Daily Archives: December 22nd, 2005 «

 

Thursday night open thread

Posted by: ST on December 22, 2005 at 10:15 pm » 31 Comments

Discuss whatever ya like in this post’s comment section. I’m not much in the mood for debating or getting too heavy into deep discussions this evening. Hey, it’s Christmas Eve Eve Eve, afterall!

 

Merry Christmas from the state

Posted by: ST on December 22, 2005 at 4:53 pm » 34 Comments

Well, yours truly was just finishing up her Christmas shopping this afternoon and had one more store to stop at to pick up a gift certificate when out of nowhere, a state patrolman stopped me for not wearing my seat belt. In the meantime, while I was being cited for this, cars were rolling by [...]

 

OK, gents – put on your dancin’ shoes

Posted by: ST on December 22, 2005 at 9:51 am » 21 Comments

There’s a new ‘study’ out that suggests men who know how to bust a move on the dance floor also have a better, ahem, ‘sexual quality’ Heh.

 

Humanizing terrorists?

Posted by: ST on December 22, 2005 at 9:37 am » 26 Comments

Is there really a Hollywood trend to make terrorists who want to kill us appear more human? An article from yesterday’s USA Today says “yes”. But is it more a money-making thing in order to capitalize on the anti-war sentiment, as one professor argues, or could it be, as Michael Medved says, a way to [...]

 

File this under “you didn’t need one”

Posted by: ST on December 22, 2005 at 8:26 am » 2 Comments

Via the AP: Sharpton ‘Not Interested’ In Sitcom Role The man is a walking sitcom on his own, sometimes funny and often very stupid. He doesn’t need a sitcom to make people laugh, scream, and/or cry.

 

Brief history of warrantless searches

Posted by: ST on December 22, 2005 at 8:12 am » 37 Comments

… conducted in the name of national security, without huge sensational splashes about them in the New York Times, I might add: One of the most famous examples of warrantless searches in recent years was the investigation of CIA official Aldrich H. Ames, who ultimately pleaded guilty to spying for the former Soviet Union. That [...]