Shared Post: Goal of Quantico Incident Was To Abuse Bradley Manning and Intimidate David House

Portrait of Bradley Manning by Stephen Pitt I just wanted to say a quick thank-you to everyone today for your support when David House and I were being detained at Quantico. I don’t think any of this had anything to do with me, or frankly the 42,000 petition signatures. The only thing I did was …

Current Thoughts on K-State’s Men’s Basketball Team

After I talked with Jackie this morning about K-State’s last game, I thought I’d do a post on my thoughts on our current team. Asprilla, Freddy I never particularly cared for you. You looked kind of lazy, that’s probably because you’re nearly 7 feet tall and nearly 300 pounds. You are not quick. Doesn’t really …

Obligatory 2010 Recap and 2011 Predictions

Although a bit belated, this is the type of post most others with blogs have already made. Screw those people; I do what I want, when I want. 2010 Relationships I’m still very happily married, so nothing really new there. However there is happy news for some of my friends. Most recently, Becky and I …

Burma, Liberia, and the United States

What do these three countries have in common? Give up? They’re the only three countries in the world who don’t use the metric system.  I knew that there weren’t that many countries that didn’t use the metric system, but I didn’t realize that it was only three.  Kind of makes us look a little egocentric, …

Elena Kagan is the Wrong Choice For Supreme Court Justice

When I read that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was going to retire, I thought, “I hope President Obama nominates someone decently liberal to succeed him.” There’s been a short list of legitimate, potential nominees floating around ever since Sonia Sotomayor replaced David Souter. You’d think that if you were on the list back …

An Interesting Statistic

So I’m watching the documentary Bigger Stronger Faster* which is a movie about steroids.  Pretty good so far.  Anyways, the movie starts talking about steroids in baseball – remember Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds? I do.  After they hit all those home runs they were accused of taking steroids – which was pretty …