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January 2010 Blog Posts (4)

I used to know a man who began with a kitten







I used to know a man who worked for a drug company, in a fairly senior position. Within the ambit of Alcoholics Anonymous he told me and another woman how he first started to kill.



It began with a kitten that arrived in the family when he was a little boy in Ireland. He didn't like the way all the people's attention had gone from him and was fastening on the kitten. So he waited till everyone was out and put it in the range, where it was soon… Continue

Added by Mouse on January 27, 2010 at 8:53pm — 1 Comment

Citizens United v. FEC: A Country for Old Men

“I need you to get out of the car…”

--Chief Justice Anton Chigurh



Some background information: Nike v Kasky, 2003



"...is commercial speech entitled to reduced First Amendment protection or noncommercial speech entitled to traditional free-speech protection." (California... "free speech" vs.… Continue

Added by waldopaper on January 22, 2010 at 8:50am — 5 Comments

Snowballs

Mustn't say this and mustn't say that,

thinking of doing a disappearing act

like the girl who fell through the floor.



There is no-one here on the road.

In the houses the lonely dogs bark.

For a moment outside there were silent men

shovelling snow.

I went out my gate and smiled,

there was barely a note of recognition

in my neighbours of ten years, more, twenty some of them,

twenty years side by side and not one hello or anything but a blank… Continue

Added by Mouse on January 10, 2010 at 8:01pm — 2 Comments

Joe Klein's Fatuous Fantasy

Michael Collins


Time Magazine's Joe Klein is having an allergic reaction to free speech and public debate. The title of his latest column says it all: The Left's Idiocy on Health Reform. It's an ex cathedra pronouncement from a made man at one of the nation's oldest media… Continue

Added by Michael Collins on January 1, 2010 at 9:22am — 4 Comments

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