Being a big Elvira fan I post the a special pair of Prospers Laws in honor of the Next Elvira on Fox Reality show.
Prosper’s Crossdressing Law:
The only situation improved by a dude in a dress is a very weird party.
Prosper’s Law of Exotic Servants:
Servants that look like the ought to be in the employ […]
There were a couple of Pro Immunity editorials today, one at Opinion Journal and another at the Washington Post.
My reply is simple.
If you could be trusted with our liberty I might be inclined to let you slide. Your willingness to embrace the current administrations distaste for freedom tells me that this so called vital […]
Government Executive.com has an interesting article on the Diplomat Draft, aka the Mandatory Iraq Service Requirement.
The attitude of the folks at the State Department tells me a lot more about whats going on in Iraq than any press conference would.
If you have to force your people to go with threats of being fired, than […]
It shouldn’t take a Chicago paper to report on an injustice in Iowa but here you go.
In Iowa apparently to borrow the title. Self-defense is, inexplicably, no defense
Thing like this are reasons mandatory minimums are a bad idea. The sentence needs to fit the circumstances of the crime.
In this case, if the story […]
With the American Bar Association calling for a moratorium on executions I am just going to chime in with my opinion on the issue.
The Death Penalty is Constitutional. Its Legal.
However because there is a high risk of giving someone an agonizing death and of killing the wrong person we ought to follow […]
On Being Poor
This touching and hurtful piece is from scalzi.com.
If you have been poor you will recognize a lot of your life in it.
If you have had a blessed enough life to have never been poor, read it. It will give you an idea of the little stuff that makes up the life […]
Prospers 26th Law states:
Except in time of direct occupation no foreign power, group or individual is a greater threat to your freedom than your own government as governments always over react or power-grab at the slightest opportunity.
Awesome editorial in the New York Times
I’ll post the last paragraph for a teaser
Just to be clear, Al Qaeda is a real threat, and so is the Iranian nuclear program. But neither of these threats frightens me as much as fear itself — the unreasoning fear that has taken over one of America’s two great […]
Just a simple fact of life of life. You can have guns or butter.
Simplistically you can pick between 4 million hungry children or 737 unneeded military bases.
I know what I’d choose. How about you?
by Ralph Nader from Common Dreams.
I respect Nader’s principled stand on many issues and I disagree with him on many others Regardless of whether I like the whole political package he is one of these far left people worth paying attention to.