Month: December 2012

  • Democrats Preparing To Take Advantage Of The End Of Prohibition

    Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter appear in the YouTube video Breaking The Taboo. Their message: prohibition has not worked and is not working. In my estimation they are positioning the Democrat Party to take advantage of the end of Prohibition. Where are the Republicans on this issue? MIA. I predict another 1932 in their future.…

  • Impaired But Funny

    A new generation of weed comedian. We are getting past the Cheech and Chong stage. Thank The Maker. This kind of reminds me of the “drunk jokes” you would hear on TV about 20 years after the end of alcohol prohibition. “Drunk” comedians were quite popular in that era.

  • Product Development

    The First Mate sent me this one too. My #3 son is an EE at Ipsen. He is in the R&D Department.

  • Go Navy

    The above was sent to me by the First Mate. In a recent conversation she started swearing like a sailor. Not her usual style at all. She excused herself for what we refer to in the family as “Navy Talk”. I said it was OK because she married a sailor. Me. You should have seen…

  • A frivolous lawsuit? Not according to Big Labor!

    While researching my inability to get IMDb.com to open, I learned about a fascinating million-dollar-lawsuit that initially made me laugh out loud because it is so obviously frivolous. In 2011 IMDb was sued by an unknown actress for more than US$1 million due to IMDb revealing her age (40). The actress claims that revealing her age…

  • Fix my Internet, dammit!
    (The endlessly growing complexity of simple tasks…)

    I have what is probably a simple question for any geek readers who might be reading or lurking. WTF is up with IMDb.com? It has long been one of my regularly visited sites, but in the past couple of weeks it has become all but unreachable. This morning I was just fed up, so I…

  • HAPPY SOLSTICE!

    And Happy Non-End of the World! I have to say that as a pagan I would have been deeply offended if the world had ended on or near the Winter Solstice. But it hasn’t so I’m not. Enjoy. Wish I could share the IPA I brewed.  

  • On “perverted” liars who are “knowing accessories to murder”

    New Yorker columnist Adam Gopnik is a staunch gun control advocate who not only claims gun control will work, but blames those who disagree with him (gun owners and presumably all Americans who oppose gun control) for the shooting in Connecticut. He accuses people like me of belonging to the “child-killing lobby,” and of being…

  • Don’t Get Cavities

    And if you are born with them? Too bad. Female US cop caught on tape giving two women body cavity search during routine traffic stop… and ‘using the SAME gloves on both’. Their suspected offense? Littering. Throwing a cigarette butt out the window. But the police officer suspects it is not an ordinary butt (evidently…

  • Mayanalysis

    Damn, I’ve been so busy I almost forgot about the end of the world. I could have saved money on Christmas. What the hell is wrong with me anyway? Why do I always forget important dates? I mean, it’s not as if these ends-of-the-worlds are unimportant. I went to a huge party to watch the…

  • Looking for answers?

    Across the political spectrum, and across the country, people want answers.  They say they want to know why Adam Lanza shot all of those children. And even though the incident is over and the shooter is dead, they say they want something done.  Then when they don’t get the answers they want, they supply their…

  • ‘Tis the season? For what?

    What the hell is going on? Is there some new sort of war against Christmas? I mean, just as I was getting ready to kick back and maybe relax and enjoy the season for a bit, it seems that an all out war against the Second Amendment is being declared. I’m not sure I’m in…

  • Not Unreasonable

    Overheard in the comments at Reason Magazine. ultimately we are still dependent on looting wealth from mother earth. Holy fuck you’re stupid. We loot from the SUN, you moron.

  • I Did Notice

    Richard Feldman sends me e-mails. One he sent me today links to this piece (read the whole thing it is really good) which asks: …school shootings, such as the nauseating and heartbreaking spectacle we saw yesterday, are seemingly on the rise — as are other mass shootings, such as that which afflicted Aurora, Colo. earlier…

  • The slow loris temptation. (Monkey-see, monkey-don’t!)

    Last Wednesday (while not looking for anything in particular), I stumbled onto a YouTube video showing a very cute animal eating a grape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=K9s5xYPsG8c&feature=endscreen My immediate impulse was to want one of these cute animals, and I wondered how Coco would feel about having one join her family. The slow loris is at the lowest…

  • It’s too easy for pyromaniacs to get matches!

    Now that another psycho has flipped out and killed a bunch of people, there is a predictable groundswell of emotion with people blaming everything they can think of — from guns, to society itself, to video games, to a failure to have made the child victims pray — everything and the kitchen sink with the…

  • “Life without parole”

    Think that’s the punishment for people convicted of first degree murder? Think again. In modern America, it has become a routine punishment for people convicted of certain victimless crimes. And judges have no discretion over whether to impose it, like this federal judge in Florida: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Stephanie George and Judge Roger Vinson had…

  • What makes guns so much more intelligent than hoses, gas burners, antifreeze, and knives?

    Warning. This is one of those posts which has left me more confused after I finished it than I was when I started it, so please be warned. I simply cannot follow the logic of either the gun control activists or the thought processes of those who get to decide who gets to be a victim…

  • Support Clint!

    A lot of the focus on yesterday’s union thuggery involves the attack on Steven Crowder and the AFP tent. But I just saw this disturbing headline: ‘Union Thugs’ Destroy Hot Dog Stand of Alleged Romney Supporter During Protest and Taunt Him With Racial Slurs. Going after a man who operates a hot dog cart is about…

  • If you can’t be forced to join a union, you have no soul!

    This AP report on the passage of Michigan’s right-to-work law reads like a union activist screed lambasting Republicans for tampering with venerated laws of nature: LANSING, Mich. – For generations, Michigan was the ultimate labor stronghold – a state built by factory workers for whom a high school diploma and a union card were the…