Month: January 2011

I am having trouble keeping up with conspiracy theories about CPAC. First there was the “boycott” of CPAC by angry WorldnetDailyers and FamilyResearchCouncilors who complained that CPAC had been taken over by homos. And today I read that CPAC has been secretly taken over by radical Islamists. Excuse me, but isn’t there a rather major…

Thanks to a credit card issue, the blog was down for a couple of hours this morning. My card (with which I pay online bills automatically) expired and a new one was issued, but for some reason that caused absolute chaos. I fail to understand why in this day and age, a credit card for…

It seems the State of Illinois is so desperate for revenue that it is instituting an internet sales tax. CHICAGO, Jan. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Internet Tax Bill (HB 3659) was passed in the Illinois Senate on January 5, by the House of Representatives on January 6 and brought to the Governor, who may…

Evidently he is a “name” in the PUA community. And what is a PUA? A Pick Up Artist. i.e. a conman other wise referred to in polite society as a salesman. In the argot of the street he is a “player”. And for your further amusement may I present the female of the species. And…

No. This is not some new way to make THC with genetically altered mushrooms. (it is just a matter of time though). It is about a follow up to my story Mutiny In Montana. The Helena Independent Record has a story called Missoula marijuana ‘mutiny’ mushrooms. Call it the Pot Shot Heard ‘Round the World.…

(And I hope comments are too!) One of the things that makes spam such a pain in the ass in blogging is the way it increasingly tends to inhibit the ability to discuss ordinary topics. If you have been blogging for any length of time (I’m going on eight years now), you have no doubt…

One of the first things I read this morning was Steny Hoyer’s accusation that Tea Party supporters have unhappy families: There are a whole lot of people in the Tea Party that I see in these polls who don’t want any compromise. My presumption is they have unhappy families. All of you have been in…

Via Glenn, an interesting Right Coast piece on academics with anger management issues. Schama and Sachs are not isolated cases, of course.  This sort of talk has become commonplace among people who used to be liberal but serious, sophisticated, and certainly not hysterical.  You hear it from public figures like Schama and Sachs, and you hear it…

At the last minute on what we consider to be our Christmas Eve, I got a Christmas tree from Home Depot. I paid only ten dollars, as there were only three trees left, and it was a pathetically scrawny tree. I wasn’t sure that I hadn’t been ripped off entirely, but I considered myself lucky…

Via Ann Althouse, I learned that CNN is all atwitter over Sarah Palin’s retweet of Tammy Bruce’s pro-gay twitter:  Normally, it’s what Sarah Palin tweets that makes news. This time it’s what she has re-tweeted. The former Alaska governor Monday relayed a comment from gay conservative pundit Tammy Bruce, who was expressing her criticism over…

While I like to think that my light bulbs and what I do with them are my own business, as we know, the government does not. So I was delighted to see Glenn’s link to a new rebellion against the ban on incandescent lights in the form of a hot new loophole: Skirting EU law:…

The Myth of American Religious Freedom, which Glenn linked earlier, looks like a great book: In this new and compelling examination of American religious history, Sehat argues that this country did not extend freedom of religion to all, but until recently was controlled by a Protestant Christian establishment that sought to impose its will in…

This morning I read a piece in the Journal about how videogames are changing the economy. Even the entertainment and media businesses will be transformed. That is certainly true. I see it in the way things are advertised, and even in the way people drive. Some younger drivers seem to think they’re in a game…

The above is a screen capture of a very old application I was using back in the days of DOS or was it Win 3.x? Well anyway, it has been updated for Win 7 32/64 and I’m using it on my computer. You can see where the sun is shining and it gives sunrise/sunset at…

In my ongoing attempt to understand the consequences of plunking down hundreds of dollars for a new monitor (which, I am told, would allow me to use a higher resolution than my current 800×600 without having to wear glasses), I have gotten myself more confused than ever. What I do not want to do is…

In a post which touches on a basic difference between the sexes, Dr. Helen notes an irony: “Pretty sad when something all teen males fantasize about happening to them is considered a crime.” This is a typical response to a story linked by Drudge about a mother and daughter who both abused the same teen…