All this talk about civil disobedience and stickin’ it to The Man and I’ve probably made myself sound like a rude asshole. I am not. I’m a very polite asshole. Good manners are the hallmark of good breeding; I am never boorish when I break the law. A good attitude and a pleasant, engaging manner […]
Category Archives: crime
Sticks and stones may break my bones
February 4, 2007 – 4:29 pm
Hey, that last post reminded me of something that pisses me off. Yes, I know it’s hard to imagine anything pissing me off… I mentioned my trunk was full of wadcutter bullets. Are you familiar with the term? “Bullet” proper refers to the slug — that ball of lead at the end of the doohicky. […]
Civil Disobedience, ctd.
February 4, 2007 – 10:18 am
Here’s the problem: too many people don’t know the difference between right and wrong and legal and illegal. And here’s the difference: you can pretty much work out right and wrong all by yourself, standing naked in the shower asking yourself the tough questions. Whether or not you’ve broken the law may take a whole […]
Civil Disobedience Lite
February 3, 2007 – 7:56 pm
I got the new Weaselmobile inspected Friday, and now I’m 100% street legal for the first time in…I don’t know. Twelve years? I’m like, “yeah, go on — pull me over! I’m clean!” My damn papers are never in order. I’d like to say this is a defiant act of civil disobedience. A madcap libertarian […]
Done.
December 30, 2006 – 8:09 am
“He was saying things about injustice, about resistance, about how these guys are terrorists,” he says. On the way to the gallows, according to Ali, “Saddam said, ‘Iraq without me is nothing.’”
Thank you, China, for keeping my home safe
December 5, 2006 – 6:55 pm
I live in a pretty crappy neighborhood (yes it was crappy before I moved in. Shut up). It’s a blue collar section on the edge of a nasty housing project, so even our sad, small material possessions incite burning class envy in the breasts of the various brown youths who pass through here on their […]
S. Weasel 