32 posts tagged Stupid Arguments

In a perfect display of mob justice, federal prosecutors are going after Lori Drew for what she did to Megan Meier. This story exploded pretty quickly once state prosecutors announced that they couldn't find any state statutes to charge Drew with for the way that she manipulated 14 year old Megan Meier into a state which ultimately resulted in her killing herself.

Read these excerpts from this article, brought to you by El Borak, very carefully and fully absorb the raw decadence that is on display here: The last thing Marti Tracy wants to do on a Saturday is clip coupons. But last month the 34-year-old Bowie resident felt she no longer had a choice.

State laws apparently don't matter anymore when it comes to regulating the police. The SCOTUS just ruled that it is entirely acceptable for the government to introduce evidence that the police obtained while conducting a search that is illegal under state law, but otherwise constitutional.

I will never understand how the buffoons that run Red State got the audience that they do because whenever they talk about anything related to the Internet they sound like raving lunatics: Google and Lessig believe that intellectual property rights should be curtailed and internet providers should be forced to allow anyone and everyone to use their networks.

Not knowing much about evolution is the least of the average American student's worries: [Expelled] is simply an anti-science propaganda film aimed at creating controversy where none exists, while promoting poor science education that can and will severely handicap American students.

Survey Burn Out Posted by Lynn on Apr 14th, 2008 2008 Apr 14 I understand that lists are fun, I really do. I know that these surveys circulate around blogs and myspace with questions that are going to help us all get to know one another which is a good thing.

If the death penalty is murder... Then arrests are kidnapping...Taxation and fines are theft...Zoning is squatting...Eminent domain is extortion... We do need to scale back on the way that the death penalty is applied in the United States, including by providing far more protections to those who are accused of a capital crime.

It's bad enough that this bear actually behaved like a predator (I know, what was he thinking, right?), now we face the prospect of bear crap run off tainting Germany's pristine environment! Germany's celebrity polar bear Knut has triggered a new controversy by fishing out 10 live carp from his moat and killing them in front of visitors.

The writing is on the wall for gun violence Hat tip: El Borak. March 10th, 2008, posted by MikeT Uncategorized

On slashdot I said that one of the prerequisites to forcing parents to take responsibility for their children is to provide them with more protection when they have to discipline their children. If you have to spank your child because they are out of line, that should not be child abuse because it is an act of correcting discipline, not undeserved force.