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A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog
redress of grievances
Making a Mountain Out of a Miniskirt
This girl needs to learn how to pick her battles and her mom needs some parenting lessons.
"A fourth-grader is protesting a rule by her school principal that bans the kinds of miniskirts she likes to wear. Zoe Hinkle, 10, and her mother, Leslie, say there's nothing wrong with the skirt. It has shorts sewn […]
Know Thy Enemy
"Know thy enemy and know thyself, find naught in fear for 100 battles. Know thyself but not thy enemy, find level of loss and victory. Know thy enemy but not thyself, wallow in defeat every time." - Sun-Tzu
Pittsburgh pro-lifers have an opportunity to not only know their enemy, but also to inform him of […]
Annoying Legislation
The United States Congress (Senator Arlen Spector in particular) can kiss my….Oh, wait. I musn't be annoying. I might be breaking the law. " Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or […]
Power to the People
Sometimes the system actually works.
Life, Liberty, and Property
Hands off our homes A Supreme Court ruling that allows the government to seize private property has set off a fierce backlash that may yet be as potent as the anti-abortion movement "Seven days later [after the Kelo v. New London SCOTUS decision], by a ten-to-one margin, the Republican […]
