Month: December 2008

Earlier today I had a wonderful lunch with Judith Weiss (of the great Keshertalk blog) at my favorite Japanese restaurant, following which we went to the Albany Waterfront Trail Park. We found a beautiful little dream house that some artists built, and I handed my camera to Judith while I went inside and peered out…

I got the video from National Geographic Explorer – Marijuana Nation – a review . Cultivation of Marijuana (hemp) stretches back from George Washington’s farm when Pot was the leading cash crop in the United States, to today, with annual profits surpassing $65 billion. The documentary reveals more than 200 million people around the world…

My house is located in one of Berkeley’s “conservative” neighborhoods. Just out of curiosity, I thought I would check to see how well John McCain did. In my precinct, he got nearly 5% of the vote, or 19 out of 521 votes, to be exact: President And Vice President Consolidated Precinct Number: 201300 Includes precincts:…

From time to time when I lived in the Bay Area in the late 60s and early 70s I would visit with the folks at an art/architecture collective called the Ant Farm. This was the heyday of the water bed and the Ant Farmers were big into vinyl. Not for fetish purposes but as a…

Fred is hilarious. Sadly. (about 8 1/2 minutes) You can keep Fred’s videos coming by donating to Fred PAC. Cross Posted at Power and Control

“YOU REALIZE, OF COURSE, THAT THIS MEANS WAR.” I don’t know what was more of a shock — reading that chilling declaratory remark from Glenn Reynolds or reading the underlying reason: In his latest tape Ayman Al-Zawahiri warned America to convert to Islam and give up beer. Damned if Glenn isn’t absolutely right. As the…

The economy of Zimbabwe is collapsing due to the policies of its President for Life Robert Mugabe. In another sign of the turmoil, the government rejected a ruling by a regional court that demanded Zimbabwe stop seizing land from white farmers. The government instead will speed up efforts to take land remaining in whites farmers’…

I was reading a post by Bob Owens about concealed carry of fire arms for self defense. Bob suggested that the first thing to do was to have a look at the US Marine Corps rules for gunfighting. Here are the first few rules: 1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring…

Reading through the various accounts of the Mumbai terror attack, I was suddenly struck by how easily everyone (including myself) was fooled into thinking that this was primarily a “hostage-taking” operation. Nonsense. It was a murder operation, and the terrorists used the “hostage” meme to full advantage: Evidence was emerging last night that the the…

Well not sand exactly. Silicon nanowires. Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices. The new technology, developed through research led by Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, produces 10 times the…

Is left-wing Obamamania on the wane? Be sure to read my Pajamas Media piece on the subject and find out! I won’t spoil it, but I came precariously close to comparing Barack Obama to Humphrey Bogart. My thanks to Pajamas Media for the opportunity!