Archive for October, 2005

A Blogging Anti-MADD Crusader? I’ve found a new friend.

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Jason started a new thread about conservatives against MADD in the NYRA Forums quoting an article on the National Review Online that quotes a column on FoxNews.com written by Radley Balko who works for the Cato Institute and maintains a blog called the Agitator.
Whew, anyways, I am intrigued. Radley’s column has a pretty good […]

Teen Scapegoating Exposed: Adults the Real Drug Problem

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

After decades of scapegoating youth, and blaming teenagers for the entirety of our nation’s drug problem, someone in the mainstream media picks up the fact that adults are a hell of a lot more of a problem than anyone thought:
Californians age 40 and older are dying of drug overdoses at double the rate recorded in […]

Conservative Hypocrisy On Legislating from the Bench

Friday, October 7th, 2005

Wednesday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a challenge to Oregon’s assisted suicide law. Roberts asked a bunch of questions, and seemed to be quite vocally opposed to the Oregon law. Which is fine, I guess, I can see both sides of the morality question (though I do lean more toward allowing […]

Moveable Type Help

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Anyone know how to set up an archive type thing on this page? Right now all my entries are just thrown into the categories, politics, youth rights, and personal, but within these categories they are all thrown together into one huge page. Is there any way to break that up to be more […]

Rich Jahn Articulates a Defense of Youth Rights

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

I just really like this post by Rich Jahn, so I’m just gonna put it out here without context, so you can enjoy it as a stand alone defense of youth rights:
If you are just talking about pure 100% self-interest…then what reason would whites have ever had to give blacks the vote? What reason would […]

Sven Sizes Up Youth Liberation Groups; I Declare NYRA to Kick-Ass

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

Sven Bonnichsen has offloaded a huge amount of fascinating youth rights (or youth liberation if you prefer) commentary on his excellent blog, the Generator. I swear I check that thing every week or two and there is never anything on it, then like twice a year he retroactively posts all the articles he has […]

Images of Pigs = Intolerance? What are you Smoking?

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

While browsing Marty Beckerman’s page, I spotted this story:
NOVELTY pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office — in case they offend Muslim staff.
Workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue […]