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April 10, 2014

“The New Inquisition”

VDH, in an iteration of things you’ve been hearing here and elsewhere for years. Still, it’s worth beating the drum some more — if we agree that the time for simply whining about it is over: What if you believed that the planet might not have warmed up the last two decades, even though carbon emissions reached all-time highs? Or, if the earth did heat up, you thought that it

“‘Dan Snyder is trying to buy the right to be racist.’ – Jesse Ventura”

You know what?  The more I hear people like Ventura, or Hank Aaron, try to cash in on a tactic of using “racism” as a shaming mechanism, the more I realize that this country has become kind of a giant shithole lorded over by sanctimonious pricks who are looking to divide us in order to draw attention — and perhaps riches — to themselves. I’m not going to rehash the

“Suit Against SAFE Act Claims it Allows ‘Warrantless’ Police Searches”

No one is coming after your guns, wingnuts.  Now shut up and stick that Fourth Amendment right up your Visigothic, Constitution-fetishizing asses.  Washington Free Beacon: The registry process of New York’s SAFE Act allows for warrantless police searches into gun owners’ homes, a violation of the Fourth Amendment, according to plaintiffs of a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court Eastern District. The law firm representing plaintiff Gabriel Razzano argues the

LAUSD teacher suspended over students’ science projects [Darleen Click]

Zero tolerance over “may look too much like a weapon” extends into the science classroom Students and parents have rallied around Greg Schiller after his suspension in February from the downtown Cortines School of Visual & Performing Arts. Supporters have organized a rally on his behalf at the campus for Thursday, gathered hundreds of signatures on a petition calling for his reinstatement and set up a social media page. Schiller