In a story that would be touching in the ordinary context, an 88 year old man and his 85 year old girlfriend built a portable water purification business from a dream to a reality. Nothing wrong there; such things are supposed to be part of the American Dream. But now, their business is being ruined by [...]

There is a new video reader out there called Wajam. Don’t use it. I will have more to report when I have removed the Wajam tool bar that the Fucks installed despite me telling the installer not to. I can’t figure out how to correct the problem. Plus using the normal Classical Values toolbar is [...]

The Parties Of Interzone. Liquefactionist The Liquefactionists are a party who base themselves on consuming (liquidating) one another, until everyone is liquidated into one person. As Burroughs says, the party will turn in on themselves, eventually, only one man will be left. This parodies racism and totalitarianism, with man’s hatred of one another ultimately leading [...]

I am very proud to see that Sarah is guest blogging at Instapundit. Moreover, she is behaving in a very purrfessional manner! It probably won’t surprise anyone that since I aspire to being the mad-cat-woman of science fiction (Yes, the competition is stiff.  Well, actually it’s soft, fuzzy and on occasion purrs) I love the [...]

Speaking of the things They do to Us (and the frustration almost makes me understand the silly emotions that drive the 1% versus 99% dichotomy), I am one of those stubborn clingers to the past who wants to keep my Windows XP — a perfectly good OS that serves my needs. Anyway, simply because I [...]

Using a new browser. WTF? I can’t remember… It’s….. Maxthon. That’s what it is. A friend just told me about it after the umpteenth Firefox crash. Why they do these things to us, I don’t know. Nor do I know how seriously to take this new browser, but Google is taking Maxthon seriously: On April 10, [...]

From Johnson (Pres) and Gray (VP) running on the Libertarian ticket.

Sarah Hoyt Is Standing In For Instapundit. She starts out with: My name is Sarah A. Hoyt and I’m a writer. It’s been six hours since I last wrote– I know the feeling.

A student at Valencia College writes: As human beings, we are not really responsible for our own acts and so we need government to control those who do not care about others. H/T Zero Hedge

Speaking of not wanting to start arguments, my post last night depressed me, because I couldn’t figure out whether by voicing a thought, I might be guilty of starting an argument. I mean, my normal process in everyday life is to just throw private fits when I see something I disagree with. I’ll curse and [...]

I am amused at my my Right Wing Brethren decrying the militarization of the police. And yet the Right in America fully supports Drug Prohibition. The main use of these militarized police. It makes ya wonder. I’m trying to figure out if I should laugh or cry.

Education has never been cheaper. Credentials never more expensive.

The lead up to the really good stuff happens about 1:05 into the video. This is interesting and may shed further light on the subject: Urban dictionary: Bow Tying H/T Instapundit and the commenters at Wagist for Bow Tying.

I’m not surprised to see “science” confirm that heavily tattooed or pierced people are more likely to drink to excess. As M. Simon has pointed out many times in a slightly different context, people who suffer from PTSD are likely to do all sorts of destructive things which overlap and can thus be said to [...]

Eric has just written a post about the pros and cons of buying electronics. I have just written a post for ECN about making electronics and I’m also selling. If you are super geeky and into making electronics (or just want to learn a little) check it out. I’m happy to answer any questions you [...]

I have a computer which runs a Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU. Although the machine is plenty fast I could stick in a faster CPU, like a Core 2 Quad Q6600 which I am told would be “twice as fast.” While keeping up with the Joneses often makes me feel twice as slow, if you [...]

The person on the left is George Zimmerman. The person on the right is Elizabeth Warren. Just in case you haven’t been keeping up (and who can these days?). H/T Instapundit

A write-up on safes (ostensibly a discussion of the fact that many Americans prefer to store their wealth at home as opposed to banks) reminded me of the tension between secrecy and security. Safes — even high quality safes — are not necessarily good hiding places. If a safe is found, it would become the logical [...]

From the comments at Wagist slightly modified. If a woman goes out with a black man because black men are reputed to have big packages, was the man racially profiled? ===== That was just too funny to pass up. ===== Further down the thread there was a mention of the supposed “big nose” correlation. I’m [...]

H/T Conservative Tree House