I know it is hard to believe , but scientists have found female penguins are engaging in prostitution ; one scientist speculating that it is because of global warming. The story was on the BBC this morning. So we have to cool the earth down quickly before all the penguins go naughty and start ruining the traditional family values that have ruled penguins for years.... Read the story, you cannot make this stuff up. And on a related note, here is a funny video from your Japanese friends reminding you why the Honda Civic is a family car.....

Since I started blogging, very few things disturb me dramatically. I have learned about government corrpution, special deals, backroom politics, as well as the overbearing DMV workers who want to be our masters . All of this seems the news de juer, but maybe to prove to myself that some things still shock me, there is the story of Custer County Oklahoma Sheriff Mike Burgess using inmates as sex slaves. As I reported earlier this practice is NOT uncommon in other insane square states either . Of course in a county with a relatively high rate of poverty nothing seems surprising anymore. The median income for a household in the county was $28,524, and the median income for a family was $37,247. Males had a median income of $27,066 versus $19,479 for females. The per capita income for the county was $15,584. About 12.40% of families and 18.50% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.00% of those under age 18 and 10.50% of those age 65 or over. Making both young offender...

h/t to Jesus' General for showing me how insane parts of "Team McCain' really are @ http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2008/03/meet-team-mccain.html Proving once again that it is all fun and games until the owner of the Washington Times crashes the party.

....Or do we. A friend of mine reminded me that playing a prostitute on TV or in the movies is very different from actually having to live through that life. In a movie an actress can feel sexy, sensual and beautiful and does not feel the same terrible sadness and often horror that many women who are hookers do feel. If you capture that sense of desperation, and isolation you should win a Oscar. And if you are a hooker, a real one, you know exactly what I am talking about. You'd say, "maybe lose a few teeth or get a nice scar after an angry trucker gives you the monkey wrench love tango. Of course that will lower your price and you will no longer be able to claim the mantle, high priced." For anyone who has seriously studied the issue, within the context of prostitution, sex can be nothing more than violence. It is a sad reality. It is a sad reality that men subject women to this or that women agree to it in the first place. It often goes hand and hand with drug addiction...

.....this is about how I think the strong and responsible should care for the weak in the natural order of the universe. Though as a libertarian I do not advocate violence, or any type of fighting, I understand this is sometimes necessary to protect those without a protector from the cruel and vicious: This is your weekend watching to learn about the natural order. The Lesson: Get you act together and create a better tomorrow by teaching both tolerance and virtue. You do not need to be perfect to be good, but you have to have virtue to strive for what is good. If people see the people who break the rules in every field rewarded for their violations, how can you expect to maintain, "....Justice, insure Domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, Promote the general welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity....." or ever expect them to even try to be good? They will be too busy trying to make everything perfect and like a theater that ...

This from our British friends at The Libertarian Alliance . I warn you in advance that it is provocative reading, even by Libertarian standards. Brit Libertarian Sean Gabb has been rather ceremoniously uninvited as a United Kingdom Independence Party speaker because--oh, wow!--they just discovered that he is in favor of drug legalization, eliminating the UK's race relations laws, and in repealing some child pornography laws. That's right: Sean Gabb actually takes a critical look at child porn from a Libertarian perspective. This requires a longish citation to do his reasoning justice: This outrage, it seems, was caused by my brief statement of what it means to be a libertarian. I said the day before yesterday that I believe in legalising all drugs, in repealing all race relations laws, and in repealing some of the laws against child pornography. I am surprised that my statement had this effect. I have spent the past three decades arguing very clearly on every occasion for wha...

Failed independent Christian GOP Texas Senate wannabe Larry Kilgore (but don't laugh too hard, he got 18% of the vote) wants Texas secession and a peaceful God-fearing Christian nation. As a matter of fact, if you've ever wondered whether you're going to Heaven or Hell, Larry has the answer. There's an eight-question quiz linked to his website that--like the Ouija board we used to play around with in 8th Grade--will tell you succinctly whether or not you're going to make it past the Big Guy. If you don't have the time, I can save you the trouble. You're going to Hell. (No human being since Jesus could possibly have passed this test.) The good news: at least you won't be missing all your friends. Thanks, Larry.