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Books & Nicolas Cage
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Semi-annual update time!
Book Club #3: Podcast
Book Club #4: Podcast
Guest Appearance: Greatest Movie Ever! Podcast
Oh yeah, books.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
I forgot about cross-posting this when the first review went live, so here are the first two Fast Karate for the Gentleman book club reviews:
Robert A. Heinlein. Number of the Beast. http://www.daveandjoel.com/?p=3745 (Written Article)
Hunter S. Thompson. The Great Shark Hunt. http://www.daveandjoel.com/?p=3854 (Podcast)
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Beige Fellow Killed; Slightly Less Beige Fellows Throw Party
Monday, May 2, 2011
It appears that Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces after nearly ten years of trying. Let me get something out of the way before I move on to the point I originally intended to pen here.
Suffering is awful. (See the Rest of the Post!)
Endless Rage
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
So here’s this: First story about a Michigan kid facing ludicrous charges for harmless behavior.
And then this: Second story about the outcome of the kid’s case.
I have a suggestion for revising laws like the Michigan statute at issue here. Instead of criminalizing harmless pranks, perhaps we should make it illegal to be a butthurt whiner on the internet or in regard to things posted thereon. Grow. The. Fuck. Up. Please.
Policy Response: DeWine & Drugs
Monday, April 4, 2011
Recently, Attorney General Mike DeWine published an opinion piece in the Plain Dealer that detailed his view of the prescription drug problem in Ohio. While I would not be so blindly contrary as to deny the existence of problems related to prescription drug abuse or the existence of the abuse itself, I must take exception to both the tone and the substance of the piece. Ultimately, I think that a thorough examination of these points will reveal why the proposed remedial action will be ultimately ineffective. In public policy as in medicine, misdiagnosis can lead to the wrong therapeutic regimen, leaving the patient no healthier for it.