waiting for, but this story by Washington Post writers Mary Beth Sheridan and Del Quentin Wilber about the couple accused of spying for Cuba will do for now The first paragraph alone, though it may seem like a parody to out-of-towners, presents a [...]
