Month: January 2011

As there has been a pretty steady series of posts about Jared Loughner’s massacre, I though I would pause for a post about something which seems irrational to me, and may gross out some readers.  The other night I realized that I have a double standard where it comes to asparagus pee. Many — but…

Speaking of television, according to a post linked by Michelle Malkin, it turns out that Jared Loughner did not watch TV. Nor did he listen to the talk radio said to have created a “climate” which was responsible for his actions. Friend says Loughner “did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen…

A TV (as in television) fan I am not. But when I saw a headline that “watching television damages the heart,” I took notice. We all hear about the dangers from cell phones and brain cancer, but the idea that the omnipresent television can cause heart damage — why, that strikes at one of the…

Ah. Yes. The dreaded libertarians. If they get into power they want the government to leave the people alone. Despicable. We should be glad that True Conservatives™ want to replace the meddling left (the fount of all evil) with the meddling right (the home of all that is good). The cry of the Conservative is…

I think the title of this post is a sufficient answer to a Slate article which asks: Are Assassins More Likely To Target Liberals? Cross Posted at Power and Control

While it’s still too early to say this conclusively, I think that people who want to read their various political narratives into Jared Lee Loughner are ultimately in for a disappointment. The man’s mind is so messed up that he’s the political equivalent of schizophrenic word salad (schizophasia): Judging from Mr. Loughner’s own website, his…

It is amusing to see the rantings of a paranoid schizophrenic elevated to the level of rational discourse. Starts to make you wonder if there are enough sane people in the US to make it work. Cross Posted at Power and Control Let me add that the comment posted here by snakeoilbaron is very much…

Gabrielle Giffords’s brother in law, a commanding officer at the International Space station, seems to think so: Hours earlier, the nation observed a moment of silence for the victims of the rampage, from the South Lawn of the White House and the steps of the U.S. Capitol to legislature beyond Arizona and the International Space…

There are a lot of reports about the Arizona shooter, Jared Loughner, being a pot smoker. But then Dave at Classical Values says that he quit smoking pot and drinking alcohol in August of 2010. There are reports that cannabis helps some people who have schizophrenia. In other words they are self medicating for their…

OK, so we can all agree it’s pukingly hilarious that a bunch of lefties immediately blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting of a politician and several innocent bystanders… by a deranged lefty. And it’s no surprise that the same media who urged us to wait for all the facts when someone shouted “Allahu Akbar” before shooting the place up…

As I explained in earlier posts, the fact that so many people are trying to blame the Tea Party and Sarah Palin for the actions of a deranged gunman does not surprise me, because placing blame is what people do. When a horrible violent crime is committed against a loved one, the enemies of that…

The question “Why was no one at the event packing heat?” has been coming up frequently with respect to the shootings in Arizona. My guess is that those at the event were Democrats. Yeah. Some Democrats are pro-gun. Like Rep. Giffords. But if you are looking for anti-gun folks you will have better luck sampling…

Yes, that is what exactly what they will say, if they haven’t already. As I just said to M. Simon in an email, I find the uproar over what happened yesterday so predictable that I can barely stand it. I have seen the same type of opportunistic demagoguery in reaction to every shooting incident —…

I know Eric is covering the Arizona shooter well. But I just had to have my say. And I’ll make it short and sweet: Paranoid Schizophrenics don’t have politics. They have voices. But if you want to do politics at least one of his acquaintances has said he was a lefty. And if you are…

By any reasonable standard, the man accused of killing at least six people (including a federal judge) and critically wounding U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is mentally ill. He thinks there is a big conspiracy to “brainwash” him which involves “grammar” and “currency,” and he has posted garbled and incomprehensible Youtube videos to that effect, including…

A lot of people are upset over the bowdlerization of Huckleberry Finn by a prominent publisher, and a number of prominent bloggers have weighed in with various thoughts. I tend towards First Amendment fanaticism, and I would be absolutely rabid with rage if it turned out the government had a hand in this. OTOH, I…

Remember back in the days when the conventional wisdom held that the Japanese were going to overtake us and everyone else? Sean Kinsell has a great discussion of why Japan is slipping behind China and South Korea. He begins with a mysterious title I can’t quite fathom: ???? That might mean Happy New Year. How…

David Harsanyi is looking at the Death of the Constitution. A document widely ignored by both parties when it gets in the way of something “really important”. Like preventing gay marriage. Or prohibiting drugs. Perhaps the flaw in the document is its ambiguity rather than its complexity. Giving Congress the wide-ranging authority to “make all…

Detective/Officer Howard Wooldridge (retired) of Citizens Opposing Prohibition who works tirelessly for Drug Prohibition Repeal informs me via e-mail that a Federal Marijuana Prohibition Repeal bill will be submitted to Congress in a few weeks. I don’t have a lot of hope for passage of the bill this time around. But it is a start.…

Yes, instead of boycotting Christmas, I’m celebrating it twice! Just as there have been two Christmas Eves this season, it is now Christmas for the second time. Merry Christmas everyone!   ? ??????? ?????????! The code didn’t render Cyrillic, but here’s what I was trying to say: