How Fark Ruined the Afternoon of June 11, 2005
The premise: spam an MTV voting form for TRL top 10 to get Devo’s “Whip It” on the charts. This scheme was set into motion by Something Awful, a popular satire site, and made its way to Fark.com, a site I frequent that lampoons mainstream media by collecting stories of interest and giving them […]
Mitt Romney Inflicted with Socialism
Socialism: a mental disease whereby the victim believes in any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy. I digress.
Liberty. Smaller Government. Less Taxes. Humble Foreign […]
John Edwards’s $400 Haircut Has Gone to His Head
The Framers of the Constitution knew this: the government cannot grant you rights you already have. The government only has the power to limit your rights because the power of the government itself stems from the people’s willingness to be governed. For example, read closely the wording of the second amendment - the amendment […]
56% of French Believe Sun Revolves Around Earth
Evidence that the French, at a minimum, have government-run education:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9yJlyNv4KU
The percentage is no-doubt inflated, as it includes the number of French audience members intentionally choosing “the Sun” just to see him look stupid and lose.
The French are therefore lagging the US, as only 20% of Americans believe that the Sun revolves around the Earth.
Hit Him Again One-Week Hiatus
The bar exam occurs on July 24. Because of this, the pace of Hit Him Again writings will slow to accommodate around-the-clock study. This will leave two posts, one on the Civil War and the second on the American Association for Justice, in draft stage for probably the next week. I hope that, […]