you look kind of canadian, boy.

Our closest border with Canuckistan is about an hour north of us (the Derby Line/Stanstead I-91 crossing), and the second-closest one is two hours away in Vermont.
Imagine my mild surprise when, on the way back from town with the kids, I ended up in a U.S. Border patrol checkpoint right on I-89 outside Lebanon, NH, [...]

progressive, my ass.

When your home state hands out longer jail sentences for owning the wrong sort of sheet metal tube than for repeatedly molesting a young child, you have to start looking for a new name for your legal department, because “justice” it ain’t.

i fail to be all torn up about this.

Dear news media: Susan Atkins was only technically speaking an “ex-Manson follower.”  That term makes her sound like a naughty groupie.  More accurately, she was a murdering sociopath who knifed a woman who was eight months pregnant, killing her and the child she was carrying, and then scrawling the word PIG in her blood on [...]

you can’t ban ingenuity.

I don’t shy away from debates on gun control, and the merits and drawbacks of legislative attempts to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
However, there’s one argument that immediately makes me disengage from the debate, because it shows that the person putting it forth has a.) not thought their own argument through, and b.) [...]

a vote for gun control is a vote for thunderdome.

Every martial art that involves direct unarmed hand-to-hand fighting has weight classes.  This is done because a bantamweight boxer will get his clock cleaned by a heavyweight ninety-nine out of a hundred times.  Sending a 115-pound fighter up against a 220-pound fighter is simply not an even contest, because the heavyweight can deal (and absorb) [...]

oops…i seem to have forgotten my spike strips in the road by accident.

This just seems like a bad idea all around:
Durham, NC neighborhood threatens speed limit enforcement with paintball guns.
While I can sympathize with the parents living in that neighborhood (and trust me, my inner teenager is bouncing up and down with glee at the thought of hosing down some 60-in-a-25-speeder’s Mustang with .68-caliber Day-Glo orange paintballs [...]

you keep using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means.

Yesterday morning, on my weekly sojourn into town for Dadcation Day, I spotted a bumper sticker in the Borders parking lot that had me shaking my head:
HEALTH CARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT
Now, health care is certainly an important commodity.  I sure like being able to see a doctor when something ails me, and to get [...]

on immigration.

As many of you know, I’m an American-by-choice.  Until right about five years ago, I was the citizen of a large-ish Western European country whose name rhymes with “Bermany”.  As a former immigrant, Resident Alien/Permanent Resident, and aspiring citizen, I have years and years of experience with the government agency formerly known as the Immigration [...]

a higher standard of conduct.

So this California police officer pulled over a female motorist for speeding, and then decided it would be a good idea to force her to perform oral sex on him under threat of lethal force.
Now, I’m lukewarm on capital punishment as it is applied and implemented in this country, because it’s unevenly and arbitrarily doled [...]

forcing you to do what’s good for you.

Interesting factoid, and a short object lesson on government-mandated common sense:
Massachusetts has a mandatory seatbelt use law.
Massachusetts has a 67% seatbelt use rate.
New Hampshire has no mandatory seat belt law for adults.
New Hampshire has a 69% seatbelt use rate.
(Details here.  If you read the Comments section of that article, I will not be held responsible [...]