The Washington Post has
another scary dictatorship article.
A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such “commissions” to include trials, for the first time, of people who are not members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban and are not directly involved in acts of international terrorism, according to officials familiar with the proposal.
I just ran across a reference to Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages of moral development, and was immediately intrigued enough to spend my attention span learning just enough to mistakenly be sure that I know something about the subject.
The first definition the OED gives of scumbag is “condom”, from “scum” meaning “foam” or “froth”, and by extension “semen”. This usage dates back to 1967. “Scumbag” as an insult shows up in 1971.
The New York Times has an
article
about the Indian River School District case.
Basically, the area is populated by religious bigots. Their entire argument seems to be “we’re all Christian. We’ve always been Christian. If you don’t like it, you can either convert or leave.”:
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Ultracrepidarianism:
Giving opinions on matters outside of one’s knowledge.
(HT Pinky and the Brain on DVD; checked at the OED.)
Back when Kent Hovind
was arrested,
the judge :
Hovind argued that he needs his passport to continue his evangelism work. He said “thousands and thousands” are waiting to hear him preach in South Africa next month.
But [Judge Miles] Davis agreed with Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Heldmyer, who argued that “like-minded people” might secret Hovind away if he left the country.
Right on cue, “like-minded people”
asked the judge
to let Hovind leave the country.
Now, alert reader
Corey Schlueter
points out
another
article
saying that judge Casey Rodgers denied Hovind’s request to have his passport back.
We can only speculate that he applied the time-honored legal principle of “Mama Rodgers didn’t raise no dummies.”
Nearly two weeks after Hovind’s arrest, there’s still nothing about it on drdino.com, but now Kent has posted
an entry
on his weblog.
Dan Manassas, Th.D., writes to the author of All Things Human:
The shameful persecution of Kent Hovind, one of God’s most upright and dedicated ministers, shows that it’s you Darwinist Marxists who really control the U.S. government. The founder of Creation Science Evangelism, he works entirely for God, has no income, no property and no expenses. Despite this, he is able to make continuous bank withdrawals for $9,500 or $9,600 (just below the federal reporting limit). Instead of seeing this as a miracle and a sign of the grace that God has bestowed on his faithful servant, the government has indicted him for tax evasion.
(HT FSTDT)
Update, Jul. 25, 2006: If you doubt the authenticity of this message, I can’t blame you. It might be tongue-in-cheek, or it might not. Given that there are no blatant blinking smileys,
Poe’s Law
applies.
In Alabama,
Ralph Reed lost the Republican primary
for lieutenant governor, mainly because of his association with Jack Abramoff. Meanwhile, Karla Drenner, who is openly gay, won the Democratic nomination.
Suggested headline: “Alabama: Gays less despised than Jack Abramoff.”