By reinterpreting an old law banning importation of switch blades Hopenchange is blocking the import of most pocket knives. Why? for what? Is there some domestic pocket knife industry that needs protection from those cheap Swiss Army Knives (cheap? ha!).

I was taught in the Boy Scouts to "be prepared" and always carry: a pen, fire, and a knife. I wouldn't stop carrying a pocket knife even if they were illegal (I shamelessly carried one while in the UK, because why? because f**k them, that's why).

Most laws are petty and spiteful, this one included.

They only play to two, but still it is Betty White playing Beruit.

The 89 year old man who shot up the Holocaust museum also hated Christians (for tolerating Jews), Bush, thought 9/11 was an inside job, and basically had crazy piled up to the rafters.

As a violent felon (he walked into the Federal Reserve with a sawed off shotgun previously) he was also ineligible to own a firearm. So another extra special law to prevent truly crazy felons to commit super illegal acts of murder probably wouldn't have stopped him either.

Stricter hospitalization laws for the mentally insane might have, but those are discriminatory against the murderously insane. So they were abandoned in the 70s.

An interesting web-dictionary that tries to be a bit more: in addition to definitions and statistics, it pulls current usage and context from the web. And twitter. It's so meta, I can barely stand it.

A big F-U to Cindy who has both outlived her usefulness and who is still standing on her son's corpse in an attempt to be taller. Despite the change in press coverage and administrations you were always petty and small.

Like lolcats, but generally derisive. And mildly amusing.

Kinda. The report mentions Rep. John Murtha by name several times but it fails to identify his party.

In the wake of the GM Bond nullification (where Obama declared that existing contracts were null - or else) Kenneth Anderson asks if new lenders can add a clause saying the terms are enforceable even if they are threatened by the feds for enforcing them. Also asked: will there be an insurance market for bonds that are invalidated by fiat? The policy would pay the difference between what you were owed and what you were actually given.