Do you buy board games? Don’t buy from Boards and Bits, or if you do, be warned about it. Read the full post I at http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/7456243 for more, including community and Boards and Bits responses.
Grow your government by 3 inches overnight!
Even the spammers are capitalizing on the recent political wave. Spammers are by far some of the most creative and ingenious people around. Anything for a quick buck. Here’s the opening salvo in a spam email I received today. It was good enough to get past Google’s spam filters.
“Greetings,
The time has come for Americans to STAND UP to the crap
that’s going on with our government.
Your first step is to position yourself to become financially
free. That is the ONLY way to protect yourself from economic
mess our leaders have put us in.
The vehicle I have chosen is called Skinny Body Care.”
Links to spam product scheme followed. The layers in this are amazing. First, in the subject line they call Government a Ponzi scheme (I’ve heard that before from other crazy places), but I feel like this scam might be an actual Ponzi scheme. Plus, the product they want you to market and recruit others to market is a weight loss product. So they’re using weight loss and quick cash triggers in the same scam. Brilliant. Wrap it up with the anti-government sentimentality and it’s near Genius.
One of those mornings
Thinking about chessboards in the shower…leads to creatively coming up with a new way to calculate squares without multiplication using recursion. You know, should you ever have a computer that can’t multiply. Which leads to forgetting to shave, and having to do it in the sink instead. One of those mornings.
Constitutional Myth #4: The Constitution Doesn’t Separate Church and State – Garrett Epps – National – The Atlantic
“Why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?”
The latest in an interesting and academic look at the Constitution and some of the current myths being expressed about the Constitution to serve the ends of the individual expressing them.
This one on the separation of church and state ties into the first one in the series, on constitutional originalism, the notion that it is not the role of the judicial branch to extend the interpretation of the constitution, but solely to take it at its word. Where interpretation is to be done, it should be done through the words of the original drafters, found in the constitution, or if necessary, their other writings.