Three Political Thoughts
Aug. 12th, 2010 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribSome vaguely political ideas, related only because they are in my mind:
1) Via Making Light, I give you The Triumph of Libertarianism, or Seven Ways to Loose Your Home Via Private Contract Law. The post consists of seven homeowners who either have or are in danger of loosing homes because they ran afoul of Homeowners Association rules. One case is somebody prohibited from smoking in their own house! I've blogged before about "life in space = living in a condo," so imagine what you'd get if air is a metered utility!
2) From various sources, everything you think you know about the 'Ground Zero Mosque' is a lie. It's not on Ground Zero, the building was not destroyed in the attacks, the mosque would serve an existing congregation a block away, and the people behind it were recruited by George Bush to be America's face of moderate and tolerant Islam to the world. Oh, and the building will not have a crescent on the exterior.
3) From Jay Lake, Cancer and class. Related to the health care debate, Jay discusses how his cancer, which is a serious problem, would be a world-ender if he had a job that required manual labor or less-than-stellar private insurance.
1) Via Making Light, I give you The Triumph of Libertarianism, or Seven Ways to Loose Your Home Via Private Contract Law. The post consists of seven homeowners who either have or are in danger of loosing homes because they ran afoul of Homeowners Association rules. One case is somebody prohibited from smoking in their own house! I've blogged before about "life in space = living in a condo," so imagine what you'd get if air is a metered utility!
2) From various sources, everything you think you know about the 'Ground Zero Mosque' is a lie. It's not on Ground Zero, the building was not destroyed in the attacks, the mosque would serve an existing congregation a block away, and the people behind it were recruited by George Bush to be America's face of moderate and tolerant Islam to the world. Oh, and the building will not have a crescent on the exterior.
3) From Jay Lake, Cancer and class. Related to the health care debate, Jay discusses how his cancer, which is a serious problem, would be a world-ender if he had a job that required manual labor or less-than-stellar private insurance.
