More proof of why Rick Santorum was right

This is exactly what Santorum predicted.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A lawyer for a Utah man with five wives argued Monday that his bigamy convictions should be thrown out following a Supreme Court decision decriminalizing gay sex.

The nation's high court in June struck down a Texas sodomy law, ruling that what gay men and women do in the privacy of their homes is no business of government.

It's no different for polygamists, argued Tom Green's attorney, John Bucher, to the Utah Supreme Court.

"It doesn't bother anyone, (and with) no compelling state interest in what you do in your own home with consenting adults, you should be allowed to do so," Bucher said.

I've covered this before. Particularly, see the comments on this post. This is related.

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"No blood for oil" put to rest

I just thought this was a good weblog post to finally put to rest the nonsensical arguments about "blood for oil" we always heard during the lead-in to war in Iraq: The blood was never for oil... (via IP).

What I think is important to note about this entire episode is not only that the anti-war crazies carrying "no blood for oil" signs and giant bloody puppets of George Bush were wrong, but that they shouldn't be listened to in general. I think things like this bring the entire anti-war movement's credibility into question -- if their communist ties and irrational Bush hatred didn't do that already.

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Knoppix is good

Woo hoo, I'm posting this from Knoppix. I've been trying to burn a Knoppix CD for a while now, but my old POS HP CD-Writer 8100 series kept making coasters. I finally got to install my dad's TDK VeloCD 5200b that he doesn't use anymore since he got a new computer with a CD writer built in, and here we are. I'd highly recommend the TDK, by the way. Seems solid, burns fast, and comes with good software.

Now, if I can only figure out how to change my keyboard to Dvorak [well, that was easy. They have a little keyboard configurator applet right in the taskbar], increase my resolution, and access my home network I'll be all set. Plus, I'd like to learn how this thing can save my settings, and if there's any way to still run it from the CD while installing a lot of the software on my hard drive so that it doesn't have to access the CD so much.

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