Virginia House of Delegates member Rob Bell (R-Albemarle) did something nice, and he really, really wants everybody to know about it. Del. Bell is donating his overtime pay to public schools in his district. What he doesn’t mention is that the reason that he got overtime pay was that his attempt to prevent the state …
Category Archives: Politics
Torture is as torture does?
“According to the New York Times, last year White House lawyers concluded that President Bush could legally order interrogators to torture and even kill people in the interest of national security – so if that’s legal, what the hell are we charging Saddam Hussein with?” -Jay Leno, Tonight Show, June 10
Cheap gas, at last.
The good news: invading Iraq has had the desired effect of lowering gas prices. The bad news: prices have only dropped in Iraq. I while paid $31 to gas up my car yesterday, at $1.90/gallon, it would have cost me just $0.81 in Iraq. Why? Iraqis only pay $0.05/gallon. That’s after we, the Americans, pay …
Virginia is for haters.
After last week’s ban on civil unions in Virginia, a website has sprung up supporting a boycott on Virginia-based businesses. Virginia is for Haters (the name is a play on Virginia’s well-known and no-longer-accurate “Virginia is for Lovers” tourism slogan) proposes starting the boycott with J. Crew. Why boycott J. Crew? Well, Virginia seems to …
Ideological correction.
It has come to my attention that I have described myself incorrectly on a fair number of occasions. When asked my ideological leaning, I have often reported that I am “very left,” or “extremely liberal.” I had thought that this was the case, but after the save-the-rainforests lecture/discussion that I attended here at Virginia Tech …
Virginia hops on the anti-gay bandwagon.
Crazy sonofabitch Delegate Bob Marshall (R-Manassas) has gotten a bill signed into law today, after it was supported by the House and the Senate by veto-proof margins, the AP reports. House bill 751 adds §20-45.3 to the Code of Virginia, and reads: A civil union, partnership contract or other arrangement between persons of the same …
Warner won’t run for Senate.
Here’s a shocker: Governor Mark Warner has dropped a bombshell concerning his political future. Warner is indicating he will NOT run for the U.S. Senate against Republican George Allen in 2006. Warner says serving in Congress is not as appealing as it used to be. The governor says he would be frustrated with the pace …
I didn’t vote for him, either.
On Chris Brown’s blog, he provides this picture of the Tom Bihn computer sleeve that he bought, along with a translation of the last few lines: “We are sorry that our President is an idiot. We didn’t vote for him.”(Via Boing Boing)
Crime against nature.
Never one to let a little Supreme Court ruling stand in their way, the Virginia General Assembly this year decided not to get rid of the sodomy law. Thankfully, a woman from Newport News is challenging that, since she’s facing five years in prison for — horrors — having sex. Police Sgt. Randy Franklin testified …
Budget problems affecting admissions.
The editorial in today’s Cavalier Daily is about the need for Virginia colleges to extend their admissions deadline, due to the budget deadlock in Richmond. They’re dead-on. The major problem is that while most students will receive offers of admission between now and April 15, a quick turnaround for the majority of schools requires a …