Right Side of the Rainbow

How to write like Andrew Sullivan

2009-07-10T22:20:38Z

I haven’t visited Andy’s site today, but I’m going to guess that he’s writing about Sarah Palin or her snatch, yes?

The economy isn't going to recover

2009-07-10T22:15:51Z

Instead of asking when the recovery will begin — the answer is never — we should be asking, What will the new economy look like?

How the iPhone can help you to defeat speed traps

2009-07-08T22:15:40Z

Cathy Lanier is chief of police in the District of Columbia. Does she think that everyone she talks to is a fucking idiot, or what?

"There is a difference between kindness and weakness"

2009-07-07T22:15:52Z

Your Starbucks barista might be a closet conservative.

U.S. Attorney to investigate raid on gay bar in Texas

2009-07-04T20:30:29Z

Remember the raid I told you about? Well, I’m not the only one who thought it was fishy. The Justice Department is looking into it. Meanwhile, the agents involved in the raid are on desk duty.

As for giving the cops “multicultural training,” to hell with that. There’s nothing special about the way police should treat gays and lesbians. Like everyone else, we just need for the cops to be reminded occasionally that they’re peace officers, and not an occupying force in a foreign land.

"We're in the middle of a crash"

2009-07-02T20:00:36Z

Nassim Taleb is right: The economy isn’t going to get better; it’s going to get worse, a lot worse.

"... the court appears poised to move to the right in the Obama era"

2009-07-01T11:00:55Z

Chief Justice Roberts has worked his wiles on Justice Kennedy.

Man hospitalized with head injury after police raid gay bar in Texas

2009-07-01T01:00:36Z

This is fishy:

Officers then went to the Rainbow Lounge, which had opened about a week ago. They encountered two drunk people who made “sexually explicit movements” toward officers and another who grabbed a TABC agent’s groin, according to the police report.

That sounds like the unimaginative fabrication of prole males in need of a fast excuse. But here’s the giveaway:

No one was arrested for assault but about half a dozen people were arrested on charges of public intoxication, according to police records.

Uh, no. If you so much as lay a hand on a law enforcement agent, much less grab at his crotch, in what state do you not get charged with assault?

Chad Gibson, the alleged grabber, is in the hospital with a brain hemorrhage:

Police Chief Jeff Halstead said Gibson was the patron who grabbed at the agent’s groin. Gibson was so drunk he was vomiting and struck his head when he fell, the chief said.

So, on the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the police raid a gay bar where they encounter a man who was not only audacious, but also vomitive. What an unusual confluence of events! (I know that when I happen upon people who are hurling chunks, I like to stand close enough to them that they can grab my crotch! Don’t you?)

We all know that people can drink themselves sick. But as an RN, I’ll tell you what else vomiting is a sign of: a hemorrhage that results from blunt force trauma to the head.

I don’t know what happened in that bar. I just know the cops’ story is suspicious.

"Hey, people deserve to know what's in this pile of s--t"

2009-06-28T11:30:15Z

Happily, a Democratic congressman says the Senate will flush it — it being the cap-and-trade bill.

When should you testify with a squirrel in your cleavage?

2009-06-28T01:30:17Z

Althouse is running a poll.

When the soundtrack of your life dies ...

2009-06-27T22:55:52Z

Michele Catalano says we’re not mouring the loss of an alleged pedophile. We’re mouring the loss of our youth.

A public plan would kill medical innovation

2009-06-27T22:05:37Z

The cure or treatment that goes undiscovered might be the one you need:

The U.S. is unique because it alone is the source of half of world-wide profits that provide the payoff for the complex, lengthy, and expensive process of developing new treatments. When other nations construct their health-care systems, they ignore the impact of their pricing policies on R&D incentives. As the dominant R&D funding wellhead, we do not have that option.

How Republican sex could lead to socialized medicine

2009-06-27T21:05:30Z

Mark Steyn explains.

"... several officials involved said they have found themselves agreeing with conclusions reached years earlier by the Bush administration"

2009-06-27T17:10:10Z

Guess who’s planning to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects? Oh yeah.

Supreme Court to illegals: Where is your Rosetta Stone?

2009-06-26T00:20:25Z

Justice Alito says it’s time to press 1 for English.