http://standardmischief.com/blog Life. Liberty. Pursuit of Happiness. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:22:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Short post here, but reading between the lines, I'm getting the feeling that the pro-Rights people win, but with an interpretation that's halfway between what the Bill of Rights really means and what Justice Scalia wants it to say. Anyway, make sure you check out Laurel's lol-speakage interpretation. http://standardmischief.com/blog/2010/03/03/mcdonald-lets-summarize-the-oral-arguments/ I haven't been following this case as closely as perhaps I should, but since I just heard the first little peep on the subject from the legacy media this AM, I thought I'd comment. Heller asked and answered the question of whether or not the Second Amendment to the Constitution was ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2010/03/02/mcdonald-big-day-a-the-supremes-today/ original title: D.C. Snowstorm: How Global Warming Makes Blizzards Worse stealthy re-spin title after they make themselves the laughing stock: Another Blizzard: What Happened to Global Warming? Guys, your preconceived notions on man-made climate change and your unethical web 2.0 publishing standards are showing. http://standardmischief.com/blog/2010/02/11/time-weather-is-not-climate-unless-we-say-so/ The scene: Yesterday just after the last bit of the 25" snowstorm. I'm snowed in from the record snowfall. I decide to walk out to the main road and assess the snowpocalypse. Most of the walk is pretty easy, there's about a foot of snow on the local streets thanks to ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-2010-desperate-measures-for-desperate-times/ or the Fiendish Fluoridators, or the New Weird Odor, or the orbital mind control lasers. Instead, well... The government has your baby's DNA ... It's simple, the pediatrician answered: Newborn babies in the United States are routinely screened for a panel of genetic diseases. Since the testing is mandated by the ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2010/02/05/i-am-so-tempted-to-say-something-about-zog-or-dark-green-helicopters-or-boxcars/ That's the news from Arlington county, Virginia, in an email alert that went out yesterday right after 7 PM. That "permalink" doesn't seem too permanent, so I'll toss the full text at the bottom of the post. Noted because of the "Mainstreaming of Survivalism". Edited to add: I almost forgot that ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2010/02/04/be-prepared-to-shelter-in-place-for-3-5-days/ But what we got was an honest 5 inches of the lightest, fluffiest snow I've seen in a decade. Weather forecasters: well at least they're pretty good at telling me when the precipitation will start, give or take six hours or so, but I wish they would remind me by ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2010/01/30/the-forecast-was-for-a-dusting-to-one-inch/ Say, maybe tomorrow morning? I'll bet they'll still be shell shocked over the Brown victory. You don't want to call or email, that's too easy. And you don't want to mail anything, It'll never get through the anti-anthrax screening on time. Faxes are best. I haven't settled on my exact wording, but ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2010/01/19/ready-to-carpet-bomb-your-congress-critters-with-faxes/ As you might guess, I'm studying for the exam now. It's a boring exercise in memorization and regurgitation, something I was never much good at. I do have a solid grasp of electronics theory and radio propagation, so all I have to do is memorize a bunch of crap about ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2010/01/17/errors-in-the-questions-pool-for-the-general-amateur-radio-licence-exam/ Savor the irony. Reds pretending to be green have been scuppered by mercantilists pretending to be Reds. OK, that’s oversimplifying grossly; the Chinese have managed to retain most of the worst traits of communism on their capitalist road, and not all the heavies in the AGW crowd are scheming socialists. ... http://standardmischief.com/blog/2009/12/24/quote-of-the-day-climate-fraud-edition/