A year ago today, Casey Anthony was so found. There was a good bit of outrage, as you might remember. I don’t have much more to say beyond what I already have. This, of course, is not about the “correctness” or accuracy of the verdict but rather the condition of our own hearts, as we […]
Author: The Fresh Junket
Reading Between the Lines
You do this long enough and your mind starts conjuring those paranoid murals of irrationality out of news articles, linked by pushpins and colored string and collaged clipped phrases, indicating that surely all the world’s events are connected. Gibson in Conspiracy Theory or Crowe in A Beautiful Mind. The Heat won the Championship. Deadly Colorado […]
Battle of Wits
I mostly hate the cultish “Princess Bride.” I hate it precisely for other peoples’s exaggerated praise for it. Typically juvenile of me. “Oh, it’s dialectic is so rich.” “Andre the Giant is superb!” Whatevs. Rocky IV, by contrast, slays every time. “Whatever he hits . . . he des- thtrrroys!” (That’s thick phonetical Russian, right […]
The Supremes
A number of important decisions in the United States Supreme Court today. Live blogging over at scotusblog.com. I’ll be back with my thoughts. But, it looks like no Health Care decision today.
Fast and Furious
We live in a world of necessary evil. We would have no policy in national security but for it. In almost every such act, we trade life for lives and choose less worse over worst of all. So it’s no surprise that an ATF operation like “Fast and Furious,” intended to trace gun trafficking by […]
In 5
Don’t forget I called Miami. Down to the game. In December.
Bath A-Salts
My apologies. In the words of the 18th Letter, the Mic Fiend, Rakim: “I shouldn’t have left you, without a dope beat to step to.” A little busy. A little tired. Then overwhelmed. Then depressed about it. Then paralysis and avoidance. The painful steps of blong withdrawal. Luckily, one thing or another has kept this […]
In the Conservatory with the Wrench
Look. Our house is a mess. I think I saw my kids using full stalks of celery to spoon peanut butter from the same tupperware our cats use. In the bathroom. The crunchy. I’m just saying. I’ve worn an oven mitt to do yard work. And, to groom the aforementioned feline. And, to bake Tollhouse. […]
The Real Problem
Ugggggh. I really would like to do a Knesset ruling coalition or a French President Francois Hollande blong. But, our domestic news has been dominated by sexual orientation news and debate. And, it seems irresponsible not to say more about it. In two days, we’ve had NC adopt a constitutional amendment forbidding the legal recognition […]
For and Against Part Deux
North Carolina voted today to approve a constitutional amendment that would essentially prohibit same-sex unions of whatever name or design. The amendment reads: “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.” The lang]]><![CDATA[uage will effectively bar the state from giving legal […]
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