And so now we come to see that the repeal of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law for the military does not cover transsexualites, or transgenderites. Neither does it cover transfats, but that is a separate issue for a separate jeremiad. Some other day perhaps. One searches in vain for an explanation for this indefensible …
Our Fumblo-Rulers
The debate over “don’t ask, don’t tell” reveals that virtually no one understands what is going on. The absence of discipline is impossible in any society, still less in the military. This means that the question is a “not whether but which” question. It means that it is not whether we will discipline servicemen in …
A Short Course in Economics
Obama’s presidency is already a failure, approximating the size of the Bailly Crater on the Moon. If the details of your high school study of astronomy elude you, that lunar hole in the dirt is about 26,000 square miles in size. The great theologian Jonathan Edwards believed that typology was embedded in the natural order …
Special Parking Privileges
So, a professor at Columbia has been charged with some kind of incestuous relationship, and everybody was apparently a consenting adult, and so we are, again, face to face with the public incoherence of our rudderless sexual ethic. How is it possible, given all that we as a society have already granted, for us to …
You Don’t Get to Keep the Brick
When we say that one doctrine is more important than another one, we are not making a quantitative assessment. It is not the case, for example, that justification by faith alone is beach ball and baptismal modes are a baseball. The doctrines of the Bible are interrelated, and mutually dependant. Many of the doctrines of …
Rounding Into the Straight
I haven’t had anything to say about the Wikileaks fiasco, and I still don’t have anything extended to say. But a few little things have occurred to me. The size of the document dumps clearly indicates classified material inflation. Better safe than sorry takes over, and pretty soon you have classified materials which, if stacked …
Our Keystonekoppery Responses
Terrorism is in the first place theater, and we have responded to it with a security system that is equally theatrical. Terrorism is theater that has a violent component to be sure, but that is not the main point. The last thing that our current terrorism is designed to do is provoke a real fight. …
The TSA Must Think We’re Mushrooms
The TSA must think we’re mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding us a fertilizing agent that comes from the south end of a north-bound cow. Allow me to explain. They say that the images from their new porno scanners are images …
Touching Sensitive Areas, or TSA For Short
Here are some points to keep in mind as the controversy about the TSA wends it way through our various news cycles and perhaps, let us hope, into a bill in the new Congress. 1. It does the old heart good to see people get riled up with government incompetence and . . . what’s …
Radical, in a Mainstreamy Kind of Way
I saw a video clip the other day, which I cannot now find, of Andrew Napolitano having a conversation with Sarah Palin. Napolitano is a high octane liberatarian, not to be confused with Janet Napolitano who is . . . um, not. The thing that was striking to me about this conversation was how radical …