Month: August 2012

A friend at Talk Polywell posted a link to this bit which is a cyclical theory of disorder. I have a different theory. Wars cause breakdowns in order. For one thing regular patterns and flows get disturbed. Wars are murder, robbery, rape, and theft. No surprise that they encourage such behavior generally. But the same…

Roni Golan is a personal friend of mine. His daughter was bartending at the Irish Rose when we were having coffee with Tom Bridgeland the author of the piece linked here. She of course put the above card in our hands and I promised to blog it. We sat at the booth Eric, I, and…

Earlier I read about a discrimination complaint filed against Chick-fil-A in Illinois by a gay activist group.  Skeptical that the company would be so stupid as to deliberately discriminate against employees or customers, I was taken aback for a moment to read this characterization of Illinois law: Anthony Martinez, executive director of TCRA, contends that…

Speaking of catching up with the times, I often rely on Glenn Reynolds to clue me in on the latest developments in gadgetry, and today’s link to an Evolution Robotics floor cleaner was no exception. I’d kind of enjoy having a robot clean the floors, and it looks tantalizing, except there is one problem. Coco.…

Much as I hate being inconvenienced, and even though I’ve complained about this before, I am enough of a realist to recognize that my current operating system is doomed, and that I will be forced to use Windows 7. Accordingly, I have been conducting experiments with a smaller (80GB) hard drive. Fortunately, it is possible…

Post 9/11 I used to ask “Do you support drug prohibition because it finances criminals at home or because it finances terrorists abroad?” Because the Taliban used the sales of Afghan opium to support their terrorism efforts. Just recently I came across this blog post on the Lame Cherry blog that confirms that and also…

Despite my slow posting lately, the attempt to deny permits to Chick-fil-A because of the opposition of its president (the same as the until-recently long-held of our president) to gay marriage irritated me enough to write a post (actually, two) about it. In my view, any attack on the First Amendment (especially one as blatant…

Not till the end, though. The cold cold end! cold starts work that way WTF. Might as well publish this old drunken throwaway post to honor (?) a certain recently deceased. (I hated the guy’s politics, but thoroughly enjoyed some of his writing.) Whether dead atheists can come is up to whom?