Maslow's Political Blog

Apparently it is a felony to disparrage the meat industry of Colorado. Therefore, Colorado meat sucks and I am going to boycott it. You heard me: Colorado meat is awful. James Thomas must be disbarred, or made to eat Colorado's disgusting meat, which I'm sure is infected with E. coli and made with a heaping serving of cow manure.

I am against illegal immigration and in favor of deportation.  Wait, wait, don't write me off yet!  I'm not racist and I'm not against immigrants.  I'm certainly against amnesty.  Let me explain: There are many legal immigrants.  The process of coming legally is very cumbersome and could be reformed, but the fact is they went through the process.  It would be a great disrespect to say "But if you had snuck into the country, you'd also be a citizen."  In fact, many legal immigrants aren't even citizens yet!!  Amnesty is terrible disrespectful to the many immigrants who followed the rules. More importantly, however, illegal immigration allows those here illegally to be abused.  Many illegal immigrants come here for jobs.  That's good.  Many illegal immigrants are willing to work for less money than the average American.*  That's capitalism, and that's fine.  The problem is they get paid less than minimum wage, but t...

The Good Old Days, plainly, never existed.  If ever anyone says that things were better, think about the time they're talking about.  You'll probably find out something that wasn't so good. For example: at a study group I was in, someone referred to the 1930s as the Good Old Days.  I immediately exclaimed, "But black people couldn't go into some restaurants!"  He said he went to an desegregated school.  There are two problems with that comeback: That it was called "desegregated" means it had been segregated at some point, and some point recently. The second problem, and in fact the general problem with the "Good Old Days."  It's based on personal experience, and colored by nostalgia.  Integrated grade schools were not widespread, and there was much violence against attempts at desegregation.  So his own experience is a little irrelevant to the point. (And besides all that, the 30s were the Great Depression - clearly not a time to be...

Boston Globe article on the indictment of the hutaree militia.  http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/04/03/8_militia_suspects_to_remain_locked_up/ "[Defense Attorney James] Thomas said the charges are serious, but 'the indictment is nothing more than a piece of paper.'" This.  Is.  Ridiculous.  This statement utterly stuns me.  Let's review what is a piece of paper: The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, nutrional facts, magazines, newspapers, movie scripts, a price tag, peace treaties, marriage licenses, prepared statements, picket signs, checks, a "pink slip," ANY BOOK, maps, fire safety manuals, workers' rights posters, mortgages, the U.S. Census, voting ballots, birth certificates, Colonial Charters, the Magna Carta, The Rights of Man, and, of course, pretty much everything the U.S. court system does (from local courts to the U.S. Supreme Court).  Our entire Civilization is based, really, on the ...