The Little Cog

We’re living in the future

Little Cog — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:20:22 +0000

Get ready to get mad

Little Cog — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:27:49 +0000

Yup, 9 trillion dollars. Must be around here somewhere.

Where is the Congress?!?

Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss

Little Cog — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:23:39 +0000

The hubris of this amazes even me.

The President is seeking permissions from Congress to suppress any photographs related to FOIA requests that occurred outside American borders if it would ‘endanger the troops’. Who makes this call? Ah yes, his appointee, the secretary of defense.
Read the text here

If you’ve read my blog for any amount of time you’ll know that I’m all for anything that protects the troops. Not, however, at the cost of the very freedoms they are fighting to maintain.

As Glen Greenwall says:

What kind of a country passes a law that has no purpose other than to empower its leader to suppress evidence of the torture it inflicted on people?
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The Audacity of Hope indeed….

Remember

Little Cog — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:27:06 +0000

To all those that came before and to all those who will come after.

We remember.

Big numbers

Little Cog — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:55:06 +0000

MIA for a bit

Little Cog — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:11:27 +0000

As you might have noticed, the little cog has been MIA. Apolgies, here’s something to tide you over:

Yup. Tactical Bacon.

Tea?

Little Cog — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:23:47 +0000

Hope everyone’s having a great Sunday.

Justice and Privacy

Little Cog — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:49:03 +0000

Justice Scalia questions the need for more privacy laws. One Professors response?

His class turned in a 15-page dossier that included not only Scalia’s home address, home phone number and home value, but his food and movie preferences, his wife’s personal e-mail address and photos of his grandchildren, reports Above the Law.
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Scalia: 0 Professor Reidenberg: 1

Getting Smart about Guns

Little Cog — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:50:55 +0000

A clever idea to keep criminals from owning guns. Probably would be a small increase in price for we gun owners…but it’s a fair price to pay.

Political reality makes even a modest gun law a difficult legislative sell. But if the Obama administration really cares about limiting gun violence, it could pursue a different strategy, one that doesn’t involve Congress and isn’t likely to provoke a storm of opposition.
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Knife Carry Positions

Little Cog — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:30:07 +0000

If you can’t have a little fun with Photoshop at 7:30am in the morning…you aren’t really living the internet dream.