Incredible

This site is way cool!

You think of a character and it plays 20 questions to get the answer.

I thought of Atticus Finch and it got it!

Happy New Year

It's now 2010. The new year used to be a concern when writing checks. Not anymore. I now use on-line banking to pay bills. I'm also stuck with out-of-date stamps.

Test of Jump Break

Testing 1, 2,

Vote Turley

There's an ABA poll for best legal blog here. Vote for Jonathan Turley in IMHO category.


The Satyricons have threatened kittens.

I Pay Taxes For This?

The Needville Independent School District, Needville, TX, has a short hair policy for boys. An American Indian boy had long braids according to his culture. The NISD refused to budge and was sued by the ACLU. The ACLU won and now NISD is appealing that decision.

What is the matter with these idiots. Don't they have anything better to do with their time and the taxpayer's money? Is the NISD so flush with cash that they can afford all the legal fees?

I am amazed that a school would concern itself with such trivialities. That they can justify their actions, I have no doubt, but I suspect that these people just enjoy having power over children. Anything that diminishes that power, even a tad, cannot be tolerated.

I remember growing a Beatles' haircut when I was in high school. The school couldn't care less, but my father made me get it cut off.

H/T Recursivity.

Sarah Palin Book Tour

Sarah Palin's positions are so vague that people are free

to see her positions as anything they want.

Facilitated Communication

Recently there's been a story regarding a man who was in a coma for 23 years. The video shows the man making astonishing claims with the aid of facilitated communications (FC). FC is a hoax. Here is the Frontline episode that debunks FC:



The facilitators are charlatans. They exploit vulnerable people. They sell lies. They are despicable.

The clergy/priest class are a lot like the FC facilitators. Their business is also based on lies. They lie to vulnerable people thinking these lies provide some form of sustenance. They even believe the lies themselves, improving their appearance of sincerity. Just as with FC, there is no real communication, just the belief that there is communication.

For more on the man in the coma, I recommend this post.

/Note: the Google video takes a while to get started.