defiance

I’d like to imagine the way that line was delivered when a CIA interrogator responded to Khalid Shaihk Mohammed’s innocuous, post 9/11, post-Afghanistan invasion offered a Rodney King-esque “can’t we all just get along?”

Major happenings, from Fox News:

Driving home from Wal-Mart today produced another wonderful conversation between the wife and I. A Pearl Jam song was playing on the radio and I mentioned how I really love the song. Pearl Jam (at least their first 3-4 albums) is one of my favorites. The School Girl comes out with this:

Whenever I hear a Democrat talk about how tough the Iraq war has been, and how it is time to bring the troops home whatever hell may come to Iraq, I think back to one of my favorite heros of the American Revolution, the naval captain John Paul Jones who, when the going got tough, he got tougher:

In command of Ranger in 1777 and 1778, he operated in British home waters and made audacious raids on England’s shore

Congress decided, rightfully so in my opinion, that the powers of baseball have been dragging their feet when it comes to detecting, dealing with, and punishing anabolic steroid users. Baseball waged their own investigation, but an investigation without subpoena and sworn testimony is a canoe trip without a paddle.

The Orlando Sentinel thinks that Barack Obama should pledge to seat Florida and Michigan’s stripped delegates at the convention despite those states defiance of party rules and their preference for Hillary Clinton (via KnoxViews):

Christian Grantham admires the good ole fashioned moxie shown by Hillary Clinton when she placed her name on the Democratic Michigan Primary ballot in defiance of the national party:

From Slate, via former Scene contributor Henry Walker, a lawyer by trade but a journalist in spirit, comes this partial rebuke of office prudes and an ode to management defiance. If your boss forbids spirits in the office, you've got the wrong boss.

Well, no. But it is well past its expiration date.