Beanstyle Evolution

Classes start on Monday and, unlike my other terms, I’m not looking forward to being back in school. I’ve gotten what I wanted and I’m ready to leave. I just want out. My experience as a grad student has been valuable but I no longer want to be immersed in talking about [...]

Here’s my response to an article by Robert Tracinski published in The Intellectual Activist. I find articles like this challenging to respond to – lagely because I can remember thinking this way once and feeling the “rightness” of that opinion. However, my thinking and feelings have changed a lot since then and even though Tracinski [...]

In the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina, yet another unfortunate and ill-advised event has occurred: Bush and all our fabulous Hill politicians have decided to suspend the prevailing wage laws on federal jobs related to Katrina rebuild efforts.
Prevailing wage was established by the Davis-Bacon act which is “…U.S. federal legislation which established the requirement for paying [...]

We all know how those Democrats simply LOVE going out of their way to make sure people suffer. That’s the Democratic politician’s entire purpose – making sure that people in her/his constiuency are specifically in the line of fire when disaster strikes.
Thanks for pointing out (Grover Norquist) that it’s the fault of the [...]

did Rehnquist not step down, he died. Leaving not one, but two vacancies on the court and one of them the chief justice position. Shouldn’t the chief justice come from an already sitting court? That’s got me a bit confused. Roberts doesn’t seem to have all that much experience on the [...]

The terrible destruction and devastation that are rampant in New Orleans is proof that most of us are only a step or two away from descending into madness and chaos – despite what we like to think about ourselves. Are we a civilized nation? Possibly. Are we immune from the madness and [...]