Ignorantia Juris

I saw no reason to comment on the fact that some TSA officials demanded that a well-endowed women wearing an underwire bra submit to a fondling to clear security.  Perhaps I’m suffering from outrage fatigue.  Well, not “perhaps.”  I am.  The announcement of “most recent dumb thing the TSA/DHS/Security-of-whatever-variety does to support security theater” is almost a bi-weekly occurrence, alternating with “the word ‘terror’ is used in an completely inappropriate context” and “taking a picture of child, even your own, is evidence of pedophilia.”

But Scott Greenfield of Simple Justice makes this point, one of those that lurks in … Continue Reading

There have been a few reports of various convention attendees/protesters/whatnots voicing their . . . displeasure with Fox News.  This is a good example.
Director Spike Lee hit town early Sunday evening for a reception for black state lawmakers at trendy East Colfax Mexican restaurant Mezcal.

He immediately was engulfed in a horde of media, showing his true liberal political colors when one reporter, identifying himself as a correspondent for Fox News, asked Lee a question. The actor snapped, “I don’t do Fox News,” and immediately disappeared into the restaurant, which was closed to the media — not just Fox.
Now, … Continue Reading

In another life, I received a degree in War Studies.  Watch as exercise those unused muscles.

My friend Nis has a very brief post on the use of artillery in Iraq to place US forces in perceived position of power as a prelude to negotiation.  With all due respect, I think he is mistaken in his understanding of Clausewitz.  He states
I’m not studied enough on Clausewitz but this aspect of warfare is either an affirmation or a qualification of his famous (and over-used) dictum: War is the continuation of politics.

In the modernist interpretation (where I think we … Continue Reading