I always thought he was a little left, or at least sympathetic, but he’s been bashing Dean’s Army lately:

(Image from doonesbury.com)

Apparently, it violates the First Amendment rights of abortion fans when folks in Louisiana choose to sport license plates which say “Choose Life.”

This is an interesting precedent. The logic in the judge’s decision was that since there was not a pro-abortion plate offered that it was a violation of free speech to offer a pro-life plate. Could we expand this? Ban ‘Visualize World Peace’ bumper stickers since no-one sells ‘Visualize Chinese Oppression’ or ‘Visualize Communist Stalin’s Mass Graves’ stickers? Ban Texas’ beautiful bluebonnets plates since there are no pro-strip mall plates?

Regardless of one’s feelings on abortion, this is about as Orwellian a reading of the First Amendment as you can get.

Thanks to Mr. Pardue’s junior year English Class, most ‘Word of the Day’ services aren’t very useful. But today, Doctor Dictionary from www.dictionary.com sent me a useful word I hadn’t heard before.

animadversion \an-uh-mad-VUHR-zhuhn\, noun:
1. Harsh criticism or disapproval.
2. Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure — often
used with ‘on’.

Forbes is reporting that federal funding for human powered transportation infrastructure is being completely removed from the current $90 billion dollar transportation bill sent to the floor by the House Appropriations committee.

Picture this – You’ve got one foot in the grave, and are prone to passing out. You’re out for a weekend morning drive, and see a large group of cyclists going the other way on a two lane road. So what do you do? Run them the heck over.

If you live in St. Petersburg it looks like that’s all right.

It looks like the jackass who did this isn’t going to lose his license, isn’t going to get tried on 14 counts of attempted manslaughter, and is going to get away with one count of reckless driving. When the cyclists go after him to get compensation for medical bills, new bikes, etc, the insurance company is going to tell the judge and jury “Hey, it’s not our client’s fault – the cops decided not to charge him.”