I just finished watching "The Killing" and it was fantastic. It's the only Seattle show I've ever seen that got lighting right. They still overdo the rain, but that's to be expected. I've lived here 20 years and only put my windshield wipers higher than intermittent a handful of times.

I second the Netflix originals.

Way ahead of you on that. Lindsey popped up on my "Nightwish" Pandora channel.

I wasn't going to put this on here, but...

 And let's not forget they went so far as to create a video of their own (at our expense, of course) to blame the attack on the youtube video as well. They went to extraordinary lengths to tell this particular lie.

Two Texans...you guys know what you're doing.

As effecient as the government is at incorrectly handing out money from the treasury, I'm not sure I want them cutting everyone a monthly check.

Is a subpoena good enough to get phone records like this, or does it take a warrant? If a warrant is required, did Justice get one or operate on a subpoena? I haven't heard clearly which way the records were obtained.

Galatians 5:1.

Sort of. It's basically the same problem: abuse of power by putting the authority of the state into the hands of an individual.

The problem will be taxing some people on all their income (the poor) and others on only a small portion (the wealthy.)

I'm starting to get why the Jews considered tax collectors to be right up there with rapists and murderers in the ranks of sinners...

I'm more interested in what they can do with guitars.

A time existed when one had to walk into my bubble to encroach on me. Now she can do it on a cell phone, screeching and cackling, from 10 feet away.

As an aside: one of my goals in life is to behave in a manner than causes some snooty woman to exclaim, "Well I never!" just so I can exclaim right back, "Then it's about damned time you did!" I think this a little more appropriate than my friend's goal of being slightly more annoying than Ace Ventura.

Williamson is one of my favorite writers on NR. I salute his efforts to enforce civility.

Technology has, ironically, made us less socially interactive in the real world while simultaneously enabling us to encroach on the personal space of others. 

I hope someone alerts Peter, Rob, and James to this incident so they can discuss it with Kevin during the podcast this morning.

If your children are as bright and imaginitive as you they will have no problem being remembered by teachers.

Also, one might argue that we're a much more developed species this go round, but I would counter that government's intervention has perhaps left us just as savage as before if not more so.

How long did it take the civil society to naturally arise the first time? How long are we willing to wait for it after government collapses (which I think is becoming more likely every day)?

Powerline: "I assume the department obtained whatever warrant was needed."

NYT: "Jay Carney, a White House spokesman, on Tuesday reiterated that the White House had no involvement in the subpoena..."

If the records were seized based on only a subpoena there could be a problem. I haven't read anywhere exactly which instrument was used. Perhaps the lawyerly among us can dig into that.