The obligatory post regarding the annoying congressman from NYC

No, not Rangel. The other one.

I don’t know if he was hacked or not; Yfrog claims that nothing is wrong on their end, and Twitter hasn’t decertified his account.

I don’t know if he accidentally sent a picture, if someone else sent a picture, or what, but one thing is certain: no one who is this bad at managing a media crisis is electable as mayor of New York City.

If you can’t say “with certitude” that a picture is of you or not, then you deserve all the scorn that the world heaps upon you. What next? Equivocating on the definition of “is”?

Welcome to Rapture

Everyone’s favorite failed dsytopian underwater city, and the setting of the game Bioshock.

After the player crashes into the ocean at the beginning of the game, he makes his way to an elevator that then takes him to the bottom of the ocean and the city that a wealthy industrialist built there: Rapture.

It was originally conceived as a haven from which intelligent people could build a society free from the oppressive governments, economies, and religions on the surface.

Unfortunately, something went wrong; when the player arrives, the city is trashed, the few survivors are completely insane and have bizarre superpowers, and young girls wander the city with their giant armored bodyguards.

The situation pushes the player into a power struggle, and his actions will determine whether the ending is upbeat or a bit … darker.

The police are not your friends.

Fortunately, they’ve grown less shy about pointing that out.

Claims that the police are jackbooted thugs are growing less hyperbolic by the incident; if contempt of cop is a crime, then it’s merely a matter of time before we’re all criminals.

Because this behavior is utterly contemptible.

More on the decline of the Fourth Amendment

This time from the Cato Institute.

In her dissenting opinion in Kentucky v. King, Justice Ginsberg wrote,

“The court today arms the police with a way routinely to dishonor the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement in drug cases. In lieu of presenting their evidence to a neutral magistrate, police officers may now knock, listen, then break the door down, never mind that they had ample time to obtain a warrant.”

Read the whole article; it illustrates how much the fourth amendment has been destroyed on the altar of the drug war.