Month: August 2012

  • You Get What You Pay For

    Macabre hilarity.

  • Legalize Adulthood?

    The very idea strikes terror into the hearts of the left and the right. I found a marvelous comment on the subject here. Libbies want to take away various freedoms. So do conservatives. Only the Libertarians seem to offer a pro-freedom outlook but the folks in this country don’t care enough about ALL freedoms to…

  • Who wants civil war?

    Not me. Anyone who’s a regular reader knows I would do almost anything to stop it.  I would fight against it any way I could. Americans who love their country should be shocked that highly respected military officers are right now considering this scenario: A key and understudied aspect of full spectrum operations is how…

  • The Essence Of Politics

    The essence of politics – being unkind to strangers. That is because the essence of government is theft, kidnapping, and murder. The libertarian view is that a balance should be stuck so that in general “theft, kidnapping, and murder” is minimized by striking a balance between the freelancers and the organized variety (criminals and government).…

  • Does “conservatism” have to include outright lunacy? (I remember when it didn’t….)

    A nutty outfit I’d never heard of before is described in a headline as “a conservative group“: Conservative Group Launches “Dump Romney” Campaign A group called “Jews and Christians Together,” which backed Rick Santorum in the Republican primary, is sending a memo to Republican National Convention delegates urging them not to vote for Mitt Romney at…

  • Stop Smiling

    More about receptors. By making the filling of brain receptors by some methods illegal what is to prevent the controllers from making filling them in other ways against the law? “Stop smiling, you will attract the police.” “OK son you are allowed to pursue happiness – but if I find you are happy you are…

  • Better In The Original French – Anti Sharia Protest

    My French has atrophied considerably but my eyes are still pretty good. Looks Not Safe For Work to me. H/T Libertarian Republican

  • You Gonna Reap Just What You Sow

      The Gate of Horn was mainly a folk venue in Chicago in the early 60s. I saw Joan Baez there and Lenny Bruce too. I may have seen Gibson and Camp there but I’m not sure. They were a staple on the WFMT “Midnight Special”. I was an engineer at WFMT while I was…

  • A hell of a way to win an election

    I’ve been reading angry conservative reactions like this to a gaffe by the Romney campaign which appeared to claim that Massachusetts health care would have helped a worker cited by an Obama campaign ad: Defending Romney and combatting the ad, Romney spokesman Andrea Saul . . . let’s go to the quotes “To that point,…

  • Cheating

    I came across a Yahoo entertainment entitled “cheat on your husband (with your husband)” – not the full title to be sure. It is a how to. No graphic pictures. Just talking heads. (Get yer minds out of the gutters – or did I just put them there? No matter.) A commenter posted this in…

  • DEA Agent – We Made Things Worse

    The Agitator has the story. The war on drugs has failed. Its failure has been so categorical and self-evident that the statement itself is bromidic. By any reasonable metric of success—addiction rates, violence, the availability of drugs in our schools— it’s clear that our 40-year jihad against certain plants and chemicals has done far more…

  • I voted, so what’s your excuse?

    In light of M. Simon’s latest post, it’s probably an unnecessary reminder, but the polls are still open in the Eastern Time Zone and will be for some time in the rest of the country. So, as  a public service announcement, I urge those of you who have primaries and can vote to please VOTE…

  • The Democrats Have A Comeback Plan

    Not for this election that is for sure. But one down the road. Maybe not too far down the road. Montana gives a big hint about the future. It is all about the efforts of Republicans in Montana to gut the state’s medical marijuana law passed by referendum. Patients for Reform Not Repeal’s campaign committee…

  • Box of Rain

    such a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there Love one another.

  • Am I allowed to hate squirrels? (How ’bout if I just feed them instead?)

    I don’t talk about my gardening all that much, but I have mentioned my ongoing squirrel problem. Well, this time the little bastards have gone too far. They have targeted my delicious, beloved tomatoes. Tomatoes are not easy to grow in a yard in the shadow of a large Black Walnut tree, so I have…

  • A Taxing Issue, But For Whom?

    So, this weekend the talking heads have been discussing the extra years of Romney’s tax returns Democrats are demanding. I wonder why more aren’t seeing that this is a classic Romney rope-a-dope: there’s nothing to hide in his tax returns (the guy is clean as a whistle), and he’s probably known for a decade that…

  • While scolds sleep, evil triumphs

    Earlier a friend sent me a link which has graphic photos purporting to show children (gasp!) engaging in one of the most evil and perverted acts it is possible for humans to perform. It is so awful that I blush in contemplation of it. That’s because it is the ultimate taboo. The most evil activity…

  • Go ahead! Make my ideology!

    Clint Eastwood is backing Romney: Eastwood tells The Associated Press that he’s backing Romney because, in Eastwood’s words, “I think the country needs a boost.” Good for him. Eastwood is enough of a non-ideological Republican that he might be able to help win over some independents, without whom Romney (and thus the GOP) will lose.…

  • Of Fists and Noses

    Those of you who think this is about to become a lecture on unusual sexual practices may leave. Okay, now that the ten thousand or so are gone, the twenty of us left here can talk about the real point: private versus public. When I was growing up in the seventies, under an increasingly leftist…

  • Receptive

    What is addiction? You can’t get addicted to a substance your body doesn’t have receptors for. Which means the body makes an analog to fill those receptors. For opiates the analogs are called endorphins. For marijuana anandamides. If those receptors are unfilled due to some defect in body chemistry (frequently caused by PTSD but there…