Voltaire says:

"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one."

One wishes. Have a look at the Ron Paul view of our latest national foray into the business of being a universal home-plate umpire.

Little edgy here

Thanks to Lawdog, I feel a knife post coming on. You should go read him (linked, over to your right) on the recent zaniness in Washington about banning import of one-handed openers.

Dunno whether I'll actually kick in a couple of pennies worth myself. I'm scared I won't be able to avoid making fun of a local DNR cookoo who dresses all tactical and sports a very prominent clip knife in the clip knife pocket of his SWAT pants. Along with the Glock it sure makes us civilians around the lake sleep better, knowing that he's standing between us and the dreaded bullhead poachers.

The health football

The Senate has the cost of the new mandatory health insurance bill down to something like $850 billion. The proposed law is only 850 pages long, so you can be sure your own congressthing will be reading it thoughtfully and in full.

The good news is that everybody seems to be going along with Baucus and Grassley, +marginally+ less dangerous than Dodds who is becoming an object of amusement around the Capitol these days. "Pass my bill. Mine! Mine!"

The bad news is that the usual herd of lefties is still demanding the bill be moved through to law at warp speed. I understand their concern for haste at the expense of good sense. Just look at all those uninsured dead bodies piling up outside the hospitals.

I do not precisely recommend sending a destroyer out to WestPac under orders to conduct gunnery practice over the bow of any KorCom ship engaged in pissing us off. But let me hasten to add that if our Commander in Chief so orders, I shall not editorialize against it.

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I certainly wish history had something to teach us about how seriously we ought to take aerial threats against Hawaii by insane oriental governments.