Sunday is good because it’s only a day from Monday Night Football. On Sundays, this is pretty much what I do: I look over the blogosphere, read some news articles if I’m in the mood for it, finish whatever studying I’ve got, maybe make a run to the gym, and then proceed to watch football until midnight. Recently though, one of my rituals had been interrupted – but for the time being, it’s all returned to normalcy.

Syndicated libertarian columnist Vin Suprynowicz, is back from whatever hiatus he was on. This is good, because I look forward to reading his weekly editorials, usually I do this at about the time I get fed up with watching the Detroit Lions piss away another game. I wish we had a columnist like Vin here in the D. Instead, we get Desiree Cooper and Mitch Albom. Criminy.

takes on the drug war, the supreme court, and the duty we have to defend our lives and property. An interesting comparison that he’s drawn, and a case that I’ve not heard made before, is that it took a constitutional amendment to make alcohol prohibition happen, whereas the 70-odd years of various drug prohibitions has received no such scrutiny:

Never once have the justices seized the opportunity to rule — as they are obliged to rule by their oaths of office — “Oh, and by the way, your so-called ‘War on Drugs’ is totally unconstitutional under the Ninth Amendment. So cut it out.”

A constitutional amendment — the 18th, since repealed — was required to suspend Americans’ Ninth Amendment right to buy, possess, and consume alcohol, after all. So when was the constitutional amendment that similarly authorizes any part of the current “War on Drugs” ratified?

Oh Vin! Have you forgotten that those oaths lack privity, and consequently are of no authority?

In other news, he’s once again no longer mustachioed:

I dunno, which one do you like better?