The ACLU: Upholding Constitutional Protection For Those Who Don’t Really Deserve It

 Civilizer
Big showdown in Mason, Ohio pitting two of my favorite societal archetypes – The Man and Those Damn Punk Kids – against each other in a tussle over an underage teenager’s inalienable right to use a cell phone to plan to use alcohol and illegal drugs after school.  Students are claiming that teachers are seizing, without cause, their cell [...]

Yet Another Award For Bill Belichick

 Sporting Civilizer
So I’m starting a new feature here on All Things In Their Place.  It’s actually more of an award than a feature.  I’m introducing it because there are a lot of different types of real jerks in this world – there are the kind that you’d like to see actually removed from the gene [...]

Liberté, Égalité, Ass-Kickeré, Sarkozy

 Civilizer

Buttoned blazer with jeans and a white oxford?  Man, this guy wants a GQ cover baaaad. 
It’s looking like the test of wills over in France is winding down, and the unions blinked first.  Nicolas Sarkozy was elected with a mandate to modernize the country’s pension system, which was proving to be a burden on national [...]

What “Scandalous” Information Does Hillary Have on Obama?

Only 6 weeks until the Democratic Iowa Caucus, so it’s about time for the leading candidates to pull on the clodhoppers and the slickers and start slinging some mud.  The heretofore-observed peace between Clinton, Obama, and Edwards may have actually ended with the South Carolina pretty boy’s snide “Is that question a plant?” quip at last [...]

Well That Sure Happened Fast

 Tree-Hugger Civilizer
I’m starting to wonder if the oil conspiracy paranoids were right.  For years, the auto industry (mainly the American auto industry) was rolling out these hulking fuel hogs for us to drive.  Even though they made us more dependent on foreign oil, even though they spewed more carbon emissions into the atmosphere, even though [...]

The King Of Spain Cuts A Promo On Hugo Chávez

 Civilizer
I think we can all agree that, generally speaking, assemblies of world governments are mostly useless.  The U.N., for example, is a corrupt, impotent body that long ago abdicated its responsibility to protect and strengthen all the countries of the world.  It had no credible role in the march to war in Iraq, and its [...]

M. Shadows Is The Patrick Henry Of Our Time: Quote Of The Day

All the way from the east to the west
We’ve got this high society looking down on this very foundation
Constantly reminding us that our actions are the cause of all their problems
Pointing the fingers in every direction
Blaming their own nation for who wins elections
They’ve never contributed a fucking thing to the country they love to criticize
(Avenged [...]

Pat Robertson: Looking Out For Number One

 Civilizer
Pat Robertson endorsed Rudolph Giuliani today, thereby following in the footsteps of his personal Lord, Savior, and Action Hero by performing a miracle all his own.  He somehow made the Giuliani candidacy even less appealing.
     
I will freely admit that I wasn’t quite expecting this one.  I thought Robertson might eventually come around to Mitt Romney, [...]

Hillary Clinton: The Piñata That Won’t Give Up The Candy

 Civilizer
A Newsweek poll released this weekend gives the damage report from the big Democratic pile-on last week, which saw the candidates chasing Hillary Clinton do their best to unhorse the Senator from New York with broadside after rhetorical broadside.  The attacks were frequent and varied, confronting Clinton on her Iran resolution vote, her reluctance to make [...]

Much Easier Being Green: Trend Or Paradigm Shift?

 Tree-Hugger Civilizer
I can’t decide if the corporate scramble to go green is good, bad, or neutral.

If you don’t think too hard about it, it’s got to be good.  After all, it wasn’t long ago that the environment was completely ignored by virtually the entire market.  Even after the Exxon Valdez belched its goopy contents into [...]