Month: November 2011

House member Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) says the Drug War is turning a whole generation against the system. Given that pot use peaks in the 16 to 25 year age bracket and that roughly 50% of that cohort are at least occasional users it seems like a really stupid move. “Marijuana is not the problem,” Rep.…

Now that the angry left has moved from the Occupy phase to the Destroy phase, I can’t help feeling unpleasantly nostalgic: “Oakland Police responded to a late night call that protesters had broken into and occupied a downtown building and set several simultaneous fires,” the statement read. “The protesters began hurling rocks, explosives, bottles, and…

People are hurting people with machetes. So why is there no outcry for machete control? And correct me if I am mistaken, but what’s with the tendency to see such crime reports as some sort of ominous new sign of the times?

A little Boomer nostalgia for all my OF (alter kocker in Yiddish) friends.

Spengler explains the rise of the Tea Party as a war between the tax eaters (public unions mostly) and tax providers (working stiffs near or past retirement age). Which explains why the OWS is mostly young uns and why the Tea Partiers tend to be an older crowd. Has America become irrational? Not since the…

Commenter Frank sent me this link. Very scary. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in suburban Houston, Texas is preparing to launch operations with a newly received Shadowhawk MK-III unmanned aerial vehicle, paid for by grant money received by the Department of Homeland Security. The MK-III is a product marketed for both military and law enforcement…

A friend sent me this cartoon from 1934. I guess it is supposed to speak for itself. I got a kick out of Trotsky’s agenda on the lower left. As to why it would be sent to me, I don’t know. Should I be thinking in terms of modern parallels?

That was my first reaction to Megan McArdle’s post about the Occupy Wall Street protesters that Glenn linked earlier. This is a revolt by some of the people who want to tell people what to do against the people who are actually hired for the job of telling people what to do. Forget for the…

I agree with Condoleezza Rice that it isn’t a good idea to play the race card. The race card sucks, whether it is played by Obama and the Democrats or by Cain and the Republicans. I may be naive, but I don’t want a president whose race matters. IMO, the best argument against Herman Cain…

According to Zero Hedge our financial system is on the brink of a collapse bigger than the one that happened in 2008. This all comes about because the risks the banks are taking internationally are accounted as if the financial system is going to work properly and cover them. But what if the system can’t…

It appears that industries powered by brains, commonly referred to as high tech, are also powered by marijuana. Almost 92% of the people that work in the technology and telecommunications industries answered “yes” to the survey’s question asking if they had ever smoked cannabis. “Obviously, cannabis users work in a variety of professions,” said James…