Constitutional Reform

In wake of yesterday's disastrous vote in the House of Representatives, I hereby propose a new constitutional ammendment, aimed at preventing lawmakers from passing unconstitutional laws. Actually, in the interest of full disclosure (something you don't usually find on Capitol Hill),

Die Obamacare, Die!

Sunday is the big vote in the House of Representatives that could (finally!) make or break Obama's health care reform package. Let us hope the People's outrage finally removes the brain from this undead zombie that keeps springing back to life. In one no-so-convincing argument I read in support of the bill, (not that any of them are convincing, this is just the one I chose to pick on)

Old Fart Too Stupid to Stop Car

Thats my headline. James Sikes, the driver of the 2008 Prius that had a stuck accelerator in California a couple days ago, says he didn't put his car in neutral "because he worried the car would flip." Are you kidding me?? Worried it would flip? And, after 20 minutes of high speed driving combined with frequent brake use

Why is it...

... that when you are talking to an advocate of climate change, you either aren't looking at the long term, or you're not taking into account recent trends, whichever argument allows him/her to remain convinced global warming is human-caused and will continue indefinitely? For example:

What is This World Coming to When...

... A politician uses the phrase "f---ing retarded" and is chastised not for the first word, but for the second??

Supreme Court Victory for Free Speech!

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court threw out a 63-year-old law designed to restrain the influence of big business and unions on elections Thursday, ruling that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress. The decision could drastically alter who gives and gets hundreds of millions of dollars in this year's crucial midterm elections…

Farewell to 2009

Despite this headline, 2009 has been the best year of my life to date. How can this be you ask? The economy tanked, the government bailed out some of the biggest corporations on the planet, and we got stuck with the bill, what was good again? Well, I met and got engaged to the most wonderful woman I could ever imagine, and I got a great job at a law firm in Hanover. What more could a guy ask for? Moral? Think positive, try hard, ignore the news, and you might just get lucky :)

How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus

by Patrick J. Michaels

This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on December 18, 2009.

The East Anglia emails are just the tip of the iceberg. I should know.
Few people understand the real significance of Climategate, the now-famous hacking of emails from the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Most see the contents as demonstrating some arbitrary manipulating of various climate data sources in order to fit preconceived hypotheses (true), or as stonewalling and requesting colleagues to destroy emails to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the face of potential or actual Freedom of Information requests (also true).

In Loving Memory of Jake Kadamus

I went to your funeral today Jake
I can't believe you're really gone
Sorry about that busted ski pole from about 5 years back
I've always thought fondly of those days
when you, Zack, me, and Seth used to go skiing
15 below or blowing blizzard or pouring rain
we didn't care long as we were out there on the slopes
or those times we used to go and lose golf balls around your house
played on your swing set, baked Christmas cookies at our house
stayed up all night on sleep overs
I'll miss that mischievous grin
and that infectious laugh
you were like my second little brother
I'll miss you buddy

...Or Not

Got the rejection email from Enterprise on Monday. Long process I know. But hey, that's OK. New plan: Retire at age 25. Only 15 days into the plan, but so far the execution is going perfectly.