Otherwise known as Why We Love The Interweb, part 25.
I can’t wait until 2008!
The move has been more exhausting that I’d thought, and frankly the sheer number of boxes is depressing. JT and I made yet another series of runs between Rannoch Road, the dump and 45th Street yesterday and I thought that if I had to load my truck one more time and move one more thing [...]
In this post I quoted an article in The Telegraph that stated that women in Germany could be forced to take a job in a brothel or risk losing unemployment benefits. Turns out that I, along with a few others, was taken in. Snopes has refuted the story as urban myth.
I keep learning two lessons: [...]
When the Germans legalized prostitution a couple of years ago they allowed brothel operators to recruit ’sex workers’ from the official lists of job seekers. And under German law unemployed workers who refuse legitimate offers of employment can lose unemployment benefits. So what happens when a young unemployed waitress refuses a job in a brothel? [...]
New York film maker Evan Coyne Maloney interviewed some protesters at last week’s inauguration and compiled a short film that’s worth watching. Especially if the word “moonbat” is a part of your vocabulary.
I’ll find the exact quote later, but the minister who gave the closing benediction at the Inauguration prayed for, among other things, ‘clean financial statements.’ Go figure.
In the two weeks leading up to Thursday’s inauguration the Washington Post has returned to its recent ways of subtly or overtly impugning conservatives. The cover story on last week’s Weekend section was a story about the inauguration festivities titled “They’re Back,” featuring a picture of the President and First Lady taken from the rear, [...]
America is bad because our military and economic strength has made us too influential in world affairs, but
America is also bad because we didn’t react fast enough, or promise enough (how silly!) when the tsunami hit. So which is it? Should we be strong or not?
The government of Sri Lanka refused help from an emergency [...]
To criticise a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous but to criticise their religion – that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticise ideas – any ideas even if they are sincerely held beliefs – is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. And the law which attempts [...]
Part of Wolf Blitzer’s show on Sunday included a panel of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, a Democrat from California, Al Franken, Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) and Congressman Mark Frost (D-TX). Sanchez and Jackson were reelected earlier this month; Frost lost his race. During a discussion of what Democrats are doing wrong, as evidenced by their [...]