....that the problem with judges allowing gay marriages, etc, is that it "increases uncertainty." I spent a little while thinking about this, and couldn't figure out what on earth he means, because the only answer that presented itself just doesn't make sense. Surely he can't really be saying that gay marriage needs to be banned because, if gay marriage were allowed, he's afraid some poor heterosexual might inadvertently marry a member of the same sex by accident?
February 25th, 2004
The USAF has filed a plan for militarization of near-earth space over the next ten years ranging from RF satellite-to-satellite weapons, to orbiting mirrors for directing over-the-horizon attacks with groundbased lasers, to a Thor weapon system and other orbital surface-bombardment weapons. One has to wonder who the US is planning on fighting the next world war against. There's an explicitly stated intention to deny space to anyone the US considers an "adversary". (Oh, I'm sure the US will allow those pesky Europeans to play a little, so long as they don't do anything evil and destabilizing like, say, trying to put weapons in space.) And of course, once all this shit is up there, you can just bet we'll have to justify the expense by finding someone to attack with it.
I don't know about you, but personally, I don't trust the US Government with a Damoclean sword hung over the heads of the entire planet. They're stupid enough to use it. At least with the strategic nuclear arsenals, anyone with three brain cells to rub together has the wit to realize that you can't actually use the damned things without wrecking civilization and possibly rendering the planet uninhabitable.
Didn't we talk everyone into signing a bunch of treaties promising not to do exactly this? But then, the US Government has a long history of violating its treaties, so why change now?
"We have met the enemy, and he is us." -- Pogo, Walt Kelly
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