Month: March 2012

Evidently Dave has beat me to it. But I still can’t resist. Rick Santorm is calling for a ban on hard core porn. I have no objection to that as long as he personally inspects and certifies the hard core nature of the porn. Video taped of course. To see if he is actually showing…

Not with a bang but with… well, okay, yeah pretty much with a bang.

Contradictions fascinate me, and last night I was reminded of a longstanding moral/cultural contradiction which will not go away. Local homeless rights activists are championing a tent city and asking for donations. No surprise there, nor is the usual rhetoric (that there are no jobs in this economy) surprising. Homeless people (mostly men) are seen…

I have some other news from Wall Street. After reading Dark Alliance, I started to study the extraordinary moneymaking business that DOJ and agencies like HUD had built in enforcement that really only made sense if in fact the government was entirely complicit in narcotics trafficking and related mortgage and mortgage securities fraud. If you…

It often seems to me that the routine use of hyperbole and overwrought language is rendering ordinary communication ever more difficult. The word “decimate” once meant killing one in ten. Now it is used to denote massive destruction. “Notorious” once had a negative connotation. More and more I see it used as a synonym for “famous.”…

Did the “Greek homos” steal philosophy and mathematics from Al Sharpton or from whomever he claims to “represent”? I didn’t know that the Greeks (much less the “homos” among them) stole philosophy or math from anyone, but Al Sharpt0n does. And he said so in an audio clip with which I’m having trouble. The trouble started…

I’m having some conceptual difficulty over the abortion debate. Some friends are saying that abortionists should be criminally prosecuted as murderers, but not women who have abortions. My question is this. If a woman takes an abortifacient drug, then isn’t she the abortionist? It seems like a pretty straightforward question, but the answers to straightforward…

I spent most of my time foolishly and the rest of it I wasted.

Via Radley Balko, I learned about another SWAT Team raid in which an unarmed man was shot to death. The reason for the use of deadly military force? A search for marijuana. Ostensibly to “find” the pot, the cops simply break in and open fire. Jacob Sullum contrasts this behavior with what would happen if…

A member of the Drug Policy Forum of Texas list sent me a link to a short book by Catherine Austin Fitts which I subtitle How The Drug War is Corrupting America. There is an interesting chapter on how people at HUD engineered the mortgage collapse which we covered here at length from a different…

The leftys tell us that if gun ownership is ubiquitous, the levels of gun violence will rise. It does not. It goes down. The rightys tell us that if drugs are ubiquitous, the levels of addiction will rise. It does not. It goes down. Both sides seem to have the same mental illness. Just about…

Feminist super lefties Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem don’t like Rush Limbaugh. No surprise there. But in a scarier development, now they (and I’m sure others on the left) are calling call for actual government censorship. They want the FCC to take Limbaugh off the air. While I think the demand is laughable…

I’ve been busy today.  So busy that I had no time for any serious blogging. But now that I see that America is in a “sex war“, I’m thinking maybe it wasn’t a good time for me to be busy with other things. OTOH, maybe it was. What are we supposed to do in a…

The USS Enterprise is undergoing its final deployment. It makes me sad. That will be the end of the last vestige of the only nuclear powered task force ever. I was part of that task force as an RO on DLG(N)25 – The Bainbridge. Yankee station in the South China Sea. The Bainbridge and the…

Andrew had some very interesting things to say before his death. This is one of them. Note that next to the first communist speaker is a placard with “Todd Gitlin” on it. He was a radical since his 60s Haight Ashbury days. I used to read his column regularly in “Good Times” when I was…

As I’ve said before, I’m a real ignoramus where it comes to science fiction. But via Ace, I just learned about an amazing and astounding Sci Fi achievement called “Space Traders,” and I’m aghast! The critics all agree – Professor Derrick Bell’s criminally overlooked film “Space Raiders” is a smash hit! Boy is it ever! Why didn’t…

Sometimes I have morbid thoughts — too morbid for this blog. Yes, I am constrained by an inexplicable form of self censorship I cannot define, but which often prevents me from spewing forth public utterances I might come to regret. But the morbid thoughts which have been plaguing me lately were very pleasantly distracted by…

I must be getting old, but this morning I learned about an entirely new concept called “inauthentic text.” An old post was pinged by a blog which linked what I said, and when I went there to read the post and possibly thank the blogger, I saw that the link had absolutely nothing to do…

Eric and I were discussing a book (no I’m not going to promote it for reasons I will not be discussing here) that claimed it could help a woman get any man she wanted. In my experience the getting is not difficult. It is the keeping that takes all the effort. Update: See Eric’s latest…