Month: March 2011

Today’s news about the gigantic earthquake in Japan is so huge that I could barely get the San Francisco Chronicle main page to open.There are Tsunami warnings for the entire Bay Area, and reports of jammed bridges which head East.  Whether a killer Tsunami will actually strike San Francisco is debatable, but if it happens,…

The news is somewhat old (1 Feb) but I don’t recall seeing it elsewhere. Las Vegas-based Righthaven LLC sues alleged copyright-infringing website operators and message-board posters in partnerships with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Denver Post. Since March, at least 229 lawsuits have been filed in a campaign the then-publisher of the Review-Journal said…

The voice is that of Ken Nordine whose voice was legendary in radio back in the day. The only similar voice I know of was the voice of Tom Donahue who I listened to on KSAN and KMPX in San Francisco. Here is a nice video about radio back in the day. The good stuff…

Today’s front page of the Free Press has a big headline — “Drugs, blood: Inside the world of dogfighting.” I don’t know why, but the online version of the same article had a different headline — “Detroit killings show dangerous world of dogfighting, police say.” The first paragraph makes abundantly clear the identity of the…

Via Sean’s link to Beautiful Atrocities, I learned that Muammar Gaddafi is not just in for it, he’s really really in for it: This should do it: Imelda Marcos tells Gaddafi to behave. That certainly should do it, and were I Gaddafi I would be absolutely terrified. Throwing a temper is one thing, but consider…

I was cut off in traffic earlier by a frustrated driver of a car displaying bumperstickers which struck me as contradictory in nature: One was “WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER!” The other was one of the usual ubiquitous Obama for President stickers (the absence of which in this town is more remarkable than the presence).…

Jessie Jackson Jr has come up with a really good idea for breaking the government monopoly on schools. Give every kid a laptop. Jesse Jackson Jr. wants the Constitution changed so that every kid has the right to an ipod and laptop. I think his method is wrong but the idea is very good. At…

Eric’s post, Just another junkie? Or a mother’s beloved son?, got me to thinking about the premise of the drug war. Here it is: The premise of the Drug War is that by inflicting enough pain you can get people to stop taking unauthorized pain relief medications.

This is some really weird news. Who thinks Obama needs a cabinet czar? If you can believe the news reports – Obama. The larger mission is to make the dealings between the Cabinet and the White House more functional, several senior officials said. Daley, a former commerce secretary himself, has been calling agency heads for…

The gloomy freezing rain that we’re having right now in Ann Arbor pierces me to the bone, and makes me feel like feeling sorry for myself. On days like this, I am reminded of a Charles Addams cartoon showing my favorite all American family at the window seat looking out at an awful rainstorm, while…

Because drugs are illegal, society tends to look at drug users (especially addicts) as bad people. This is reflected in callused attitudes by police, hospitals, courts, employers, bureaucrats, family members — in short, almost anyone likely to have a position of power who might come in contact with the addict. Thus, when an addict runs…

Ross Douthat has a column up about Rethinking The Sexual Revolution. There is only one problem with his thesis. There was no Sexual Revolution. We did have loose women and Dionysian Parties. But Revolution? I don’t think so. The Sexual Revolution of the 1920s was about Demographics. The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s was about…

Jonathan Rauch has post I consider a must-read, titled “Caring for Your Introvert — The habits and needs of a little-understood group.” I admire his courage for admitting to his introversion. (If I am an introvert, I would never admit it! Things like that are best kept it in the closet!) Excerpt: My name is…

I’d be willing to bet that very few readers knew that if you Google the phrase “syphilitic camel” the second hit you get is Glenn’s post from this morning: I would vote for a syphilitic camel over Barack Obama in 2012, so therefore I would even vote for Huckabee or Gingrich. But I might try…

A while back Eric wrote a bit on divorce with the theme that state involvement with personal matters is a bad idea. I had a few comments on the subject but nothing worth a blog post. I now have something I’d like to say. And it came about because Instapundit linked to this video about…

As a response to the civil war in Libya, President Obama is reportedly asking the Saudis to help the rebels. America has asked Saudi Arabia to supply weapons to Libyan rebels in Benghazi fighting the Gaddafi regime. The move is seen as a bid to avoid direct U.S. military involvement in the country’s troubles. So…

Hollywood is betting that Sarah Palin will be a hot issue in 2012. Maybe even in the running for President. …look at this newly greenlit Johnny Knoxville-starring laffer about a fun-loving, rowdy, red-blooded man whose wife is elected President. This is a movie that will film in 2011 and hit theaters in the summer of…

Via Radley Balko, I learned that if certain legislators were to have their way, I might have committed a criminal offense earlier merely by photographing farm animals for what I thought was just a cute birthday post. No really. “Photographing cows or other farm scenery could land you in jail under Senate bill” It seems…

There’s nothing like a day off from blogging, which this almost was. However, it has come to my attention that today is Sean Kinsell‘s birthday — an event which this blog and Coco have celebrated before. Sean is not only a longtime favorite of this blog, but he is a longtime favorite of Coco, and…