Minutemen in Herndon - Yeah!

In the Washington Post today is an article of how the Herndon branch of the Minutemen are monitoring an informal day-laborer site (before the nice new formal one opens - at tax-payer expense!), taking pictures of the contractors vehicles and license plates who come around, in order to submit this information to the IRS. Now this is not something I thought of: that these employers don't pay any of the payroll taxes associated with regular employees. For shame!

Of course, the Post has to interview the poor illegals, to get the liberal-heart strings aquiver, about how because of the Minutemen scaring off potential employers, these guys won't eat today. Wahhhh! Who cares? These guys break the law coming here to work, also illegally, so in my mind, they take their chances. Eating isn't guaranteed.

The Minutemen are doing a job that federal & local governments and law enforcement agencies (that my tax dollars are supporting) refuse to do, and on their own dime. I say, keep up the good work, guys!

Butterstick Rules!

Go! Go see National Panda Baby, AKA Tai Shan, AKA Butterstick at Washington Post. You know you want to! You'll feel better! Click here!

Yet Another Book Review

Read Remains Silent by Michael Baden and Linda Kenney. Fun read for those of us who enjoy reading about forensics, especially forensic pathology. And for those of you who do, you probably recognize Michael Baden's name: he's the forensic pathologist (for real) who's often asked to talk about, well, forensics on cases, on various news shows. This book is a novel about a bunch of old deaths that need to be investigated and an old prof. who asks his former student to help with the investigation. It also involves a fashionable litigator, descriptions of whom at times are a bit far-fetched. But all in all, a good, quick read.