Posted on June 25, 2013 by Michael
Well, I think Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals deserved to go to the Bruins, not because I’m a fan, but because they played a far, far better game (minus one 20 second span). It seems wrong that this series didn’t go 7, but it was still a good season.
Besides, we can all take solace in the fact that the Penguins didn’t get further than they did, which would have given NBC and ESPN a chance to masturbate over them at every possible chance.
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Posted on June 6, 2013 by Michael
Posted on June 4, 2013 by Michael
The Supreme Court has just ruled that police have the right to obtain DNA from those they arrest. Apparently it’s a reasonable booking procedure used to identify a suspect. Even though the identification can take weeks. And it almost always will pertain to some other crime for which the police otherwise do not have any reasonable suspicion. And it gives them access to what is normally protected medical information.
Somehow, I don’t think if the founding fathers were around today that they would be in favor of the government having access to a private citizen’s DNA without probably cause, a warrant, or a conviction.
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Posted on May 30, 2013 by Michael
“We need to put an end to this radical atheist violence!”, said no one ever.
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Posted on May 27, 2013 by Michael
It makes me happy that reports of equal rights and equal treatment being rightfully expanded to gays are practically non-stories at this point.
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Posted on May 17, 2013 by Michael
Harry Reid recently said that government is inherently good. That, of course, isn’t true. There are all sorts of awful governments out there that cause greater harm than good as an inherent function of what they are*. However, that doesn’t mean that certain types of governments can’t be inherently good. Perhaps Reid went on to be specific about what he meant (I only heard the clip on conservative talk shows, so it’s best to assume it was rid of any context), because if he did, there is at least one obvious form of government that, yes, is inherently good: Democracy.
*Incidentally, the causing of more harm than good is why some governments are bad. It has nothing to do with the liberty which they may or may not provide; liberty is morally secondary.
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Posted on May 13, 2013 by Michael
It’s as if the Bruins like 7-game series.
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Posted on May 9, 2013 by Michael
Benghazi will never be the big issue Republicans pretend it is.
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Posted on May 6, 2013 by Michael
The government creates the legal framework and defines what a corporation is. The government can thus regulate corporations any way it pleases.
Honestly. It’s that simple: Citizens United defeated.
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Posted on April 29, 2013 by Michael
I happen to have a job I got, in part, on the basis of my educational background. However, it astounds me the number of employers out there that just do not give two shits about 4-year degrees.
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For the Sake of Science 