Tag Archives: Outrage

The Right to Privacy

August 27, 2010 – 2:29 pm

In a conversation I recently had on-line about an article regarding citizens being tracked by GPS, the subject of privacy came up. Okay, I did what I often accuse others of doing and jumped to a reaction before I’d read the article.  The article was actually a serious look at an opinion by certain judges [...]

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Usury?

April 7, 2009 – 1:14 pm

Once upon a time there were usury laws, which limited the amount of interest an institution (or Vinnie from down the block) could charge on a loan. South Dakota decided a good way to attract some business to their state was to do away with such inconvenient laws. Vinnie moved to South Dakota and set [...]

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The War on Christmas

December 20, 2008 – 4:33 pm

Every year, I get more and more annoyed at the tendency for people at all points on the political spectrum to manufacture issues about which they can become angry (and about which they can rile their “base” into a frenzied pitch.)  It must be part of the human condition (or at least the Western psyche, [...]

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