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With friends like this…

"He's not a moron at all. He's my friend."

- Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien's amusing "praise" of our President, as noted in this Salon.com article

- Blathered by Adam on Monday, November 25, 2002 at 23:53 Permalink
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Spectacular Stupidity

Apparently -- get this -- something bad is going to happen to us!

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- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, November 24, 2002 at 17:06 Permalink
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For the kids! For the kids!

Best way for politicians to pander to the Religious Right and much of middle America? Pass a law to protect kids!

It doesn't matter if your law actually results in helping kids. It doesn't matter if it actually results in harm to those some children. What counts is that you're actually winning the hearts and votes of soccer moms all over the country.

More importantly, how could you ever vote AGAINST kids? You won't support library filtering? You WANT our kids exposed to filth... with our taxes? Kiss goodbye to reelection.

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- Blathered by Adam on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 at 9:09 Permalink
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Common sense up in smoke

District Judge Thomas Gilbert has taken indefinite voluntary leave from his duties after he was spotted smoking the joint at a Rolling Stones concert at Ford Field in Detroit.
- news item on ananova.com, November 9, 2002

Am I in the minority for seeing this as absolutely absurd? Can you imagine a similar situation in which a cop caught speeding tearfully turns in his badge the next day? Oh wait, there's a key difference: the judge in the above story wasn't endangering anyone's life.

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- Blathered by Adam on Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 0:02 Permalink
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Yet more evidence that “Military Intelligence” is an oxymoron

Nine Army linguists, including six trained to speak Arabic, have been dismissed from the military because they are gay.

- from an AP newswire article on November 14

Pathetic.

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- Blathered by Adam on Thursday, November 14, 2002 at 17:59 Permalink
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Idea for Compulsory Service in America

I think America should have compulsory service (military/humanitarian) for all 18 year olds, male and female.

Germany and many other democratic countries have compulsory service, though many only require men to serve, which I think is ridiculous.

I'd like to see our country require every 18 year old to serve one year in either a branch of the military or in civil service, with the latter including teaching in an underprivileged area, road construction, aid to seniors, etc.

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- Blathered by Adam on Monday, November 11, 2002 at 1:03 Permalink
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The people spoke (and I cry)

Some charming samples of "democracy," according to Nevada in the election yesterday.

- Smoke a joint, (still) go to jail.
- Want to marry your same-sex partner? Go to hell.

Republicans are gloating that yesterday signaled a mandate for their 'causes.'

Somehow I just can't get myself to see <50% voter turnout as a mandate of anything except apathy and disenfranchisement.

I wonder if there's something to the whole compulsory voting thing, like they have in Australia. But I think that's material for another entry.

- Blathered by Adam on Wednesday, November 6, 2002 at 9:56 Permalink
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Voting

I've heard there may be, well, a few folks in the U.S. who won't be voting today.

My feeling on the matter is clear: Barring extenuating circumstances, failing to vote is laziness or misguidedness. It is not a vote for change, or a vote for protest. It is simply not a vote.

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- Blathered by Adam on Tuesday, November 5, 2002 at 8:06 Permalink
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Pledge allegiance under God… but no breasts!!!

So once again, our brilliant U.S. federal government (with, sadly, probably the support of a majority of boneheaded citizens and ineffectual parents) strongarmed our students into the world of the Moral Majority.

Our kids are already forced to give up rights of search and seizure. Choir kids are forced to pee into cups for mandatory drug testing. And for years, student newspapers have enjoyed practically no first amendment protections.

Adding insult to injuries, now students' research efforts are being routinely hampered because the federal government has basically forced all but the wealthiest U.S. schools to install ridiculously bug-ridden Internet filters.

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- Blathered by Adam on Monday, September 16, 2002 at 1:42 Permalink
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More thoughts on 9/11

I'm faced with a balancing act here.

I have strong feelings about 9/11... about our government's reactions... and about individual responses. However, I also want to be sensitive to others who may feel that excessive questioning or cynicism about patriotism and similar issues are inappropriate at this time.

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- Blathered by Adam on Monday, September 9, 2002 at 16:00 Permalink
- Filed under People and relationships • Politics
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