Month: October 2012

Remarking on the upcoming election, a libertarian friend I super respect is hoping that Romney will win, not because the man is a libertarian (far from it), but because it will make it more fun and constructive to be a libertarian. Let me quote from the email: Being a libertarian can be fun again, when…

What I liked in 1970, YouTube enables me to like today. What’s the world coming to that it didn’t then?

Remember all the talk of how government-sponsored “green jobs” would save the economy? Because of the way the government gets its money, “government sponsored” ultimately means financed by taxpayers, with no one in particular being in charge. So the “workers” sit around: HOLLAND, Mich. (WOOD) – Workers at LG Chem, a $300 million lithium-ion battery…

Whether you like them or not, personal attacks on celebrities (especially people who enter politics) have long been a thing to be expected. (Hell, when I was irritated by her obvious bias, I compared Candy Crowley to Jabba the Hutt, so I am hardly squeaky clean in that regard.) However, what many people (myself included)…

While  I mentioned her in a blog post, the only thing I have read about Green Party candidate Jill Stein were a few other than than mainstream news report about her arrest outside the latest Romney-Obama debate. …Stein and Honkala were held for eight hours, handcuffed to chairs. Regardless of what you think of the…

In last night’s debate post, I opined that Candy Crowley “looks like a malevolent female version of Jobba the Hut.” At least one commenter did not like it, so today I feel obligated to apologize. First off, I should never have said that Candy looks like “Jobba the Hut.” As even the most simple-minded SciFi…

Not Safe For Work and for the color impaired: Not Safe For Work FWIW I’m voting for Gary Johnson and Jim Gray. I live in Illinois. I have a “free” vote.

Tonight’s debate is a big deal. Obama is said to be ready to get nasty, and he will focus on women. Do I have to watch? Can’t I just skip it? I guess I’ll just have to see. MORE: Candy Crowley (who looks like a malevolent female version of Jobba the Hut) is doing all…

I don’t know how many readers will remember Harry Truman (who left office before I was born), but one of the things I liked about him was a slogan he popularized about taking responsibility for things that went on. “The buck stops here.” There is something refreshing about that point of view.  By today’s standards,…

I’ve complained in this blog about the damned EPA till I’m blue in the face. Amazingly, my complaints have not have much impact, as the agency continues its unconstitutional practices willy-nilly. So all I can do is analyze. The latest outrage is not new, but I hadn’t heard about it until I stumbled across it…

It is a depression. Except for the cronies.

Quick question. Have you ever joined a group that you did not join? Silly as it may sound to pose the above question, it happens all the time. On Facebook. People with zero affiliations with — or even knowledge of — particular groups are publicly made members of them without their consent. All it takes…

As there is no limit to the number of willfully gullible people who are looking for things that confirm what they want to believe, I expect that false flag operations like the guy photographed wearing a racist “pro-Romney” T-shirt will appear from nowhere to become ubiquitous in the very near future. Clue #1: Wearing a “Romney/Ryan” sticker…

So far Polywell Fusion is a government program. Well I guess no organization is monolithic. This is a good place to see a lot of comments on the subject.

I think it’s kind of cool that a band I loved as a child is still going strong enough that they can crank out a decent tune. I refer to the Rolling Stones’ latest release, “Doom and Gloom.” Here’s the video (one of them, anyway): Bear in mind that these are being pulled off Youtube right…

The good folks at Free Republic looked at early ballots from Ohio (a state that Obama cannot lose and still have much hope of winning the election) and they suggest… well, read for yourself: Ok, I finally got around to comparing the total shortfall by both Ds and Rs from 2008 to 2012 in those…

During last night’s “debate” (a word I use reservedly), the topic of abortion was brought up by the “moderator” (a word I also use reservedly).  While I don’t share the RTL position for reasons I have discussed many times over the years, I don’t think this is a major federal issue, nor should it loom…

Wow. The Biden Ryan debate starts in five minutes, and according to this report, the Democrats are resting their hopes on Biden. I would not want to be resting my hopes on Joe Biden, but I sure am curious to see what happens. My hope does not rest on anyone, but it would nice to…

Amanda Marcotte seems to think that Christianity is immoral because, well, according to her, some Republicans think women who have been raped should not be forced to carry to term babies fathered by their rapists: Any religion that teaches that women are obligated to let any random man who wishes forcibly impregnate them is an…

I recently heard about a technology which strikes me as very odd. Wooden sewer pipes.  The idea sounds almost laughable, but as a friend who sells real estate told me recently, there are a number of homes with these pipes, and when they are found during inspections, all hell breaks looks and the price of…