Month: March 2009

  • Torture Or Cosmetology?

    Some people think this is torture. Last week, the Daily News reported that the board had introduced a proposal to ban genital waxing in New Jersey’s spas and salons, something the board claimed was already illegal but never spelled out in the regulations. The board cited public safety as a main issue, saying that two…

  • A Picture is Worth A Trillion Dollars

    Click for larger view A picture is worth 1,000 words sometimes. Sometimes it is worth a trillion dollars. This one could be worth even more if it explains global temperatures better than the IPPC’s computer extrapolations. This graph is the work of Syun-Ichi Akasofu who has a few words on climate. Akasofu is one of…

  • No Accident

    guy on internet had something interesting to say in response to Welfare For The Rich. All consumption-based tax credits are “for the rich,” or at least the not-poor. You have to buy them, while whatever poor people buy a disproportionate lot of gets “sin” taxed at above the highest marginal income-tax rate. That’s not all…

  • More Welfare For The Rich

    It looks like we not only have Welfare for the Rich. We have another case of the same welfare. Want a $50,000 electric sports car? Have we got a deal for you. When Tesla formally announced the Model S Sedan last June, the MSRP bandied was about $60,000 for the all-electric sedan. In its newsletter…

  • Welfare For The Rich

    Are you in the market for a new car this year? I thought not. But if you are Mr. Obama has a deal for you. Los Angeles (myFOXla.com) – President Barack Obama announced today in Pomona that his administration will help put a million plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015 and offer $7,500 tax…

  • Hello Walls

    It seems the Most Inexperienced President Ever™ is having one or two problems with his first two months in office. For all his articulateness and gift for oratory, this president seems to be spending his time in the Oval Office walking into walls. He has botched up more things in two months in office than…

  • From the bottom, looking up

    When things reach that stage when they really can’t get any worse, they can start looking better. In the case of Detroit (a city most people have written off as hopeless), houses can be had for almost nothing. That’s because the city is falling apart and city services are poor to nonexistent. So if you…

  • R.I.P. Popcorn Sutton

    I’m sorry to see that Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton has committed suicide rather than go to prison: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Famed Appalachian moonshiner Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton, whose incorrigible bootlegging ways were as out of step with modern times as his hillbilly beard and overalls, took his own life rather than go to prison for making white…

  • Ideology and creativity

    Reflecting on CPAC, Andrew Ian Dodge touches on one of my pet peeves, which is the stubborn inability of creative types to be allowed to think (and say) what they think without repercussions: One thing that came up quite often in chatting with people outside my two “comfort” groups was the movement’s dearth of musicians…

  • A New Black Market

    It its attempt to turn the USA into the USSR, Congress is proposing to outlaw legal farmer’s markets. What this will do is force anyone who produces food of any kind, and then transports it to a different location for sale, to register with a new federal agency called the “Food Safety Administration.” Even growers…

  • Distinctions keep getting blurrier

    Because of inconvenient (and very time-consuming) personal business, I was nowhere near a computer I could use yesterday. Ironic, because I was surrounded by computers I could not use. (Like the old expression “water water everywhere and not a drop to drink”…) Returned home in the middle of the night, and dragged myself to bed…

  • Knock Yourself Out

    It seems our most esteemed Drug War General, Barry McCaffrey, is no longer towing the Government line on marijuana at least. He in effect says legalize it for adults. Also note why he couldn’t say it before. He was muzzled by government. I wonder if our new Drug Czar will have the same problem? Cross…

  • Goin’ to the dogs

    You know things are really bad when even your dog is affected by the economic crisis. Seriously. However, Coco’s favorite food is fried chicken, and she enjoyed seeing this new product from Germany: She thinks it looks finger-lickin good!

  • “That’s our money.”

    Is it really?

    Although I wish their numbers were in the millions, naturally I’m delighted to see the Tea Party demonstrations attracting crowds numbering in the thousands. A remark by one demonstrator particularly caught my attention: Tea party supporters say their reasons for demonstrating on Fountain Square are simple. “To actually show the state and federal government that…

  • As Western Civilization “progresses”….

    Via a helpful email, I learned that an actual vampire has been unearthed in Venice: By Daniel Flynn ROME (Reuters) – Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of a female “vampire” in Venice, buried with a brick jammed between her jaws to prevent her feeding on victims of a plague which swept the…

  • Not A Believer

    I just found out that I don’t believe in GOD. And I can tell you that I couldn’t be happier. Government Of Democrats Of course I’d like to see Republicans get a spine. Every time they want to spend like drunken sailors all they have to do is say: “but I’m against abortion”. And the…

  • The Perfect One

    Obama is NOT Jesus. Jesus knew how to put a cabinet together. I guess that’s the difference between the two Messiahs. Obama spends and Jesus saves. Followers of The One will find The Story of O very helpful for the New Age. You will be abused and you will love it. Somewhere in Chicago, a…

  • When selfishness is evil

    The “GOING JOHN GALT” movement is catching on, and attracting a lot of media attention — including Stephen Colbert’s comedy show. As a general rule, I’d say that once comedians start working a topic into their routines, that’s a sign that its time has come. So, the phenomenon of GOING JOHN GALT has “arrived.” In…

  • Impending distraction?

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg (probably the most left wing justice on the U.S. Supreme Court) has pancreatic cancer, and she is hinting that there will be a vacancy on the court soon: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has hinted at a possible vacancy “soon” at the US Supreme Court, without indicating who would be leaving. Speaking Friday…

  • It’s not the economy, stupid! Nor is it the recession….
    It’s secession!

    Bob Owens looks at what I think boils down to a very old American debate (whether there’s a right to secession), and notices that some overwrought comments by actor Chuck Norris have led a plethora of lefties to label Norris a “terrorist,” and even make Timothy McVeigh comparisons: The left-wing blogosphere preferred not to address…