The term “legal” is most often miscarried when it has not been put in the light of a moral origin. This relationship is the first puzzle of humanity.
Author: Kilgore Forelle
POTUS Medius Ocris
I have opined for a very long time that there have been no above average POTUS’es. The scorecard reads 45 incumbents, 45 ho-hummers. Even great Americans, such as Jefferson, Cleveland, Coolidge, and Eisenhower barely got out of the office without serious repair work required on their reputations.
Brand X
Why is it that authoritarians, sycophants, and jingoists think that the only genuine brands of patriotism are authoritarianism, sycophantism, and jingoism?
Paper Fail
One of the oldest lawyer dodges is to hit somebody with a massive demand for a document dump. It is obfuscation!
Save Us from the Voters
Even worse than the if-you-don’t-vote crowd are the it’s-your-duty bunch. And then you have the voting-should-be-compulsory mavens (and what a fine premise for the land of the free [irony alert]!)
Words Poorly Used #92 — Weasel Words
What a rich week! The wordsmiths of Sodom-on-the-Potomac have outdone themselves. ‘Potential evidence’ and ‘strategic patience’ debuted just a few days apart, both used in veiled threats of violence.
Have You No Sense of Decency, Sirs?
Of course, nobody in the bowels of the war machine has any sense of decency, else they wouldn’t have swung a stinking pig in a poke at our credibility.
Words Poorly Used #91 — Potential Evidence
Emitting from the gaseous hole that resides on the underside of the military-media complex, there is a new low in doublespeak.
Comprehending
Eons from now, when the successors are reviewing the extinction of homo sapiens, they may say that though his ability to use the miraculous hand for grasping physical things was amazing, his mental ability, seemingly enabled by logic and reason, failed when it came to grasping reality.
NAP Permission
Let’s be clear. Just because the NAP (Non-aggression Principle) provides a relief valve for self-preservation does not mean violence is OK. Violence is never preferable, it is excusable, at best, in very limited cases.