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Archive for September 17th, 2007

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Footballblogging II

Typical Redskins offensive performance – some ball movement, some errant throws, and just enough misfires to fizzle out shy of the end-zone, enabling the team to keep it close right up until the moment they lose. Only, tonight’s typical Redskins offensive performance was by the Eagles. So the team I picked to go 4-12 is [...]

Monday, September 17th, 2007

(Update 2x) What to Do When a Law Man is a Baby Raper?

By Mona
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Arrested for allegedly seeking carnal knowledge of a 5-year-old girl, United States Attorney John David R. Atchison was today arraigned in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

In deposition, detectives said Atchison suggested the mother [an undercover agent] tell her daughter that “you found her a sweet boyfriend who will bring her [...]

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Seeing things a bit too clearly

By Thoreau
A thought that’s been going through my mind for a while is that if you accept the libertarian critique of the state you can use it as an excuse to turn the state up to 11. Conservatives and Republicans spent decades paying some amount of lip service to libertarianism (at least on their [...]

Monday, September 17th, 2007

The Rest of the Story

What Mrs. Offering doesn’t tell you about my mom’s birthday is that my mother is exactly as old as the Pittsburgh Steelers. I only realized this myself yesterday when we were watching yesterday’s game and I noticed the 75th anniversary patch on the Stiller throwback unis. Then I finally made the “Oh yeah, 1932″ connection. [...]

Monday, September 17th, 2007

A Small Price to Pay, the Other Side of the Story

Kevin Drum explains why the libertarian critique of the state still makes sense to people. That may not have been his intention.