OWS
I had already long given up any hope of the Occupy movement as being sane, rational, decent, law-abiding citizens trying to raise a valid point. Any comparison between them and the Tea Party is an utter insult to the Tea Party. Their current tantrum in New York is not protest. It’s sabotage. But picking on [...]
I’ve been meaning to write a post on morality for awhile now, but Mona Charen has managed to capture much of what I would say in her column “Moral Abdication“. One highlight: The irony is that this supposed reluctance to make moral judgments is itself a moral posture. The young people in the study, like [...]
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Ted Rall has a column up at Yahoo! News, in which he calls for violence to advance the OWS cause. His claim is that revolutions do not happen without violence, and that revolution is what OWS wants: If voting or writing letters to the editor worked, we wouldn’t need Occupations. The Occupy movement can wind [...]
This weekend I got serious about sorting out my sprinkler system, and I think I’ve finally got it. The Internet came to my rescue yet again. I had spotted a valve inside the house that was either the main water cut-off, or the sprinkler line cut-off, but I didn’t know for sure. It had an [...]
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So, what do I think about “Occupy Wall Street” and the copy-cat protests starting up around the country? The same thing I thought about the Tea Party protests originally: I’ll wait and see. While I did attend a Tea Party rally a few years ago, it was probably a good six months after the Tea [...]