Is it me, or are Americans becoming increasingly stupider as time goes by? We’re told that banks and mortgage companies made a bunch of stupid mistakes which resulted in an economic meltdown. So to save us from the economic meltdown, we were told we have to give $700 billion to the same banks that put […]
Entries from December 2008
How Stupid Are We?
December 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Corporations · greed · Stupidity
Let Safety Ring
December 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Over on the blog, Defending People: The Art and Science of Criminal Defense Lawyering, after a post titled “Thoughts on a Hanging,” a character named “Y” comments: Wait. A. Minute. How can we have real liberty if we lack safety? How is a man free to “pursue happiness” — another key phrase to our country’s […]
Tags: General Social Issues · Government · Homeland Security · Political · Privacy · Social Issues · Uncategorized