Month: March 2004
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States’ Rights
The states can retain powers, though not rights. So "states’ rights" is something of a misnomer, no matter how common its use. The states have no natural rights. Their powers are artificial, not natural—they are things made by contract. The equation "states are to the federal government as people are to the states" mixes apples…
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Kids in Church
A Sunday school class was studying the Ten Commandments. They were ready to discuss the last one. The teacher asked if anyone could tell her what it was. Susie raised her hand, stood tall, and quoted, "Thou shall not take the covers off the neighbor’s wife."After the christening of his baby brother in church, Jason…
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Faithful Dog
Warning, urban legend ahead. Two hunters from Minnesota — (true story). This is from a radio program, a true report of an incident in Minnesota:A guy buys a brand new Lincoln Navigator truck for $42,500 and has $560 monthly payments.He and a friend go duck hunting in winter, and of course all the lakes are…
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Draft of a Constitutional Amendment to Defend Biblical Marriage
As certain politicians work diligently to prevent marriage between two people of the same sex, others of us have been busy drafting a Constitutional Amendment codifying all marriages entirely on Biblical principles. After all, God wouldn’t want us to "pick and choose" which of the Scriptures we elevate to civil law and which we choose…
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Am I stupid? Or What.
I got an invitation to the IEEE Computer Society monthly meeting where the presentation topic will be: "Exploiting Incorrectly Speculated Memory Operations in a Concurrent Multithreaded Architecture (Plus a Few Thoughts on Simulation Methodology)".I’m sure it will be a stimulating topic, but I think that I might as well just put the gun in my…